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The Social Lives of Animals: How Co-operation Conquered the Natural World

The Social Lives of Animals: How Co-operation Conquered the Natural World

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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

The Last Oil Shock: A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man

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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...
The Cure for Good Intentions: A Doctor's Story

The Cure for Good Intentions: A Doctor's Story

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Author: Sophie Harrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'When I was twenty-eight I trained as a doctor. Initially everyone was interested. Amazing! people said, when I told them. What...
The Age of AI: "THE BOOK WE ALL NEED"

The Age of AI: "THE BOOK WE ALL NEED"

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Author: Henry A Kissinger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 THE ESSENTIAL AI ROADMAP 'A muscular contribution to one of the 21st century's most pressing debates' The Economist 'Should be...
New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything

New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything

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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...
36 Islands: In Search of the Hidden Wonders of the Lake District and a Few Other Things Too

36 Islands: In Search of the Hidden Wonders of the Lake District and a Few Other Things Too

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Author: Robert Twigger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'A Swallows and Amazons adventure for the modern day by one of the most interesting travel writers working today' Bijan Omrani,...
Mother Brain: Separating Myth from Biology - the Science of the Parental Brain

Mother Brain: Separating Myth from Biology - the Science of the Parental Brain

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Author: Chelsea Conaboy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Before Chelsea Conaboy gave birth to her first child, she anticipated the joy of holding her newborn son, the endless dirty...
This Book is a Plant: How to Grow, Learn and Radically Engage with the Natural World

This Book is a Plant: How to Grow, Learn and Radically Engage with the Natural World

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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

The World of All Creatures Great & Small: Welcome to Skeldale House

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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...
Myob for Dummies: Australian Version

Myob for Dummies: Australian Version

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The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work

The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work

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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

The Meat Paradox: 'Brilliantly provocative, original, electrifying' Bee Wilson, Financial Times

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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

The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future

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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

Skulls: Portraits of the Dead and the Stories They Tell

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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

Travellers to Unimaginable Lands: Dementia, Carers and the Hidden Workings of the Mind

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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?

Tickets for the Ark: From wasps to whales - how do we choose what to save?

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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

The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work

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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...
Frozen in Time: Fossils of the United Kingdom and Where to Find Them

Frozen in Time: Fossils of the United Kingdom and Where to Find Them

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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

How Are We Going to Explain This?: Our Future on a Hot Earth

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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....
Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution

Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution

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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 Whale in the Living Room: A Wildlife Documentary Maker's Unique View of the Sea

The Whale in the Living Room: A Wildlife Documentary Maker's Unique View of the Sea

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Author: John Ruthven Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The Whale in the Living Room follows the thrilling adventures of film-maker, John Ruthven, as he travels the globe, dives into...
"National Geographic" Expeditions Atlas

"National Geographic" Expeditions Atlas

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Space: 10 Things You Should Know

Space: 10 Things You Should Know

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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

Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, A Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World

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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...
10 Short Lessons in Time Travel

10 Short Lessons in Time Travel

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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...
Between Light and Storm: How We Live With Other Species

Between Light and Storm: How We Live With Other Species

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Author: Esther Woolfson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions...
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

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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...
A Universe from Nothing

A Universe from Nothing

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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

Breathtaking: The UK's human story of Covid

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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...
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

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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

Sensational: A New Story of our Senses

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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...
The Social Lives of Animals: How Co-operation Conquered the Natural World

The Social Lives of Animals: How Co-operation Conquered the Natural World

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Author: Ashley Ward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Any writer who can evoke the existential sadness of a lonely cockroach, or make krill thrilling, or describe a snorkelling colleague...
Slime: A Natural History

Slime: A Natural History

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Author: Susanne Wedlich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid. It inspires revulsion even while it compels our...
Psycho-Logical: Why Mental Health Goes Wrong - and How to Make Sense of It

Psycho-Logical: Why Mental Health Goes Wrong - and How to Make Sense of It

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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....
The Paper Lantern

The Paper Lantern

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Author: Will Burns Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 When future generations come to ask themselves when England lost it and what it lost, they will pick up The Paper...
The Mice Who Sing For Sex: And Other Weird Tales from the World of Science

The Mice Who Sing For Sex: And Other Weird Tales from the World of Science

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Author: Lliana Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Lliana Bird and Dr Jack Lewis tackle the strange and surreal phenomena from the depths of the oceans to the limits...
Planta Sapiens: Unmasking Plant Intelligence

Planta Sapiens: Unmasking Plant Intelligence

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Author: Paco Calvo Format: Hardback 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...
Human Universe

Human Universe

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Author: Professor Brian Cox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Top ten Sunday Times Bestseller 'Engaging, ambitious and creative' Guardian Where are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why...
Company of One

Company of One

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Author: Paul Jarvis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A refreshing approach to entrepreneurship centered on staying small and avoiding growth - maximizing happiness, sustainability and profitability. Paul Jarvis left...
Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism

Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism

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The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds

The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds

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Author: Jessica Nordell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Unconscious bias: persistent prejudiced behaviour that clashes with our consciously held beliefs. Its effects can be corrosive, even lethal. It robs...
The Meat Paradox: 'Brilliantly provocative, original, electrifying' Bee Wilson, Financial Times

The Meat Paradox: 'Brilliantly provocative, original, electrifying' Bee Wilson, Financial Times

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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,...
Wild Green Wonders: A Life in Nature

Wild Green Wonders: A Life in Nature

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Author: Patrick Barkham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Wild Green Wonders brings you a selection of twenty years' worth of Patrick Barkham's writings for the Guardian, bearing witness to...
The Book of Dirt: A smelly history of dirt, disease and human hygiene

The Book of Dirt: A smelly history of dirt, disease and human hygiene

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Author: Piotr Socha Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 216 A deep dive into the history and science of dirt. Millions of people on Earth start their day the same way:...
Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World

Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World

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Author: Michael J. Benton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 This book presents the first visualizations of dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles as they really looked. Up to now, colours...
The Norm Chronicles: Stories and numbers about danger

The Norm Chronicles: Stories and numbers about danger

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Author: David Spiegelhalter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Meet Norm. He's 31, 5'9, just over 13 stone, and works a 39 hour week. He likes a drink, doesn't do...
36 Islands: In Search of the Hidden Wonders of the Lake District and a Few Other Things Too

36 Islands: In Search of the Hidden Wonders of the Lake District and a Few Other Things Too

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Author: Robert Twigger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'A Swallows and Amazons adventure for the modern day by one of the most interesting travel writers working today' Bijan Omrani,...
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

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Author: Harry Parker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week An eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI...