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Missions to Mars: A New Era of Rover and Spacecraft Discovery on the Red Planet
Author: Larry Crumpler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 From a long-term planning lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project comes this vivid insider account of some of NASA's most...
First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human
Author: Jeremy DeSilva Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is...
Observing our Solar System: A beginner's guide
Author: Tom Kerss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 The ideal gift for aspiring astronomers. The sights in our Solar System are dynamic reminders of our planet's position...
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
Author: Vaclav Smil Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world We have never had so...
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline
Author: Michael Pollan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From bestselling author Michael Pollan comes a radical challenge to how we think about drugs Of all the many things humans...
A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems
Author: Joseph L Graves Jr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Evolution has, ever since its inception, been one of the most ideologically fraught fields in all of science. It...
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
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Author: Michael E Mann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have...
Your Fertile Years: What You Need to Know to Make Informed Choices
Author: Joyce Harper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Essential reading' Professor Kypros Nicolaides 'Fills an important gap in understanding' Professor Robert Winston How well do you really know your...
The Life Scientific: Explorers
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Inside the lives of the scientists who are exploring the world, our universe, the past and ourselves. Based on the interviews...
The Deep: The Hidden Wonders of Our Oceans and How We Can Protect Them
Author: Alex Rogers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 There's so much we don't know about what lies deep beneath the ocean's surface - and the time to find out...
The End of Money: The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering... These might sound like plot lines of a thriller, but they are true...
Vaxxers: A Pioneering Moment in Scientific History
Author: Sarah Gilbert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK *Chosen as a Book of the Year by the Financial...
Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
Author: Nicholas A. Christakis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 APOLLO'S ARROW offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on American society as it unfolded in...
Hot Mess: What on earth can we do about climate change?
Author: Matt Winning Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'A very funny, important and only moderately terrifying clarion call of a book' - Adam Kay 'HOT MESS provides loads of...
Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist
Author: Ed Patrick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'Brilliantly funny.' - Matt Lucas 'You have to read this book.' - Tim Harford 'It's funny, touching and gobsmacking in equal...
Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate
Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In the past decade, Paul Halpern has brought readers three stunning histories of science -- Einstein's Dice and Schroedinger's Cats, The...
Buzz
Author: Adam Langstroth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Buzz captures bees in all of their moods, from serious (every bee has a job to do) to quirky (they communicate...
Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide
Author: Bill McGuire Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Hothouse Earth: an Inhabitant's Guide provides a post-COP26 perspective on the climateemergency, acknowledging that it is now practically impossible to keep...
Taking Stock: A Journey Among Cows
Author: Roger Morgan-Grenville Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 So at the age of 61, with no farming experience, he signed on as a part- time labourer on a beef...
The Human Body Coloring Book: From Cells to Systems and Beyond
Author: Coloring Concepts Inc. Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Color your way to understanding the human body and its systems with this interactive study guide from Coloring Concepts, designed...
Silent Spring
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Doctor Jenner of Berkeley
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Lightning Often Strikes Twice: The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in Science
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 You may well be familiar with the fact that lightning, contrary to the popular saying, often strikes the same place twice....
Mathmatters: The Hidden Calculations of Everyday Life
Author: Chris Waring Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Mathmatters is a humorous guide to the hidden calculations that are essential to everything we do. From making a cup of...
The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA
Author: Jorge L. Contreras Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 When attorney Chris Hansen learned that the U.S. government was issuing patents for human genes to biotech companies,...
The Universe: The book of the BBC TV series presented by Professor Brian Cox
Author: Andrew Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes...
Road to Gondwana, the
Author: Bill Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 An immersive and fascinating journey into deep time, charting the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana through a billion years of Earth's history....
Race for Tomorrow: A Journey Through the Front Lines of the Climate Fight
Author: Simon Mundy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 As featured on CNN's Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4's Start the Week with Andrew Marr One of...
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
Author: Peter Godfrey-Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come...
First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human
Author: Jeremy DeSilva Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is...
Fermat's Last Theorem (Collins Modern Classics)
Author: Simon Singh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The extraordinary story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century. The solution...
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
Author: Reid Mitenbuler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century,...
Lifespan: Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To
Author: Dr David A. Sinclair Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In this paradigm-shifting book from acclaimed Harvard Medical School doctor and one of TIME magazine's 100 most...
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
Author: Annie Proulx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'A subject that could not be more important. A compact classic!'...
Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
Author: Seirian Sumner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'A funny and beautifully written welcome to the enigmatic, weird and wonderful world of wasps' DAVE GOULSON, author of...
The Infinite Monkey Cage - How to Build a Universe
Author: Prof. Brian Cox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels....
How the Mind Changed: A Human History of Our Evolving Brain
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Author: Joseph Jebelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving. We've come a long way. The earliest human...
The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugene Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right
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The Universe in Bite-sized Chunks
Author: Colin Stuart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Since the earliest humans walked the earth, the vast mysteries and wonders of the night sky have fascinated and beguiled us,...
The World of All Creatures Great & Small: Welcome to Skeldale House
Author: All Creatures Great and Small Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Welcome to the wonderful world of Skeldale House: the veterinary surgery and bustling waiting room for the locals...
The Last Wilderness: A Journey Across The Great Kalahari Desert
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Before The Deluge: The Story Of Palaeontology
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The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound
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The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals
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Author: Chiara Marletto Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A luminous guide to how the radical new science of counterfactuals can reveal that the scope of the universe is greater,...
Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind
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Author: Kitty Ferguson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Kitty Ferguson, the award-winning and international bestselling author of Stephen Hawking's biography, presents an even deeper portrait of the...
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
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Author: Neil Shubin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 An exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national...
Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
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Author: Nicola Twilley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley's Until Proven Safe tracks the idea of quarantine around the globe, through time and space, chasing...
2023 Guide to the Night Sky: A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above North America
Author: Storm Dunlop Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. This is the ideal resource for beginners and experienced stargazers...