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30-Second Space Travel: 50 key ideas, inventions, and destinations that have inspired humanity toward the heavens
Author: Charles Liu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 As Space X works to reduce the barriers of access to space and Virgin Galactic forges a path to commercial spaceflight...
Dolphin Mysteries: Unlocking the Secrets of Communication
Author: Kathleen M. Dudzinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Exciting new technologies and research methods help scientists unravel the mysteries of dolphin communication, intelligence, and culture Dolphins...
Natural: The Seductive Myth of Nature's Goodness
Author: Alan Levinovitz, PhD Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Without our realising it, a single, slippery concept has become a secular deity throughout the modern industrial world. We make...
Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency
Author: Jonty Claypole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In an age of polished TED talks and overconfident political oratory, success seems to depend upon charismatic public speaking. But what...
Relax: A User's Guide to Life in the Age of Anxiety
Author: Timothy Caulfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Masterfully, and humorously . provides much needed sanity in a world of claims run amok . I devoured it'...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them...
The Unusual Suspect: The Remarkable True Story of a Modern-Day Robin Hood
Author: Ben Machell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 It is 2007, a time of recession and impending climate crisis, and one young man decides to change the...
fforest: Being, doing & making in nature
Author: Sian Tucker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Calming to the soul and good for us all, spending time outdoors offers us precious breathing space away from the stresses...
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life)
Author: Yuval Noah Harari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet....
Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us
Author: Vybarr Cregan-Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 IF YOU THINK YOU ARE YOU, THINK AGAIN. PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging, polemical look at how and why...
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth
Author: Kate Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In 2013 Kate Greene moved to Mars. On NASA's first HI-SEAS simulated Mars mission in Hawai'i, she lived for...
The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die
Author: Katie Engelhart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Meet Adam. He's twenty-seven years old, articulate and attractive. He also wants to die. Should he be helped? In The Inevitable,...
Fire, Ice, and Physics
Author: Rebecca C. Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 296 A PhD physicist (and self-professed fangirl) uses the science in George R. R. Martin's fantastical world--from ice walls...
The Origin of Species: (Patterns of Life)
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed...
How To Be a Stoic
Author: Epictetus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen' How can...
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on...
Forest: Walking among trees
Author: Matt Collins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Forest is a celebration of the diverse ways in which trees and forests are as magnificent, economically relevant and profoundly enchanting...
Look Inside Seas and Oceans
Author: Megan Cullis Format: Board book Number of Pages: 14 Open the flaps of this book and dive into a watery world full of amazing creatures. Explore coasts, coral reefs...
Earth MOB: Reduce waste, spend less, be sustainable
Author: MOB Kitchen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 This is the MOB manifesto for change: a straight-talking handbook that deals with the ecological problems of our age and shows...
Einstein's Fridge: The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe
Author: Paul Sen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Hugely readable and entertaining' JIM AL-KHALILI 'an accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this discipline's breadth, largely told through its...
Uncanny Valley: Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco's Startup Scene
Author: Anna Wiener Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit 'Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino 'This is essential reading' Stylist At twenty-five years...
Freedom
Author: Sebastian Junger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm 'Sebastian Junger bears...
Foot Work: What Your Shoes Are Doing to the World
Author: Tansy E. Hoskins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Do you know where your shoes come from? Do you know where they go when you're done with...
Roses: Beautiful varieties for home and garden
Author: Jane Eastoe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The origin of roses is shrouded in mystery. Fossilised species of roses have been found across the northern hemisphere and are...
Football School Season 1: Where Football Explains the World
Author: Alex Bellos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A groundbreaking new series from two bestselling writers that teaches you about the world through football. The first book...
Cool Engineering: Filled with fantastic facts for kids of all ages
Author: Jenny Jacoby Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 Engineering is no less than the power to change the world! Inside this mega-jampacked book find out about the lives of...
Body Bits: Hair-raising Human Body Facts
Author: Paul Mason Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Bizarre, incredible and downright gross facts about human and animal bodies In Hair-raising Human Body Facts, you'll learn about some of...
Stuff You Should Know About the Human Body
Author: John Farndon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 In this fascinating introduction to the human body, large, colourful diagrams are brought to life by tiny people running...
DNA Is You!: The Marvelous Science Behind Your One-of-a-Kind-ness
Author: Beatrice the Biologist Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Learn all about how your DNA makes you who you are-an awesome, unique individual-in this fun and simple illustrated guide!...
How to Solve the Da Vinci Code: And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Mathematics
Author: Richard Elwes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Can you outrun a bullet? How do you build an electronic brain? Could you slow down time? How do...
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design are Changing the Way We Live, Work & Play
Author: Cliff Kuang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A fascinating look at the secrets of user experience and how brilliant design changes everything, by Robert Fabricant, one...
The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World
Author: Roman Krznaric Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 One of Britain's most popular public philosophers introduces the six ways we can drastically change the way we think...
The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19
Author: Mark Honigsbaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A timely and critically acclaimed 100-year history of pandemics, by medical historian and viral TED talk presenter - with...
Peak: How all of us can achieve extraordinary things
Author: Anders Ericsson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Reveals that all of us can excel at our chosen activities and offers a guide to unlocking our potential...
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Author: Elisabeth Tova Bailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring...
Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health
Author: Daniel Lieberman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing...
Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
Author: Lucy Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An urgent, comprehensive inquiry into how nature enriches the human psyche - and of the startling risks we face...
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Author: Joshua Foer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The international bestseller on memory and how to master it Can anyone get a perfect memory? Joshua Foer used...
How Not to Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life
Author: Jordan Ellenberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 How a little mathematics goes a long way in helping you not to be wrong The maths we learn...
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Author: Pedro Domingos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos reveals how machine learning is remaking business, politics, science and war. And he...
The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language
Author: Albert Costa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The definitive study of bilingualism from a leading neuropsychologist Over half of the world's population is bilingual and yet...
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 Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well
Author: Daniel Levitin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The neuroscientist and best-selling author of The Organized Mind explains what happens to our brains from womb to tomb....
The Science of Meditation: How to Change Your Brain, Mind and Body
Author: Daniel Goleman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A fascinating and practical guide from two New York Times bestselling authors, backed by state-of-the-art scientific research. Drawing on...
Facebook: The Inside Story
Author: Steven Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 From renowned tech writer Steven Levy, the complete history of one of America's most controversial and successful companies Today,...
Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level
Author: Leander Kahney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An intimate look at the man who led Apple to be the world's first two-trillion-dollar company In 2011, Tim...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began
Author: Valerie Hansen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled...
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Author: John M Barry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called...