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We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body's Electrome
Author: Sally Adee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome - the bacterial fauna that populates our gut and can...
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...
Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story
Author: Jeremy Farrar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The Coronavirus pandemic has devastated lives and livelihoods around the world - and continues to do so. These personal tragedies will,...
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...
Sad Topographies
Author: Damien Rudd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Covering all continents, Damien Rudd explores the world's depressing place names and explore their etymology. The stories behind these sad topographies...
The Marshmallow Test
Author: Walter Mischel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Self-control explained by the inventor of the famous 1960s marshmallow experiments A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice-...
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...
Planta Sapiens: Unmasking Plant Intelligence
Author: Paco Calvo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A joy to read ... mind-expanding' Book of the Week, Guardian 'A bold and brave paean to our planet's ligneous, leafy...
What's Next?: Even Scientists Can't Predict the Future - or Can They?
Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Thought the science of the future was all hoverboards and space travel? Think again. Every day, scientists come up with the...
Rewild Your Life: 52 Ways To Reconnect To Nature
Author: Sarah Stirling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Over-attached to technology and cosseted in our homes, the Western world has never been so disconnected from nature. Rewild Your Life...
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...
Strange Labyrinth: Outlaws, Poets, Mystics, Murderers and a Coward in London's Great Forest
Author: Will Ashon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In litter-strewn Epping Forest on the edge of London, might a writer find that magical moment of transcendence? He will certainly...
Here Comes the Sun: How it feeds us, kills us, heals us and makes us what we are
Author: Professor Steve Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Illuminating!' Professor Brian Cox 'Every Steve Jones book is a masterclass in clear and captivating writing with tantalising detours into...
The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar
Author: Matt Simon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 For fans of WHAT IF? and NEW SCIENTIST comes Matt Simon's THE WASP THAT BRAINWASHED THE CATERPILLAR, a brilliantly funny and...
Dogology: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Dogs
Author: Stefan Gates Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Dog-ology explores the bizarre and very funny world of canine science. Packed with fascinating facts, quirky scientific revelations and weird stories...
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...
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run the World
Author: Oliver Milman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 When is the last time you were stung by a wasp? Or were followed by a cloud of midges? Or saw...
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...
Choked: The Age of Air Pollution and the Fight for a Cleaner Future
Author: Beth Gardiner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Every year, air pollution prematurely kills seven million people around the world, in rich countries and poor ones. It is strongly...
The Book of Why
Author: Judea Pearl Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 392 'Correlation does not imply causation.' For decades, this mantra was invoked by scientists in order to avoid taking positions as to...
The Magick of Matter: Crystals, Chaos and the Wizardry of Physics
Author: Felix Flicker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'This is a book about wizardry. It will reveal the secrets of the wizard's art, and how you, too, can learn...
Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World
Author: Professor Joshua Paul Dale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Why are some things cute, and others not? What happens to our brains when we see something cute? And...
Strange Labyrinth: Outlaws, Poets, Mystics, Murderers and a Coward in London's Great Forest
Author: Will Ashon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In litter-strewn Epping Forest on the edge of London, might a writer find that magical moment of transcendence? He will certainly...
Entangled Life
Author: Melvin Sheldrake Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. Neither plant nor animal, they are found throughout the...
Why We Love: The Definitive Guide to Our Most Fundamental Need
Author: Anna Machin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In this entertaining and accessible exploration of love, Oxford anthropologist Dr Anna Machin dives into the science behind the myriad types...
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...
The Short Story of the Universe: A Pocket Guide to the History, Structure, Theories and Building Blocks of the Cosmos
Author: Gemma Lavender Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The Short Story of the Universe is a new introduction to the subject of the universe. Covering 130 key components that...
Here Comes the Sun: How it feeds us, kills us, heals us and makes us what we are
Author: Professor Steve Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Illuminating!' Professor Brian Cox 'Every Steve Jones book is a masterclass in clear and captivating writing with tantalising detours into...
Chance and Commitment: Memoirs of a medical scientist
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Into the Grey Zone: Exploring the Border Between Life and Death
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Great Sailing Ships of the World
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Decoding the World
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The Mapping of Terra Australis
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Principles of Yacht Design
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COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened, and How to Stop the Next One
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Waterfowl
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Shadows on the Wasteland
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Birds of Paradise: Nature Art History
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A Garden of Birds: Australian Birds in Australian Gardens
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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...
Hot Mess: What on earth can we do about climate change?
Author: Matt Winning Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A very funny, important and only moderately terrifying clarion call of a book' - Adam Kay 'HOT MESS provides loads of...
Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender
Author: Frans de Waal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 A ground-breaking look at gender and sex from the world's leading primatologist and New York Times bestselling author of Are...
The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Maths Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
Author: Graham Farmelo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A superbly written, riveting book.' - Martin Rees Searching for the fundamental laws of the universe, physicists have found themselves developing...
Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques
Author: David Veale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 A Books on Prescription Title. Break free from unhelpful rituals and take control of your life Are you plagued by a...
Animal Vegetable Criminal: When Nature Breaks the Law
Author: Mary Roach Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 What happens when nature and humanity clash? In past centuries, wild animals who broke the law would be given lawyers and...
Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future
Author: Tracey Spicer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man-Made aims to open readers' eyes to a transformative technological...
Decoding the World
Author: Po Bronson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A vision of the future where the latest Silicon Valley tech meets cutting-edge genetics. Decoding the World is a buddy adventure...