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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...
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,...
A Year of Garden Bees and Bugs: 52 stories of intriguing insects
Author: Dominic Couzens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A fascinating journey into the secret life of insects, experts Dominic Couzens and Gail Ashton discover 52 minibeasts from around the...
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...
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...
Tree Stories: How trees plant our world and connect our lives
Author: Stefano Mancuso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Trees have played countless roles in human history - by turns hopeful symbols of freedom, pioneering space travellers, keepers of ancient...
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...
The World at Night: Spectacular photographs of the night sky
Author: Babak Tafreshi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 See the full beauty of our night sky revealed as never before in over 200 photographs from around the world. Bringing...
Birdland
Author: Leila Jeffreys Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 In BIRDLAND, Australian fine-art photographer Leila Jeffreys presents us with a bird-watching experience like no other, drawing birds out from their...
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...
The Sky Is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words
Author: Virginia Trimble Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 504 The Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical essays by women who broke down barriers and changed...
Stochastic Thermodynamics: An Introduction
Author: Luca Peliti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The first comprehensive graduate-level introduction to stochastic thermodynamicsStochastic thermodynamics is a well-defined subfield of statistical physics that aims to interpret thermodynamic...
Welcome to the Universe in 3D: A Visual Tour
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....
Ant Architecture: The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests
Author: Walter R. Tschinkel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 Walter Tschinkel has spent much of his career investigating the hidden subterranean realm of ant nests. This wonderfully illustrated book...
Parrots of the World
Author: Steve Brookes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Parrots have always captured the imagination of humans. This beautifully illustrated book on the world s parrots explores all aspects of...
Wildlife in Pictures
Author: Craig Hayman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Author Craig Hayman had the rare opportunity of living and working in some of Africa's most spectacular wilderness areas for several...
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
Author: Sarah Hart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both...
Climate Worrier: A Hypocrite's Guide to Saving the Planet
Author: Colm O'Regan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Bestselling author Colm O'Regan is a worrier. A professional one. Caution is his watchword. Risk aversion is his love language. Now...
The One Thing You Need to Know: The Simple Way to Understand the Most Important Ideas in Science
Author: Marcus Chown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From gravity to black holes, special relativity to global warming, this authoritative and entertaining book from bestselling author Marcus Chown breaks...