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Mathematical Intelligence: What We Have that Machines Don't
Author: Junaid Mubeen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 There's so much talk about the threat posed by intelligent machines that it sometimes seems as though we should surrender to...
An Optimist's Tour of the Future
Author: Mark Stevenson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has...
Numbers: A beautiful gift for stockings this Christmas
Author: Colin Stuart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Uncover the language of our universe - numbers - in this wide-ranging whistle-stop tour of the history and majesty of mathematics....
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....
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...
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...
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
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Author: Nate Silver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 UPDATED FOR 2020 WITH A NEW PREFACE BY NATE SILVER "One of the more momentous books of the decade." -The New...
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...
Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story
Author: Jeremy Farrar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The Coronavirus pandemic has devastated lives and livelihoods around the world - and continues to do so. These personal tragedies will,...
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...
Gas Man
Author: Colin Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 10... 9... 8... 7... 6... That's about as far as you get, counting backwards, as you wait for surgery to begin...
Life, Death and Biscuits
Author: Anthea Allen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A heart-breaking story of courage and compassion from the front line of the toughest battle our nurses...
Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity
Author: Sander van der Linden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A Waterstones Book of the Year for Politics 2023 A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023 One of...
Fermat's Last Theorem
Author: Simon Singh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The extraordinary story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century. The solution of Fermat's...
Where the Seals Sing
Author: Susan Richardson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 There are fewer grey seals in the world than endangered African elephants, but the British Isles host almost half of this...
Buzz
Author: Adam Langstroth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Buzz captures bees in all of their moods, from serious (every bee has a job to do) to quirky (they communicate...
Where the Seals Sing
Author: Susan Richardson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 There are fewer grey seals in the world than endangered African elephants, but the British Isles host almost half of this...
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (The Sunday Times Bestseller)
Author: Professor Anil Seth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons work to...
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...
The Short Story of Science: A Pocket Guide to Key Histories, Experiments, Theories, Instruments and Methods
Author: Tom Jackson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The Short Story of Science is a new introduction to the complete subject of science. Covering 60 key experiments, from Archimedes'...
The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Hardback 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 End Of Time
Author: Dr Julian Barbour Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Time is an illusion. Although the laws of physics create a powerful impression that time is flowing, in fact there...
The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis: The Most Credible Theory of Human Evolution
Author: Elaine Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Why do humans differ from other primates? What do those differences tell us about human evolution? Elaine Morgan gives a revolutionary...
Relax: A User's Guide to Life in the Age of Anxiety
Author: Timothy Caulfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Masterfully, and humorously . provides much needed sanity in a world of claims run amok . I devoured it.' - DANIEL...
Quantum: A Guide For The Perplexed
Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Quantum mechanics underpins modern science and provides us with a blueprint for reality itself. And yet, it has been said that...
Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
Author: J. Craig Venter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In 2010, scientists led by J. Craig Venter became the first to successfully create 'synthetic life' -- putting humankind at...
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 -...
13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
Author: Michael Brooks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Even today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar anomalies...
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...
Behave :The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Author: Robert Sapolsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that...
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...