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Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects
$12.00
Author: Edward Posnett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 "[Strange Harvests is] an impressive addition to the modern travelogue, painting some of the world's most remote terrain in visceral and...
The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
Author: Marcus Chown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one...
The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough's classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology,...
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
Author: Kermit Pattison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 "Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as...
Bush Life: Stories from the beating heart of rural Australia
Author: Beauty in the Bush Collective Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 There's an authenticity to bush life - an appreciation of raw beauty, simple rituals and genuine people. A...
Blue: A Scientist's Search for Nature's Rarest Colour
Author: Kai Kupferschmidt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world - and to understand our collective obsession with this bewitching colour....
To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
Author: Edward Larson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a "suspenseful" (WSJ) and "adrenaline-fueled" (Outside) entwined narrative of...
Flight of the Budgerigar: An Illustrated History
Author: Penny Olsen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 260 *Longlisted for the ABIA Book Awards 2022: Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year* The Budgerigar is arguably Australia's best-known bird....
Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us
Author: Vybarr Cregan-Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'A work of remarkable scope' - Guardian FT Best science books of 2018 PRIMATE CHANGE has been adapted into...
The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
$17.50
Author: Matthew Cobb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 An "elegant", "engrossing" (Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal) examination of what we think we know about the brain and why --...
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
$15.00
Author: Jon Gertner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic...
Plagues and Pandemics: Black Death, Coronaviruses and Other Killer Diseases Throughout History
Author: Douglas Boyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 216 All you need for a plague to go pandemic are population clusters and travellers spreading the bacterial or viral pathogens. Many...
How Long is a Piece of String?: More hidden mathematics of everyday life
Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A fascinating book, from a leading maths educator and demystifier, that shows how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. Have...
Around the World in 80 Birds
Author: Mike Unwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 This beautiful and inspiring book tells the stories of 80 birds around the world: from the Sociable Weaver Bird in Namibia...
Sharks: A History of Fear in Australia
Author: Callum Denness Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 For as long as people have lived in Australia, the shark has loomed large in our fears. From the...
Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
Author: Yasha Levine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 As the Cambridge Analytica scandal has shown, private corporations consider it their right to use our data (and by...
The Deep History Of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
Author: Joseph LeDoux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and...
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...
Urban Arboreal: A Modern Glossary of City Trees
Author: Michael Jordan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Trees are an important part of the life of many cities. Whether in avenues or parks they provide shade, a green...
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
$15.00
Author: Gino Segre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope...
Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)
Author: Michael Wall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 We've all asked ourselves the question. It's impossible to look up at the stars and NOT think about it: Are we...
Mathematical Intelligence: What We Have that Machines Don't
Author: Junaid Mubeen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 There's so much talk about the threat posed by intelligent machines that it sometimes seems as though we should surrender to...
The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World's Favorite Insect
$15.00
Author: Wendy Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In this "deeply personal and lyrical book" (Publishers Weekly) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Horse, Wendy Williams...
Why It's Not All Rocket Science: Scientific Theories and Experiments Explained
Author: Robert Cave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Robert Cave examines 100 extraordinary projects, theories and experiments that have been conducted in the name of science. Some, including various...
3-Minute Stephen Hawking: Digesting his life, theories and influence in 3-minute morsels
Author: Paul Parsons Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 The 3-Minute series offers the essence of the world's most important figures with all the padding removed. It divides up their...
Epic Expeditions: 25 Great Explorations into the Unknown
Author: Ed Stafford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 262 'A fascinating and unique look at these celebrated expeditions.' -Sir Ranulph Fiennes Explorer and survival expert Ed Stafford looks...
The Planets
Author: Professor Brian Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'So staggering you go "whoa!" every few seconds' Guardian 'Really impressive' Eamonn Holmes, ITV This Morning A companion book to...
Space Dogs: The Story of the Celebrated Canine Cosmonauts
Author: Martin Parr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 This fascinating book tells the story of the Soviet space dogs, illustrated with legendary photographer Martin Parr's vintage space-dog...
30-Second Climate: The 50 most topical events, measures and conditions, each explained in half a minute
Author: Joanna D Haigh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Weather and climate are not the same. Weather is what occurs outdoors on a daily basis and is unpredictable from...
How to Build a Healthy Brain: Reduce stress, anxiety and depression and future-proof your brain
Author: Kimberley Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'A practical manual for your brain.' - Dr Megan Rossi, author of Eat Yourself Healthy A groundbreaking science-based guide...
The Earth: From Myths to Knowledge
Author: Hubert Krivine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Our planet's elliptical orbit around the Sun and its billions-of-years existence are facts we take for granted, matters every literate high...
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...
Astroquizzical - The Illustrated Edition: Solving the Cosmic Puzzles of our Planets, Stars, and Galaxies
Author: Jillian Scudder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Looking up at the night sky, it is almost impossible to imagine that we can trace our common ancestry with the...
The Life of Birds
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough's bestselling classic. BIRDS. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on...
The History of Science
Author: Tom Jackson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Mankind has forever strived to learn. The tribe with the better weapons can hunt more efficiently, defend itself better and take...
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
$12.00
Author: Gaia Vince Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows...
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...
Proof!: How the World Became Geometrical
$15.00
Author: Amir Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our world On a cloudy day in 1413, a balding young man...
The Infinite Monkey Cage - How to Build a Universe
Author: Prof. Brian Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us...
Uluru: Kata Tjuta and Watarrka National Parks Field Guide
Author: Anne Kerle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 202 This handy guide is your key to the secrets of the most famous National Parks of Australia's Red Centre. It will...
What Do You Think You Are?: The Science of What Makes You You
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Popular science master Brian Clegg's new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the...
The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty
Author: Sy Montgomery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 A splendid and luminous celebration of one of nature's most perfect and mysterious creatures-the hawk-from the New York Times bestselling author...
The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true
Author: Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An inspiring introduction to science and a fascinating exploration of the natural world. Magic takes many forms. The ancient...
Forest: Walking among trees
Author: Matt Collins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Forest celebrates the diverse ways in which trees and forests are as magnificent, economically relevant and profoundly enchanting today as they...
How Are We Going to Explain This?: Our Future on a Hot Earth
Author: Jelmer Mommers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Over five years covering climate change, Jelmer Mommers has learned that the subject is a great way to ruin...
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...
The Short Story of the Universe: A Pocket Guide to the History, Structure, Theories and Building Blocks of the Cosmos
Author: Gemma Lavender Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The Short Story of the Universe is a new introduction to the subject of the universe. Covering 130 key components that...
Around the World in 80 Games: A mathematician unlocks the secrets of the greatest games
Author: Marcus du Sautoy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'BRILLIANTLY CLEAR AND CAPTIVATING PROSE' STEPHEN FRY A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR 2023 An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind...