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The Night Sky: An astronomers guide to the night sky and the universe
Author: Nigel Henbest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Discover the wonders of the Universe with this indispensable guide. The Night Sky is chock full of information explaining what, when...
Many Things Under a Rock: The 'mind-blowing' book that reveals the mysteries of the octopus, perfect for all science enthusiasts and fans of David Attenborough
Author: David Scheel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Scheel brings the world of the octopus vividly alive. The best nature books do not just describe animals: they give us...
The Hydrogen Revolution: a blueprint for the future of clean energy
Author: Marco Alvera Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Financial Times BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'Engaging, authoritative and very timely. Marco Alvera spells Hydrogen's critical role as an...
Second Life: 'Unexpected, funny, beautiful' Claire Dederer, author of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Author: Amanda Hess Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 One of TIME Magazine's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 . One of LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025. 'Acutely empathetic, thoroughly...
Chronic Pain: A Drug-Free Way to Feel Better
Author: Phil Sizer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'Buy this book and make sure your doctor reads it too!' Dr Steve Gilbert, former Lead Clinician for Chronic Pain in...
Identically Different: Why You Can Change Your Genes
Author: Professor Tim Spector Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 *A brand new and updated edition for 2024, including the latest insights on diet and weight management drugs, gene editing,...
Cambridge Prescriber's Guide in Psychiatry
Author: Sepehr Hafizi (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and University of Cambridge) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 Based on the best-selling Stahl's Prescriber's Guide, this essential guide to...
Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error
Author: Michael Hannah (Victoria University of Wellington) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 262 Are we now entering a mass extinction event? What can mass extinctions in Earth's history tell us...
A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease
Author: Daniel Gibbs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 254 Dr Daniel Gibbs is one of 50 million people worldwide with an Alzheimer's disease diagnosis. Unlike most patients with Alzheimer's, however,...
Understanding Genes
Author: Kostas Kampourakis (Universite de Geneve) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 230 What are genes? What do genes do? These questions are not simple and straightforward to answer; at the...
Food or War
Author: Julian Cribb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 350 Ours is the Age of Food. Food is a central obsession in all cultures, nations, the media, and society. Our future...
Falls in Older People: Risk Factors, Strategies for Prevention and Implications for Practice
Author: Stephen R. Lord Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 500 This third edition of a trusted resource brings together the latest literature across multiple fields to facilitate the understanding and...
The Quantum Internet: The Second Quantum Revolution
Author: Peter P. Rohde (University of Technology, Sydney) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 300 Following the emergence of quantum computing, the subsequent quantum revolution will be that of interconnecting individual...
Dispatches from the Land of Alzheimer's
Author: Daniel Gibbs (Emeritus of Oregon Health and Science University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 228 In 2006, Daniel Gibbs, author of A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal...
Enough: Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer
Author: Linda Eckert (University of Washington) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 350 Cervical cancer kills almost 350,000 women each year. What's more horrifying, is that millions have died of this...
Out of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women's Mental Health and What Must Change
Author: Linda Gask (University of Manchester) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 312 For centuries so called 'difficult women' have been labelled as 'hysterical' and 'out of their minds'. Today they...
Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change
Author: Simon Sharpe (World Resources Institute, London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. As Greenland melts, Australia burns,...
No Miracles Needed: How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air
Author: Mark Z. Jacobson (Stanford University, California) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 454 The world needs to turn away from fossil fuels and use clean, renewable sources of energy as...
The Cosmic Revolutionary's Handbook: (Or: How to Beat the Big Bang)
Author: Luke A. Barnes (Western Sydney University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 290 Free yourself from cosmological tyranny! Everything started in a Big Bang? Invisible dark matter? Black holes? Why...
The Irresistible Attraction of Gravity: A Journey to Discover Black Holes
Author: Luciano Rezzolla (Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt Am Main) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 290 The mystery of gravity has captivated us for centuries. But what is gravity and how does it...
Contraception: The Answers You've Been Looking For
Author: Paula Briggs Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 150 Choosing the right method of contraception can be confusing: you need to consider your lifestyle, personal preference, any health conditions you...
The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History
Author: Ruth Mostern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 A three-thousand-year history of the Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscape From Neolithic times...
Wild Cities: Discovering New Ways of Living in the Modern Urban Jungle
Author: Chris Fitch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Mind-shifting, heart-lifting' ISABELLA TREE 'Inspiring and essential' ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS 'As entertaining as it is enlightening' INDEPENDENT The majority of the world...
The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
Author: Professor Matthew Cobb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A TIMES ENVIRONMENT AND SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'The ideal guide to what is not just a fiendishly...
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...
The Maps We Carry: Psychedelics, trauma and our new path to mental health
Author: Rose Cartwright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Rose Cartwright breaks all our old certainties and liberates us to approach our mental struggles with new humanity and creativity. The...
Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna and the Future of our Oceans
Author: Karen Pinchin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises...
DNA Human Genome Manual: Ancestry * Health * Identity * Epigenics * Criminality
Author: Dr Melita Irving Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 This book brings together all the fascinating strands of genetic science and explains in an accessible way how DNA is...
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-month Race to Make the Impossible Possible
Author: Albert Bourla Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer's CEO Dr. Albert...
A Year of Tropical Birdsong: 52 Stories of Tropical Songbirds
Author: Dominic Couzens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Fascinating stories of the birds and birdsongs from the Tropics for every week of the year, with QR codes for every...
The Hidden World: How Insects Sustain Life on Earth Today and Will Shape Our Lives Tomorrow
Author: George McGavin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Insects conquered the Earth long before we did and will remain here long after we're gone. They outnumber us in the...
Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide
Author: J.P. McEvoy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Quantum theory confronts us with bizarre paradoxes which contradict the logic of classical physics. At the sub-atomic level, one particle seems...
Zoo Ethics
Author: Jenny Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 If you've visited a zoo and come face-to-face with a magnificent creature, such as a tiger, elephant or gorilla, you may...
Weather
Author: The Royal Meteorological Society Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Weather collects some of the most breathtaking images from Weather Photographer of the Year, the annual competition held by...
Volcanoes & Earthquakes
Author: Chiara Maria Petrone Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Volcanoes & Earthquakes features the earth sciences at their most spectacular. It reveals the massive internal forces that create and...
Vanished and Vanishing Parrots
Author: Joseph M. Forshaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Joseph M. Forshaw, one of the world's leading authorities on parrots, calls attention to the threats they face: they are...
The Secret Life of Flies
Author: Erica McAlister Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Enter a hidden world of snail killers, silly names and crazy sex lives in The Secret Life of Flies. In The...
The Inside Out of Flies
Author: Erica McAlister Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Inside Out of Flies is a look under the bonnet at the astonishing mechanics of fly anatomy. Erica McAlister reveals...
The Hawkesbury River
Author: Paul I. Boon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 584 The Hawkesbury River is the longest coastal river in New South Wales. A vital source of water and food, it...
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...
The Great Barrier Reef
Author: Pat Hutchings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 488 The iconic and beautiful Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is home to one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world....
The Book of Rest: How to find calm in a chaotic world
Author: James Reeves Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Impossibly wonderful' Daily TelegraphRevised and updated with a brand new chapter. Find peace in a restless world. 'James's heartfelt gentleness and...
Tasmanian Mayflies: Identification, Ecology, Behaviour and Imitation
Author: Ron Thresher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 228 Mayflies are one of the world's most diverse, abundant and important aquatic insects. Famous for their brief adult life spans, mayflies...
Shark Attacks
Author: Blake Chapman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 Humans spend more time in or on the water than ever before; we love the beach. But for many people, getting...
Secret Lives of Carnivorous Marsupials
Author: Andrew Baker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Most living carnivorous marsupials lead a secretive and solitary existence. From tiny insect eaters to theformidable Tasmanian Devil, Secret Lives of...
Rocky Outcrops in Australia: Ecology, Conservation and Management
Author: Damian Michael Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 184 Rocky outcrops are landscape features with disproportionately high biodiversity values relative to their size. They support specialised plants and animals, and...
Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-Wanderer in Australia and New Zealand
Author: Joseph M. Forshaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 Although not closely related, quail, buttonquail and the Plains-wanderer have much in common. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and...
Plants of Subtropical Eastern Australia
Author: Andrew Benwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Plants of Subtropical Eastern Australia describes the rich flora of this biogeographically distinct region located on the east coast of Australia,...