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Wild Nights Out: The Magic of Exploring the Outdoors After Dark
Author: Chris Salisbury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 [Wild Nights Out] is a wonderful invitation to rediscover the dark and all the thing that cry, creep or glow there....
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...
We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body's Electrome
Author: Sally Adee Format: Paperback 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...
The Universe Next Door: A Journey Through 55 Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 It's lucky you're here. But for a series of choices, accidents and coincidences - any of which could have gone otherwise...
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 Science of Food: An Exploration of What We Eat and How We Cook
Author: Marty Jopson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In this highly entertaining and accessible book,BBC'sThe One Show's science and technology presenter and all-round science guy Marty Jopson turns his...
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 Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
Author: Professor Matthew Cobb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A TIMES ENVIRONMENT AND SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'The ideal guide to what is not just a fiendishly...
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...
The Beginning and the End of Everything: From the Big Bang to the End of the Universe
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Author: Paul Parsons Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Prepare to have your mind blown! A brilliantly written overview of the past, present and future of modern cosmology.' - DALLAS...
Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries
Author: Professor Ian Stewart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Like its wildly popular predecessors, Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities and Hoard of Mathematical Treasures, Professor Stewart's brand-new book is a...
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...
Introducing Time: A Graphic Guide
Author: Craig Callender Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 A brilliant graphic exploration of the physics and philosophy of time. What is time? The 5th century philosopher St Augustine famously...
Introducing Game Theory: A Graphic Guide
Author: Ivan Pastine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 When should you adopt an aggressive business strategy? How do we make decisions when we don't have all the information? What...
Introducing Fractals: A Graphic Guide
Author: Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 From Zeno to Mandelbrot: explore this new language with which you can describe the shape of a cloud as precisely as...
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...
Ground Work: Writings on People and Places
Author: Tim Dee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A timely collection of the best British nature writing newly commissioned by one of the great authorities on the subject. 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...
Elephants on Acid: and Other Bizarre Experiments
Author: Alex Boese Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Have you ever wondered if a severed head retains consciousness long enough to see what happened to it? Or whether your...
Common or Garden: Encounters with Britain's 50 Most Successful Wild Plants
Author: Ken Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 It's often imagined that rarity is special. We seek out uncommon plants or birds to tick them off our lists, but...
Bees and Their Keepers: From waggle-dancing to killer bees, from Aristotle to Winnie-the-Pooh
Author: Frank Perry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A beautifully illustrated and thoroughly engaging cultural history of beekeeping - packed with anecdote, humour and enriching historical detail. The perfect...
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...
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...
A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions
Author: Susan Denham Wade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 In 2015 #thedress captured the world's imagination. Was the dress in the picture white and gold or blue and black?...
The Science Magpie: Fascinating facts, stories, poems, diagrams and jokes plucked from science
Author: Simon Flynn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Fascinating lists, facts, stories, poems, drawings, diagrams - and even jokes - across the scientific disciplines and from science's bejewelled history....
The Britannica Guide to 100 Most Influential Scientists
Author: Britannica Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Who are the most important men and women whose notions and theories have changed the world? When Isaac Newton claimed that he...
Elementary: The Periodic Table Explained
Author: James M. Russell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 The periodic table, created in the early 1860s by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, marked one of the most extraordinary advances...
The First of Everything: A History of Human Invention, Innovation and Discovery
Author: Stewart Ross Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A lively and highly readable account of the origins, invention and discovery of just about everything on the planet, the truly...
Testosterone: The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
Author: Carole Hooven Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 RECOMMENDED AS ONE OF THE TIMES' BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2021 'With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports 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...
Where Do Camels Belong?: The story and science of invasive species
Author: Ken Thompson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Where do camels belong? In the Arab world may seem the obvious answer, but they are relative newcomers there. They evolved...
Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy
Author: Frank Close Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The memo landed on Kim Philby's desk in Washington, DC, in July 1950. Three months later, Bruno Pontecorvo, a physicist at...
Water and Peace: A journey through the world's most explosive conflict zones in search of deep water
Author: Dr Alain Gachet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In countries where scarce surface water causes disease and conflict, an abundance of water can bring peace. With the growing...
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,...
Through A Window
Author: Jane Goodall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 From the world-famous expert on chimpanzees - the powerfully compelling sequel to the international bestseller IN THE SHADOW OF MAN: 'An...
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,...
This Is a Book for People Who Love Mushrooms
Author: Meg Madden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A celebratory compendium of nature's weirdest and most wonderful fungi, with gorgeously illustrated profiles of notable mushrooms and information on foraging,...
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'...