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Towards a Digital Renaissance: The evolution of creativity, values and business from cyberspace to the metaverse
Author: Jeremy Silver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Towards a Digital Renaissance traces the excitement and optimism of the early internet, the outsider cyberpunk ethic and open access. But...
The Short Story of Science: A Pocket Guide to Key Histories, Experiments, Theories, Instruments and Methods
Author: Tom Jackson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The Short Story of Science is a new introduction to the complete subject of science. Covering 60 key experiments, from Archimedes'...
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 End Of Time
Author: Dr Julian Barbour Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Time is an illusion. Although the laws of physics create a powerful impression that time is flowing, in fact there...
The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis: The Most Credible Theory of Human Evolution
Author: Elaine Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Why do humans differ from other primates? What do those differences tell us about human evolution? Elaine Morgan gives a revolutionary...
The Accidental Countryside: Hidden Havens for Britain's Wildlife
Author: Stephen Moss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In The Accidental Countryside, author and naturalist Stephen Moss makes a journey of discovery through Britain, in search of the hidden...
Relax: A User's Guide to Life in the Age of Anxiety
Author: Timothy Caulfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Masterfully, and humorously . provides much needed sanity in a world of claims run amok . I devoured it.' - DANIEL...
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...
Owl Sense
Author: Miriam Darlington Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Longlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 2018 The owl has captivated the human imagination for millennia; as a predator,...
Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
Author: J. Craig Venter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In 2010, scientists led by J. Craig Venter became the first to successfully create 'synthetic life' -- putting humankind at...
How to Save the World For Free
Author: Natalie Fee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'Just what we need to get the job done' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 'Smart, easy ways to make a positive impact' Foreword Reviews...
From Our Own Correspondent: A Decade of Dispatches from Across the World
Author: Polly Hope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 For more than sixty-five years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes. It...
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
Author: Atul Gawande Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty -...
13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
Author: Michael Brooks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Even today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar anomalies...
The Universe in Bite-sized Chunks
Author: Colin Stuart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Since the earliest humans walked the earth, the vast mysteries and wonders of the night sky have fascinated and beguiled us,...
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...
The Last Oil Shock: A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man
Author: David Strahan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 This may be the most important book you or anyone else will read in the next fifty years. Assuming humanity survives...
New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Introduction by Professor Stephen Hawking. When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that...
Go Toxic Free: Easy and Sustainable Ways to Reduce Chemical Pollution
Author: Anna Turns Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Plastic pollution has been headline news since David Attenborough's shocking Blue Planet II in 2017. But plastics are only part of...
Frank Whittle (Icon Science): The Invention of the Jet
Author: Andrew Nahum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment in 1943...
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...
The World of All Creatures Great & Small: Welcome to Skeldale House
Author: All Creatures Great and Small Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Welcome to the wonderful world of Skeldale House: the veterinary surgery and bustling waiting room for the locals...
The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work
Author: Richard Baldwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Automation, artificial intelligence and robotics are changing our lives quickly - but digital disruption goes much further than we realize. Richard...
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 Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
Author: Geoffrey Cain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 An in-depth, on-the ground view of how Chinese officials have co-opted technology, infrastructure and the minds of their people to establish...
Skulls: Portraits of the Dead and the Stories They Tell
Author: Paul Gambino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Take an eerie journey through history as you meet over 180 human skulls and discover the stories behind them. It is...
Travellers to Unimaginable Lands: Dementia, Carers and the Hidden Workings of the Mind
Author: Dasha Kiper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A husband believes his wife is an imposter. A man's sudden, intense Catholic piety provokes his wife. A mother and daughter...
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 Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work
Author: Richard Baldwin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Automation, artificial intelligence and robotics are changing our lives quickly - but digital disruption goes much further than we realize. Richard...
Behave :The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Author: Robert Sapolsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that...
Frozen in Time: Fossils of the United Kingdom and Where to Find Them
Author: Rhys Charles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A vibrant and richly detailed guide to fossils for readers with a passion for the natural world and those that inhabited...
How Are We Going to Explain This?: Our Future on a Hot Earth
Author: Jelmer Mommers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Over five years covering climate change, Jelmer Mommers has learned that the subject is a great way to ruin a conversation....
Brainscapes: An Atlas of Your Life on Earth
Author: Rebecca Schwarzlose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Your brain is a collection of maps. That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brain's surfaces are actual schematic images of...
The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 WHAT MAKES US HUMAN? Waging war? Sex for pleasure? Creating art? Mastery of fire? In this thrilling tour of the animal...
Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Computer technology has improved exponentially over the last 50 years. But the headroom for bigger and better electronic solutions is running...
The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work
Author: Richard Baldwin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A manifesto for future-proofing our jobs and prosperity' THE SUNDAY TIMES We stand on the edge of a new era that...
Space: 10 Things You Should Know
Author: Rebecca Smethurst Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 'Bite-sized, cutting edge science delivered with enormous enthusiasm - all you need to travel the cosmos' CHRIS LINTOTT 'A lot of...
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 Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It...
Adventures of a Young Naturalist
Author: Sir David Attenborough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In 1954, a young television presenter was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to travel the world finding rare...
A Universe from Nothing
Author: Lawrence Krauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 292 Internationally renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss offers provocative, revelatory answers to the biggest philosophical questions: Where did our...
Breathtaking: The UK's human story of Covid
Author: Rachel Clarke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside, one patient at a time? To bridge the gulf between...
This is Your Brain on Music
Author: Daniel Levitin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand it, and its role...
Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World
Author: Mark Miodownik Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A unique and inspiring exploration of human creativity from one of the UK's best-known scientists A unique and inspiring exploration of...
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Author: Max Tegmark Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Why does mathematics explain the universe so well? From the big bang to the distant future via parallel worlds, Max Tegmark...
Sensational: A New Story of our Senses
Author: Ashley Ward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Our senses are at the heart of how we navigate the world. Whittling this high-powered and deliciously varied palette down to...
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...
Psycho-Logical: Why Mental Health Goes Wrong - and How to Make Sense of It
Author: Dean Burnett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 One in four people experience a mental health problem each year, with depression and anxiety alone afflicting over 500 million people....