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Is A River Alive?
Macfarlane, Robert.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING 2025 From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book - which answers a resounding yes to...
Everything Is Tuberculosis
Green, John.
Paper Book
Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! . #1 Washington Post bestseller! . #1 Indie Bestseller! . USA Today Bestseller! 'Earnest and empathetic.' - New York Times Tuberculosis has been entwined with hu-manity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of...
Replaceable You : Adventures in Human Anatomy
Roach, Mary
Paper Book
The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what's available--sculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs, crafting eye parts from jet...
Air-Borne : Life and Death in the Skies
Zimmer, Carl
Paper Book
"An extraordinary history of the perils and promise of every breath we take" - James Nestor, bestselling author of Breath "Another brilliant work from one of the very best science writers, Air-Borne will leave you agog at the incredible world that floats...
Ends of the Earth : Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
Shubin, Neil
Paper Book
Meet the scientists uncovering the secrets of Earth's harshest environments - the polar regions SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2025 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Thrilling... This book is a reminder of how incredibly "cool" our...
Hope Dies Last
Weisman, Alan.
Paper Book
'One of the most exciting books I've ever read'- Louise Erdrich In this profoundly human and moving narrative, the bestselling author of The World Without Us returns with a book ten years in the making- a study of the precarious state of our planet and what it means...
The ocean's menagerie : how Earth's strangest creatures reshape the rules of life
Harvell, C. Drew
Paper Book
A transporting exploration of the deep sea, and how our planet's strangest, most ancient and astonishing creatures have urgent relevance to cutting-edge science today. Hundred-year-old giant clams, coral kingdoms the size and shape of cities, and jellyfish that glow in the dark-...
The decline and fall of the human empire : why our species is on the edge of extinction
Gee, Henry
Paper Book
'Brilliant' - The Times 'Hugely informative and entertaining' - New Scientist 'Put this at the head of your reading lists immediately' - Eric Idle From the winner of the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize, a thrilling...
A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage
Chown, Marcus.
Paper Book
What is space? What is time? Where did the universe come from? The answers to mankind's most enduring questions may lie in science's greatest enigma: black holes. A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. This can...
Carbon: ; the book of life
Hawken, Paul.
Paper Book
Carbon animates the entirety of the living world. Though it comprises only a tiny fraction of Earth's composition, our planet would be lifeless without it. From the intricate microscopic networks of fungi in the Earth's soils to the tallest trees of the forests to every cell in every animal, the...
The Genius Bat : The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
Yovel, Yossi
Paper Book
An awe-inspiring tour of bat world by the world's leading expert With nearly 1500 species, bats account for more than twenty percent of mammalian species. The most successful and most diverse group of mammals, bats come in different sizes, shapes, and colors, from the tiny...
Ocean : Earth's last wilderness
Attenborough, David
Paper Book
Out of Your Mind: The Biggest Mysteries of the Human Brain
Cham, Jorge.
Paper Book
From the creative brain behind WE HAVE NO IDEA, an introductory journey into your own mind--if your inner voice had a PhD in neuroscience, cracked jokes, and drew cartoons Why do you love? Why do you hate? What makes you happy? Every single thought you have comes from one place:...
If anyone builds it, everyone dies : the case against superintelligent AI
Yudkowsky, Eliezer
Paper Book
The shape of things unseen : a new science of imagination
Zeman, Adam
Paper Book
'Fascinating, absorbing and educative' A. C. Grayling 'Highly original and beautifully written' Dominic Lawson A compelling insight into how our imagination works, based on the latest scientific research. People often think of imagination as...
Science Under Siege
Mann, Michael E.
Paper Book
The ideological brain : a radical science of susceptible minds
Zmigrod, Leor
Paper Book
Why do some people become radicalized? Who is most susceptible to ideological thinking? Can we unchain our minds from toxic dogmas? Drawing on her groundbreaking research, Dr Leor Zmigrod uncovers the hidden mechanisms driving our beliefs and behaviours. She uses...
The Trouble with Ancient DNA : Telling Stories of the Past with Genomic Science
Kallen, Anna
Paper Book
A thoughtful consideration of the storytelling and science behind ancient DNA discoveries.   In recent years, discoveries brought to light through analysis of ancient DNA--or aDNA--have made headlines around the world. While ancient DNA studies may appear to...
When life gives you lemurs
Husband, Tim
Paper Book
A story of courage, generosity and the tender power of animals to heal humans.

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