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Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing - by Lev Parikian

£16.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781783967032 | ISBN 10: 178396703x

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2023* ‘This book soars… Parikian is a nature writer at the top of his game.’ Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs. This is the miracle of flight as you’ve ... more
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Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence - by James Bridle

£12.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780141994260 | ISBN 10: 0141994266

'Heady, exhilarating, often astonishing' New York Times 'Iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow radically hopeful ... worth reading and rereading' Brian Eno 'Be prepared to re-evaluate your relationship with the amazin ... more
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On Time and Water: A History of Our Future - by Andri Snaer Magnason

£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781788165532 | ISBN 10: 1788165535

Icelandic author and activist Andri Snaer Magnason's 'Letter to the Future', an extraordinary and moving eulogy for the lost Okjoekull glacier, made global news and was shared by millions. Now he attempts to come to terms with the issues we all face ... more
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The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World - by Nichola Raihani

£20.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781787332041 | ISBN 10: 1787332047

Why cooperate? This may be the most important scientific question we have ever, and will ever, face. The science of cooperation tells us not only how we got here, but also where we might end up. Cooperation explains how strands of DNA gave ... more
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants - by Bill Bryson

£10.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780552779906 | ISBN 10: 0552779903

‘We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.’ Bill Bryson sets off to ... more
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Figuring - by Maria Popova

£14.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786897268 | ISBN 10: 1786897261

Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries - beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of pla ... more
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Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto - by Aaron Bastani

£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786632630 | ISBN 10: 1786632632

A different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work, scarcity and capitalism. In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, i ... more
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Evolution (A Ladybird Expert Book) - by Steve Jones

£7.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780718186289 | ISBN 10: 0718186281

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Evolution is a clear, simple and entertaining introduction to Charles Darwin's pioneering and revolutionary theory of how all life changes through natural selection. Written by broadcaster, prize-winni ... more
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The God Delusion (10th Anniversary edition) - by Richard Dawkins

£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784161927 | ISBN 10: 1784161926

The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all ty ... more
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Black Holes: The Reith Lectures - by Stephen Hawking

£3.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780857503572 | ISBN 10: 085750357x

�It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science fiction writers.� In 2016 Professor Stephen Hawking deliver ... more
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Neurocomic - by Dr Hana Ro� and Dr Matteo Farinella

£14.99 hardback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781907704703 | ISBN 10: 1907704701

Do you know what your brain is made of? How does memory function? What is a neuron and how does it work? For that matter, what�s a comic? And in the words of Lewis Carroll�s famous caterpillar: �who are you?� Produced in association with the ... more
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The Kingdom of Infinite Space: A Fantastical Journey around Your Head - by Raymond Tallis

£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781843546702 | ISBN 10: 1843546701

The Kingdom of Infinite Space is a journey around the part of our anatomy to which we feel most attached: our heads. In this unique combination of biological science and philosophical interrogation, Raymond Tallis takes the head apart, piece by piece ... more
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Symmetry: The Ordering Principle - by David Wade

£5.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904263517 | ISBN 10: 1904263518

Why on earth do cars have the same symmetry as dragonflies? Is there really a beautiful swirling pattern lurking in every dripping tap? What do insect eggs have in common with planets, and why? In this exquisite book, the smallest and most c ... more
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Why the Toast Always Lands Butter Side Down: The Science of Murphy's Law - by Richard Robinson

£7.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781845291242 | ISBN 10: 1845291247

Start looking for Murphy's Law, and you'll find it everywhere. Buses go round in threes, the queue you join always goes slowest, when your hands are full your nose starts to itch, you think of several important things to remember just as you are fall ... more
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