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Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change
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4th Rock from the Sun: The Story of Mars
Author: Nicky Jenner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Mars, the red planet, is ingrained in our culture, from David Bowie's extra-terrestrial spiders to Captain Scarlet to War of the...
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
Author: Lisa Margonelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Who has the answer to the world's fuel problems? How can we bring ruined land back to life? Where do roboticists...
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
Author: Gavin Francis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 When it comes to illness, sometimes the end is just the beginning. Recovery and convalescence are words that exist at the...
The Naked Scientist: Everyday Life Under the Microscope
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Author: Dr Chris Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Why use expensive beauty products when you can moisturise with jellyfish? Have you ever suspected pollution was to...
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done
Author: David Badre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 312 A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday lives. Why...
Single Digits: In Praise of Small Numbers
Author: Marc Chamberland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In Single Digits, Marc Chamberland takes readers on a fascinating exploration of small numbers, from one to nine, looking at their...
A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you...
The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science
Author: Michael Strevens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why...
A World Without "Whom": The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age
Author: Emmy J. Favilla Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Eats, Shoots & Leaves for the internet age As language evolves faster than ever before, what is the...
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
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The Universe: The book of the BBC TV series presented by Professor Brian Cox
Author: Andrew Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes...
Why We Love: The new science behind our closest relationships
Author: Anna Machin Format: Hardback 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...
Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth
Author: Claire Horn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Throughout human history, every single one of us has been born from a person. So far. But that is about to...
Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Author: David Blistein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 2017 over 60,000 Americans died as the result of opioid overdoses, more than died annually in this country during the...
Hard to Break: Why Our Brains Makes Habits Stick
Author: Russell A. Poldrack Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The neuroscience of why bad habits are so hard to break-and how evidence-based strategies can help us change...
A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin's Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution
Author: Jeremy DeSilva Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Leading scholars take stock of Darwin's ideas about human evolution in the light of modern science In 1871, Charles Darwin published...
Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea
Author: Edith Widder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 An exhilarating underwater exploration for readers wanting to recapture their sense of wonder Edith Widder grew up wanting to...
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...
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...
E=mc 2 (Hb): A Biography of the Worlds Most Famous Equation
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Clearing the Air: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE
Author: Tim Smedley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 **SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2019** 'Read this book and join the effort to terminate air...
Physics and Technology for Future Presidents: An Introduction to the Essential Physics Every World Leader Needs to Know
Author: Richard A. Muller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 536 Physics and Technology for Future Presidents contains the essential physics that students need in order to understand today's core science...
The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction
Author: Nate Silver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The acclaimed international bestseller that will change the way you think about the future Every time we choose a...
Rainforest
Author: Lewis Blackwell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 There are no places richer in diversity and host to such a quantity of different living things. With a visually stunning...
Systematic: How Systems Biology Is Transforming Modern Medicine
Author: James R. Valcourt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 SYSTEMATIC is the first book to introduce general readers to systems biology, which is revolutionizing medical research and treatments. In...
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...
Bernissart Dinosaurs and Early Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems
Author: Pascal Godefroit Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 648 In 1878, the first complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in a coal mine in Bernissart, Belgium. Iguanodon, first described by Gideon...
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...
Expert: Understanding the Path to Mastery
Author: Roger Kneebone Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 THE EXPERT ON EXPERTS SHOW US WHAT IT TAKES TO MASTER ANY SKILL What could a lacemaker have in...
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
Author: Rob Dunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A savoury account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolution Nature, it has been said, invites...
How Animals Saved My Life: Being the Supervet: The perfect gift for animal lovers
Author: Professor Noel Fitzpatrick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 THE MASSIVE NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER It has been 30 years since Noel Fitzpatrick graduated as a veterinary surgeon,...
Naked Ape to Superspecies: A Personal Perspective on Humanity and the Global Ecocrisis
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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...
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
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Author: Sarah Stewart Johnson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 "Sarah Stewart Johnson interweaves her own coming-of-age story as a planetary scientist with a vivid history of the exploration of...
The Green Lunch Box: Recipes that are good for you and the planet
Author: Becky Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 The Green Lunch Box is packed with delicious, healthy, plant-based lunches to help you save the planet in your lunch break....
Sun Moon Earth: The History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets
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Author: Tyler Nordgren Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 One of Amazon's Best Science Books of 2016On August 21, 2017, more than ten million Americans will experience an awe-inspiring phenomenon:...
On the Trail of Stardust: The Guide to Finding Micrometeorites: Tools, Techniques, and Identification
Author: Jon Larsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Stardust-also known as micrometeorites-is the oldest matter anywhere. Nothing has traveled farther to reach Earth. For a century, scientists...
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Author: Cathy O'Neil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A former Wall Street data scientist sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and...
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'The physicist transforming how we see the universe' (Financial Times) What are time and space made of? Where does...
Darwin Comes to Town
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Author: Menno Schilthuizen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, and a large portion of the planet's...
The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
Author: AnnaMarie Salai Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY After a few billion years of bearing witness to life on Earth,...
The Mind of a Bee
Author: Lars Chittka Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees. Most of us are aware of the hive mind - the...
Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change
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Burn: The Epic Story of Bushfire in Australia
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The Burning Answer: A User's Guide to the Solar Revolution
Author: Professor Keith Barnham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A user's guide to the solar revolution - and why we must all get on board, before it is too...
Beetle
Author: Adam Dodd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 From ancient Egyptian deities to German automobiles, beetles have left an indelible mark on human cultures around the world....
Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency
Author: Mark Lynas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 This book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning. Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of...