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End Times: Asteroids, Supervolcanoes, Plagues and More
Author: Bryan Walsh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Newsweek and Bloomberg popular science and investigative journalist Bryan Walsh explores the history of extinction and offers a cutting-edge...
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-month Race to Make the Impossible Possible
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Scientifica Historica is a unique, essay-based review of those books that marked the development of science from classical times to the...
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Author: Ed Yong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A thrilling, witty, genre-busting book on microbes, one of science's hottest topics, by a debut writer with a huge...
Rebel Star: Our Quest to Solve the Great Mysteries of the Sun
Author: Colin Stuart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A fascinating and comprehensive guide to the sun - our home star - which remains the greatest mystery in the solar...
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...
Fire, Ice, and Physics
Author: Rebecca C. Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 296 A PhD physicist (and self-professed fangirl) uses the science in George R. R. Martin's fantastical world--from ice walls...
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...
The Universe: The book of the BBC TV series presented by Professor Brian Cox
Author: Andrew Cohen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than...
Testosterone: The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
Author: Carole Hooven Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports and politics, we need a good explanation of the science...
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 Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 We like to think of ourselves as exceptional beings, but is there really anything special about us that sets...
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
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Author: Sarah Stewart Johnson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 "Sarah Stewart Johnson interweaves her own coming-of-age story as a planetary scientist with a vivid history of the exploration of...
Nature Underfoot: Living with Beetles, Crabgrass, Fruit Flies, and Other Tiny Life Around Us
Author: John Hainze Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 An informed and heartfelt tribute to commonly unappreciated plants, insects, and other tiny creatures that reconsiders humanity's relationship to nature "Put...
Get Started In Pig Keeping: How to raise happy pigs in your outdoor space
Author: Tony York Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Everything an amateur pigkeeper needs for success Get Started in Pig Keeping offers amateur pigkeepers everything they need to make a...
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
Author: Nick Lane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 For decades, biology has been dominated by information - the power of genes. Yet in terms of information there is no...
Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness
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Author: Charles Foster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ATLANTIC, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND NEW STATESMAN A radically immersive exploration of three...
Champions of Illusion: The Best Illusions of the Twenty-First Century
Author: Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In Champions of Illusion, Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik present a smorgasbord of mystifying images, many selected from...
All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change
Author: Michael Klare Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate change-still linked, for many people, with...
Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less
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Author: Leidy Klotz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "You need to read this book." --Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author "A great book changes the world you...
Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
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Author: Nicola Twilley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley's Until Proven Safe tracks the idea of quarantine around the globe, through time and space, chasing...
Taking Stock: A Journey Among Cows
Author: Roger Morgan-Grenville Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 So at the age of 61, with no farming experience, he signed on as a part- time labourer on a beef...
Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide
Author: Bill McGuire Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Hothouse Earth: an Inhabitant's Guide provides a post-COP26 perspective on the climateemergency, acknowledging that it is now practically impossible to keep...
Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, The Universe and Us
Author: Professor Heino Falcke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 As featured in THE EDGE OF ALL WE KNOW - the new Netflix documentary about Black Holes For readers of...
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...
Mending the Mind: The Art and Science of Overcoming Clinical Depression
Author: Oliver Kamm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A tour de force . . . an important, affecting and effective book' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL '[A] gorgeous and urgent book' STEVEN...
The Last Winter: The Scientists and Adventurers Trying to Save the World
Author: Porter Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of...
Every Life Is On Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things
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Author: Jeremy England Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And if you trace the evolutionary history of plants and animals...
Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics
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Author: Michael Guillen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A Publishers Weekly best book of 1995! Dr. Michael Guillen, known to millions as the science editor of ABC's...
The Secret Life of Genes
Author: Derek Harvey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Genes have a huge impact on who we are, from defining us as humans, to governing how we behave. Whether controlling...
The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities
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Author: Caleb Scharf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Longlisted for the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Short-listed for Physics World's Book of the Year The Sunday Times...
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
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Author: Nichola Raihani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Enriching --Publisher's Weekly Excellent and illuminating--Wall Street Journal In the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social...
Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector
Author: Amit Katwala Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector Henry Wilkens burst through the...
Animal Languages: The secret conversations of the living world
Author: Eva Meijer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Dolphins and parrots call each other by their names. Fork tailed drongos mimic the calls of other animals to scare them...
Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe
Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's remarkable life and career, but it...
Through Two Doors At Once
Author: Anil Ananthaswamy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Some of the greatest scientific minds have grappled with this experiment. Thomas Young devised it in the early 1800s to show...
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....
Imagination and a Pile of Junk: A Droll History of Inventors and Inventions
Author: Trevor Norton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Although inventors were often scientists or engineers, many were not: Samuel Morse (Morse code) was a painter, Laszlo Biro (the ballpoint pen)...
Birds: A Species Guide: Volume 1
Author: Alison Richard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'Full of wonder and forensic intelligence' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding A moving account of Madagascar told by a...
Lights On!: The Science of Power Generation
Author: Mark Denny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 264 Power generation is a relatively recent concern because humans had little need for sustained power until the dawn of...
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...
The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance
Author: Nessa Carey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The most important revolution in modern biology - and what it means for humanity. The cutting-edge of biology, however, is telling...
The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds
Author: Jessica Nordell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Unconscious bias: persistent prejudiced behaviour that clashes with our consciously held beliefs. Its effects can be corrosive, even lethal. It robs...
Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution
Author: Scott Solomon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Are humans still subject to the forces of evolution? An evolutionary biologist provides surprising insights into the future of Homo sapiens...
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars: The 10 Global Problems We Can Actually Fix
Author: Rowan Hooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 If you were given one trillion dollars, to be spent in a year, on science, what would you do? It's an...
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
Author: Frans de Waal (Emory University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling...
North Pole, South Pole: The Epic Quest to Solve the Mystery of Earth's Magnetism
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Author: Gillian Turner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Why do compass needles point north--but not quite north? What guides the migration of birds, whales, and fish across the world's...
The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience
Author: Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Brain repair, smart pills, mind-reading machines--modern neuroscience promises to soon deliver a remarkable array of wonders as well as profound insight into...
Voices of the Wild: Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes
Author: Bernie Krause Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 A pioneer in the field of soundscape ecology explores the ways in which the voice of the natural world informs many...