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This Book is Full of Brains: All Kinds of Brains and How They Work
Author: Little House of Science Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Every day, you use the ultimate supercomputer ... your brain! Join Little House of Science on an access-all-areas tour...
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
Author: David Christian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 This is the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to...
Animal Vegetable Criminal: When Nature Breaks the Law
Author: Mary Roach Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 What happens when nature and humanity clash? In past centuries, wild animals who broke the law would be given lawyers and...
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...
Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us about Creativity
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Author: Andreas Wagner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 How the principles of biological innovation can help us overcome creative challenges in art, business, and science In Life Finds a...
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 Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA
Author: Jorge L. Contreras Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 When attorney Chris Hansen learned that the U.S. government was issuing patents for human genes to biotech companies, his first...
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
Author: Kermit Pattison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 "Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as...
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate
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Author: Paolo Giordano Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 'The literature of the time after begins here' EVENING STANDARD 'A jolt of brevity and simplicity' THE TIMES 'In...
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
Author: Gaia Vince Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2019- the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful...
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
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Author: Lisa Margonelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates...
Body Bits: Hair-raising Human Body Facts
Author: Paul Mason Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Bizarre, incredible and downright gross facts about human and animal bodies In Hair-raising Human Body Facts, you'll learn about some of...
The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience
Author: Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Brain repair, smart pills, mind-reading machines--modern neuroscience promises to soon deliver a remarkable array of wonders as well as profound insight into...
Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution
Author: Scott Solomon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Are humans still subject to the forces of evolution? An evolutionary biologist provides surprising insights into the future of Homo sapiens...
On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins
Author: Mark Hallett (Dryaduir Hill Wildlife Reserve) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Big cats such as lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars fascinate us like few other creatures. They are...
Slime: A Natural History
Author: Susanne Wedlich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid. It inspires revulsion even while it compels our...
As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
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Author: Matthew Cobb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 The thrilling and terrifying history of genetic engineering In 2018, scientists manipulated the DNA of human babies for the first time....
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...
The Snot That Animals Have Got
Author: Paul Mason Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 What is snot? How is it useful? What do animals do with it? Why is there so much? Find out the...
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
Author: Edward O. Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Forming a twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution, Edward O. Wilson offers a bold work of scientific thought and...
What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
Author: Dan Levitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular...
The Theory of Evolution
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Sensational: A New Story of our Senses
Author: Ashley Ward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Our senses are at the heart of how we navigate the world. Whittling this high-powered and deliciously varied palette down to...
What Are You Thinking?: Why We Feel and Act the Way We Do
Author: Nicky Hayes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The science of how we think is fundamental to understanding why we are who we are, and why we do what...
Manthropology: The Secret Science of Modern Male Inadequacy
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Eve Spoke: Human Language and Human Evolution
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From Alchemy To Ipo: The Business Of Biotechnology
Author: Cynthia Robbins-roth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 "A tour-de-force for anyone who is interested in the biotech industry. I applaud the enormous achievement of Cynthia Robbins-Roth."-Frederick Frank, Senior...
Almost Chimpanzee: Redrawing the Lines That Separate Us from Them
Author: Jon Cohen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In the autumn of 2005, researchers cracked the code of the chimpanzee genome and provided a startling new window into the...
A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings
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Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life
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Bully for Brontosaurus
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Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
Author: Randolph M. Nesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide...
Animal Vegetable Criminal: When Nature Breaks the Law
Author: Mary Roach Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? We've never been...
H2O: A Biography of Water
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Microbiology: A Very Short Introduction
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Developmental Biology: A Very Short Introduction
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The Magic of a Name: The Rolls-Royce Story, Part 3: A Family of Engines
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Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World
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Clivias
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We the Earth
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The Amazing Brain
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Life's Other Secret: New Mathematics of the Living World
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Elegant Defense, An: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
Author: Matt Richtel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 National Bestseller "Gives you all the context you need to understand the science of immunity. ... An Elegant Defense left me...
Rotten!: Vultures, Beetles, Slime, and Nature's Other Decomposers
Author: Anita Sanchez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 A funny and fact-filled look at decomposition in all of its slimy glory, illustrated with dazzling full-color art by Gilbert Ford....
Biology and the Social Crisis
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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
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Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life
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Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
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