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Voices of the Wild: Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes
Author: Bernie Krause Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 A pioneer in the field of soundscape ecology explores the ways in which the voice of the natural world informs many...
A David Suzuki Collection: A lifetime of ideas
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Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were
Author: Philip Lymbery Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 364 ____________________ 'An honest, compelling and important account and a critical plea for a fusion of farming, food and nature to provide...
What Shape Is Space?: A primer for the 21st century
Author: Giles Sparrow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production Awards What Shape is Space? is...
Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, The Universe and Us
Author: Professor Heino Falcke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 As featured in THE EDGE OF ALL WE KNOW - the new Netflix documentary about Black Holes For readers of...
Patrick Moore's Astronomy: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself
Author: Sir Patrick Moore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 There is no one better to teach you about astronomy than Sir Patrick Moore. He was the world's best-known astronomer,...
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Author: Pedro Domingos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos reveals how machine learning is remaking business, politics, science and war. And he...
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...
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 Science of Meditation: How to Change Your Brain, Mind and Body
Author: Daniel Goleman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A fascinating and practical guide from two New York Times bestselling authors, backed by state-of-the-art scientific research. Drawing on...
The Grand Design
Author: Leonard Mlodinow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 New answers to the ultimate questions of life from the world's most famous living scientist. When and how did...
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...
The Low Carb Weight-Loss Cookbook: Katie & Giancarlo Caldesi
Author: Giancarlo Caldesi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 'The perfect cookbook for achieving and maintaining a healthy weight' - Gary Taubes 'The cookbook every diabetic needs.' - Dr Aseem...
The Scientists: Pioneers of Discovery
Author: Andrew Robinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Forty articles expertly curated by biographer Andrew Robinson provide an unrivalled account of the lives and personalities behind the greatest scientific...
The Human Age: How we created the Anthropocene epoch and caused the climate
Author: Prof Gisli Palsson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The Human Age is an intrepid exploration of the new geological epoch in which we now find ourselves: the Anthropocene....
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
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Author: Professor Thomas Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "Delightfully horrifying."--Popular Science One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018 One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018...
Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness
Author: Charles Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A wonderful, wild, dazzling book. You will feel more human for having read it' - Literary Review 'Foster's daringly imaginative exploration...
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...
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
Author: Earl Swift Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 "THRILLING. ... Up-end[s] the Apollo narrative entirely." -The Times (London) A "brilliantly observed" (Newsweek) and "endlessly fascinating" (WSJ) rediscovery of the...
Dr Rip's Essential Beach Book: Everything you need to know about surf, sand and rips
Author: Rob Brander Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 How do waves break and what makes good surf? What are dangerous rip currents and how do you spot one? What...
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...
Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness
Author: Peter Godfrey-Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the...
The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
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Ingenium: Five Machines That Changed the World
Author: Mark Denny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 Ingenium is medieval English vernacular for "an ingenious contrivance." In this fascinating book, physicist Mark Denny considers five such contrivances-the bow...
The Universe Next Door: A Journey Through 55 Alternative Realities, Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures
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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Could there be a doorway to the multiverse in our backyard? It's lucky you're here. But for a series of incredible...
Beneath the Skin: Love Letters to the Body by Great Writers
Author: Ned Beauman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, 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...
Skulls: Portraits of the Dead and the Stories They Tell
Author: Paul Gambino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Take an eerie journey through history as you meet over 180 human skulls and discover the stories behind them. It is...
Imagined Civilizations: China, the West, and Their First Encounter
Author: Roger Hart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Accounts of the seventeenth-century Jesuit Mission to China have often celebrated it as the great encounter of two civilizations. The Jesuits...
The Lost Rainforests of Britain
Author: Guy Shrubsole Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2023 The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year As seen on Countryfile 'If...
The Doctor
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Galileo's Daughter: a Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
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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...
A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics: A Neuroscientist on How to Make Sense of a Complex World
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It's Not Rocket Science
Author: Ben Miller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The top ten bestseller. Black holes. DNA. The Large Hadron Collider. Ever had that sneaking feeling that you are missing out...
Pioneers of the Pacific: Voyages of Exploration 1787 - 1810
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Batavia's Graveyard
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How to Spend a Trillion Dollars: The 10 Global Problems We Can Actually Fix
Author: Rowan Hooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the good of the world and the advancement...
Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game
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Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity
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Author: Charles Seife Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Stephen Hawking was widely recognized as the world's best physicist and even the most brilliant man alive-but what if his true...
Where the Universe Came from: How Einstein's Relativity Unlocks the Past, Present and Future of the Cosmos
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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 How did it all begin? Where is it all going?WHY GENERAL RELATIVITY LEAVES UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH THE COSMOS A...
The Sloth Lemur's Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present
Author: Alison Richard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Full of wonder and forensic intelligence' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who...
Wild is the Wind
Author: Grahame Baker-Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 40 From Kate Greenaway Award-winning illustrator Grahame Baker-Smith, Wild is the Wind follows the extraordinary path of the wind around the globe....
Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge
Author: Erica Gies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A journey through time and around the world to uncover water's true nature, and how it can help us adapt to...
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...
A Place like No Other: Discovering the Secrets of Serengeti
Author: Anthony R. E. Sinclair Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From famed zoologist Anthony Sinclair, an account of his decades-long quest to understand one of Earth's most spectacular ecosystems....
Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics
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Author: Leonard Mlodinow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 This "vivid and compelling account" (The Wall Street Journal) opens not only the inner workings of one of physics' greatest minds,...
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
Author: Harry Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From the critically-acclaimed author of Anatomy of a Soldier Harry Parker's life changed overnight, when he lost his legs to an...