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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...

Author: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Science, like most fields, is set up for men to succeed, and is rife with racism, sexism, and shortsightedness as a...

Author: Alison Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A 'remarkable book.' - The New York Times This fearless, deeply reported book about laboratory accidents asks the haunting question some...

Author: Beth Shapiro Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the first dog to the first beefalo, from farming to CRISPR, the human history of remaking nature When the 2020...

Author: Dr Steven Novella Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella...

Author: Rachel Love Nuwer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 An intrepid investigation of the criminal world of wildlife trafficking--the poachers, the traders, and the customers--and of those fighting against...

Author: Yvett Arzate Gomez Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 With every passing year, the strength of takeaway food packaging design becomes stronger, particularly with the increased popularity and ease...

Author: David Miles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Vaccines are a debate, whether we want them to be or not. Now more than ever, it's easy to feel overwhelmed...

Author: Brian Clegg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 You may well be familiar with the fact that lightning, contrary to the popular saying, often strikes the same place twice....

Author: Colin Salter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The Anatomists Library is a fascinating chronological collection of the best anatomical books from six centuries, charting the evolution of both...

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...

Author: David Carson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Here is David Carson's personal story of his initiation into the healing rites of the Choctaw with medicine woman Mary Gardener....

Author: Andreas Nieder (Professor of Animal Physiology, University of Tubingen) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 How our intuitive understanding of numbers is deeply rooted in our biology, traceable through...

Author: Jon Larsen Format: Paperback 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 have searched...

Author: Sander L. Gilman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 Our bodies are not fixed; they change over time. They vary with alterations in diet, exercise, and illness, and shift...

Author: Nicole Stott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott first saw the Earth from space, she was filled with awe. Our shared home was a...

Author: Raffael Jovine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 "Read this book and you will learn how photosynthesis was discovered, how it works, and how we can produce more food...

Author: Ralph Crane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 While concerns about climate change have focused negative attention on the coal industry in recent years, as descendants of the industrial...

Author: Natalie Fee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'Just what we need to get the job done' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 'Smart, easy ways to make a positive impact' Foreword Reviews...

Author: Jimena Canales Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities - demons - to test the laws of nature...

Author: Daniel Kennefick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'One of Nature's Top Ten Books of 2019' 'Finalist for the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association...

Author: William A. Harris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 By the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through...

Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Journey into the vast depths of the observable universe by visualising the most spectacular images in astronomy in stereoscopic 3D....

Author: Skylar Tibbits Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today's researchers are...

Author: Paul Nahin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable Heat,...

Author: Harry Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From the critically-acclaimed author of Anatomy of a Soldier Harry Parker's life changed overnight, when he lost his legs to an...

Author: Perri Klass (New York University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Only one hundred years ago, even in the world's wealthiest nations, children died in great numbers?of diarrhea, diphtheria,...

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...

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...

Author: Johnjoe McFadden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 "In short, Life Is Simple is enthralling."--Michael Blastland, Prospect A biologist argues that simplicity is the guiding principle of the universe...

Author: Rob Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "An arresting vision of this relentless natural world"--New York Times Book Review A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to...

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...

Author: Paul Steinhardt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 *Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize* One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories...

Author: Rose George Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of...

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...

Author: Michael E Mann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have...

Author: Wallace Arthur (National University of Ireland, Galway) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 358 Are we alone in the universe, or are there other life forms 'out there'? This is...

Author: Harry Y. McSween, Jr (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 350 For many years, planetary science has been taught as part of the astronomy curriculum, from...

Author: Marcia Bjornerud Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Vast and arresting' SPECTATOR 'A remarkably human take on the geological world' NEW STATESMAN Rocks are the record of our creative...

Author: Po Bronson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A vision of the future where the latest Silicon Valley tech meets cutting-edge genetics. Decoding the World is a buddy adventure...

Author: Benjamin Breen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents.' The...

Author: Fiona Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Do you remember the 'Climategate' email leak? Or the 'Frankenfoods'- style headlines about the perils of GM foods? What about the...

Author: Peter Stott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 2022 Ours is the age of global warming. Rising sea levels, extreme weather, forest...

Author: Kale Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned polar bear cub named Nora and the humans working tirelessly to save...

Author: Rob Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A savoury account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolution Nature, it has been said, invites us to...

Author: Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A renowned biologist's cutting-edge and unconventional examination of human reproduction and embryo research Scientists have long struggled to make pregnancy easier,...

Author: Michael E. Webber Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 For centuries, human activity has been dominated by the need to fuel human civilization. Energy is unique: no other physical...

Author: Professor Tim Spector Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Since the discovery of DNA, scientists have believed that genes are fixed entities that cannot be changed by environment -...