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Ocean Life in the Time of Dinosaurs
Author: Nathalie Bardet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A richly illustrated introduction to the spectacular reptiles that swam the oceans when dinosaurs roamed the land. During the Mesozoic Era,...
Avian Architecture Revised and Expanded Edition: How Birds Design, Engineer, and Build
Author: Peter Goodfellow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Birds are the most consistently inventive builders, and their nests set the bar for functional design in nature. Describing how birds...
The Complete Insect: Anatomy, Physiology, Evolution, and Ecology
Author: David A. Grimaldi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 With an astounding 3.5 million species occupying virtually every habitat on Earth, insects are one of the most diverse groups...
Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners: 20 Mysteries of Honey Bee Behavior Solved
Author: Thomas D. Seeley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 312 Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners takes readers inside a world seldom seen even by beekeepers, shedding light on twenty...
Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth's Past and Will Shape Our Future
Author: Stephen Porder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of...
AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own
Author: Verity Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A humanist manifesto for the age of AI. Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's...
Our Earth is a Poem
Author: Various authors Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 This is a book of poetry for everyone. Inside is a treasure trove of writing celebrating the natural world. Read the...
Super Self-Care: How to Find Lasting Freedom from Addiction, Toxic Relationships and Dysfunctional Lifestyles
Author: Christopher Dines Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Christopher Dines has profound experience of recovery and personal growth; he struggled with drug addiction for most of his young adult...
Solitary Bees (Collins New Naturalist Library)
Author: Ted Benton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 A completely up-to-date introduction to the most common group of bees in Britain. Bees, for most people, mean honey or bumble...
Tiny, the Secret Adventurer
Author: Aisha Bushby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 You don't have to be big to be brave! A brand new inclusive series full of heart-warming adventure perfect for young...
Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist)
Author: Sarah Chaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 *As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour* *A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022* 'Excellent ... one...
Bin Boy: There's nothing rubbish about this superhero!
Author: Tom Vaughan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Many children think their step-parents are super-villains . . . but what if they really were? 10-year-old Billy's mum has just...
The Essentials of Psycho-Analysis
Author: Sigmund Freud Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The definitive collection of writing from the great founder of psycho-analysis. The Essentials of Psycho-analysis is the definitive collection of Sigmund Freud's...
Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain
Author: Rob Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A striking expose of the insidious business practices that have generatedenormous profits for the companies operating within the UK's gamblingindustry. 'A...
What Do You Think You Are?: The Science of What Makes You You
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Popular science master Brian Clegg's new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the...
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life on the Body in an Unjust Society
Author: Dr Arline Geronimus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Monumental ' IBRAM X. KENDI 'Eloquent, comprehensive and compassionate' LINDA VILLAROSA 'Superbly insightful' HARRIET A. WASHINGTON Fusing science and social...
Even If Everything Ends
Author: Jens Liljestrand Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Summer. The climate crisis has escalated beyond our worst nightmares. Raging wildfires sweep through the Swedish countryside - turning vacationers into...
Through A Vet's Eyes: How to care for animals and treat them better
Author: Dr Sean Wensley, FRCVS Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 One of the Financial Times' Best Summer Books of 2022 'A compelling account of the trials, tribulations and triumphs...
Common or Garden: Encounters with Britain's 50 Most Successful Wild Plants
Author: Ken Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 It's often imagined that rarity is special. We seek out uncommon plants or birds to tick them off our lists, but...
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)...
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars: The 10 Global Problems We Can Actually Fix
Author: Rowan Hooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the good of the world and the advancement...
The Story of the Brain in 101/2 Cells
Author: Richard Wingate Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and...
The Making of You: A Journey from Cell to Human
Author: Katharina Vestre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Join Katharina Vestre on an adventure to relive your very first moments. From your first cell to your first breath, this...
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Barack Obama's Books of 2019
Author: Professor Shoshana Zuboff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 The Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller 'Everyone needs to read this book as an act of digital self-defense.' - Naomi...
Pandora's Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk
Author: Alison Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A 'remarkable book.' - The New York Times This fearless, deeply reported book about laboratory accidents asks the haunting question some...
Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Our Senses
Author: Jackie Higgins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Sentient assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures - from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe - to...
Wonderland: A Year of Britain's Wildlife, Day by Day
Author: Brett Westwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Vibrant, fascinating, poetic - a year in living things: all the things we love, all the things...
The Science Magpie: Fascinating facts, stories, poems, diagrams and jokes plucked from science
Author: Simon Flynn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Fascinating lists, facts, stories, poems, drawings, diagrams - and even jokes - across the scientific disciplines and from science's bejewelled history....
The Accidental Scientist: The Role of Chance and Luck in Scientific Discovery
Author: Graeme Donald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Have you ever wondered how the ideas for some things come about? Surprisingly it is often as much down to chance...
Adventures in Human Being
Author: Gavin Francis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human...
The Missing Musk: A Casebook of Mysteries from the Natural World
Author: Bob Gilbert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Utterly fascinating and intriguing' Neil Ansell, author of The Last Wilderness 'A captivating dive into the mysteries of nature' Lee Schofield,...
The Self Delusion: The Surprising Science of Our Connection to Each Other and the Natural World
Author: Tom Oliver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A thought-provoking and worthwhile read' THE TIMES 'A timely, challenging book' GUARDIAN '[A] rich, intriguing book' NATURE WE ARE MUCH MORE...
Talking to Robots: How Humans and Machines Will Live Together in the Future
Author: David Ewing Duncan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'If you want to see what that future might look like, Duncan's book is a fun place to start' NPR...
Around the Ocean in 80 Fish and other Sea Life
Author: Helen Scales Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 Dive beneath the waves to meet 80 of the ocean's strangest and most surprising inhabitants. This beautifully illustrated aquatic world tour...
Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure
Author: Bryn Nelson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The future is sh*t: the literal kind. For most of human history we've been, well, disinclined to take a closer look...
Even If Everything Ends
Author: Jens Liljestrand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Summer. The climate crisis has escalated beyond our worst nightmares. Raging wildfires sweep through the Swedish countryside - turning vacationers into...
When We Touch: Handshakes, hugs, high fives and the new science behind why touch matters
Author: Professor Michael Banissy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'A mind-expanding tour of what touch means.' DAVID EAGLEMAN, neuroscientist and author of Incognito and Livewired Why is a hugged...
How to Make a Killing: Death, Dollars and the Business of Blood
Author: Tom Mueller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Six decades ago, researchers achieved the impossible: developing a treatment that transformed kidney failure from a death sentence to a manageable...
Country Matters: A Countryside Companion: 74 tips, tales and talking points
Author: Meg Clothier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'A lovely, luminous compendium of rural lore, law and life, full of unexpected paths and explorations' Bella Bathurst, author of Field...
Are We Being Watched?: The Search for Life in the Cosmos
Author: Paul Murdin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Are We Being Watched? applies the latest scientific discoveries and theories to enquire whether life exists on other planets and, if...
How Vaccines Work: The Science and History Behind Every Question You've Wanted to Ask
Author: David Miles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Vaccines are a debate, whether we want them to be or not. Now more than ever, it's easy to feel overwhelmed...
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...
Tree Stories: How trees plant our world and connect our lives
Author: Stefano Mancuso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Trees have played countless roles in human history - by turns hopeful symbols of freedom, pioneering space travellers, keepers of ancient...
Cancel The Apocalypse: The New Path To Prosperity
Author: Andrew Simms Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Ever get the feeling that things are falling apart? You're not alone. From bad banks to global warming it can all...
Wild Green Wonders: A Life in Nature
Author: Patrick Barkham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'Barkham is an outstanding author.' -CHRIS PACKHAM 'Wonder-filled . . . A treat. Patrick knows how...
When There Were Birds: The forgotten history of our connections
Author: Roy Adkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 A landmark book that charts humanity's changing relationship with birds - from the ancient Egyptians to the twenty-first century 'A marvellously...
The Nature of Sex: The Ins and Outs of Mating in the Animal Kingdom
Author: Dr Carin Bondar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Thought about sex today? Of course you have! It's about the most natural thing any animal can do. But have...
Your Planet Needs You!: An everyday guide to saving the earth
Author: Bernadette Vallely Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 If there was ever a time to stand up for your planet, for Mother Earth, this is the time. But what...