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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...
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...
Beneath the Skin: Love Letters to the Body by Great Writers
Author: Ned Beauman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are...
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...
Wonderland: A Year of Britain's Wildlife, Day by Day
Author: Brett Westwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Vibrant, fascinating, poetic - a year in living things: all the things we love, all...
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,...
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,...
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...
See Inside Science
Author: Alex Frith Format: Board book Number of Pages: 16 Journey into the mysteries of outer space. Meet the creatures that swing through rainforest jungles. Explore the hidden world inside...
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...
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...
Guinea Pig Town and Other Animal Poems
Author: Lorraine Marwood (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: A beautiful collection of poems about animals. Squawk! Snuffle! Bark! Roar! Feathers, fins, scales, claws. Running, hopping, crawling, soaring....
Sea: A World Beneath the Waves
Author: Britta Teckentrup Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Discover a world beneath the waves that is teeming with life, from tiny graceful seahorses to darting tropical fish and...
A Brief History of Mathematical Thought: Key concepts and where they come from
Author: Luke Heaton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Mathematics is a product of human culture which has developed along with our attempts to comprehend the world around...
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...
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...
Poppy and Sam's Lift-the-Flap Christmas
Author: Heather Amery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 24 It's Christmas Eve at Apple Tree Farm! Peep under the flaps to find out what Poppy and Sam are doing to...
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 The incomparable Bill Bryson travels through time and space to introduce us to the world, the universe and everything...
H is for Hawk
Author: Helen Macdonald Format: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 320 **WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR****WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION****WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE TRANGER**'Dazzling....
Can We Be Friends?: Unexpected Animal Friendships from around the World
Author: Erica Sirotich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 With charming, colorful illustrations, this heartwarming picture book in rhyming text asks an age-old question-can we be friends Take a journey...
Nature's Nether Regions: What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity and Ourselves
Author: Menno Schilthuizen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 What's the easiest way to tell species apart? Check their genitals. Researching private parts was long considered taboo, but scientists are...
Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of its Ice
Author: Gillen D'Arcy Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A history of the first race to Antarctica that weaves the great polar discoveries of the nineteenth century...
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable
Author: Paul J. Nahin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 232 An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic...
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
Author: Rob Dunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A savoury account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolution Nature, it has been said, invites...
Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved
Author: Kenneth Catania Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In Great Adaptations, Kenneth Catania presents an entertaining and engaging look at some of nature's most remarkable creatures. Telling...
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done
Author: David Badre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 312 A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday lives. Why...
Hard to Break: Why Our Brains Makes Habits Stick
Author: Russell A. Poldrack Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The neuroscience of why bad habits are so hard to break-and how evidence-based strategies can help us change...
Outbreaks and Epidemics: Battling infection from measles to coronavirus
Author: Meera Senthilingam Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out...
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...
Get Technology: Be in the know. Upgrade your future: 20 thought-provoking lessons
Author: Gerald Lynch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Each day our lives become ever more entwined with and dependent upon technology - and yet there's a feeling that we...
Hacking the Code of Life: How gene editing will rewrite our futures
Author: Nessa Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'A focused snapshot of a brave new world.' - Nature In 2018 the world woke up to gene editing...
Artificial Intelligence: Modern Magic or Dangerous Future?
Author: Yorick Wilks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Artificial intelligence has long been a mainstay of science fiction and increasingly it feels as if AI is entering...
New Scientist Instant Expert Where the Universe Came From
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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...
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,...
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...
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...
The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation
Author: Alex Dehgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Post-war Afghanistan is fragile, volatile, and perilous. It is also a place of extraordinary beauty. Evolutionary biologist Alex Deghan came to...
Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)
Author: Michael Wall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 We've all asked ourselves the question. It's impossible to look up at the stars and NOT think about it: Are we...
Young Guns: Obsession, Overwatch, and the Future of Gaming
Author: Austin Moorhead Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Launched in January 2018, the Overwatch League (OWL) is the first large-scale concerted effort to build a competitive, global...
Einstein And Culture
Author: Gerhard Sonnert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 427 Popular images of Albert Einstein often depict him as either an almost superhuman solitary genius or as a counter-cultural rebel. In...
Your Conscious Mind: Unravelling the Greatest Mystery of the Human Brain
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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 What is consciousness? Is it real or just an illusion? And how does it work? What is this strange...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science
Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....