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Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, The Universe and Us
Author: Professor Heino Falcke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 As featured in THE EDGE OF ALL WE KNOW - the new Netflix documentary about Black Holes For readers of...
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)...
Play and the City: How to Create Places and Spaces To Help Us Thrive
Author: Alex Bonham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Play is essential, for children but also adults. It's how we relax and revitalise ourselves, build and maintain friendships, try new...
Infomojis: Natural Disasters
Author: Jon Richards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Did you know that the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 was the largest ever? Or about tsunamis, cyclones and avalanches? Well,...
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...
In Search of One Last Song: Britain's disappearing birds and the people trying to save them
Author: Patrick Galbraith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Wonderful and enriching' Adam Nicolson 'Without a doubt in my mind, it's my book of the year' Mark Avery 'A modern...
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
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Author: Nicholas A. Christakis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more (Frank Bruni, The...
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
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Author: Nichola Raihani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Enriching --Publisher's Weekly Excellent and illuminating--Wall Street Journal In the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social...
The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
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Author: Eben Kirksey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: Whose values are guiding gene editing experiments? And what...
Revolt: The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization
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Author: Nadav Eyal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 "A well-written and thought-provoking account of the current crisis of globalization. Not everyone will agree with Eyal's interpretation, but few will...
Keeping Healthy: Why Do I Run?
Author: Angela Royston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 24 Why is exercise important? How do your muscles work? Why do you need oxygen? How can you improve your ball skills...
The Life Scientific: Inventors
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio...
The Smell of Fresh Rain: The Unexpected Pleasures of our Most Elusive Sense
Author: Barney Shaw Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Smell is the most emotional and evocative of our senses: it can bring back memories faster and with more immediacy than...
Night Sky Almanac 2022: 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...
The Accidental Influencer: How My Need to Get Likes Nearly Ruined My Life
Author: Bella Younger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'STOP scrolling right now and buy this book instead!' SCARLETT CURTIS 'I've never laughed so hard.' DAISY BUCHANAN 'Brilliantly funny and...
A Comprehensive Guide to Gamekeeping & Shoot Management
Author: J. C. Jeremy Hobson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 This book shows the reader how to perform all the tasks required of the modern gamekeeper, including...
The Finch in My Brain: How I forgot how to read but found how to live
Author: Martino Sclavi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Whenever I see Martino I am reminded of how little I know about life and death compared to him....
Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy
Author: David A. Mindell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 262 Brilliantly researched and accessibly written,Our Robots, Ourselvesclarifies misconceptions about the autonomous robot, offering instead a hopeful message about what he...
A Human's Guide To Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control
Author: Kartik Hosanagar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Wharton professor and tech entrepreneur examines how algorithms and artificial intelligence are starting to run every aspect of our lives,...
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...
Choosing and Keeping Pigs
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Author: Linda McDonald Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Backyard pig keeping is growing in popularity, both as a food source, as demonstrated by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, and as...
fforest: Being, doing & making in nature
Author: Sian Tucker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Calming to the soul and good for us all, spending time outdoors offers us precious breathing space away from the stresses...
Fire, Ice, and Physics
Author: Rebecca C. Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 296 A PhD physicist (and self-professed fangirl) uses the science in George R. R. Martin's fantastical world--from ice walls...
Uncanny Valley: Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco's Startup Scene
Author: Anna Wiener Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit 'Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino 'This is essential reading' Stylist At twenty-five years...
Foot Work: What Your Shoes Are Doing to the World
Author: Tansy E. Hoskins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Do you know where your shoes come from? Do you know where they go when you're done with...
Champions of Illusion: The Best Illusions of the Twenty-First Century
Author: Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In Champions of Illusion, Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik present a smorgasbord of mystifying images, many selected from...
Blueprint for a Battlestar: Serious Scientific Explanations for Sci-Fis Greatest Inventions
Author: Rod Pyle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Packed with stunning images, including 75 illustrations created exclusively for this book, Blueprint for a Battlestar takes twenty-five remarkable and memorable...
Megacatastrophes!: Nine Strange Ways the World Could End
Author: David Darling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 200 Which will get us first? The asteroid hurtling towards us from outer space? The Black Plague: Round Two? Swiss...
Challenge Everything: An Extinction Rebellion Youth guide to saving the planet
Author: Blue Sandford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The main concern of young people is climate change and how to combat it. This is the only official...
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...
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...
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...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science
Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....
F**k Plastic: 101 ways to free yourself from plastic and save the world
Author: The F Team Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Is the thought of the 51 trillion pieces of plastic in our oceans keeping you up at night? Don't panic!...
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...
Living by Numbers: In Defence of Quantity
Author: Steven Connor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 296 Ideas about quantities, magnitudes and frequencies shape and give texture to almost everything we feel, say, dream and do....
The Reality Frame: Relativity and our place in the universe
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Weaving together the great ideas of science, in this, his magnum opus, Brian Clegg builds up reality piece by...
Empty Planet The Shock of Global Population Decline
Author: Darrell Bricker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A radical, provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political and...