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Urban Arboreal: A Modern Glossary of City Trees
Author: Michael Jordan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Trees are an important part of the life of many cities. Whether in avenues or parks they provide shade, a green...
The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight
Author: John Logsdon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a treasure trove of documents...
The Voyage of the Beagle
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current...
On the Origin of Species
Author: Damien Hirst Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial...
A New Voyage Round the World
Author: William Dampier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East...
The Poetics of Space
Author: Gaston Bachelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists,...
Brief Lives - Newton (Peter Ackroyd)
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd's Brief Lives. NEWTON is a companion volume to CHAUCER and TURNER...
Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines
Author: George Dyson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A spellbinding exploration of the emergence of the digital age and an unsettling vision of what comes next In a world...
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Author: Fareed Zakaria Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator examines how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our world Since the end of the...
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...
Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
Author: Anatol Lieven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A major new book on why the most urgent issue confronting us all needs national solutions In the past two centuries...
Ecology of Wisdom
Author: Arne Naess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Drawing on his years spent in an isolated hut high in the Norwegian mountains, and on influences as diverse...
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
Author: Arthur Koestler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Passionate, provocative and lyrically told, The Sleepwalkers is the remarkable story of how man grew to understand the universe....
Helgoland: The Sunday Times bestseller
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 The Number One bestselling author of The Order of Time is back with a stunning book about the enigma of quantum...
The Ten Equations that Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too
Author: David Sumpter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Is there a secret formula for getting rich? For making something a viral hit? For deciding how long to stick with...
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Author: Michio Kaku Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The best-selling physicist returns with a thrilling account of the search for the 'god equation' This is the story of a...
The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the Beagle
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 The most important work of modern science now available in Vintage Classics WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, RUTH...
Look Up: Our story with the stars
Author: Sarah Cruddas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'Sarah Cruddas is a gifted writer and Look Up is an inspired book. I am hopeful that we will...
What Can I Do?: The Truth About Climate Change and How to Fix It
Author: Jane Fonda Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 252 A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to...
The Hen Harrier
Author: Donald Watson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 An acknowledged classic of narrative nature-writing, Donald Watson's The Hen Harrier was the culmination of a lifetime's study of this beautiful...
Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
Author: Yasha Levine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 As the Cambridge Analytica scandal has shown, private corporations consider it their right to use our data (and by...
Beautiful Sheep: Portraits of champion breeds
Author: Kathryn Dun Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 This stunning collection of portraits shows sheep as you've never seen them before. Featuring commissioned studio photography of champion...
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
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Author: Jaron Lanier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, & Vox The father...
30-Second Climate: The 50 most topical events, measures and conditions, each explained in half a minute
Author: Joanna D Haigh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Weather and climate are not the same. Weather is what occurs outdoors on a daily basis and is unpredictable from...
Fire: A Brief History
Author: Stephen J Pyne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 What does a full-blown Fire Age look like? We are about to find out, and Australia will feel...
Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe
Author: Louisa Preston Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'An expert romp through the science of extraterrestrial life.' Adam Rutherford Today we know of only a single planet...
Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptional - and What that Means for Life in the Universe
Author: David Waltham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Science tells us that life elsewhere in the Universe is increasingly likely to be discovered. But in fact the Earth may...
The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World
Author: Ziya Tong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to the x-rays that...
The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far
Author: Lawrence M. Krauss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 This is how the story of the greatest intellectual adventure in history should be introduced - how humanity...
Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature of Philosophy
Author: Robert Almeder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 235 In seeking to defend a form of naturalism that avoids both scientism and the reduction of philosophy to science,...
Behind the Scenes at Galileo's Trial: Including the First English Translation of Melchior Inchofer's Tractatus syllepticus
Author: Richard J. Blackwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 264 Galileo's trial in 1633 before the Roman Inquisition is one of the most frequently mentioned topics in the...
Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps
Author: Peter L. Falkingham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 428 The latest advances in dinosaur ichnology are showcased in this comprehensive and timely volume, in which leading researchers and research...
An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings
Author: Thomas Malthus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The provocative historical work on social economy, demography and population control Malthus' life's work on human population and its...
Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker
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Author: A N Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the bestselling author of Victoria: A Life. With the publication of On the...