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The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
Author: Professor Matthew Cobb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A TIMES ENVIRONMENT AND SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'The ideal guide to what is not just a fiendishly...
The Great Mathematical Problems
Author: Professor Ian Stewart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 There are some mathematical problems whose significance goes beyond the ordinary - like Fermat's Last Theorem or Goldbach's Conjecture -they...
How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions and the Art of Knowing When Not To
Author: Kit Yates Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023 'Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman 'Absolutely fascinating' James...
The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
Author: Amy Webb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Synthetic biology is the technique that enables us not just to read and edit but also write DNA to program living...
Who's Afraid of Butterflies? Our Fears and Phobias Named and Explained
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The Music of the Primes: Why an unsolved problem in mathematics matters
Author: Marcus du Sautoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 20 years later The Music of the Primes is still a groundbreaking popular science book. This new edition...
The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction
Author: Gisli Palsson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 The great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on...
Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines: Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi
Author: Nicholas P. Money Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The hidden role of fungi inside and all around us. From beneficial yeasts that aid digestion to toxic molds that...
Climate Clangers: The Bad Ideas Blocking Real Action
Author: Jennifer Rayner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 The impacts of climate change keep getting worse, but the typical framing of the problem and the solutions so far being...
Vector: A surprising story of space, time, and mathematical transformation
Author: Robyn Arianrhod Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'The story I'll tell here is about the evolution of the way we humans record and make sense of all the...
A Guide to Native Bees of Australia
Author: Dr Terry Houston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 Winner of the 2019 Whitley Award for Illustrated Guide A Guide to Native Bees of Australia provides a detailedintroduction to...
The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity
Author: Claudia de Rham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity's true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life. Claudia de Rham...
The Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems
Author: Mark Levi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 Everybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to physics--imagine where we'd be today if Einstein and Newton didn't have the math to...
The Playful Brain: The Surprising Science of How Puzzles Improve Your Mind
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Sharks and Other Ancestors
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Hydrophthalmia or, Congenital Glaucoma
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The Big Switch
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The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
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The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs
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Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History
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Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human
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Cry Me A River: The Tragedy of the Murray-Darling Basin: Quarterly Essay 77
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Now or Never: A Sustainable Future for Australia?: Quarterly Essay 31
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Fever Hospital: A History of Fairfield Infectious Diseases HospitaL
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Time: From Micro-seconds to Millennia - The Search for the Right Time
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Java Man
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
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The Wollemi Pine: The Incredible Discovery of a Living Fossil from the Age of the Dinosaurs
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The Mind of a Bee
Author: Lars Chittka Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees. Most of us are aware of the hive mind - the...
The Little Book of Exoplanets
Author: Joshua N. Winn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A concise and accessible introduction to exoplanets that explains the cutting-edge science behind recent discoveries. For centuries, people have speculated...
Fourier Analysis: An Introduction
Author: Elias M. Stein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 This first volume, a three-part introduction to the subject, is intended for students with a beginning knowledge of mathematical analysis...
Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem-solving and Creativity
Author: Robert Hannigan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers - what the secret world can teach us...
The Star Guide: Learn How to Read the Night Sky Star by Star
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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change
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All about Depression
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Death on Earth: Adventures in Evolution and Mortality
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Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna and the Future of our Oceans
Author: Karen Pinchin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises...
Nature Fast and Nature Slow: How Life Works, from Fractions of a Second to Billions of Years
Author: Nicholas P. Money Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 This book is a vision of biology set within the entire timescale of the universe. It is about the timing...
Coal: Nature and Culture
Author: Ralph Crane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 While concerns about climate change have focused negative attention on the coal industry in recent years, as descendants of the industrial...
The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer
Author: Athena Aktipis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 220 A fundamental and groundbreaking reassessment of how we view and manage cancer When we think of the forces driving cancer, we...
Climate Code Red: the Case for Emergency Action
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Our Fantastic Planet
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Fooled By Randomness
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: This book is about luckÐor more precisely, about how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. Set against...
The Four Horsemen
Author: Emily Mayhew Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The Four Horsemen - War, Pestilence, Famine and Death - first appeared in the Book of Revelations a thousand years ago,...
Introduction to Architectural Technology Third Edition
Author: Pete Silver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Understanding the relationship between design and technology is critical to the understanding of architecture. This book clearly explains the core aspects...
Why We Love: The new science behind our closest relationships
Author: Anna Machin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'This book opens the Pandora's Box on this most complex and puzzling aspect of what it is to be human' Robin...
Vaxxers: A Pioneering Moment in Scientific History
Author: Sarah Gilbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Chosen as a Book of the Year 2021 by the Financial Times, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Prospect, Guardian and The Times....