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Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less
$15.00
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...
The World In A Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
Author: Vince Beiser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Except for water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other-more than oil, more than...
Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
$17.50
Author: Seirian Sumner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "A book that draws us in to the strange beauty of what we so often run away from." -- Robin Ince,...
Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
$15.00
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...
The Mammoth Book of Shark Attacks
$10.00
Author: Alex MacCormick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Hundreds of terrifying shark attacks occur every year and this book collects the most exciting, breathtaking, and heartrending. From...
The Immeasurable World: A Desert Journey
Author: William Atkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 For all the desert's dreamlike beauty, to travel here was not just to pitch yourself into oblivion: it was...
Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science
Author: Timothy Caulfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Masterfully, and humorously . provides much needed sanity in a world of claims run amok . I devoured it'...
Voices of the Wild: Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes
Author: Bernie Krause Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 A pioneer in the field of soundscape ecology explores the ways in which the voice of the natural world informs many...
Lights On!: The Science of Power Generation
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...
Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty
$15.00
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...
All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change
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...
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
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...
Carnation
Author: Twigs Way Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Carnations permeate our culture from the wedding bed to the funeral wreath. Derided in Shakespeare as 'nature's bastards', they challenged the...
What We Owe The Future: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Author: William MacAskill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 We are remarkably early in the story of human civilisation. We are still five hundred million years away from the sterilisation...
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement
Author: James Vincent Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 We measure rainfall and radiation, the depths of space and the emptiness of atoms, calories and steps, happiness and fear. If...
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,...
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...
This is Planet Earth: Your ultimate guide to the world we call home
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And...
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...
The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet
Author: Arthur Turrell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Is it possible to build a star on earth? When asked what problem he hoped scientists will have solved by the...
Stand Up Straight!: A History of Posture
Author: Sander L. Gilman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 Our bodies are not fixed; they change over time. They vary with alterations in diet, exercise, and illness, and shift...
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
Author: Rob Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A savoury account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolution Nature, it has been said, invites us to...
2024 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
Author: Storm Dunlop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the...
Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science
Author: Jimena Canales Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities - demons - to test the laws of nature...
Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life
Author: Timothy J. Jorgensen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 440 When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic...
How Birds Live Together: Colonies and Communities in the Avian World
Author: Marianne Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Featuring dramatic and delightful wild bird colonies and communities, How Birds Live Together offers a broad overview of social living in...
Hard to Break: Why Our Brains Makes Habits Stick
Author: Russell A. Poldrack Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The neuroscience of why bad habits are so hard to break-and how evidence-based strategies can help us change our behaviour...
No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Author: Daniel Kennefick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'One of Nature's Top Ten Books of 2019' 'Finalist for the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association...
Welcome to the Universe in 3D: A Visual Tour
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Journey into the vast depths of the observable universe by visualising the most spectacular images in astronomy in stereoscopic 3D....
A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin's Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution
Author: Jeremy DeSilva Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Leading scholars take stock of Darwin's ideas about human evolution in the light of modern science In 1871, Charles Darwin published...
Hummingbirds: A Celebration of Nature's Jewels
Author: Glenn Bartley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A stunningly illustrated guide to the wonderful world of hummingbirds With their glorious colours, glittering iridescence, astonishing powers of flight, and...
Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science
Author: Jimena Canales Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities - demons - to test the laws of nature...
Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution
Author: Skylar Tibbits Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today's researchers are...
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
Author: Sarah Hart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both...
The World of All Creatures Great & Small: Welcome to Skeldale House
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...
When We Touch: Handshakes, hugs, high fives and the new science behind why touch matters
Author: Professor Michael Banissy Format: Hardback 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...
Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution
Author: Scott Solomon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Are humans still subject to the forces of evolution? An evolutionary biologist provides surprising insights into the future of Homo sapiens...
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
Author: Frans de Waal (Emory University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling...
The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience
Author: Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Brain repair, smart pills, mind-reading machines--modern neuroscience promises to soon deliver a remarkable array of wonders as well as profound insight into...
A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems
Author: Joseph L Graves Jr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Evolution has, ever since its inception, been one of the most ideologically fraught fields in all of science. It...
Night Sky Almanac 2023: A stargazer's guide
Author: Storm Dunlop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A beautiful gift for anyone interested in the night sky. Follow the progress of constellations throughout the seasons with this beautiful...
The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and Their Collectors
Author: Michael A. Salmon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 This entertaining and informative book traces the history of butterfly collection in Britain from the seventeenth century, when the study...
Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space
Author: Kevin Hand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar system....
The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast
$12.00
Author: Andrew Blum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 From the acclaimed author of Tubes, a lively and surprising tour of the infrastructure behind the weather forecast, the...
The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything
Author: Adrian Bejan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The Physics of Life illuminates the meaning of evolution in its broadest scientific sense and empowers the reader with a new...
Outbreaks and Epidemics: Battling infection from measles to coronavirus
Author: Meera Senthilingam Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out...
Look Up: Our story with the stars
Author: Sarah Cruddas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'Sarah Cruddas is a gifted writer and Look Up is an inspired book. I am hopeful that we will...
The Genius Within: Unlocking Your Brain's Potential
$15.00
Author: David Adam Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Following the success of The Man Who Couldn't Stop, David Adam now expounds on the latest research into intelligence, revealing how...