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Intuition: Unlock Your Brain's Potential to Build Real Intuition and Make Better Decisions
Author: Joel Pearson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 We have all experienced a 'gut reaction' or acted 'on a hunch' we've used our intuition.Until recently, science didn't have a...
A History of the Human Brain: From the Sea Sponge to CRISPR, How Our Brain Evolved
Author: Bret Stetka Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Crack open this book and take a read. You will be transported, illuminated, and delighted. Psychology Today Just 125,000 years ago,...
Becoming Dr Jones: A Wild Life
Author: Dr Dr Rhys Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Inspirational' - Professor Alice Roberts 'Engrossing' - Professor Ben Garrod Rhys Jones was brought up on a council estate...
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...
Takeaway Food Packaging Now
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...
The Anatomists' Library: The Books that Unlocked the Secrets of the Human Body: Volume 4
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...
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women in Space
Author: Loren Grush Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The remarkable true story of America's first women astronauts 'Lifts the curtain on the moment when Neil Armstrong's "one small step...
The Magick of Matter: Crystals, Chaos and the Wizardry of Physics
Author: Felix Flicker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'This is a book about wizardry. It will reveal the secrets of the wizard's art, and how you, too, can learn...
Display: Appearance, posture and behaviour in the animal kingdom
Author: Steve Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Discover nature's most colourful creatures in a major new book on colour in the animal kingdom. For many animals use of...
The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design that Changed the World
Author: James Ashton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 **A Financial Times Best Summer Book 2023** Out now: a gripping look at the rise of the microchip and the British...
Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World
Author: Maxim Samson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Our world has innumerable boundaries, ranging from the obvious - like an ocean - to subtle differences in language or climate....
How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions and the Art of Knowing When Not To
Author: Kit Yates Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023 'Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman 'Absolutely fascinating' James...
The Return of the Grey Partridge: Restoring Nature on the South Downs
Author: Roger Morgan-Grenville Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The Return of the Grey Partridge tells the extraordinary story of how wildlife is restoed to the Arundel Estate in West...
Country Matters: A Countryside Companion: 74 tips, tales and talking points
Author: Meg Clothier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'A lovely, luminous compendium of rural lore, law and life, full of unexpected paths and explorations' Bella Bathurst, author of Field...
Common or Garden: Encounters with Britain's 50 Most Successful Wild Plants
Author: Ken Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 It's often imagined that rarity is special. We seek out uncommon plants or birds to tick them off our lists, but...
Trees: 10 Things You Should Know
Author: Carolyn Fry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Discover the wonders at the centre of our planet's ecosystem. In ten short and accessible essays, science and nature writer Carolyn...
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
Author: Joe Roman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains-eating, pooping, and dying along the...
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...
Wild Rituals: 10 Lessons Animals Can Teach Us About Connection, Community, and Ourselves
Author: Caitlin O'Connell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 Wild Rituals explores how embracing the rituals of the animal kingdom can make us more connected to ourselves, nature, and others....
The Secret Lives of Molecules
What happens when you really get under the skin of the world around you? Everything that surrounds us - and we ourselves - are made of molecules, constructed from a...
Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses
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Author: Ashley Ward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The thrilling story of how our senses evolved and how they shape our encounters with the world Our senses are what...
Lightning Often Strikes Twice: The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in Science
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....
The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy
Author: Karl Sigmund Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here," Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees. In The Waltz of Reason,...
The Body Fantastic
Author: Frank Gonzalez-Crussi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 The body in dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the fantastic as expressions of human corporeality. The body in dreams, myths,...
Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics
Author: Gregory J. Gbur Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 How do cats land on their feet? Discover how this question stumped brilliant minds and how its answer helped solve...
A Brain for Numbers: The Biology of the Number Instinct
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...
Animal Languages
Author: Eva Meijer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 How animals speak to each other and to humans, from chimpanzees who learn sign language to dogs who parse the meaning...
Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World
Author: Professor Joshua Paul Dale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Why are some things cute, and others not? What happens to our brains when we see something cute? And...
Grounded: A Journey into the Landscapes of Our Ancestors
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Author: James Canton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: NATURE AND TRAVEL For thousands of years, our ancestors held a close connection with the...
Physick to Physiology: Tales from an Oxford Life in Medicine
Author: Keith Dorrington Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A murder in Main Quad, a near demise high on Mont Blanc, the lady who survived hanging and became a celebrity,...
Wild Green Wonders: A Life in Nature
Author: Patrick Barkham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Wild Green Wonders brings you a selection of twenty years' worth of Patrick Barkham's writings for the Guardian, bearing witness to...
The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity
Author: Robin Ince Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'A delightful and scintillating hymn to science.' - Carlo Rovelli Comedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a...
Microlands: The Future of Life on Earth (and Why It's Smaller Than You Think)
Author: J. Craig Venter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'An epic travelogue, brimming with the excitement of discovery. With characteristic panache, Venter unveils the teeming array of bacteria, viruses,...
Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet-And Our Mission to Protect It
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...
Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo
Author: Teasel Muir-Harmony Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 On July 20th, 1969, over half of the world's population tuned in to witness the first lunar landing, waiting with bated...
Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination
Author: Glyn Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A compelling, fully illustrated account of the worldwide phenomenon of science fiction as depicted in film, literature and art, and the...
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?...
How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT
Author: Elena Conis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The chemical compound DDT first earned fame during World War II by wiping out insects that caused disease and boosting Allied...
Diamonds Everywhere: Awe-inspiring astronomy discoveries
Author: Tom Kerss Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Answers to the mysteries of the cosmos for inquiring minds. Explore the entire cosmos in 101 fascinating topics - from mind-blowing...
The Simple Life: How I Found Home: The unmissable Sunday Times bestselling memoir
Author: Sarah Beeny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 An instant Sunday Times bestseller Join Sarah Beeny on her journey to live more simply and find her forever home... Throughout...
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
Author: Zeke Faux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR WIRED | LA TIMES | FINANCIAL TIMES | WASHINGTON POST | GLOBE AND MAIL USED IN...
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...
Dinomania: Why We Love, Fear and Are Utterly Enchanted by Dinosaurs
Author: Boria Sax Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 At once reptilian and avian, dinosaurs enable us to imagine a world far beyond the usual boundaries of time, culture and...
Mountains: Over Australia's Blue Horizon
Author: Alasdair McGregor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 Australia's mountains may not stand as tall as the many mightier peaks stretched across other continents, but it is worth posing...
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
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Author: Lisa Margonelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates...
How Birds Live Together: Colonies and Communities in the Avian World
Author: Marianne Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Featuring dramatic and delightful wild bird colonies and communities, How Birds Live Together offers a broad overview of social living in...
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...
Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built
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...