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How Are We Going to Explain This?: Our Future on a Hot Earth
Author: Jelmer Mommers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Over five years covering climate change, Jelmer Mommers has learned that the subject is a great way to ruin...
Tyrannosaurus Sue: The Extraordinary Saga of the Largest, Most Fought Over T-Rex Ever Found
Author: Steve Fiffer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Over 65 million years ago in what is now South Dakota, a battle-scarred Tyrannosaurus rex matriarch -- perhaps mortally wounded in...
The Unreality of Memory: Notes on Life in the Pre-Apocalypse
Author: Elisa Gabbert (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 We stare at our phones. We keep multiple tabs open. Our chats and conversations are full of the phrase "Did...
Along Came a Llama
Author: Ruth Janette Ruck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 My Family and Other Animals meets The Secret Life of Cows: this rediscovered gem tells the charming tale of how...
Numb and Number: How to Avoid Being Mystified by the Mathematics of Modern Life
Author: William Hartston (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Like it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts,...
Animal Journal: Land Mammals of the World: Notes, drawings, and observations about animals that live on land
Author: Juan Carlos Alonso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 With this naturalist's notebook in hand, young zoologists can explore the world's most fascinating mammals, up close and personal.Land Mammals...
What Does Rain Smell Like?: Discover the fascinating answers to the most curious weather questions from two expert meteorologists
Author: Simon King, OBE Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Why doesn't rain fall all at once? Can technology change the track of a hurricane? What's the weather like on...
The Descent of Man: Selection in Relation to Sex
Author: Adrian Desmond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man...
Urban Arboreal: A Modern Glossary of City Trees
Author: Michael Jordan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Trees are an important part of the life of many cities. Whether in avenues or parks they provide shade, a green...
The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight
Author: John Logsdon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a treasure trove of documents...
The Voyage of the Beagle
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current...
On the Origin of Species
Author: Damien Hirst Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial...
A New Voyage Round the World
Author: William Dampier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East...
Natural History
Author: John Healey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology....
The Poetics of Space
Author: Gaston Bachelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists,...
Brief Lives - Newton (Peter Ackroyd)
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd's Brief Lives. NEWTON is a companion volume to CHAUCER and TURNER...
Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines
Author: George Dyson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A spellbinding exploration of the emergence of the digital age and an unsettling vision of what comes next In a world...
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Author: Fareed Zakaria Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator examines how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our world Since the end of the...
The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science
Author: Michael Strevens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why...
Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
Author: Anatol Lieven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A major new book on why the most urgent issue confronting us all needs national solutions In the past two centuries...
Ecology of Wisdom
Author: Arne Naess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Drawing on his years spent in an isolated hut high in the Norwegian mountains, and on influences as diverse...
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
Author: Arthur Koestler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Passionate, provocative and lyrically told, The Sleepwalkers is the remarkable story of how man grew to understand the universe....
Helgoland: The Sunday Times bestseller
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 The Number One bestselling author of The Order of Time is back with a stunning book about the enigma of quantum...
The Ten Equations that Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too
Author: David Sumpter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Is there a secret formula for getting rich? For making something a viral hit? For deciding how long to stick with...
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Author: Michio Kaku Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The best-selling physicist returns with a thrilling account of the search for the 'god equation' This is the story of a...
The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the Beagle
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 The most important work of modern science now available in Vintage Classics WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, RUTH...
Look Up: Our story with the stars
Author: Sarah Cruddas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'Sarah Cruddas is a gifted writer and Look Up is an inspired book. I am hopeful that we will...
What Can I Do?: The Truth About Climate Change and How to Fix It
Author: Jane Fonda Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 252 A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to...
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
Author: Kermit Pattison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 "Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as...
The Hen Harrier
Author: Donald Watson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 An acknowledged classic of narrative nature-writing, Donald Watson's The Hen Harrier was the culmination of a lifetime's study of this beautiful...
Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
Author: Yasha Levine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 As the Cambridge Analytica scandal has shown, private corporations consider it their right to use our data (and by...
Beautiful Sheep: Portraits of champion breeds
Author: Kathryn Dun Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 This stunning collection of portraits shows sheep as you've never seen them before. Featuring commissioned studio photography of champion...
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
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Author: Jaron Lanier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, & Vox The father...
30-Second Climate: The 50 most topical events, measures and conditions, each explained in half a minute
Author: Joanna D Haigh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Weather and climate are not the same. Weather is what occurs outdoors on a daily basis and is unpredictable from...
Beautiful Pigs: Portraits of champion breeds
Author: Andy Case Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 Featuring commissioned studio photography of fine breeds styled from snout to tail, the animals showcased here just love to...
New Scientist Instant Expert Where the Universe Came From
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Fire: A Brief History
Author: Stephen J Pyne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 What does a full-blown Fire Age look like? We are about to find out, and Australia will feel...
Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe
Author: Louisa Preston Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'An expert romp through the science of extraterrestrial life.' Adam Rutherford Today we know of only a single planet...
Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptional - and What that Means for Life in the Universe
Author: David Waltham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Science tells us that life elsewhere in the Universe is increasingly likely to be discovered. But in fact the Earth may...
The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World
Author: Ziya Tong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to the x-rays that...
The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far
Author: Lawrence M. Krauss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 This is how the story of the greatest intellectual adventure in history should be introduced - how humanity...
Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature of Philosophy
Author: Robert Almeder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 235 In seeking to defend a form of naturalism that avoids both scientism and the reduction of philosophy to science,...
Behind the Scenes at Galileo's Trial: Including the First English Translation of Melchior Inchofer's Tractatus syllepticus
Author: Richard J. Blackwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 264 Galileo's trial in 1633 before the Roman Inquisition is one of the most frequently mentioned topics in the...
Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps
Author: Peter L. Falkingham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 428 The latest advances in dinosaur ichnology are showcased in this comprehensive and timely volume, in which leading researchers and research...
Space Dogs: The Story of the Celebrated Canine Cosmonauts
Author: Martin Parr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 In the 1950s the space race between the USA and the USSR was well and truly on, and was...
Read This if You Want to Be YouTube Famous
Author: Will Eagle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Read This if You Want to Be YouTube Famous is an essential guide to YouTube offering advice from 45...
On the Margins of Southwest Asia: Cyprus during the 6th to 4th Millennia BC
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Author: Joanne Clarke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 This book examines social change in Cyprus during the 6th to 4th millennia BC; a period that is traditionally viewed as...
Human Origins: 7 Million Years and Counting
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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Where did we come from? Where are we going? Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and...