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Surviving the Storms: Extraordinary Stories of Courage and Compassion at Sea
Author: The RNLI Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'There's water in the engine,' he said. 'The engine has stopped.' This changed everything... Surviving the Storms brings together...
Home: How Habitat Made Us Human
Author: John Allen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 As the adage goes, home is where the heart is. This may seem self-explanatory, but none of our close primate cousins...
The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change
Author: David Remnick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate...
The Family Project: A Creative Handbook for Anyone Who Wants to Discover Their Family Story - but Doesn't Know Where to Start
Author: Harriet Green Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 216 Every family has a story to tell. This is yours. Think of your favourite family holidays, recipes, jokes and...
The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain
Author: Gina Rippon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An agenda-setting, myth-debunking book by neuroscientist Professor Gina Rippon that demolishes the idea of biology as destiny and the...
The Gene: An Intimate History
Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history. ** NEW...
Vesper Flights: The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of H is for Hawk
Author: Helen Macdonald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes a transcendent collection of essays about the natural world...
Birdscaping Australian Gardens
Author: George Adams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Featuring plant and bird directories illustrated with superb colour photographs and line drawings, as well as comprehensive planting tables and expert...
We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer's
Author: Dick Swaab Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Everything we think, do and refrain from doing is determined by our brain. From religion to sexuality, it shapes...
Walking: One Step at a Time
Author: Erling Kagge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A joyful ode to the enormous benefits of this most simple of activities, from one of the world's greatest...
Expert: Understanding the Path to Mastery
Author: Roger Kneebone Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 THE EXPERT ON EXPERTS SHOW US WHAT IT TAKES TO MASTER ANY SKILL What could a lacemaker have in...
Sleep: Change the way you sleep with this 90 minute read
Author: Nick Littlehales Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Proven solutions for better nights, from the 'sleep guru' to international sports stars. One third of our lives are...
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Author: Max Tegmark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Why does mathematics explain the universe so well? From the big bang to the distant future via parallel worlds,...
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
Author: Vaclav Smil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Bill Gates' favourite scientist is on a mission to make facts matter Is flying dangerous? How much do the...
Cured: The Power of Our Immune System and the Mind-Body Connection
Author: Dr Jeff Rediger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A pioneering Harvard psychiatrist uncovers the lost connections between the mind, body and immune system When it comes...
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did): THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Author: Philippa Perry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The #1 Sunday Times bestselling guide to healthier, happier relationships by a leading psychotherapist How can we have better...
Physics of the Future: The Inventions That Will Transform Our Lives
Author: Michio Kaku Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'A whirlwind tour of technological possiblity' New Scientist We all wish we could predict the future, but most of...
Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos
Author: Michio Kaku Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Selected for the BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction longlist Getting a grip on the creation and ultimate...
Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control
Author: Stuart Russell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Humans dream of super-intelligent machines. But what happens if we actually succeed? Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest...
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
Author: Edward O. Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Forming a twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution, Edward O. Wilson offers a bold work of scientific thought and...
The Future of War: A History
Author: Sir Lawrence Freedman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A new approach to ideas about war, from 'Britain's leading academic strategist' (Economist) Where should we look for...
The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding
Author: Dan Sperber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An exploration of human rationality from two ground-breaking thinkers Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the...
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum
Author: Lee Smolin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A renegade quantum physicist argues for a radical new interpretation of the structure of reality Human beings, says Lee...
The Descent of Man
Author: Grayson Perry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Grayson Perry turns his acute eye on the gender that always seems to be in crisis in this funny,...
Coffeeland: A History
Author: Augustine Sedgewick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 'Thoroughly engrossing ... his literary gifts and prodigious research make for a deeply satisfying reading experience studded with narrative...
Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
Author: Anatol Lieven Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A major new book on why the most urgent issue confronting us all needs national solutions Anatol Lieven's major...
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Author: Steven Pinker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Steven Pinker's landmark defence of human nature Recently many people have assumed that we are blank slates shaped by...
A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
Author: Frank Wilczek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A Nobel Prize-winning physicist argues that beauty is the fundamental organizing principle for the entire universe In this scientific...
The Art of Flight
Author: Fredrik Sjoeberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Two more tales of memory, nature, travel and collecting from the author of the Swedish bestseller The Fly Trap...
The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914
Author: Donald Sassoon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 The acclaimed magnum opus of one of Britain's most wide-ranging historians Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since...
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond
Author: Michio Kaku Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning vision of our future in...
Statistics without Tears: An Introduction for Non-Mathematicians
Author: Derek Rowntree Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A clear and trustworthy guide to understanding statistics, a perennial bestseller now fully revised and updated. This book is...
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History
Author: Paolo Zellini Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe? The...
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
Author: Robert Plomin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 From one of the world's top geneticists, the controversial and cutting-edge book that's making us rethink who we are...
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
Author: Gaia Vince Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2019- the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful...
The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction
Author: Nate Silver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The acclaimed international bestseller that will change the way you think about the future Every time we choose a...
The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking)
Author: Katie Mack Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An acclaimed theoretical astrophysicist explores the end of the Universe. When will it take place? How is it likely...
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Author: Lindsey Fitzharris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The spellbinding story of a visionary British surgeon who changed medicine forever In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris...
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
Author: David Christian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 This is the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to...
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
Author: Sarah Stewart Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A talented young planetary scientist charts our centuries-old obsession with Mars - Winner of the 2021 Whiting Award...
The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism
Author: Hassan Damluji Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 An incisive, optimistic manifesto for a more inclusive globalism Today, globalism has a bad reputation. 'Citizens of the world'...
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
Author: Daniel C. Dennett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 One of the world's most original and provocative thinkers offers a major new account of the origins of...
The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees
Author: Robert Penn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The book chronicles how the urge to understand and appreciate trees still runs through us all like grain through...
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Author: Max Tegmark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business - and there's no one better to explore that future...
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
Author: Leonard Susskind Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The second volume in Leonard Susskind's hugely popular, one-of-a-kind introductory series on physics In The Theoretical Minimum, world-class physicist...
Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life
Author: George Monbiot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Big, bold and beautifully written, his vision of a rewilded world is, well, truly captivating' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall How many...
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
Author: Randolph M. Nesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide...
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Author: Cathy O'Neil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A former Wall Street data scientist sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and...