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Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown
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Author: Stephen Jay Gould (Harvard University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 190 In the bestselling short-history format of Longitude and How the Irish Saved Civilization, this elegant volume by the...
It's Up to Us: A Children's Terra Carta for Nature, People and Planet
Author: His Majesty King Charles III Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 'Children have a unique curiosity for Nature and for this amazing planet we call home.' So writes HRH...
Llama
Author: Helen Cowie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Known for their haughty demeanour, woolly charm, and propensity to spit when threatened, llamas have a rich and varied history. Since...
Avian Illuminations: A Cultural History of Birds
Author: Boria Sax Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Avian Illuminations examines the many roles birds have played in human society, from food, messengers, deities and pets, to omens, muses,...
Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science
Author: Jimena Canales Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities - demons - to test the laws of nature...
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
Author: Lord Martin Rees Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 A provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin Rees...
Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built
Author: William A. Harris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 By the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through...
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet with a New Introduction by the Author
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Author: Andrew Blum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 An engaging, narrative tour behind the scenes of our everyday lives to see the dark beating heart of the Internet itself....
The Future We Choose: 'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG
Author: Christiana Figueres Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 We can survive the climate crisis. This book shows us how. We have two choices for our future, which is still...
This Book is a Plant: How to Grow, Learn and Radically Engage with the Natural World
Author: Wellcome Collection Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 We've become used to thinking of plants as things for us to use: as food, tools, resources, or just as an...
Endless Forms: Why We Should Love Wasps
Author: Seirian Sumner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A funny and beautifully written welcome to the enigmatic, weird and wonderful world of wasps' DAVE GOULSON, author of SILENT EARTH...
Eureka!: Mindblowing Science Every Day of the Year
Author: New Scientist Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Introduced by Jim Al-Khalili Could you surf down an erupting volcano? Why do zebras have stripes? Are you breathing the same...
Dress Your Pets! (Adopt Me!)
Author: Uplift Games Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 Celebrate your favourite Adopt Me pets with this hilarious dress-up sticker book! Dress up your puffin, rhino, cat, dog, space whale...
Itch!: Everything You Didn't Want to Know About What Makes You Scratch
Author: Anita Sanchez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 Everybody gets itchy, and every kid will love this title that scratches the itch to know more and about the history,...
Apollo's Fire, a Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination
Author: Michael Sims Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320Critically acclaimed author Sims sets out to open readers eyes to the miraculous events that occur in the passing of a single...
The Science of the Oven
Author: Herve This (AgroParisTech) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 Mayonnaise "takes" when a series of liquids form a semisolid consistency. Eggs, a liquid, become solid as they are heated,...
Ingenium: Five Machines That Changed the World
Author: Mark Denny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 Ingenium is medieval English vernacular for "an ingenious contrivance." In this fascinating book, physicist Mark Denny considers five such contrivances-the bow...
The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg
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Author: Robert P. Crease (Stony Brook University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Philosopher and science historian Robert P. Crease tells the stories behind ten of the greatest equations in...
Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
Author: Laura J. Snyder (St. John's University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek-a cloth...
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,...
The Human Swarm
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Author: Mark W. Moffett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The epic story, ultimate big history, and "remarkable intellectual achievement" (Quarterly Review of Biology) describing how human society evolved from...
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe
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Author: Johnjoe McFadden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 "In short, Life Is Simple is enthralling."--Michael Blastland, Prospect A biologist argues that simplicity is the guiding principle of the universe...
Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors
Author: Brian Fagan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Human-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate...
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...
A New Deal for Cancer: Lessons from a 50 Year War
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Author: Abbe R Gluck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 An unprecedented constellation of experts--leading cancer doctors, policymakers, cutting-edge researchers, national advocates, and more--explore the legacy and the shortcomings from...
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 End of Money: The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering... These might sound like plot lines of a thriller, but they are true...
Taking Stock: A Journey Among Cows
Author: Roger Morgan-Grenville Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 So at the age of 61, with no farming experience, he signed on as a part- time labourer on a beef...
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
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Author: Sarah Stewart Johnson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 "Sarah Stewart Johnson interweaves her own coming-of-age story as a planetary scientist with a vivid history of the exploration of...
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...
Ready, Steady, Code!: Coding with Hopscotch
Author: Alvaro Scrivano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 Get ready to code with this easy-to-use series full of projects and tips to get kids programming. Each book in the...
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...
Aussie Ark
Author: Tim Faulkner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 From the time he was old enough to focus on an object, Tim Faulkner has had his eyes glued on things...
Animals
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Author: 0 Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Being able to identify wild creatures in their natural environment adds an extra dimension to the enjoyment of being outdoors....
How to Make a Mountain: in Just 9 Simple Steps and Only 100 Million Years
Author: Amy Huntington Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 68 DO IT YOURSELF! START TODAY! From shaping peaks and crafting a glacier to nurturing your own plants and animals, these nine...
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?...
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,...
The Hidden World of the Fox
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Author: Adele Brand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Discover the hidden world of the fox, as beautifully revealed by an acclaimed ecologist who has studied foxes for two decades...
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...
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...
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 Universe
Author: Naumann and Gobel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Delve into this book and discover a wealth of fascinating information about our universe. Learn how the rings of Saturn were...
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...
Physics and Technology for Future Presidents: An Introduction to the Essential Physics Every World Leader Needs to Know
Author: Richard A. Muller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 536 Physics and Technology for Future Presidents contains the essential physics that students need in order to understand today's core science...
The Goat
Author: Sue Weaver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The Goat: A Natural History offers a complete overview of this captivating creature, from the goatish Greek god Pan, to their...
How Long Is Now?: Fascinating Answers to 191 Mind-Boggling Questions
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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Big or small, there's an answer to every question, and sometimes there are even a few!How long is now?...
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...
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Author: Max Tegmark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Why does mathematics explain the universe so well? From the big bang to the distant future via parallel worlds,...