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Imagination and a Pile of Junk: A Droll History of Inventors and Inventions
Author: Trevor Norton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Although inventors were often scientists or engineers, many were not: Samuel Morse (Morse code) was a painter, Laszlo Biro (the ballpoint...
Why I Love the Forest
Author: Daniel Howarth Format: Board book Number of Pages: 26 Featuring children's own words along with heart-warming pictures, this book is a perfect celebration of all that is special about...
Northern Lights: The definitive guide to auroras
Author: Tom Kerss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 The perfect gift for anyone with a desire to see the Northern Lights. Discover the incomparable beauty of the...
Catology: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Cats
Author: Stefan Gates Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Cat-ology explores the bizarre and very funny world of feline science. Packed with fascinating facts, quirky scientific revelations and weird stories...
Save Our Species: Endangered Animals and How You Can Save Them
Author: Dominic Couzens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Whether you would like to learn how to build a bird box, dig a hedgehog tunnel or implement broader environmental changes...
The Goat
Author: Sue Weaver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The Goat: A Natural History offers a complete overview of this captivating creature, from the goatish Greek god Pan, to their...
Artifice and Design: Art and Technology in Human Experience
Author: Barry Allen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 "As familiar and widely appreciated works of modern technology, bridges are a good place to study the relationship between the aesthetic...
Look Up: Our story with the stars
Author: Sarah Cruddas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Sarah Cruddas is a gifted writer and Look Up is an inspired book. I am hopeful that we will...
No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine
Author: Professor Steve Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of...
The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
Author: Eben Kirksey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 This fascinating book examines the politics, ethics and economics of gene therapies, and the scientists, lobbyists, entrepreneurs and activists...
Living Planet: The Web of Life on Earth
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The Sunday Times Bestseller A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The...
Night Sky Almanac 2022: A stargazer's guide
Author: Storm Dunlop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A beautiful gift for anyone interested in the night sky. Follow the progress of constellations throughout the seasons with this beautiful...
10 Short Lessons in Time Travel
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 '10 Short Lessons in Time Travel lucidly sums up the essential parts of this fascinating subject.' John Gribbin ________________________ In Ten...
Terry Denton's Really Truly Amazing Guide to Everything
Author: Terry Denton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A mini book of facts packed with maximum humour! Sure to engage anyone from the ages of 8 to 80 (and...
The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain
Author: Gina Rippon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An agenda-setting, myth-debunking book by neuroscientist Professor Gina Rippon that demolishes the idea of biology as destiny and the...
We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer's
Author: Dick Swaab Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Everything we think, do and refrain from doing is determined by our brain. From religion to sexuality, it shapes...
The Future of War: A History
Author: Sir Lawrence Freedman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A new approach to ideas about war, from 'Britain's leading academic strategist' (Economist) Where should we look for...
The Descent of Man
Author: Grayson Perry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Grayson Perry turns his acute eye on the gender that always seems to be in crisis in this funny,...
A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
Author: Frank Wilczek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A Nobel Prize-winning physicist argues that beauty is the fundamental organizing principle for the entire universe In this scientific...
A Day in the Life of the Brain: The Neuroscience of Consciousness from Dawn Till Dusk
Author: Baroness Susan Greenfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A world-renowned neuroscientist illuminates the science of consciousness by exploring a single day in the life of the...
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond
Author: Michio Kaku Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning vision of our future in...
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Author: Lindsey Fitzharris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The spellbinding story of a visionary British surgeon who changed medicine forever In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris...
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
Author: Leonard Susskind Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The second volume in Leonard Susskind's hugely popular, one-of-a-kind introductory series on physics In The Theoretical Minimum, world-class physicist...
Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life
Author: George Monbiot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Big, bold and beautifully written, his vision of a rewilded world is, well, truly captivating' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall How many...
English Pastoral: An Inheritance - The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life
Author: James Rebanks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A poetic, practical, raw and almost miraculously detailed picture of an ancient way of life struggling to survive and...
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
Author: Jevin D. West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we? A spotter's guide to bullshit in...
Journey to the Centre of the Earth: A Scientific Exploration Into the Heart of Our Planet
Author: Dr David Whitehouse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The journey to the centre of the earth is a voyage like no other we can imagine. Over...
The Wisdom of Wolves: How Wolves Can Teach Us To Be More Human
Author: Elli H. Radinger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 What wolves can teach us about being human Love your family, care for your those around you, never...
To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
Author: Edward Larson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a "suspenseful" (WSJ) and "adrenaline-fueled" (Outside) entwined narrative of...
Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies
Author: Gordon Corera Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The computer was born to spy, and now computers are transforming espionage. But who are the spies and who...
Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physics
Author: Anthony Aguirre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A delightful intellectual adventure that brings together physics and ancient philosophy Could there be a civilization on a mote...
The Dickens Boy
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In the late 1800s, rather than run the risk of your under-achieveing children tarnishing your reputation at home, you...
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
Author: Michael Shellenberger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Now a National Bestseller! Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. It is not even our...
Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
Author: Steven Kotler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 National Bestseller CNBC and Strategy + Business Best Business Book of the Year It's the biggest revolution you've never...
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...
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...
The Planets
Author: Professor Brian Cox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'So staggering you go "whoa!" every few seconds' Guardian 'Really impressive' Eamonn Holmes, ITV This Morning A companion...
The Pig A Natural History
Author: Richard Lutwyche Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 At any given time there are around one billion pigs in the world; that's one for every seven of us. And...
Scale The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms
Author: Geoffrey West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything from cells and ecosystems...