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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...
My Head For A Tree: The Extraordinary Story of the Bishnoi, the World's First Eco-Warriors
Author: Martin Goodman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 How much can one love a tree?Rajasthan, in northern India, is home to the Bishnoi, a desert people whose religion is...
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...
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Why does eugenics still loom...
Joining Metals
Author: Henry Tindell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Joining metals is a fundamental process used in all aspects of modern life. It is vital wherever metals are used, which...
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...
Trees in Winter: Fully illustrated edition
Author: Richard Shimell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize for Illustrated Books Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Christopher Bland Prize 'Trees in Winter...
The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time
Author: Helen Gordon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Look out your window and see the moon, stars and distant planets. Light years away, it's easy to think that our...
Artificial Intelligence in Byte-sized Chunks
Author: Dr Peter J. Bentley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Artificial intelligence is headline news with the launch of the latest ChatGPT and Google Bard. But when did we...
The Beekeeper's Field Guide: Everything you need to know, from honey to the hive
Author: Meredith May Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Beekeeping is a popular past time that more and more people are turning to for personal enjoyment, or even small commercial...
The Accidental Scientist: The Role of Chance and Luck in Scientific Discovery
Author: Graeme Donald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Have you ever wondered how the ideas for some things come about? Surprisingly it is often as much down to chance...
Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics
Author: Ernesto Londono Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A moving, tender and thoughtful exploration of a complicated subject. Johann Hari, Sunday Times bestselling author of Stolen Focus and Lost...
Free For All: Why The NHS Is Worth Saving
Author: Gavin Francis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Britain's health service is dying. Gavin Francis shows us why we should fight for it. Since its birth in 1948, the...
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
Author: Harry Parker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week An eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI...
The Nation of Plants: The International Bestseller
Author: Stefano Mancuso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 As plants see it, humans are not the masters of the Earth but only one of its most unpleasant and irksome...
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...
How Animals Saved My Life: Being the Supervet: The perfect gift for animal lovers
Author: Professor Noel Fitzpatrick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 THE MASSIVE NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER It has been 30 years since Noel Fitzpatrick graduated as a veterinary surgeon,...
Living Wild: New Beginnings in the Great Outdoors
Author: Joanna Maclennan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Explores the lifestyles of families and individuals around the world who have escaped the daily grind to create a new life...
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...
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...
The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance
Author: Nessa Carey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The most important revolution in modern biology - and what it means for humanity. The cutting-edge of biology, however, is telling...
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....
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe
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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...
How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication
Author: Tom Mustill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A must-read' New Scientist 'Fascinating' Greta Thunberg 'Enthralling' George Monbiot 'Brilliant' Philip Hoare A thrilling investigation into the pioneering world of...
The Genius of Birds
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Author: Jennifer Ackerman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, according to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their...
Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World
Author: Mark Miodownik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A unique and inspiring exploration of human creativity from one of the UK's best-known scientists A unique and inspiring...
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19
Author: Alina Chan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus...
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...
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...
Blow! Air
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Author: Nuria Jimenez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 35 All animals and plants require clean air. In this book, children learn about why we need air, the value...
How to Save the World For Free
Author: Natalie Fee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 There is no greater aspiration than saving the world. Natalie Fee's upbeat and engaging book is a life-altering guide to making...
Tapestries of Life: Uncovering the Lifesaving Secrets of the Natural World
Author: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The second book by the bestselling author of Extraordinary Insects Trees clean air and water; hoverflies and bees pollinate...
Why do Buses Come in Threes?: The hidden mathematics of everyday life
Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 An entertaining guide to how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. An entertaining guide to how maths is relevant to...
Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again
Author: Lucy Siegle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world 4 times More than 8 million tonnes of...
Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
Author: Brian Switek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It gives our...
Read This if You Want to Be YouTube Famous
Author: Will Eagle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Read This if You Want to Be YouTube Famous is an essential guide to YouTube offering advice from 45...
Megacatastrophes!: Nine Strange Ways the World Could End
Author: David Darling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 200 Which will get us first? The asteroid hurtling towards us from outer space? The Black Plague: Round Two? Swiss...
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to...