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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...
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...
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...
The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet
Author: Arthur Turrell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Is it possible to build a star on earth? When asked what problem he hoped scientists will have solved by the...
The Observant Walker: Wild Food, Nature and Hidden Treasures on the Pathways of Britain
Author: John Wright Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When we go for a walk, whether in the countryside or city, we pass through landscapes full of natural beauty and...
The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
Author: AnnaMarie Salai Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY After a few billion years of bearing witness to life on Earth,...
The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance
Author: Nessa Carey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The most important revolution in modern biology - and what it means for humanity. The cutting-edge of biology, however, is telling...
Infectious: Pathogens and How We Fight Them
Author: Prof. John S. Tregoning Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Even as vaccination emerges on the horizon for Covid-19, the fight against disease is far from over. Scientists now...
Grounded: A Journey into the Landscapes of Our Ancestors
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Author: James Canton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: NATURE AND TRAVEL For thousands of years, our ancestors held a close connection with the...
Frequently Asked Questions About the Universe
Author: Daniel Whiteson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 You've got questions: about space, time, gravity, and the odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers...
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
Author: Leila Philip Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 From award-winning writer Leila Philip, BEAVERLAND is a masterful work of narrative science writing, a book that highlights, though history and...
Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth
Author: Claire Horn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Throughout human history, every single one of us has been born from a person. So far. But that is about to...
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...
Nostalgia Nerd's Gadgets, Gizmos & Gimmicks: A Potted History of Personal Tech
Author: Peter Leigh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In this eagerly-awaited new book from the author of the best-selling Nostalgia Nerd's Retro Tech, Peter Leigh takes a fun, informative...
What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
Author: Professor Ian Stewart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Stewart is Britain's most brilliant and prolific populariser of maths' - Alex Bellos 'The instructive equivalent of a Michelin-starred tasting...
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...
How Animals Saved My Life: Being the Supervet: The perfect gift for animal lovers
Author: Professor Noel Fitzpatrick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 THE MASSIVE NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER It has been 30 years since Noel Fitzpatrick graduated as a veterinary surgeon,...
Monster Kids: How Pokemon Taught a Generation to Catch Them All
Author: Daniel Dockery Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 More than just a simple journey through the history of Pokemon, Daniel Dockery offers an in-depth look at the franchise's many...
Below the Edge of Darkness: Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea
Author: Edith Widder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean in this 'thrilling blend of hard science and high adventure'...
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...
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...
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...
Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth
Author: Claire Horn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Throughout human history, every single one of us has been born from a person. So far. But that is about to...
The Wild Places
Author: Robert Macfarlane (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out...
Nostalgia Nerd's Gadgets, Gizmos & Gimmicks: A Potted History of Personal Tech
Author: Peter Leigh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In this eagerly-awaited new book from the author of the best-selling Nostalgia Nerd's Retro Tech, Peter Leigh takes a fun, informative...
The Jewel Box: How Moths Illuminate Nature's Hidden Rules
Author: Tim Blackburn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Every morning, ecologist Tim Blackburn is inspired by the diversity contained within the moth trap he runs on the roof of...
Pluses and Minuses: How Maths Makes the World More Manageable
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Author: Stefan Buijsman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Thousands of years ago the inhabitants of Mesopotamia became the first to use numbers. Since then, mathematics has been unstoppable. It's...
Two for Joy: The untold ways to enjoy the countryside
Author: Adam Henson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In Two for Joy, Adam Henson - much-loved and long-standing presenter of Countryfile and Lambing Live - goes on a journey...
For the Love of Animals: Stories from my life as a vet
Author: Dr James Greenwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'A joy to read' - SARA COX Growing up in Yorkshire and with farming blood in his genes, James Greenwood...
The Brain: 10 Things You Should Know
Author: Professor Sophie Scott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Uncover the mind-blowing complexities of the brain and how it affects our personalities, behaviours and more. Written by Professor of...
The Cartographers
Author: Peng Shepherd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Exquisitely written ... Be prepared to be swept away on an incredible journey' Brad Thor, #1 bestselling author of Black Ice...
The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science
Author: Marcus Chown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 What happens when you die? According to one prominent physicist, you will be instantaneously resurrected - despite trillions upon trillions of...
The Meat Paradox: 'Brilliantly provocative, original, electrifying' Bee Wilson, Financial Times
Author: Rob Percival Format: Paperback 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,...
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...