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The Life of Birds
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough's bestselling classic. BIRDS. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on...
Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making
Author: Chris Packham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Combines the natural history of programmes such as David Attenborough's Planet Earth with the planetary focus of Brian Cox's Universe' Guardian...
Why Am I Like This?: The Science Behind Your Weirdest Thoughts & Habits
Author: Jen Martin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Why can't I stop taking photos? Why do I always feel like I'm missing out? Why can't I remember why I...
The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius
Author: Dr. Gail Saltz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The Power of Different is an illuminating and uplifting examination of the link between brain differences and aptitude. Psychologist and...
Maths Unwrapped: The easy way to understand and master mathematics
Author: Mattias Ribbing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Why do so many of us struggle to remember the maths we were taught at school? The answer is that we...
How Your Brain Works: Inside the most complicated object in the known universe
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Ever wondered what's going on inside your head? You are your brain. Everything that makes you you, and all your experiences...
Blood: The science, medicine and mythology of menstruation
Author: Dr. Jennifer Gunter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'The world's most famous and outspoken gynaecologist' (The Guardian) fights myths and fearmongering with real science, inclusive facts, and shame-free...
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal
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Author: Juan Jose MillasFormat: Hardback, 135mm x 216mm, 224 pagesPublished: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, 2022A New Scientist Book of the Year Prehistory is all around us. We just need to...
Homo Sapiens Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins
Author: Paul Pettitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An expert palaeoarchaeologist reveals how our understanding of the evolution of our species has been transformed by momentous discoveries and technological...
A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI
Author: Max Bennett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be. 'I found this...
Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make-or-break century
Author: Elise Bohan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 We're hurtling towards a superhuman future - or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crises, from...
Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy
Author: Steven Nadler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 184 An entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought This entertaining and...
Personality: A User's Guide
Author: Nikita Mikhailov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'The best introduction to personality psychology I have ever read' Robert Hogan, founder and president, Hogan Assessment Systems We are each...
Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal about our Uniquely Mathematical Mind
Author: Brian Butterworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Every pet owner thinks their own dog, cat, fish or hamster is a genius. What makes CAN FISH COUNT? so exciting...
30-Second Genetics: The 50 most revolutionary discoveries in genetics, each explained in half a minute
Author: Jonathan WeitzmanFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 195mm, 160 pagesPublished: Quarto Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2020Genetics is the study of heredity, and reveals how the characteristics of living organisms are determined...
This is Planet Earth: Your ultimate guide to the world we call home
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And...
Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution
Author: Skylar Tibbits Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today's researchers are...
Pluses and Minuses: How Maths Makes the World More Manageable
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Author: Stefan Buijsman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Thousands of years ago the inhabitants of Mesopotamia became the first to use numbers. Since then, mathematics has been unstoppable. It's...
Everybody Hertz: The Amazing World of Frequency, from Bad Vibes to Good Vibrations
Author: Richard Mainwaring Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Vic Tandy was a level-headed scientist, but there was no denying it: at this late hour in his lonely lab at...
The Magick of Matter: Crystals, Chaos and the Wizardry of Physics
Author: Felix Flicker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'This is a book about wizardry. It will reveal the secrets of the wizard's art, and how you, too, can learn...
Aliens and Other Worlds: True Tales from Our Solar System and Beyond
Author: Lisa Harvey-Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 120 Did life on Earth arrive on a meteorite from outer space? Are there living beings on planets beyond our solar system?...
The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly...
The Year in Space: From the makers of the number-one space podcast, in conjunction with the Royal Astronomical Society
Author: The Supermassive Podcast (Izzie Clarke, Dr Becky Smethurst, Richard Hollingham and Robert Massey) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Is it possible for humans to live on other planets?...
Sensational: A New Story of our Senses
Author: Ashley WardFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 198mm, 257g, 320 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024'A future classic of popular science' Mail on Sunday'A dazzling account' Financial Times'Absorbing, surprising and...
Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA
Author: Gareth Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 UNRAVELLING THE DOUBLE HELIX covers the most colourful period in the history of DNA, from the discovery of 'nuclein' in the...
Drinkology: The Science of What We Drink and What It Does to Us, from Milks to Martinis
Author: Alexis Willett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 ANDRE SIMON FOOD & DRINK BOOK AWARDS 'Like a new Bill Bryson, she offers an easy sharing...
When the Last Lion Roars: The Rise and Fall of the King of the Beasts
Author: Sara Evans Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The illegal killing of Cecil - a famous and magnificent black-maned Zimbabwean lion - by an American big-game hunter in 2015...
The Magick of Matter: Crystals, Chaos and the Wizardry of Physics
Author: Felix Flicker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 As heard on BBC Radio 4 Start The Week 'Felix Flicker brilliantly reveals the secrets behind the modern-day magic we call...
Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making
Author: Chris Packham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Combines the natural history of programmes such as David Attenborough's Planet Earth with the planetary focus of Brian Cox's Universe' Guardian...
How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)
Author: Tom Chivers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way....
Rosalind Franklin
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The Age of Cats: From the Savannah to Your Sofa
Author: Jonathan B. Losos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great...
Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built
Author: William A. Harris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 By the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through...
Silk & Venom: The incredible lives of spiders
Author: James O'Hanlon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 There are more than 50 000 species of spiders. They surround us in our daily lives and, contrary to popular belief,...
Brief Lives 3 - Newton
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd's Brief Lives. Newton is a companion volume to Chaucer and Turner. Isaac Newton...
The Anxiety Epidemic: The Causes of our Modern-Day Anxieties
Author: Graham Davey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Highly commended at the British Medical Association Book Awards 2019 Are we living in an age of unprecedented anxiety, or has...
A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings
Author: Prof Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Richard Dawkins is one of the finest minds in science, and in this superb collection of essays and letters, he...
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
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Chaos
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Human Being: Reclaim 12 Vital Skills We're Losing to Technology
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Author: Graham Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Our increasing reliance on digital technology has had a profound impact on our own abilities as humans. What can we do...
Invincible: How we can train our hearts to beat stress and achieve success
Author: Dr Leah Lagos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Stress is not in your head, it's in your heart - this is the key to peak performance that Dr...
The Truth Detective: A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World
Author: Alex O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 From uncertainty and risk to ambiguity, emotion and non-verbal behaviour, life can be like a game of poker. So approach it...
Invincible: How we can train our hearts to beat stress and achieve success
Author: Dr Leah Lagos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Stress is not in your head, it's in your heart - this is the key to peak performance that Dr...
Magnitude: The Scale of the Universe
Author: Kimberly Arcand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 In MAGNITUDE, Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke take us on an expansive journey to the limits of size, mass, distance, time,...
10 Short Lessons in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Author: Dr Peter J. Bentley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 'A lucid, balanced and engaging tour of one of the most important phenomena of this century.' - Steven Pinker...
Human Being: Reclaim 12 Vital Skills We're Losing to Technology
Author: Graham Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Our increasing reliance on digital technology has had a profound impact on our own abilities as humans. What can we do...
The Life of Birds
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough's bestselling classic. BIRDS. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on...
From Our Own Correspondent: Dispatches of a Decade from Across the World
Author: Polly Hope Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 For more than sixty years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes. It...