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The Social Lives of Animals: How Co-operation Conquered the Natural World
Author: Ashley Ward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Any writer who can evoke the existential sadness of a lonely cockroach, or make krill thrilling, or describe a snorkelling colleague...
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...
The Genome Factor: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future
Author: Dalton Conley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 296 How genomics is revolutionizing the social sciences For a century, social scientists have avoided genetics like the plague. But the nature-nurture...
The Book of Vanishing Species: Illustrated Lives
Author: Beatrice Forshall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 __________________ Our Earth is more beautiful and more diverse than we can possibly conceive of. The Book of Vanishing Species is...
Night School: Wake up to the power of sleep
Author: Richard Wiseman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 We think of sleep as a waste of time. A time when we are literally doing nothing. Yet every human on...
Fermat's Last Theorem (Collins Modern Classics)
Author: Simon Singh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The extraordinary story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century. The solution...
Dirty Genes: A Breakthrough Program to Treat the Root Cause of Illness and Optimize Your Health
Author: Ben Lynch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Instant National Bestseller After suffering for years with unexplainable health issues, Dr. Ben Lynch discovered the root cause-"dirty" genes....
The Tech-Head Guide: AI
Author: William Potter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Explore the rise of technology that may soon rule our lives! What is artificial intelligence, how does it work,...
Carnation
Author: Twigs Way Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Carnations permeate our culture from the wedding bed to the funeral wreath. Derided in Shakespeare as 'nature's bastards', they challenged the...
Superyacht Captain: Life and leadership in the world's most incredible industry
Author: Brendan O'Shannassy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Billionaires are the suns in their unique universe. Their solar system contains planets built of information and access. Like Copernicus' physical...
Endless Forms: Why We Should Love Wasps
Author: Seirian Sumner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A funny and beautifully written welcome to the enigmatic, weird and wonderful world of wasps' DAVE GOULSON, author of SILENT EARTH...
The Gene: An Intimate History
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Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
Author: Reid Mitenbuler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century,...
How Long Is Now?: Fascinating Answers to 191 Mind-Boggling Questions
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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Big or small, there's an answer to every question, and sometimes there are even a few!How long is now?...
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....
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos
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On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA
Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from...
The Mind of God: Science and the Search for Ultimate Meaning
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Here Comes the Sun: How it feeds us, kills us, heals us and makes us what we are
Author: Professor Steve Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Illuminating!' Professor Brian Cox 'Every Steve Jones book is a masterclass in clear and captivating writing with tantalising detours into...
The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health
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Bad Science
Author: Ben Goldacre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Shorlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books Guardian columnist Dr...
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
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The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds
Author: Jessica Nordell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Unconscious bias: persistent prejudiced behaviour that clashes with our consciously held beliefs. Its effects can be corrosive, even lethal. It robs...
Rewired: An Unlikely Doctor, a Brave Amputee, and the Medical Miracle That Made History
Author: Dr. Ajay K. Seth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An inspirational story of hope and miracles as a small-town orthopedic surgeon forever changes one woman's life after performing...
The Cure for Good Intentions: A Doctor's Story
Author: Sophie Harrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'When I was twenty-eight I trained as a doctor. Initially everyone was interested. Amazing! people said, when I told them. What...
Who Discovered What When
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The World Without Us
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Super Self-Care: How to Find Lasting Freedom from Addiction, Toxic Relationships and Dysfunctional Lifestyles
Author: Christopher Dines Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Christopher Dines has profound experience of recovery and personal growth; he struggled with drug addiction for most of his young adult...
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...
Sharing the Universe
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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...
Landprints: Reflections on Place and Landscape
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The Four Horsemen
Author: Emily Mayhew Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The Four Horsemen - War, Pestilence, Famine and Death - first appeared in the Book of Revelations a thousand years ago,...
The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century
Author: Jamie Susskind Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK TO READ _______________ 'One of the foremost thinkers on the transformative impact of the technology revolution' -...
Pelican
Author: Barbara Allen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 With its distinctive, comical walk, large bill and association with the conservation movement, the pelican has attained iconic status. But the...
The Planets
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Mapping The Mind
Author: Rita Carter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Brain scans reveal our thoughts, memories - even our moods - as clearly as an X-ray reveals our bones. We can...
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread--And Why They Stop
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Author: Adam Kucharski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 One of the Best Books of 2020 -- Financial Times One of the "Most 2020 Books of 2020" -- Washington Post...
Wrinkles in Time
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What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
Author: Professor Ian Stewart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Stewart is Britain's most brilliant and prolific populariser of maths' - Alex Bellos 'The instructive equivalent of a Michelin-starred tasting...
Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History
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Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters
Author: Freeman Dyson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Written between 1940 and the late 1970s, the postwar recollections of renowned physicist Freeman Dyson have been celebrated as an historic...
Missions to Mars: A New Era of Rover and Spacecraft Discovery on the Red Planet
Author: Larry Crumpler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 From a long-term planning lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project comes this vivid insider account of some of NASA's most...
Climate Worrier: A Hypocrite's Guide to Saving the Planet
Author: Colm O'Regan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Bestselling author Colm O'Regan is a worrier. A professional one. Caution is his watchword. Risk aversion is his love language. Now...
When We Touch: Handshakes, hugs, high fives and the new science behind why touch matters
Author: Professor Michael Banissy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'A mind-expanding tour of what touch means.' DAVID EAGLEMAN, neuroscientist and author of Incognito and Livewired Why is a hugged...
I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That
Author: Ben Goldacre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The very best journalism from one of Britain's most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and...
Five Photons: Remarkable Journeys of Light Across Space and Time
Author: James Geach Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Five Photons explains what we know about the Universe through five different journeys of light across space and time Have you...
Microlands: The Future of Life on Earth (and Why It's Smaller Than You Think)
Author: J. Craig Venter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'An epic travelogue, brimming with the excitement of discovery. With characteristic panache, Venter unveils the teeming array of bacteria, viruses,...