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A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems
Author: Joseph L Graves Jr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Evolution has, ever since its inception, been one of the most ideologically fraught fields in all of science. It...
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run the World
Author: Oliver Milman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 When is the last time you were stung by a wasp? Or were followed by a cloud of midges? Or saw...
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life on the Body in an Unjust Society
Author: Dr Arline Geronimus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Monumental ' IBRAM X. KENDI 'Eloquent, comprehensive and compassionate' LINDA VILLAROSA 'Superbly insightful' HARRIET A. WASHINGTON Fusing science and social...
The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
Author: Professor Matthew Cobb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Brilliant .. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough' - Henry Marsh, New Statesman (about The Idea of the Brain)...
The Shotgun Conservationist: Why Environmentalists Should Love Hunting
Author: Brant MacDuff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Brant MacDuff's personal journey from staunch anti-hunter to compassionate, ethical hunter weaves a larger story about humans, animals, the environment, and...
Pandora's Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk
Author: Alison Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A 'remarkable book.' - The New York Times This fearless, deeply reported book about laboratory accidents asks the haunting question some...
Water and Peace: A journey through the world's most explosive conflict zones in search of deep water
Author: Dr Alain Gachet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In countries where scarce surface water causes disease and conflict, an abundance of water can bring peace. With the growing...
Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure
Author: Bryn Nelson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The future is sh*t: the literal kind. For most of human history we've been, well, disinclined to take a closer look...
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...
How to Make a Killing: Death, Dollars and the Business of Blood
Author: Tom Mueller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Six decades ago, researchers achieved the impossible: developing a treatment that transformed kidney failure from a death sentence to a manageable...
Are We Being Watched?: The Search for Life in the Cosmos
Author: Paul Murdin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Are We Being Watched? applies the latest scientific discoveries and theories to enquire whether life exists on other planets and, if...
Stay Curious and Keep Exploring: 50 Amazing, Bubbly, and Creative Science Experiments to Do with the Whole Family
Author: Emily Calandrelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 168 Emily Calandrelli, MIT engineer and scientist, shares exhilarating experiments for junior scientists and their lab assistants, ranging from homemade ice cream...
Honey Bee Pests and Diseases: A complete guide to prevention and management
Author: Jean-Pierre Y. Scheerlinck Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Honey Bee Pests and Diseases provides up-to-date information on the management of honey bee diseases found globally, not just in...
Honey Bee Pests and Diseases: A complete guide to prevention and management
Author: Jean-Pierre Y. Scheerlinck Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Honey Bee Pests and Diseases provides up-to-date information on the management of honey bee diseases found globally, not just in...
Phaenomena: Doppelmayr's Celestial Atlas
Author: Giles Sparrow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A beautiful showcase of Johann Doppelmayr's magnificent Atlas Coelestis that deconstructs its intricately drawn plates and explores its influential ideas. Showcasing...
The Future is Fungi: How Fungi Can Feed Us, Heal Us, Free Us and Save Our World
Author: Michael Lim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 212 The kingdom of fungi has survived all five major extinction events. They are the architects of the natural world, integral to...
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
Author: Lydia Kang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks -...
Head Strong: The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster-in Just Two Weeks
Author: Dave Asprey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the creator of Bulletproof Coffee and author of the bestselling The Bulletproof Diet comes a revolutionary plan to upgrade your...
What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
Author: Dan Levitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular...
Slime: A Natural History
Author: Susanne Wedlich Format: Hardback 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...
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses
Author: Aarathi Prasad Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future. Aarathi...
The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway
Author: Doug Most Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 404 In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew more congested, the streets became clogged with plodding,...
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
Author: Jaron Lanier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, & Vox The father of virtual...
Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements
Author: Matt Wilkinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Most of us never think about how we get from one place to another. For most people, putting one foot in...
Genetic Variation and Disorders in Peoples of African Origin
Author: James E. Bowman (Professor of Pathology and Medicine, University of Chicago, USA) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 488 This study argues that the misuse of genetic differences among human...
A Brief History of Science: through the development of scientific instruments
Author: Thomas Crump Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 From earliest pre-history, with the dawning understanding of fire and its many uses, up to the astonishing advances of the twenty-first...
The Human Body Coloring Book: From Cells to Systems and Beyond
Author: Coloring Concepts Inc. Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Color your way to understanding the human body and its systems with this interactive study guide from Coloring Concepts, designed...
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Author: Mary Jo Nye (Oregon State University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 708 A narrative and interpretative history of the physical and mathematical sciences from the early nineteenth century to...
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...
The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
Author: Dhun Sethna Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Inspired by Homer's description of the ebb and flow of the "wine dark sea," the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement...
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...
The Car: The rise and fall of the machine that made the modern world
Author: Bryan Appleyard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of...
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...
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...
Astronomy Photographer of the Year: Collection 11
Author: Royal Observatory Greenwich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 A stunning gift for admirers of astrophotography. From the number one Astronomy publisher, this book showcases the most spectacular space...
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
Author: Alec Nevala-Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New...
The Lost Rainforests of Britain
Author: Guy Shrubsole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2023 The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year As seen on Countryfile 'If...
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...
The Invention of Surgery
Author: Dr David Schneider Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "Bold and compelling... Uniformly excellent, and often wryly amusing."" - The Wall Street Journal "A globetrotting historical adventure, told from...
The Eloquence of the Sardine: The Secret Life of Fish & Other Underwater Mysteries
Author: Bill Francois Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Humans have identified just a fraction of the 2.2 million species living in the sea. Roughly 91% of all marine species...
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 Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great defied a deadly virus
Author: Lucy Ward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A killer disease ... an all-powerful Empress ... an extraordinary encounter ... the astonishing true story. No disease sparked as much...
Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things
Author: Josh Clark Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious-curious about the...
Algebra the Beautiful: An Ode to Math's Least-Loved Subject
Author: G. Arnell Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 What comes to mind when you think about algebra? For many of us, it's memories of dull or frustrating classes...
On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA
Author: John Gribbin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from...
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...
Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality
Author: Dr Julia Shaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Bisexuality is the largest sexual minority in the world and the least well understood. This book sets out to answer...