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Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial
Author: Peter Stott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 2022 Ours is the age of global warming. Rising sea levels, extreme weather, forest...
How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Smart Predictions
Author: Kit Yates Format: Paperback 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...
Decoding the World
Author: Po Bronson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A vision of the future where the latest Silicon Valley tech meets cutting-edge genetics. Decoding the World is a buddy adventure...
The Universe in Bite-sized Chunks
Author: Colin Stuart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Since the earliest humans walked the earth, the vast mysteries and wonders of the night sky have fascinated and beguiled us,...
Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World
Author: Tim James Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Nominated for the best popular science book of 2024 by Smart Book. 'Who said science was dry? Certainly not Tim James'...
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...
Nature Tales for Winter Nights
Author: Nancy Campbell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 As the evenings draw in - a time of reckoning, rest and restoration - settle in with this new seasonal collection....
Fifty Words for Snow
Author: Nancy Campbell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Snow. Every language has its own words for the feather-like flakes that come from the sky. In Japanese we find Yuki-onna...
The Loneliest Polar Bear: A True Story of Survival and Peril on the Edge of a Warming World
Author: Kale Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned polar bear cub named Nora and the humans working tirelessly to save...
The Animal Mind: Profiles of Intelligence and Emotion
Author: Marianne Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 We are only beginning to understand the ways in which the animal mind is as complex as our own. A prairie...
Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World
Author: Peter Godfrey-Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith's three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling...
The Sustainability Secret: Rethinking Our Diet to Transform the World
Author: Kip Andersen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 216 Discover the biggest issue in conservation today. This companion to the documentary Cowspiracy explores the impacts of the most environmentally destructive...
Escape From Shadow Physics: Quantum Theory, Quantum Reality and the Next Scientific Revolution
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Author: Adam Forrest Kay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 'A LANDMARK IN THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS' - Jean Bricmont The received wisdom in quantum physics is that,...
How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
Author: Tim Harford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BESTSELLER 'Harford is our most likeable champion of reason and rigour... clear, clever and always highly readable'...
You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between
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Author: Daniela Lamas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 For readers of Atul Gawande and Jerome Groopman, a book of beautifully crafted stories about what life is like for patients...
How to Find a Four-Leaf Clover: What Autism Can Teach Us About Difference, Connection and Belonging
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Author: Jodi Rodgers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'We could all use a Jodi in our lives' The New York Times 'A splendid book, full of warmth and understanding'...
Basic Metaverse: How Virtual Worlds Will Change Our Reality and What You Can Do to Unlock Their Potential
Author: David Shrier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 What is the metaverse? Quite simply, it's a digital platform to help people collaborate, work and play in new ways, in...
The Observant Walker: Wild Food, Nature and Hidden Treasures on the Pathways of Britain
Author: John Wright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Blissfully funny, staggeringly informative, a joyful companion' Caroline Quentin 'Tells the endlessly fascinating tale of Britain's natural history in a way...
Possible: Ways To Net Zero
Author: Chris Goodall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A carbon neutral future is possible - we have the technology to transform the global economy and guard against the worst...
What's the Use?: How Mathematics Shapes Everyday Life
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Author: Ian Stewart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 See the world in a completely new way as an esteemed mathematician shows how math powers the world--from technology to health...
What To Expect When You're Expecting Robots: The Future of Human-Robot Collaboration
Author: Julie Shah Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Most robots are just tools. They do limited sets of tasks subject to constant human control. But a new type of...
The Dance of Life: The New Science of How a Single Cell Becomes a Human Being
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Author: Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A renowned biologist's cutting-edge and unconventional examination of human reproduction and embryo research Scientists have long struggled to make pregnancy easier,...
Power Trip: The Story of Energy
Author: Michael E. Webber Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 For centuries, human activity has been dominated by the need to fuel human civilization. Energy is unique: no other physical...
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
Author: Rob Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn takes us to the edge of biology's latest frontier: our own homes. Every house...
The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time
Author: Richard Fisher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'A beautifully turned, calmly persuasive but urgent book' IAN MCEWAN 'A landmark book that could help to build a much brighter...
When We Touch: Handshakes, hugs, high fives and the new science behind why touch matters
Author: Professor Michael Banissy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'A mind-expanding tour of what touch means.' DAVID EAGLEMAN, neuroscientist and author of Incognito and Livewired Why is a hugged...
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
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Author: Thor Hanson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 As seen on PBS's American Spring LIVE, the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers presents a natural and...
The World of All Creatures Great & Small: Welcome to Skeldale House
Author: All Creatures Great and Small Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Welcome to the wonderful world of Skeldale House: the veterinary surgery and bustling waiting room for the locals...
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...
Pandora's Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk
Author: Alison Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A 'remarkable book.' - The New York Times This fearless, deeply reported book about laboratory accidents asks the haunting question some...
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
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Author: Garry Kasparov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It...
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
Author: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Science, like most fields, is set up for men to succeed, and is rife with racism, sexism, and shortsightedness as a...
Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation RefinedaEURO"and RedefinedaEURO"Nature
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Author: Beth Shapiro Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the first dog to the first beefalo, from farming to CRISPR, the human history of remaking nature When the 2020...
You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation
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Author: Paul A Offit, MD (Chief Division of Infectious Diseases Director Vaccine Education Center the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Professor of Pediatrics Maurice R Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology Perelman Sch)...
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
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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
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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,...
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 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...