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The Information Trade: How Big Tech Conquers Countries, Challenges Our Rights, and Transforms Our World
$15.00
Author: Alexis Wichowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "A timely, compelling, and expertly researched passport to the tech companies that rule today's digital landscape."--Blake Harris, bestselling author of Console...
Much Like Us: What Science Reveals about the Thoughts, Feelings, and
Author: Norbert Sachser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 166 What really differentiates us from our relatives in the animal world? And what can they teach us about ourselves? Taking these...
Starborn: How the Stars Made Us - and Who We Would Be Without Them
Author: Roberto Trotta Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK Gold Winner of the 2025 Nautilus Book Awards 'A stunning and unforgettable voyage...
Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial
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...
The Dance of Life: The New Science of How a Single Cell Becomes a Human Being
$17.50
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,...
The World of All Creatures Great & Small: Welcome to Skeldale House
Author: All Creatures Great and Small Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Welcome to the wonderful world of Skeldale House: the veterinary surgery and bustling waiting room for the locals...
Radical Longevity: The Powerful Plan to Sharpen Your Brain, Strengthen Your Body, and Reverse the Symptoms of Aging
Author: Ann Louise Gittleman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 While many of us are doing all the "right" things to set back the clock now, many of us want...
Nature Fast and Nature Slow: How Life Works, from Fractions of a Second to Billions of Years
Author: Nicholas P. Money Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 This book is a vision of biology set within the entire timescale of the universe. It is about the timing...
Aliens: Science Asks: Is There Anyone Out There?
Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The ALIENS invasion is coming ... It's the biggest question we've ever faced, one that has fascinated generations of...
Coal: Nature and Culture
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...
How to Save the World For Free
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...
The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist's Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality
Author: P. J. E. Peebles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 A century ago, thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical theories that keep changing, from a mechanical...
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
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...
50 Things to Do by the Sea
Author: Easkey Britton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 A beautifully presented, practical gift guide for all surf seekers. Explained with fascinating, easy-to-understand commentary from surfer and scientist Easkey Britton,...
A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
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,...
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...
Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe
Author: Cathie Pelletier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In 1916, a nearly unknown German-born theoretical physicist named Albert Einstein had developed his theory of relativity, but hadn't yet been...
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...
The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth
Author: Michael Marshall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'The story of the quest to understand life's genesis is a universal one, in which everyone can find pleasure and fascination....
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...
The Book of Tides
Author: William Thomson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 This is a book for those who want to understand better how the waters surrounding us affect our daily lives, how...
From 0 to Infinity in 26 Centuries: The Extraordinary Story of Maths
Author: Chris Waring Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Like it or not, maths is a part of everyday life. Whether we learned only basic arithmetic, or went on to...
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19
Author: Alina Chan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus came from...
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....
Geelong's Changing Landscape: Ecology, Development and Conservation
Author: David S. Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 Geelong's Changing Landscape offers an insightful investigation of the ecological history of the Geelong and Bellarine Peninsula region. Commencing with...
The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals
Author: Carolyn M King Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals is the only definitive reference on all the land-breeding mammals recorded in the New...
Drought Country
Author: Robert Godfree Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Droughts have lurked behind Australia's major nation-shaping moments from European settlement at Port Jackson to Federation. They have caused catastrophic damage...
Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Our World
Author: Greg Milner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary global utility which is omnipresent, universal, and available to all: the...
Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk
Author: Faiz Siddiqui Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Once heralded as a modern-day Edison, Elon Musk has taken up a new role in public consciousness, with his growing desire...
The Genius Within: Unlocking Your Brain's Potential
$15.00
Author: David Adam Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Following the success of The Man Who Couldn't Stop, David Adam now expounds on the latest research into intelligence, revealing how...
Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth
Author: Benjamin von Brackel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 As humans accelerate global warming - while laying waste to the environment to erect cities and roads and clear wilderness...
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...
The Science Museum Puzzle Book - Journey into Space: The perfect family puzzle book
Author: The Science Museum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Are you ready to become an astronaut? Then prepare for lift off with The Science Museum Puzzle Book, a unique...
Coming to Our Senses: A Boy Who Learned to See, a Girl Who Learned to
Author: Susan Barry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Doctors have been able to cure some forms of congenital blindness and deafness for decades. But this has created another problem:...
The Year in Space: From the makers of the number-one space podcast, in conjunction with the Royal Astronomical Society
Author: The Supermassive Podcast (Izzie Clarke, Dr Becky Smethurst, Richard Hollingham and Robert Massey) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Is it possible for humans to live on other planets?...
The Keys to Kindness: How Kindness Unlocks Wellbeing, Success and
Author: Claudia Hammond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Kindness can be your super-power. It feels good to be kind to others. And it feels good to receive kindness. Making...
The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a
$12.00
Author: Steffanie Strathdee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A "fascinating and terrifying" memoir of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her husband's life (Scientific American) - and the discovery...
The Future We Choose: 'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG
Author: Christiana Figueres Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 We can survive the climate crisis. This book shows us how. We have two choices for our future, which is still...
Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention
Author: Wake Smith (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 422 Reaching net zero emissions will not be the end of the climate struggle, but only the end of...
Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure
Author: Bryn Nelson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The future is sh*t: the literal kind. For most of human history we've been, well, disinclined to take a closer look...
The Loneliest Polar Bear: A True Story of Survival and Peril on the Edge of a Warming World
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...
Identically Different: Why You Can Change Your Genes
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 -...
Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are
Author: Bill Sullivan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 "I can't believe I just said that." "What possessed me to do that?" "What's wrong with me?" We're constantly seeking answers...
You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation
$25.00
Author: Paul A Offit, MD (Chief Division of Infectious Diseases Director Vaccine Education Center the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Professor of Pediatrics Maurice R Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology Perelman Sch)...
Beyond Infinity
$12.00
Author: Eugenia Cheng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "[Cheng] does a great service by showing us non-mathematician schlubs how real mathematical creativity works." -- Wall Street Journal How big...
The Human Swarm
$22.50
Author: Mark W. Moffett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The epic story, ultimate big history, and "remarkable intellectual achievement" (Quarterly Review of Biology) describing how human society evolved from...
Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Author: Alex Bellos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of...
Mother Brain: Separating Myth from Biology - the Science of the Parental Brain
Author: Chelsea Conaboy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Before Chelsea Conaboy gave birth to her first child, she anticipated the joy of holding her newborn son, the endless dirty...