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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...
Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart
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Author: Rachel Botsman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions...
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...
An Equation for Every Occasion: Simple Formulas for Surviving the Unexpected
Author: Chris Waring Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 If you're a little worried about what the future holds, you might be stock-piling cans of beans or building an underground...
Every Life Is On Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things
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Author: Jeremy England Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And if you trace the evolutionary history of plants and animals...
Ten Physicists Who Transformed Our Understanding of Reality
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Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Ten Physicists Who Transformed Our Understanding of Reality explores the top ten greatest physicists of the last 400 years, their most...
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...
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 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...
Meteorite: How Stones from Outer Space Made Our World
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Author: Tim Gregory Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Explore the universe and immerse yourself in the story of our solar system, planet, and life through meteorites. "Meteorite is a...
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...
The Art of Logic in an Illogical World
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Author: Eugenia Cheng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world In a world where fake news...
The Cosmos Explained: A history of the universe from its beginning to today and beyond
Author: Charles Liu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The Cosmos Explained is an exciting and beautifully designed book that charts the life of our universe from the Big Bang...
The Climate Book
Author: Greta Thunberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 The world's leading climate activist has gathered over one hundred voices to tell the biggest story in the world We still...
Anaximander: And the Nature of Science
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved the way to cosmology, physics, geography,...
Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
Author: Seirian Sumner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'A funny and beautifully written welcome to the enigmatic, weird and wonderful world of wasps' DAVE GOULSON, author of...
Lightning Often Strikes Twice: The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in Science
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 You may well be familiar with the fact that lightning, contrary to the popular saying, often strikes the same place twice....
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19
Author: Alina Chan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus...
Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial
Author: Peter Stott (author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 2022 Ours is the age of global warming. Rising sea levels, extreme weather,...
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...
The World at Night: Spectacular photographs of the night sky
Author: Babak Tafreshi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 See the full beauty of our night sky revealed as never before in over 200 photographs from around the world. Bringing...
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...
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...
Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender
Author: Frans de Waal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 How different are men and women? Is gender uniquely human or do other primates also learn gendered roles? Drawing on...
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...
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
Author: Annie Proulx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'A subject that could not be more important. A compact classic!'...
Night Sky Almanac 2023: A stargazer's guide
Author: Storm Dunlop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A beautiful gift for anyone interested in the night sky. Follow the progress of constellations throughout the seasons with this beautiful...
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...
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...
The Hope Circuit: A Psychologist's Journey from Helplessness to Optimism
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Author: Martin E. P. Seligman (University of Pennsylvania) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 One of the most influential living psychologists looks at the history of his life and discipline,...
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...
The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities
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Author: Caleb Scharf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Longlisted for the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Short-listed for Physics World's Book of the Year The Sunday Times...
Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe
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Author: Bob Berman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A heart-pumping exploration of the biggest explosions in history, from the Big Bang to mysterious activity on Earth and everything in...
Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics
Author: Stephon Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "The rabbit hole gets wrestled here. An old school saying applies: the more you know, the more you don't know. Dance...
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...
Ouch!: Why Pain Hurts, and Why it Doesn't Have To
Author: Margee Kerr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Pain seems like a fairly straightforward experience - you get hurt and it, well, hurts. But how would you describe it?...
Testosterone: The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
Author: Carole Hooven Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports and politics, we need a good explanation of the science and its...
Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World
Author: The Dalai Lama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Saving the environment is our collective duty. With each passing day, climate change is causing Pacific islands to disappear into...
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,...
Superbugs: Deadly Microbes and the Extraordinary Race for a Cure: A Tale of Human Ingenuity
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Author: Matt McCarthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 International Bestseller "An amazing, informative book that changes our perspective on medicine, microbes and our future." --Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, New York...
Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age
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Author: Robert Stone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 JFK issued the historic moon landing challenge. These are the stories of the visionaries who helped America complete his vision with...
Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain--And How They Guide You
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Author: Rebecca Schwarzlose Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Enlightening and ambitious... a book that travels into rich terrain, charted by a smart and eager tour guide."--New York Times Book...
Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World
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Author: Laurence C Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 An eye-opening, sometimes alarming, and ultimately inspiring natural history of rivers and their complex and ancient relationship with human civilization...
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
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Author: Paul Steinhardt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 *Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize* One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the...
Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness
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Author: Charles Foster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ATLANTIC, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND NEW STATESMAN A radically immersive exploration of three...
Under A Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future
Author: Peter D PhD. Ward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 According to University of Washington paleontologist Peter D. Ward, all but one of the major extinction events in the...
Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began
Author: Guido Tonelli Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 What if the ancient Greeks were right, and the universe really did spring into being out of chaos and the void?...
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
Author: Mark Solms Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Nobody bewitched by these mysteries can afford to ignore the solution proposed by Mark Solms' - Oliver Burkeman, Guardian 'A remarkable...