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How You Feel: The Story of the Mind as Told by the Body
Author: James Tresilian Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Close your eyes and ask yourself, 'what do I feel?' You might feel thirsty or tired. You might feel healthy and...
How to Save the World For Free
Author: Natalie Fee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'Just what we need to get the job done' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 'Smart, easy ways to make a positive impact' Foreword Reviews...
From Our Own Correspondent: A Decade of Dispatches from Across the World
Author: Polly Hope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 For more than sixty-five years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes. It...
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
Author: Atul Gawande Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty -...
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...
The Universe in Bite-sized Chunks
Author: Colin Stuart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Since the earliest humans walked the earth, the vast mysteries and wonders of the night sky have fascinated and beguiled us,...
The Social Lives of Animals: How Co-operation Conquered the Natural World
Author: Ashley Ward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Some animal societies hold a mirror up to the human world: elephants hold funerals for departed family members. Pinyon jays run...
The Last Oil Shock: A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man
Author: David Strahan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 This may be the most important book you or anyone else will read in the next fifty years. Assuming humanity survives...
New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Introduction by Professor Stephen Hawking. When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that...
Go Toxic Free: Easy and Sustainable Ways to Reduce Chemical Pollution
Author: Anna Turns Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Plastic pollution has been headline news since David Attenborough's shocking Blue Planet II in 2017. But plastics are only part of...
Frank Whittle (Icon Science): The Invention of the Jet
Author: Andrew Nahum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment in 1943...
Social Warming: How Social Media Polarises Us All
Author: Charles Arthur Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Nobody meant for this to happen. Facebook didn't mean to facilitate a genocide. Twitter didn't want to be used to harass...
Mother Brain: Separating Myth from Biology - the Science of the Parental Brain
Author: Chelsea Conaboy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Before Chelsea Conaboy gave birth to her first child, she anticipated the joy of holding her newborn son, the endless dirty...
The World of All Creatures Great & Small: Welcome to Skeldale House
Author: All Creatures Great and Small Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Welcome to the wonderful world of Skeldale House: the veterinary surgery and bustling waiting room for the locals...
The Meat Paradox: 'Brilliantly provocative, original, electrifying' Bee Wilson, Financial Times
Author: Rob Percival Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel technologies and the logic of globalisation,...
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...
Travellers to Unimaginable Lands: Dementia, Carers and the Hidden Workings of the Mind
Author: Dasha Kiper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A husband believes his wife is an imposter. A man's sudden, intense Catholic piety provokes his wife. A mother and daughter...
Tickets for the Ark: From wasps to whales - how do we choose what to save?
Author: Rebecca Nesbit Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Our planet hasn't seen the current rate of extinction since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, and global...
How Are We Going to Explain This?: Our Future on a Hot Earth
Author: Jelmer Mommers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Over five years covering climate change, Jelmer Mommers has learned that the subject is a great way to ruin a conversation....
Brainscapes: An Atlas of Your Life on Earth
Author: Rebecca Schwarzlose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Your brain is a collection of maps. That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brain's surfaces are actual schematic images of...
The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 WHAT MAKES US HUMAN? Waging war? Sex for pleasure? Creating art? Mastery of fire? In this thrilling tour of the animal...
Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Computer technology has improved exponentially over the last 50 years. But the headroom for bigger and better electronic solutions is running...
Space: 10 Things You Should Know
Author: Rebecca Smethurst Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 'Bite-sized, cutting edge science delivered with enormous enthusiasm - all you need to travel the cosmos' CHRIS LINTOTT 'A lot of...
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It...
A Universe from Nothing
Author: Lawrence Krauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 292 Internationally renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss offers provocative, revelatory answers to the biggest philosophical questions: Where did our...
Breathtaking: The UK's human story of Covid
Author: Rachel Clarke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside, one patient at a time? To bridge the gulf between...
Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World
Author: Mark Miodownik Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A unique and inspiring exploration of human creativity from one of the UK's best-known scientists A unique and inspiring exploration of...
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Author: Max Tegmark Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Why does mathematics explain the universe so well? From the big bang to the distant future via parallel worlds, Max Tegmark...
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...
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...
Psycho-Logical: Why Mental Health Goes Wrong - and How to Make Sense of It
Author: Dean Burnett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 One in four people experience a mental health problem each year, with depression and anxiety alone afflicting over 500 million people....
The Brain: Everything You Need to Know
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 CAN YOU BOOST YOUR IQ? WHAT IF YOU COULDN'T FORGET ANYTHING? WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR BRAIN WHEN YOU GET AN IDEA?...
Basic Blockchain: What It Is and How It Will Transform the Way We Work and Live
Author: David Shrier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 The only book you need to understand blockchain: what it is, how it works and how it will transform business, society...
The Mice Who Sing For Sex: And Other Weird Tales from the World of Science
Author: Lliana Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Lliana Bird and Dr Jack Lewis tackle the strange and surreal phenomena from the depths of the oceans to the limits...
Planta Sapiens: Unmasking Plant Intelligence
Author: Paco Calvo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'A joy to read ... mind-expanding' Book of the Week, Guardian 'A bold and brave paean to our planet's ligneous, leafy...
Human Universe
Author: Professor Brian Cox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Top ten Sunday Times Bestseller 'Engaging, ambitious and creative' Guardian Where are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why...
The Norm Chronicles: Stories and numbers about danger
Author: David Spiegelhalter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Meet Norm. He's 31, 5'9, just over 13 stone, and works a 39 hour week. He likes a drink, doesn't do...
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
Author: Harry Parker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week An eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI...
Control: Now the major BBC Radio 4 series BAD BLOOD
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 * FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST * Throughout history, people have sought to...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'The ultimate anti-racism guide' Caroline Criado Perez...
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:...
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...
The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
Author: Scott E. Page Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Data, data, data: It's all one ever hears about these days. Science is all about big data. Our bosses call...
Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect
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Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In Synchronicity Paul Halpern tells the little-known story of the unlikely friendship between the Nobel-prize-winning quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the...
The Human Swarm
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Author: Mark W. Moffett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The epic story, ultimate big history, and "remarkable intellectual achievement" (Quarterly Review of Biology) describing how human society evolved from...
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe
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Author: Johnjoe McFadden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 "In short, Life Is Simple is enthralling."--Michael Blastland, Prospect A biologist argues that simplicity is the guiding principle of the universe...
Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors
Author: Brian Fagan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Human-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate...
Foodology: A food-lover's guide to digestive health and happiness
Author: Saliha Mahmood Ahmed Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A spicy educational treat to be savoured: a delight.' Tim Spector 'This is an extraordinary fusion of science, literature, medicine...