Science and Nature

Updated December 30, 2023
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Nomad century : how climate migration will reshape our world
Vince, Gaia
Paper Book
Highly Commended for the Wainwright Prize 2023, and shortlisted for the Zócalo Book Prize and the Christopher Moore Prize For Human Rights Writing 'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet' Observer<...
An immense world : how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us
Yong, Ed
Paper Book
**SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** **NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, OBSERVER, ECONOMIST, PROSPECT, GUARDIAN, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT and SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022** **Winner of 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction**...
How the world really works : the science behind how we got here and where we're going
Smil, Vaclav
Paper Book
** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that shape human life, this is the book to read. It's a tour de force'...
The song of the cell : an exploration of medicine and the new human
Mukherjee, Siddhartha
Paper Book
From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, about the fundamental unit of life. Rich with Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists,...
Sentient : how animals illuminate the wonder of our human senses
Higgins, Jackie
Paper Book
'Spellbinding . . . More than any other book, [Sentient] has made me think differently about the world this year.' - Financial Times Best Books of the Year'Lyrical and lucid . . . Higgins makes popular science accessible.' - ObserverThe peacock mantis shrimp can throw a punch that can fracture...
The facemaker : a visionary surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War I
Fitzharris, Lindsey
Paper Book
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Best Books of the Year, Guardian The poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery From...
The insect crisis : the fall of the tiny empires that run the world
Milman, Oliver
Paper Book
How would we live if insects no longer existed?
Visual thinking : the hidden gifts of people who think in pictures, patterns, and abstractions
Grandin, Temple
Paper Book
'Grandin has helped us understand autism not just as a phenomenon, but as a different but coherent mode of existence that otherwise confounds us' The New York Times Do you think in pictures, patterns or words? In a world engineered for the verbal thinker,...

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