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How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK --- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Seriously important' BILL BRYSON 'A book...
Can Medicine Be Cured?: The Corruption of a Profession
Author: Seamus O'Mahony Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A book about the major fallacies crippling modern medicine. A fierce, honest, elegant and often hilarious debunking of the...
100 Things to Know About Science
Author: Various Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Science is a huge topic, but this friendly book breaks it down into bite-sized chunks, making it an accessible introduction for anyone...
How to Grow a Human: Reprogramming Cells and Redesigning Life
Author: Philip Ball Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of...
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world's largest body of...
Megacatastrophes!: Nine Strange Ways the World Could End
Author: David Darling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 200 Which will get us first? The asteroid hurtling towards us from outer space? The Black Plague: Round Two? Swiss...
How Evolution Explains Everything about Life: From Darwin's Brilliant Idea to Today's Epic Theory
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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 How did we get here? It's the journey of a lifetime. All cultures have a creation story, but a...
Lift-the-flap Questions and Answers about your Body
Author: Katie Daynes Format: Board book Number of Pages: Children are always asking questions and their bodies are an endless source of fascination to them. * this quirkily illustrated book...
The Lighthouse Stevensons
Author: Bella Bathurst Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the...
Universal: A Journey Through the Cosmos
Author: Brian Cox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Top Ten bestselling authors of The Quantum Universe take us on an awe-inspiring journey of scientific exploration. We...
The Blind Watchmaker
Author: Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an...
Elephants: Birth, Death and Family in the Lives of the Giants
Author: Hannah Mumby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Elephants are as unique as people. They can be clever and curious or headstrong and impulsive, shy or sociable....
Why do Buses Come in Threes?: The hidden mathematics of everyday life
Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 An entertaining guide to how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. Why is it better to buy a lottery ticket...
Lift-the-flap Questions and Answers about Science
Author: Katie Daynes Format: Board book Number of Pages: 14 A cool and exciting way to learn about science This book answers plenty of questions from science-mad children about the...
The Planets
Author: Professor Brian Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'So staggering you go "whoa!" every few seconds' Guardian 'Really impressive' Eamonn Holmes, ITV This Morning A companion book to...
The Birth Of Sydney
Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Birth of Sydney tells the story of the founding of one of the world's greatest cities. Tim Flannery's...
The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen
Author: Brian Cox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The world we live in is stranger than we can possibly imagine. The closest we've got to understanding it...
A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes
Author: Stephen Hawking (University of Cambridge) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Stunningly repackaged edition of the international bestseller with a new appendix of updates from the author....
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World
Author: Michael Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From the No. 1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the surprising and profound story of...
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Author: Brian Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 From the world-renowned physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe comes this captivating exploration of deep time and...
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 The incomparable Bill Bryson travels through time and space to introduce us to the world, the universe and everything...
The Body: A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 #1 Sunday Times bestseller in both hardback and paperback, this head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human...
Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History
Author: Lewis Dartnell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations Read the Sunday...
The Brain that Changes Itself: stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science
Author: Norman Doidge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed...
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Author: Yuval Noah Harari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. **THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**...
The Order of Time
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The number 1 bestseller from the superstar physicist hailed as 'the new Hawking' (Sunday Times) Time is a mystery...
Gut: the inside story of our body's most under-rated organ
Author: Giulia Enders Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The key to living a happier, healthier life is inside us. The key to living a happier, healthier life...
Erebus: The Story of a Ship
Author: Michael Palin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Michael Palin brings to life one of the greatest adventures of all time NOW AVAILABLE- Michael Palin's North Korea...
The Grand Design
Author: Leonard Mlodinow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 New answers to the ultimate questions of life from the world's most famous living scientist. When and how did...
Kangaroos in Outback Australia: Comparative Ecology and Behavior of Three Coexisting Species
Author: Dale McCullough Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A topic of perpetual fascination, the kangaroos of Australia have been the focus of myriad books and documentaries. Kangaroos...
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
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Author: Jonathan Eig Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four...
The History of Science
Author: Tom Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Mankind has forever strived to learn. The tribe with the better weapons can hunt more efficiently, defend itself better...
The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention
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Author: Alexander Monro Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A sweeping, richly detailed history that tells the fascinating story of how paper--the simple Chinese invention of two thousand years ago--wrapped...
Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World
Author: Richard C. Francis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 The wolf evolved into the Pekingese, the wildcat into the tabby cat and the auroch into the milk-producing cow. This...
Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of its Ice
Author: Gillen D'Arcy Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A history of the first race to Antarctica that weaves the great polar discoveries of the nineteenth century...
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable
Author: Paul J. Nahin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 232 An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic...
The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds
Author: Mark Humphries Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 232 The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains work We see the last...
Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space
Author: Kevin Hand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar system....
Outbreaks and Epidemics: Battling infection from measles to coronavirus
Author: Meera Senthilingam Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out...
My First Book of Comparisons: How the world measures up
Author: Ana Seixas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 Packed full of facts this wonderfully illustrated book measures and compares everything from animals, space and dinosaurs to machines, sports and...
Tyrannosaurus Sue: The Extraordinary Saga of the Largest, Most Fought Over T-Rex Ever Found
Author: Steve Fiffer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Over 65 million years ago in what is now South Dakota, a battle-scarred Tyrannosaurus rex matriarch -- perhaps mortally wounded in...
The Unreality of Memory: Notes on Life in the Pre-Apocalypse
Author: Elisa Gabbert (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 We stare at our phones. We keep multiple tabs open. Our chats and conversations are full of the phrase "Did...
Along Came a Llama
Author: Ruth Janette Ruck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 My Family and Other Animals meets The Secret Life of Cows: this rediscovered gem tells the charming tale of how...
Numb and Number: How to Avoid Being Mystified by the Mathematics of Modern Life
Author: William Hartston (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Like it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts,...
Animal Journal: Land Mammals of the World: Notes, drawings, and observations about animals that live on land
Author: Juan Carlos Alonso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 With this naturalist's notebook in hand, young zoologists can explore the world's most fascinating mammals, up close and personal.Land Mammals...
The Descent of Man: Selection in Relation to Sex
Author: Adrian Desmond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man...
The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight
Author: John Logsdon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a treasure trove of documents...
On the Origin of Species
Author: Damien Hirst Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial...