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The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough's classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology,...
Meet Your Hormones
Author: Catherine Whitlock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Did you know that you have thousands, perhaps millions, of hormones in your bloodstream? Did you know that these complex chemical...
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...
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth
Author: Kate Greene Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Filled with wonderment and awe ... Greene's eloquent memoir is equal parts escape and comfort.' - Publishers Weekly In 2013 Kate...
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
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Author: Menno Schilthuizen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 *Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts. *Lizards in Puerto Rico...
How to Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K. Dick's Robotic Resurrection
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Author: David F Dufty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In this remarkable behind-the-scenes narrative, David F. Dufty follows a group of scientists on their mission to create "Phil," a...
The Social Lives of Animals: How Co-operation Conquered the Natural World
Author: Ashley Ward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Some animal societies hold a mirror up to the human world: elephants hold funerals for departed family members. Pinyon jays run...
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,...
This Book is a Plant: How to Grow, Learn and Radically Engage with the Natural World
Author: Wellcome Collection Format: Hardback 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...
Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began
Author: Guido Tonelli Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 What if the ancient Greeks were right, and the universe really did spring into being out of chaos and the void?...
Slime: A Natural History
Author: Susanne Wedlich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid. It inspires revulsion even while it compels our...
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
Author: Mark Solms Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Nobody bewitched by these mysteries can afford to ignore the solution proposed by Mark Solms' - Oliver Burkeman, Guardian 'A remarkable...
Everybody Hertz: The Amazing World of Frequency, from Bad Vibes to Good Vibrations
Author: Richard Mainwaring Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Vic Tandy was a level-headed scientist, but there was no denying it: at this late hour in his lonely lab at...
Eight Improbable Possibilities: The Mystery of the Moon, and Other Implausible Scientific Truths
Author: John Gribbin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Echoing Sherlock Holmes' famous dictum, John Gribbin tells us: 'Onceyou have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, is certainlypossible,...
2023 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
Author: Storm Dunlop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the...
365 Ways to Go Wild: Embrace Your Inner Adventurer Every Day of the Year
Author: Sam Lacey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Dream. Explore. Discover. Take a leaf out of nature s book and unleash your wild side with this essential guide. Packed...
Three Things to Help Heal the Planet: Simple Ideas from 21 Environmental Trailblazers So You Can Start Making a Difference Today
Author: Ana Santi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 We hear news of illegal levels of air pollution while sitting in traffic in our cars. We read that food production...
Green Living: A Comprehensive Guide to a Happy and Sustainable Life
Author: Green Matters Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Do you aspire to live a green or zero-waste life, but just don't know where to begin? Green Living is here...
NASA Missions to Mars: A Visual History of Our Quest to Explore the Red Planet
Author: Piers Bizony Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 196 Gorgeously illustrated with NASA photography, the large-format (12 12 inches) NASA Missions to Mars examines everything from the first tentative steps...
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...
The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial
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Author: Maggie Nelson (CalArts) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Late in 2004, Maggie Nelson was looking forward to the publication of her book Jane: A Murder, a narrative in...
Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease
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Author: Jon Palfreman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A star science journalist with Parkinson's reveals the inner workings of this perplexing disease Seven million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's,...
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
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Author: Jonathan Safran Foer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming due to human activities. But do...
Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
Author: Scott Weidensaul Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a...
To Love What Is
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Author: Alix Kates Shulman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 One day it happens: the dreaded event that will change your life forever. For Alix Kates Shulman, it happened in...
Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician
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Author: Sandeep Jauhar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In his acclaimed memoir Intern, Sandeep Jauhar chronicled the formative years of his residency at a prestigious New York City hospital....
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
Author: John Allen Paulos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Readers of Innumeracy will be rewarded with scores of astonishing facts, a fistful of powerful ideas, and, most important, a...
Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story
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Author: Daphne Sheldrick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Astonishing...You may be tempted after the last page to sell all your possessions and join [Sheldrick's] cause.--The Boston Globe The first...
The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa
Author: Helen Epstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa's AIDS epidemic from the inside--a...
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
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Author: Sonia Shah Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 309 [A] tour-de-force. --The New York Times "The Fever is a vivid and compelling history with a message that's entirely relevant today."...
The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
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Author: Jonathan Rosen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 324 We are all birdwatchers. Over cities and jungles and open plains, the sky is animated by the flight of birds, and...
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
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Author: Ben Goldacre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly...
Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
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Author: Amir Alexander Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Pulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal celebrates the spirit of discovery, innovation, and intellectual achievement-and it will forever change the way...
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
Author: Scott Weidensaul Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 420 Scott Weidensaul follows hawks over the Mexican coastal plains, Bar-tailed Godwits that hitchhike on gale winds 7,000 miles nonstop across the...
Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time--and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything
Author: George Musser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 What is space? Space is the venue of physics; it's where things exist, where they move and take shape. Yet over...
Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure
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Author: Cedric Villani Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In 2010, the French mathematician Cedric Villani received the Fields Medal, the most coveted prize in mathematics, in recognition of a...
Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet
Author: Richard Panek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An award-winning science writer plumbs the depths of the greatest mystery in physics, showing how gravity has shaped our universe, minds,...
Quantum: A Guide For The Perplexed
Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Quantum mechanics underpins modern science and provides us with a blueprint for reality itself. And yet, it has been said that...
The Space Business: From Hotels in Orbit to Mining the Moon - How Private Enterprise is Transforming Space
Author: Andrew May Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Twentieth century space exploration may have belonged to state-funded giants such as NASA, but there is a parallel history which has...
Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe
Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's remarkable life and career, but it...
Why We Love: The new science behind our closest relationships
Author: Anna Machin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'This book opens the Pandora's Box on this most complex and puzzling aspect of what it is to be human' Robin...
The Green Lunch Box: Recipes that are good for you and the planet
Author: Becky Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 The Green Lunch Box is packed with delicious, healthy, plant-based lunches to help you save the planet in your lunch break....
Back to Nature: How to Love Life - and Save It
Author: Chris Packham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Rousing, polemical and heartfelt' - Gardens Illustrated 'An invitation to take action' - The Observer One thing has become clear this...
The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly...
The World of All Creatures Great & Small: Welcome to Skeldale House
Author: All Creatures Great and Small Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Welcome to the wonderful world of Skeldale House: the welcoming veterinary surgery and bustling waiting room for the...
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
Author: Gavin Francis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 When it comes to illness, sometimes the end is just the beginning. Recovery and convalescence are words that exist at the...
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...
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...