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Night School: Wake up to the power of sleep
Author: Richard Wiseman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 We think of sleep as a waste of time. A time when we are literally doing nothing. Yet every human on...
Choosing and Keeping Pigs
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Author: Linda McDonald Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Backyard pig keeping is growing in popularity, both as a food source, as demonstrated by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, and as...
Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea
Author: Edith Widder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 An exhilarating underwater exploration for readers wanting to recapture their sense of wonder Edith Widder grew up wanting to...
Sold Down the River: How Robber Barons and Wall Street Traders Cornered Australia's Water Market
Author: Scott Hamilton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Two insiders expose the shocking and shameful betrayal of Australia's regional heartland so international bankers and traders could make...
Arabia: A Journey Through The Heart of the Middle East
Author: Levison Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Following in the footsteps of great explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, ARABIA is Levison Wood's...
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro
Author: Rachel Slade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a...
Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
Author: Brian Switek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It gives our...
To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
Author: Edward Larson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a "suspenseful" (WSJ) and "adrenaline-fueled" (Outside) entwined narrative of...
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
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Author: Lisa Margonelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates...
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent
Author: Richard Wrangham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 It may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that...
Apocalypse How?: Technology and the Threat of Disaster
Author: Oliver Letwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 As the world becomes better connected and we grow ever more dependent on technology, the risks to our infrastructure are multiplying....
Build-It-Yourself Birdhouses: 25+ DIY Birdhouses and Bird Feeders
Author: Chris Peterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Step-by-step instructions for 25+ unique birdhouses tailored for specific birds-pick the one that fits your neighborhoods birds and get...
On the Trail of Stardust: The Guide to Finding Micrometeorites: Tools, Techniques, and Identification
Author: Jon Larsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Stardust-also known as micrometeorites-is the oldest matter anywhere. Nothing has traveled farther to reach Earth. For a century, scientists...
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
Author: Jon Gertner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Greenland: a remote, mysterious, ice-covered rock with a population of just 56,000, has evolved from one of earth's last...
What's Next?: Even Scientists Can't Predict the Future - or Can They?
Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Thought the science of the future was all hoverboards and space travel? Think again. Every day, scientists come up...
Man vs Big Data: Everyday data explained
Author: Stewart Cowley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Man vs Big Data explains to readers the science and theories that impact on our everyday existence. It taps...
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Author: Maggie Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 An expansive, exhilarating work of nonfiction on freedom, by one of the most significant writers of our day *A...
Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1: The Birth of Humankind
Author: Yuval Noah Harari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash Sunday Times #1 bestseller, with...
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
Author: Nichola Raihani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Exploring evolution, animal behaviour and human psychology, THE SOCIAL INSTINCT reveals how and why cooperation has shaped and defined...
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
Author: Kate Murphy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you? This life-changing book will...
The Secret Network of Nature: The Delicate Balance of All Living Things
Author: Peter Wohlleben Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees comes an exploration of the invisible connections sustaining the...
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Author: Robert M Sapolsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 A groundbreaking synthesis of the entire science of human behaviour by 'one of the best scientist-writers of our...
Citizen Scientist: Studying Insects
Author: Izzi Howell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 There's nothing greater than collecting data! Investigate the world of insects through observation and scientific research. Study habitats, life cycles, food...
Science Makers: Making with Living Things
Author: Anna Claybourne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Be a SCIENCE MAKER by experimenting, tinkering and building to discover the wonders of science! Learn all about LIVING...
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...
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...
Building the World: Power Stations and Electricity
Author: Paul Mason Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 See the world from a whole new angle! This innovative series, illustrated with amazing isometric artwork, reveals the technology, science and...
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,...
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...
100 Things to Know About Numbers, Computers & Coding
Author: Various Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Did you know there's a single spot on your brain that recognizes numbers? Or that the first computer bugs were actual insects...
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...
Still Alice
Author: Lisa Genova Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A moving and insightful story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease, now a major film starring Academy...
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...
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...
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...
Little Learning Labs: Kitchen Science for Kids, abridged paperback edition: 26 Fun, Family-Friendly Experiments for Fun Around the House; Activities for STEAM Learners: Volume 3
Author: Liz Lee Heinecke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 Cook up some science at home with Little Learning Labs: Kitchen Science for Kids. Conduct physics, chemistry, and...
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!...
Planet Awesome
Author: Stacy McAnulty Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 40 'Hi, I'm Earth! But you can call me Planet Awesome.' In this hilarious and informative book filled to the...