Science & Mathematics

Author: Menno Schilthuizen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 *Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts. *Lizards in Puerto Rico...

Author: Trevor Norton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Although inventors were often scientists or engineers, many were not: Samuel Morse (Morse code) was a painter, Laszlo Biro (the ballpoint pen)...

Author: Brian Clegg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Scientifica Historica is a unique, essay-based review of those books that marked the development of science from classical times to the...

Author: Colin Stuart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A fascinating and comprehensive guide to the sun - our home star - which remains the greatest mystery in the solar...

Author: Karl Ove Knausgaard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 "Spring features Knausgaard unbound, writing for the first time without a gimmick or the crutch of extravagant experimentation...Fall in love...

Author: Tom Oliver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A thought-provoking and worthwhile read' THE TIMES 'A timely, challenging book' GUARDIAN '[A] rich, intriguing book' NATURE WE ARE MUCH MORE...

Author: Maggie Ryan Sandford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 CONSIDER THE PLATYPUS explores the history and features of more than 50 animals to provide insight into our current understanding...

Author: John Hainze Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 An informed and heartfelt tribute to commonly unappreciated plants, insects, and other tiny creatures that reconsiders humanity's relationship to nature "Put...

Author: Nick Lane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 For decades, biology has been dominated by information - the power of genes. Yet in terms of information there is no...

Author: Roger Morgan-Grenville Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 So at the age of 61, with no farming experience, he signed on as a part- time labourer on a beef...

Author: Professor Heino Falcke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 As featured in THE EDGE OF ALL WE KNOW - the new Netflix documentary about Black Holes For readers of...

Author: Sarah Stewart Johnson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 "Sarah Stewart Johnson interweaves her own coming-of-age story as a planetary scientist with a vivid history of the exploration of...

Author: New Scientist Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Informative, surprising and hilarious, New Scientist tackles questions about the animal kingdom from readers in the magazine's popular 'Last Word' column....

Author: Jeremy England Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And if you trace the evolutionary history of plants and animals...

Author: Tony York Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Everything an amateur pigkeeper needs for success Get Started in Pig Keeping offers amateur pigkeepers everything they need to make a...

Author: Derek Harvey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Genes have a huge impact on who we are, from defining us as humans, to governing how we behave. Whether controlling...

Author: Caleb Scharf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Longlisted for the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Short-listed for Physics World's Book of the Year The Sunday Times...

Author: Charles Foster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ATLANTIC, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND NEW STATESMAN A radically immersive exploration of three...

Author: Amit Katwala Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector Henry Wilkens burst through the...

Author: Eva Meijer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Dolphins and parrots call each other by their names. Fork tailed drongos mimic the calls of other animals to scare them...

Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's remarkable life and career, but it...

Author: Sue Weaver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The Goat: A Natural History offers a complete overview of this captivating creature, from the goatish Greek god Pan, to their...

Author: Hannah Mumby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Elephants are as unique as people. They can be clever and curious or headstrong and impulsive, shy or sociable....

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...

Author: Steve Fiffer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Over 65 million years ago in what is now South Dakota, a battle-scarred Tyrannosaurus rex matriarch -- perhaps mortally wounded in...

Author: Bill McGuire Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Hothouse Earth: an Inhabitant's Guide provides a post-COP26 perspective on the climateemergency, acknowledging that it is now practically impossible to keep...

Author: Leidy Klotz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "You need to read this book." --Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author "A great book changes the world you...

Author: Oliver Kamm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A tour de force . . . an important, affecting and effective book' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL '[A] gorgeous and urgent book' STEVEN...

Author: Nicola Twilley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley's Until Proven Safe tracks the idea of quarantine around the globe, through time and space, chasing...

Author: Porter Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of...

Author: Michael Guillen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A Publishers Weekly best book of 1995! Dr. Michael Guillen, known to millions as the science editor of ABC's...

Author: Leisa Stewart-Sharpe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 72 Our world is WONDERFUL - and it's worth protecting. This book takes you on a breathtaking tour of our planet -...

Author: Carole Hooven Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports and politics, we need a good explanation of the science...

Author: Jean-Philippe Noel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 A selection of nature's greatest imposters, tricksters and magicians. Whether to escape predators or to surprise their prey, the talented strategists...

Author: Anil Ananthaswamy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Some of the greatest scientific minds have grappled with this experiment. Thomas Young devised it in the early 1800s to show...

Author: Marianne Freiberger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 In Understanding Numbers, Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas will show key number patterns and maths principles that are vital...

Author: Alison Richard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'Full of wonder and forensic intelligence' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding A moving account of Madagascar told by a...

Author: Mark Denny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 264 Power generation is a relatively recent concern because humans had little need for sustained power until the dawn of...

Author: Ian Stewart (University of Warwick) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A celebrated mathematician explores how math helps us make sense of the unpredictable We would like to believe...

Author: John Gribbin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 John Gribbin, author of Six Impossible Things, shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, presents a tour of...

Author: Michael Klare Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate change-still linked, for many people, with...

Author: Jon Gertner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Greenland: a remote, mysterious, ice-covered rock with a population of just 56,000, has evolved from one of earth's last...

Author: Hope Jahren Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, an inspiring teacher, and one of the seven billion people...

Author: Professor Ian Stewart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Stewart is Britain's most brilliant and prolific populariser of maths' - Alex Bellos 'The instructive equivalent of a Michelin-starred tasting...

Author: Sally Adee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome - the bacterial fauna that populates our gut and can...

Author: All Creatures Great and Small Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Welcome to the wonderful world of Skeldale House: the welcoming veterinary surgery and bustling waiting room for the...

Author: Mary Roach Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 What happens when nature and humanity clash? In past centuries, wild animals who broke the law would be given lawyers and...

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...