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Wild Green Wonders: A Life in Nature
Author: Patrick Barkham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Wild Green Wonders brings you a selection of twenty years' worth of Patrick Barkham's writings for the Guardian, bearing witness to...
Say No to Plastic: 101 Easy Ways to Use Less Plastic
Author: Harriet Dyer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 We ve reached an environmental crisis point with plastic, and it s time to take action. But is it...
Can Globalization Succeed?
Author: Dena Freeman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The expansion of capitalism and neoliberal ideologies have delivered economic integration between countries and brought global inter-connectedness to individuals....
Mapping The Mind
Author: Rita Carter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Brain scans reveal our thoughts, memories - even our moods - as clearly as an X-ray reveals our bones. We can...
From Shore to Ocean Floor
Author: Gill Arbuthnott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Seen from space, Earth is a swirl of blue and white. The blue is Earth's oceans, which cover 70% of its...
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...
Tickets for the Ark: From wasps to whales - how do we choose what to save?
Author: Rebecca Nesbit Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Our planet hasn't seen the current rate of extinction since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, and global...
The Unreality of Memory: Notes on Life in the Pre-Apocalypse
Author: Elisa Gabbert (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'A work of sheer brilliance, beauty and bravery' - Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less 'Masterly... Her essays have a...
Between Light and Storm: How We Live With Other Species
Author: Esther Woolfson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions...
Fledgling
Author: Hannah Bourne-Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Read the powerful account of one woman's struggle to reshape her identity when all normality has fallen away. When lifelong bird-lover...
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, A Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
Author: Noah Strycker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 There are 10,000 species of birds in the world, in 2015 Noah Strycker spotted 6,042 of them entering the Guinness Book...
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
Author: Heather Heying Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet people are more listless, divided and miserable...
The Four Horsemen
Author: Emily Mayhew Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The Four Horsemen - War, Pestilence, Famine and Death - first appeared in the Book of Revelations a thousand years ago,...
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
Author: Manjit Kumar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many years it was equally baffling...
The Last Giants: The Rise and Fall of the African Elephant
Author: Levison Wood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 *Levison Wood's documentary series on WALKING WITH ELEPHANTS is available to watch now on Channel 4* This book comes at a...
Darwin Comes to Town
Author: Menno Schilthuizen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, more than half of the landmass of...
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....
Mending the Mind: The Art and Science of Overcoming Clinical Depression
Author: Oliver Kamm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A tour de force . . . an important, affecting and effective book' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL '[A] gorgeous and urgent book' STEVEN...
End Times: Asteroids, Supervolcanoes, Plagues and More
Author: Bryan Walsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Newsweek and Bloomberg popular science and investigative journalist Bryan Walsh explores the history of extinction and offers a cutting-edge examination of...
No Boundaries
Author: National Geographic Kids Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 In these inspirational, exhilarating, and poignant accounts of exploration, 25 female National Geographic explorers reveal their greatest successes, most epic...
Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector
Author: Amit Katwala Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of...
The Theory of Everything Else
Author: Dan Schreiber Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 This is not a book of facts; it's a book of 'facts'. Should you finish it believing we became the planet's...
Look inside a Coral Reef
Author: Minna Lacey Format: Board book Number of Pages: 14 Discover a vivid underwater world of bright coral and fascinating sea creatures. Open the flaps and peer among spectacular coral...
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...
Shark: Why we need to save the world's most misunderstood predator
Author: Paul de Gelder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 From shark attack survivor to the shark's biggest advocate, Paul de Gelder tells us just why these majestic diverse animals...
Fact Cat: Habitats: Rainforest
Author: Izzi Howell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 24 Read all about rainforests, where in the world you can find them, what animals and plants live there and how they...
The Genome Factor: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future
Author: Dalton Conley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 296 How genomics is revolutionizing the social sciences For a century, social scientists have avoided genetics like the plague. But the nature-nurture...
Single Digits: In Praise of Small Numbers
Author: Marc Chamberland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In Single Digits, Marc Chamberland takes readers on a fascinating exploration of small numbers, from one to nine, looking at their...
The Oceans: A Deep History
Author: Eelco J. Rohling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The 4.4-billion-year history of the oceans and their role in Earth's climate system It has often been said that we know...
Why It's Not All Rocket Science: Scientific Theories and Experiments Explained
Author: Robert Cave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Robert Cave examines 100 extraordinary projects, theories and experiments that have been conducted in the name of science. Some, including various...
Astronomical Mindfulness: Your Cosmic Guide to Reconnecting with the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets
Author: Christopher G De Pree Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Using the power of the sun, moon, stars, and planets, this unique, illustrated guide is filled with...
Forgotten Women: The Scientists
Author: Zing Tsjeng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 FORGOTTEN WOMEN is a new series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women who have refused over hundreds...
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...
The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds
Author: Jessica Nordell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Implicit bias affects us all, every day of our lives. But it can be overcome.Here's how we begin to...
Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness
Author: Charles Foster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A New Statesman Essential Non-Fiction Book of 2021 What kind of creature is a human? If we don't know what we...
The Deep Blue
Author: Charlotte Guillain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 "Shoals of tiny, brightly coloured fish dart through the sun-dappled water. Dazzling royal angelfish nibble the coral." Swim through tropical seas...
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
Author: David Eagleman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A revolutionary new understanding of the human brain and its changeable nature. The brain is a dynamic, electric, living...
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,...
The Physics of Life, The Evolution of Everything
Author, Adrian Bejan Format, Hardback Number of Pages, 272 The Physics of Life illuminates the meaning of evolution in its broadest scientific sense and empowers the reader with a new...
Noa and the Little Elephant
Author: Michael Foreman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 A heart-warming and achingly relevant story about elephant conservation, from picture book legend, Michael Foreman. Noa loves to watch the elephants...
Goliath: Why the West Isn't Winning. And What We Must Do About It.
Author: Sean McFate Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 We are living in an age overshadowed by war. We can't stop it, but we can survive it. Here's...
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...
Skygazing: Explore the Sky in the Day and Night
Author: Anna Claybourne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 What do you see when you look up at the sky? It may seem like a big, empty space, but it's...
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Author: Eric Berger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Just read it.' Elon Musk The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX-and Elon...
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it,...
The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true
Author: Richard Dawkins (Oxford University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 "An inspiring introduction to science and a fascinating exploration of the natural world." "Magic takes many forms....
Animal Languages: The secret conversations of the living world
Author: Eva Meijer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Dolphins and parrots call each other by their names. Fork tailed drongos mimic the calls of other animals to scare them...