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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
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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
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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....
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,...
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...
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...
Talking to Robots: How Humans and Machines Will Live Together in the Future
Author: David Ewing Duncan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'If you want to see what that future might look like, Duncan's book is a fun place to start' NPR...
Physick to Physiology: Tales from an Oxford Life in Medicine
Author: Keith Dorrington Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A murder in Main Quad, a near demise high on Mont Blanc, the lady who survived hanging and became a celebrity,...
Wild Green Wonders: A Life in Nature
Author: Patrick Barkham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Wild Green Wonders brings you a selection of twenty years' worth of Patrick Barkham's writings for the Guardian, bearing witness to...
Amphibious Soul: Finding the wild in a tame world
Author: Craig Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 An awe-inspiring narrative about the power of nature and our place within it, from the creator of My Octopus Teacher, filmmaker...
The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity
Author: Robin Ince Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'A delightful and scintillating hymn to science.' - Carlo Rovelli Comedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a...
Microlands: The Future of Life on Earth (and Why It's Smaller Than You Think)
Author: J. Craig Venter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'An epic travelogue, brimming with the excitement of discovery. With characteristic panache, Venter unveils the teeming array of bacteria, viruses,...
Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet-And Our Mission to Protect It
Author: Nicole Stott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott first saw the Earth from space, she was filled with awe. Our shared home was a...
Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo
Author: Teasel Muir-Harmony Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 On July 20th, 1969, over half of the world's population tuned in to witness the first lunar landing, waiting with bated...
Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination
Author: Glyn Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A compelling, fully illustrated account of the worldwide phenomenon of science fiction as depicted in film, literature and art, and the...
Light to Life: The miracle of photosynthesis and how it can save the planet
Author: Raffael Jovine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 "Read this book and you will learn how photosynthesis was discovered, how it works, and how we can produce more food...
The Year in Space: From the makers of the number-one space podcast, in conjunction with the Royal Astronomical Society
Author: The Supermassive Podcast (Izzie Clarke, Dr Becky Smethurst, Richard Hollingham and Robert Massey) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Is it possible for humans to live on other planets?...
The Orchid Outlaw: On a Mission to Save Britain's Rarest Flowers
Author: Ben Jacob Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINRIGHT PRIZE & SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD 'A daring, delightful and galvanising call to save the...
How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT
Author: Elena Conis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The chemical compound DDT first earned fame during World War II by wiping out insects that caused disease and boosting Allied...
Vaxxers: A Pioneering Moment in Scientific History
Author: Sarah Gilbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Chosen as a Book of the Year 2021 by the Financial Times, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Prospect, Guardian and The Times....
Know Thyself: The New Science of Self-Awareness
Author: Stephen M Fleming Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 How do you know when you've studied enough to pass an exam? Should you accept the testimony of an eyewitness?...
Diamonds Everywhere: Awe-inspiring astronomy discoveries
Author: Tom Kerss Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Answers to the mysteries of the cosmos for inquiring minds. Explore the entire cosmos in 101 fascinating topics - from mind-blowing...
The Simple Life: How I Found Home: The unmissable Sunday Times bestselling memoir
Author: Sarah Beeny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 An instant Sunday Times bestseller Join Sarah Beeny on her journey to live more simply and find her forever home... Throughout...
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
Author: Zeke Faux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR WIRED | LA TIMES | FINANCIAL TIMES | WASHINGTON POST | GLOBE AND MAIL USED IN...
The World at Night: Spectacular photographs of the night sky
Author: Babak Tafreshi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 See the full beauty of our night sky revealed as never before in over 200 photographs from around the world. Bringing...
Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal about our Uniquely Mathematical Mind
Author: Brian Butterworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Every pet owner thinks their own dog, cat, fish or hamster is a genius. What makes CAN FISH COUNT? so exciting...
Nature Fast and Nature Slow: How Life Works, from Fractions of a Second to Billions of Years
Author: Nicholas P. Money Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 This book is a vision of biology set within the entire timescale of the universe. It is about the timing...
Coal: Nature and Culture
Author: Ralph Crane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 While concerns about climate change have focused negative attention on the coal industry in recent years, as descendants of the industrial...