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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...
The Dickens Boy
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In the late 1800s, rather than run the risk of your under-achieveing children tarnishing your reputation at home, you...
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
Author: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Winner of the 2020 British Psychological Society Popular Science Prize and the 2018 Royal Society Science Book Prize. Up...
Life on Air
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 "The memoirs of the world's leading Natural History programme maker, updated and revised for 2009" "Sir David Attenborough is...
The Female Brain
Author: Louann Brizendine, MD Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Female Brain is a thought-provoking, accessible and fun guide that will help women to better understand themselves...
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
Author: Daniel Yergin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert reveals how climate battles and energy revolutions are mapping our future A new...
The Roads to Sata: A 2000-mile walk through Japan
Author: Alan Booth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A classic of modern travel writing- the story of one man's epic trek across Japan, from north to south...
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
Author: Sarah Stewart Johnson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A talented young planetary scientist traces our centuries-old obsession with a seemingly desolate planet Right now, spacecraft are circling Mars,...
The First-Time Gardener: Growing Plants and Flowers: All the know-how you need to plant and tend outdoor areas using eco-friendly methods: Volume 2
Author: Sean McManus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 There are no stupid questions here. Everyone has to start somewhere, after all. In The First-Time Gardener's Guide to...
When Darwin Sailed the Sea: Uncover how Darwin's revolutionary ideas helped change the world
Author: David Long Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 "One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand; then I...
Skygazing: Explore the Sky in the Day and Night
Author: Anna Claybourne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 What do you see when you look up at the sky? It may seem like a big, empty space, but it's...
Ideas Are Your Only Currency
Author: Rod Judkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 FUTURE-PROOFING FOR THINKERS. 'What skills and abilities will a student need to prosper in five, ten, or fifteen years'...
Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science
Author: Anna Reser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked,...
Seven Pillars of Science: The Incredible Lightness of Ice, and Other Scientific Surprises
Author: John Gribbin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 John Gribbin, author of Six Impossible Things, shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, presents a tour of...
Origins of the Universe: The Cosmic Microwave Background and the Search for Quantum Gravity
Author: Keith Cooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Nearly 60 years ago, Nobel Prize-winners Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson stumbled across a mysterious hiss of faint radio...
Sense: The book that uses sensory science to make you happier
Author: Russell Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 How can colour prime you for creative thinking? What kind of music helps you run faster? Which scents can...
Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets
Author: Andrew May Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block,...
What a Wonderful World: One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff
Author: Marcus Chown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist?...
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 How our animal heritage affects the way we live From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and...
Brilliant Women: Pioneers of Science and Technology
Author: Georgia Amson-Bradshaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 48 In PIONEERS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY you'll say hello to Hypatia, an ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer. You'll learn...
The 2.67 Trillion Internet Searches Each Year Using Technology
Author: Paul Mason Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Do you know how many zeros there are in a duotrigintillion? Or which country has the greatest number of...
Stand Against: Pollution and Waste
Author: Georgia Amson-Bradshaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 A young activist's guide filled with real ways to make a difference Get motivated to stand against pollution and waste in...
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate
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Author: Paolo Giordano Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 'The literature of the time after begins here' EVENING STANDARD 'A jolt of brevity and simplicity' THE TIMES 'In...
Blueprint for a Battlestar: Serious Scientific Explanations for Sci-Fis Greatest Inventions
Author: Rod Pyle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Packed with stunning images, including 75 illustrations created exclusively for this book, Blueprint for a Battlestar takes twenty-five remarkable and memorable...
How Long is a Piece of String?: More hidden mathematics of everyday life
Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A fascinating book, from a leading maths educator and demystifier, that shows how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. Have...
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Author: Eric Berger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Just read it.' Elon Musk The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX-and Elon...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK --- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Seriously important' BILL BRYSON 'A book...
100 Things to Know About Science
Author: Various Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Science is a huge topic, but this friendly book breaks it down into bite-sized chunks, making it an accessible introduction for anyone...
How to Grow a Human: Reprogramming Cells and Redesigning Life
Author: Philip Ball Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of...
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it,...
Megacatastrophes!: Nine Strange Ways the World Could End
Author: David Darling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 200 Which will get us first? The asteroid hurtling towards us from outer space? The Black Plague: Round Two? Swiss...
How Evolution Explains Everything about Life: From Darwin's Brilliant Idea to Today's Epic Theory
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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 How did we get here? It's the journey of a lifetime. All cultures have a creation story, but a...
Lift-the-flap Questions and Answers about your Body
Author: Katie Daynes Format: Board book Number of Pages: Children are always asking questions and their bodies are an endless source of fascination to them. * this quirkily illustrated book...
Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again
Author: Lucy Siegle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world 4 times More than 8 million tonnes of...
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
Author: Hope Jahren Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, an inspiring teacher, and one of the seven billion people...
The Lighthouse Stevensons
Author: Bella Bathurst Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the...
Universal: A Journey Through the Cosmos
Author: Brian Cox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Top Ten bestselling authors of The Quantum Universe take us on an awe-inspiring journey of scientific exploration. We...
The Weather Makers: Our Changing Climate and what it means for Life on Earth
Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 What does climate change mean? How will global warming affect our lives? Is it the cause of wilder storms...
The Blind Watchmaker
Author: Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an...
Elephants: Birth, Death and Family in the Lives of the Giants
Author: Hannah Mumby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Elephants are as unique as people. They can be clever and curious or headstrong and impulsive, shy or sociable....
Little First Colouring Garden
Author: Kirsteen Robson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 From flowers and bees to birds and trees, this book is full of all kinds of garden-themed pictures to...
Why do Buses Come in Threes?: The hidden mathematics of everyday life
Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 An entertaining guide to how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. Why is it better to buy a lottery ticket...
YOU CAN have an outdoor adventure: Get set for an outdoor adventure
Author: Alex Gregory Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 The ideal gift to help kids learn brilliant new hobbies Get active, get outdoors and get adventurous! The how-to...
Lift-the-flap Questions and Answers about Science
Author: Katie Daynes Format: Board book Number of Pages: 14 A cool and exciting way to learn about science This book answers plenty of questions from science-mad children about the...
The Planets
Author: Professor Brian Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'So staggering you go "whoa!" every few seconds' Guardian 'Really impressive' Eamonn Holmes, ITV This Morning A companion book to...
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
Author: David Wallace-Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this' - David Sexton, The...
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Author: Adam Higginbotham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival...