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Here Comes the Sun: How it feeds us, kills us, heals us and makes us what we are
Author: Professor Steve Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Illuminating!' Professor Brian Cox 'Every Steve Jones book is a masterclass in clear and captivating writing with tantalising detours into...
Chance and Commitment: Memoirs of a medical scientist
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Decoding the World
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What Do You Think You Are?: The Science of What Makes You You
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Popular science master Brian Clegg's new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the...
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...
Through A Vet's Eyes: How to care for animals and treat them better
Author: Dr Sean Wensley, FRCVS Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 One of the Financial Times' Best Summer Books of 2022 'A compelling account of the trials, tribulations and triumphs...
The Future We Choose: 'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG
Author: Christiana Figueres Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 We can survive the climate crisis. This book shows us how. We have two choices for our future, which is still...
The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind
Author: Isabel Hardman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In 2016, Isabel Hardman's mind, in her own words, 'stopped working' as she fell prey to severe depression and anxiety. She...
Animal Vegetable Criminal: When Nature Breaks the Law
Author: Mary Roach Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 What happens when nature and humanity clash? In past centuries, wild animals who broke the law would be given lawyers and...
Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future
Author: Tracey Spicer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man-Made aims to open readers' eyes to a transformative technological...
Basic Metaverse: How Virtual Worlds Will Change Our Reality and What You Can Do to Unlock Their Potential
Author: David Shrier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 What is the metaverse? Quite simply, it's a digital platform to help people collaborate, work and play in new ways, in...
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...
The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
Author: Professor Matthew Cobb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Brilliant .. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough' - Henry Marsh, New Statesman (about The Idea of the Brain)...
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars: The 10 Global Problems We Can Actually Fix
Author: Rowan Hooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the good of the world and the advancement...
The Story of the Brain in 101/2 Cells
Author: Richard Wingate Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and...
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Barack Obama's Books of 2019
Author: Professor Shoshana Zuboff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 The Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller 'Everyone needs to read this book as an act of digital self-defense.' - Naomi...
Pandora's Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk
Author: Alison Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A 'remarkable book.' - The New York Times This fearless, deeply reported book about laboratory accidents asks the haunting question some...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Through A Vet's Eyes: How to care for animals and treat them better
Author: Dr Sean Wensley, FRCVS Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 One of the Financial Times' Best Summer Books of 2022 'A compelling account of the trials, tribulations and triumphs...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Why does eugenics still loom...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'The ultimate anti-racism guide' Caroline Criado Perez...
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...
The Simple Life: How I Found Home: The unmissable Sunday Times bestselling memoir
Author: Sarah Beeny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 An instant Sunday Times bestseller Join Sarah Beeny on her journey to live more simply and find her forever home... Throughout...
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 End Of Time
Author: Dr Julian Barbour Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Time is an illusion. Although the laws of physics create a powerful impression that time is flowing, in fact there...
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 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...