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The Social Lives of Animals: How Co-operation Conquered the Natural World
Author: Ashley Ward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Some animal societies hold a mirror up to the human world: elephants hold funerals for departed family members. Pinyon jays run...
Road To Gondwana The: In search of the lost supercontinent
Author: Bill Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The Road to Gondwana traces the steps science took to find Gondwana, and the journey of Gondwana itself, through a billion...
What's Inside?: Spacecraft
Author: David West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 24 Learn all about spacecraft, from the first space capsules to space planes and space shuttles. Have you ever wondered...
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses
Author: Aarathi Prasad Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future. Aarathi...
Testosterone: The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
Author: Carole Hooven Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports and politics, we need a good explanation of the science and its...
Blue: A Scientist's Search for Nature's Rarest Colour
Author: Kai Kupferschmidt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world - and to understand our collective obsession with this bewitching colour....
Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty
Author: Professor Ian Stewart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex...
Understanding Numbers Simplify lifes mathematics. Decode the world around you. 20 thought-provoking lessons
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Author: Marianne Freiberger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 In Understanding Numbers, Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas will show key number patterns and maths principles that are vital...
This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
Author: David Sloan Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From noted evolutionary biologist and the author of Evolution for Everyone comes a paradigm-changing new look at how we can...
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent
Author: Richard Wrangham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 It may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that...
Outbreaks and Epidemics: Battling infection from measles to coronavirus
Author: Meera Senthilingam Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out...
Space Exploration: A History in 100 Objects
Author: Sten Odenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 This eclectic pop history of space exploration, by scientist-educator Sten Odenwald at NASA, examines 100 objects - all stunningly photographed -...
Planta Sapiens: Unmasking Plant Intelligence
Author: Paco Calvo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'A joy to read ... mind-expanding' Book of the Week, Guardian 'A bold and brave paean to our planet's ligneous, leafy...
The Car: The rise and fall of the machine that made the modern world
Author: Bryan Appleyard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of...
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
Author: Alec Nevala-Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New...
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars: The 10 Global Problems We Can Actually Fix
Author: Rowan Hooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 If you were given one trillion dollars, to be spent in a year, on science, what would you do? It's an...
Sense: The book that uses sensory science to make you happier
Author: Russell Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 How can colour prime you for creative thinking? What kind of music helps you run faster? Which scents can...
Blueprint: How our childhood makes us who we are
Author: Lucy Maddox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'The best book I've read this year ... It's written in such a beautiful way' - Dr Suzi Gage,...
The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change
Author: David Remnick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate...
Burn Math Class: And Reinvent Mathematics for Yourself
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Author: Jason Wilkes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Forget everything you've been taught about math. In Burn Math Class , Jason Wilkes takes the traditional approach to how we...
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19
Author: Alina Chan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus...
The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
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Author: Matthew Cobb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 An "elegant", "engrossing" (Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal) examination of what we think we know about the brain and why --...
Rebel Star: Our Quest to Solve the Great Mysteries of the Sun
Author: Colin Stuart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A fascinating and comprehensive guide to the sun - our home star - which remains the greatest mystery in the solar...
The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the Beagle
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 The most important work of modern science now available in Vintage Classics WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, RUTH...
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....
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
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Author: Jaron Lanier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, & Vox The father...
You Are Here A Brief Guide to the World
Author: Nicholas Crane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 One word binds us all: geography. We are all geographers, human beings who care about the places we think of as...
Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story
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Author: Daphne Sheldrick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Astonishing...You may be tempted after the last page to sell all your possessions and join [Sheldrick's] cause.--The Boston Globe The first...
Forgotten Women: The Scientists
Author: Zing Tsjeng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 FORGOTTEN WOMEN is a new series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women who have refused over hundreds...
11 Explorations into Life on Earth Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution
Author: Helen Scales Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The second in a series of books in association with the Royal Institution on their world-renowned Christmas Lectures, this time exploring...
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life)
Author: Yuval Noah Harari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet....
Flames of Extinction: The race to save Australia's threatened wildlife
Author: John Pickrell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Scientists estimate more than three billion native animals were killed or displaced during Australia's Black Summer bushfire season. Many species -...
The Art of War (Collins Classics)
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Author: Sun Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The ancient Chinese art of warfare written...
Dunkleosteus
Author: Professor Ben Garrod Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A comprehensive look at the strongest force in nature. What causes extinction? Why do some species go extinct and not...
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World
Author: Laurence Scott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 You are a four-dimensional human. A constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring your inner life, increasingly coaxing you...
The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution
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Author: Charles S Cockell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking argument for why alien life will evolve to be much like life here on Earth We are all...
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Author: Joshua Foer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The international bestseller on memory and how to master it Can anyone get a perfect memory? Joshua Foer used...
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Author: James Nestor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of...
Climate Justice: A Man-Made Problem With a Feminist Solution
Author: Mary Robinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2018 Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by...
The Fall of the Wild: Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation
Author: Ben A. Minteer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The passenger pigeon, the great auk, the Tasmanian tiger-the memory of these vanished species haunts the fight against extinction. Seeking...
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!'...
Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World
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Author: Laurence C Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 An eye-opening, sometimes alarming, and ultimately inspiring natural history of rivers and their complex and ancient relationship with human civilization...
The Order of Time
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The number 1 bestseller from the superstar physicist hailed as 'the new Hawking' (Sunday Times) Time is a mystery...
I Contain Multitudes : The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Author: Ed Yong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It's an entire world, a colony full of life. In other words,...
Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us
Author: Vybarr Cregan-Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'A work of remarkable scope' - Guardian FT Best science books of 2018 PRIMATE CHANGE has been adapted into...
The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities
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Author: Caleb Scharf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Longlisted for the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Short-listed for Physics World's Book of the Year The Sunday Times...
Imagination and a Pile of Junk: A Droll History of Inventors and Inventions
Author: Trevor Norton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Although inventors were often scientists or engineers, many were not: Samuel Morse (Morse code) was a painter, Laszlo Biro (the ballpoint...
Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, the Universe, and Us
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Author: Heino Falcke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The International Bestseller On April 10, 2019, award-winning astrophysicist Heino Falcke presented the first image ever captured of a black hole...