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Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
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Telling Our Way to the Sea: A Voyage of Discovery in the Sea of Cortez
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Author: Aaron Hirsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD FOR NATURAL HISTORY LITERATURE A FINALIST FOR THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING...
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...
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...
The Pursuit Of Wonder
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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...
Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace
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Author: Carl Safina Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way...
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...
Strandings: Confessions of a Whale Scavenger
Author: Peter Riley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Wild and wonderful ... I doubt anyone will ever match Strandings for its sheer bravura, its wry insight, and its absolute,...
Through Two Doors At Once
Author: Anil Ananthaswamy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Some of the greatest scientific minds have grappled with this experiment. Thomas Young devised it in the early 1800s to show...
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...
The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth
Author: Michael Marshall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'The story of the quest to understand life's genesis is a universal one, in which everyone can find pleasure and fascination....
Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life
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Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution
Author: Russell Bonduriansky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 There is much more to heredity than genes For much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate...
Dinosaur in a Haystack
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The Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China
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The Universe Explained
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Remaking Eden: Designing Human Life in the New Millennium
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Human Frontiers : The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
Author: Michael Bhaskar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Where next for humanity? Is our future one of endless improvement in all areas of life, from technology and travel to medicine,...
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World
Author: Laurence Scott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 You are a four-dimensional human. A constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring your inner life, increasingly coaxing you...
All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change
Author: Michael Klare Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate change-still linked, for many people, with...
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-month Race to Make the Impossible Possible
Author: Albert Bourla Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer's CEO...
Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis
Author: Simon Mundy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 As heard on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week with Andrew Marr One of the Financial Times' best books...
50 Things to Do by the Sea
Author: Easkey Britton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 A beautifully presented, practical gift guide for all surf seekers. Explained with fascinating, easy-to-understand commentary from surfer and scientist Easkey Britton...
Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Computer technology has improved exponentially over the last 50 years. But the headroom for bigger and better electronic solutions...
The Eight Master Lessons of Nature: What Nature Teaches Us About Living Well in the World
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Author: Gary Ferguson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A riveting manifesto for the millions of people who long to forge a more vital, meaningful connection to the natural world...
Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All
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Author: Arthur Holland Michel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The fascinating history and unnerving future of high-tech aerial surveillance, from its secret military origins to its growing use on...
Dunkleosteus
Author: Professor Ben Garrod Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A comprehensive look at the strongest force in nature. What causes extinction? Why do some species go extinct and not...
Elephant in My Kitchen!: A critically acclaimed, humorous introduction to climate change and protecting our natural world
Author: Smriti Halls Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 "Blithe, engaging introduction to ideas of conservation for the very young." - The Guardian "Witty, rhyming text dances across...
The Green Rebel Activity Book, Eco-friendly Brain Games for Eco-heroes
Author, Jonathan Holt Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 400 Find the correct parts to build a bug hotel, spot the plastic rubbish on the riverbank, design a climate...
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
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Author: Randolph M. Nesse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide a much-needed...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir
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Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...
This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
Author: David Sloan Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From noted evolutionary biologist and the author of Evolution for Everyone comes a paradigm-changing new look at how we can...
Circular Fashion: Making the Fashion Industry Sustainable
Author: Peggy Blum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Creating sustainable fashion has never been more important. Circular Fashion provides an accessible, practical, and holistic approach to this...
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro
Author: Rachel Slade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a...
Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
Author: Brian Switek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It gives our...
Natural: The Seductive Myth of Nature's Goodness
Author: Alan Levinovitz, PhD Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Without our realising it, a single, slippery concept has become a secular deity throughout the modern industrial world. We make...
Why do Buses Come in Threes?: The hidden mathematics of everyday life
Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 An entertaining guide to how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. Why is it better to buy a lottery ticket...
Can We Be Friends?: Unexpected Animal Friendships from around the World
Author: Erica Sirotich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 With charming, colorful illustrations, this heartwarming picture book in rhyming text asks an age-old question-can we be friends Take a journey...
Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of its Ice
Author: Gillen D'Arcy Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A history of the first race to Antarctica that weaves the great polar discoveries of the nineteenth century...
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable
Author: Paul J. Nahin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 232 An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic...
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done
Author: David Badre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 312 A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday lives. Why...
Outbreaks and Epidemics: Battling infection from measles to coronavirus
Author: Meera Senthilingam Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out...
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,...
Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)
Author: Michael Wall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 We've all asked ourselves the question. It's impossible to look up at the stars and NOT think about it: Are we...
Einstein And Culture
Author: Gerhard Sonnert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 427 Popular images of Albert Einstein often depict him as either an almost superhuman solitary genius or as a counter-cultural rebel. In...
The General Rule A Guide to Customary Weights and Measures
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Author: Vivian T. Linacre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 168 An essential collection of articles, tables and notes, to define and explain the modern uses and relationships -...