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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
$25.00
Author: Dr Steven Novella Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella...
Britain According to Kaleb: The Wonderful World of Country Life
Author: Kaleb Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 An entertaining whistle-stop tour of rural British traditions, from the bestselling author of The World According to Kaleb. Ever wondered what...
Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are
Author: Bill Sullivan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 "I can't believe I just said that." "What possessed me to do that?" "What's wrong with me?" We're constantly seeking answers...
Cosmos Possible Worlds
Author: Ann Druyan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Based on National Geographic s internationally-renowned television series, this groundbreaking and visually stunning book explores how science and civilization grew up...
The Brain: 10 Things You Should Know
Author: Professor Sophie Scott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Uncover the mind-blowing complexities of the brain and how it affects our personalities, behaviours and more. Written by Professor of...
The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
Author: Scott E. Page Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Data, data, data: It's all one ever hears about these days. Science is all about big data. Our bosses call...
Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep
$20.00
Author: Kenneth Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 WINNER OF THE 2024 ASJA BOOK AWARD, BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW YORKER NEW...
Poached
$17.50
Author: Rachel Love Nuwer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 An intrepid investigation of the criminal world of wildlife trafficking--the poachers, the traders, and the customers--and of those fighting against...
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,...
Human Origins: 7 Million Years and Counting
$12.00
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Where did we come from? Where are we going? Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most...
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...
How Vaccines Work: The Science and History Behind Every Question You've Wanted to Ask
Author: David Miles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Vaccines are a debate, whether we want them to be or not. Now more than ever, it's easy to feel overwhelmed...
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 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 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...
Sensational: A New Story of our Senses
Author: Ashley Ward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A future classic of popular science' Mail on Sunday 'A dazzling account' Financial Times 'Absorbing, surprising and at times profound. After...
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond
$12.00
Author: Sonia Shah Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study."...
Wildlife In Pictures
Author: Craig Hayman Format: Paperback 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...
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....
Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses
$15.00
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...
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,...
Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist)
Author: Sarah Chaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 *As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour* *A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022* 'Excellent ... one...
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....
Two for Joy: The untold ways to enjoy the countryside
Author: Adam Henson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In Two for Joy, Adam Henson - much-loved and long-standing presenter of Countryfile and Lambing Live - goes on a journey...
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19
Author: Alina Chan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus came from...
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...
Cosmic Womb: The Seeding of Planet Earth
Author: Chandra Wickramasinghe, Ph.D. Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 408 Compelling evidence that life, intelligence, and evolution on Earth were seeded by comets and cosmic intelligence * Explains how life...
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...
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars: The 10 Global Problems We Can Actually Fix
Author: Rowan Hooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the good of the world and the advancement...
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...