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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 34 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
    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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  • Cover image of book The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity by Robin Ince
    The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity - by Robin Ince

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781786492647 | ISBN 10: 1786492644

    ‘A delightful and scintillating hymn to science.’ Carlo Rovelli   Comedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimidated by the barrage of equations. But, twenty years later, he fell in love ... more

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  • Cover image of book Philosophers on Consciousness: Talking about the Mind by Jack Symes (Editor)
    Philosophers on Consciousness: Talking about the Mind - by Jack Symes (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781350190412 | ISBN 10: 1350190411

    We know, more intimately than anything else, what it's like to undergo a rich world of experiences: agonizing pains, dizzying pleasures, heady rage and existential doubts. But, despite the incredible advances of physical science, it seems that we're ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them) by Tom Chivers and David Chivers
    How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them) - by Tom Chivers and David Chivers

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781474619974 | ISBN 10: 1474619975

    'Even one glass of wine a day raises the risk of cancer' 'Hate crimes have doubled in five years''Fizzy drinks make teenagers violent'  Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way. Someti ... more

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  • Cover image of book Books do Furnish a Life: An Electrifying Celebration of Science Writing by Richard Dawkins
    Books do Furnish a Life: An Electrifying Celebration of Science Writing - by Richard Dawkins

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529176490 | ISBN 10: 1529176492

    Including conversations with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley and more, this is an essential guide to the most exciting ideas of our time and their proponents from our most brilliant science communicator.   Books Do Furnish a Li ... more

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  • Cover image of book On Time and Water: A History of Our Future by Andri Snaer Magnason
    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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  • Cover image of book The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World by Nichola Raihani
    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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  • Cover image of book The Crying Book by Heather Christle
    The Crying Book - by Heather Christle

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472154712 | ISBN 10: 1472154711

    In this symphonic work of non-fiction, Heather Christle explores the most human of behaviours: crying. What are tears made of? Why do people cry? And why is this common, crucial act so rarely discussed? Christle unpacks the biological reasons for tea ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Self Delusion: The Surprising Science of Our Connection to Each Other and the Natural World by Tom Oliver
    The Self Delusion: The Surprising Science of Our Connection to Each Other and the Natural World - by Tom Oliver

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781474611763 | ISBN 10: 1474611761

    We are much more connected to nature and each other than we realise...   * Most of our 37 trillion cells have such a short lifespan that we are essentially made anew every few weeks * The molecules forming our bodies have been component part ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
    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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  • Cover image of book Figuring by Maria Popova
    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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  • Cover image of book Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani
    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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  • Cover image of book Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines by Henrietta Heald
    Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines - by Henrietta Heald

    £20.00   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783526604 | ISBN 10: 1783526602

    'Women have won their political independence. Now is the time for them to achieve their economic freedom too.'   This was the great rallying cry of the pioneers who, in 1919, created the Women's Engineering Society. Spearheaded by Katharine an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Charles and Ada: The Computer
    Charles and Ada: The Computer's Most Passionate Partnership - by James Essinger

    £16.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780750990950 | ISBN 10: 0750990953

    The partnership of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace was one that would change science forever.  They were an unlikely pair – one the professor son of a banker, the other the only child of an acclaimed poet and a social-reforming mathematician ... more

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  • Cover image of book Breakfast with Einstein: The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects by Chad Orzel
    Breakfast with Einstein: The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects - by Chad Orzel

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786074041 | ISBN 10: 1786074044

    A Sunday Times Book of the Year.  From the author of the international bestseller How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog.  Exciting physics doesn't just show up in billion-dollar experiments like the Large Hadron Collider or in extr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Zen Science: Stop and Smell the Universe by Institute of Zen Science
    Zen Science: Stop and Smell the Universe - by Institute of Zen Science

    £9.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780762461738 | ISBN 10: 076246173x

    An inspirational collection of musings on the wonders of nature and the universe, Zen Science pairs the fun of popular science trivia with the benefits of mindfulness.   It takes 30,000 years to create a single ray of sunlight. A pinch of soil ... more

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  • Cover image of book Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
    Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity - by Carlo Rovelli

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780141983219 | ISBN 10: 0141983213

    From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universe.   Do space and time truly exist? What is reality made of? Can we understand its deep texture?   Scientist Carlo Rovell ... more

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  • Cover image of book Evolution (A Ladybird Expert Book) by Steve Jones
    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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  • Cover image of book Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control by Kathleen Taylor
    Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control - by Kathleen Taylor

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780198798330 | ISBN 10: 0198798334

    Throughout history, humans have attempted to influence and control the thoughts of others. Since the word 'brainwashing' was coined in the aftermath of the Korean War, it has become part of the popular culture and been exploited to create sensational ... more

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  • Cover image of book Heart: The Inside Story of Our Body
    Heart: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Important Organ - by Johannes Hinrich von Borstel

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781925228809 | ISBN 10: 1925228800

    The heart — we all have one, pumping away reliably in our chest, never stopping till the day we die. But few of us think much about this heroic organ until it starts to go wrong.   In this lively and informative exploration of all aspects of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The God Delusion (10th Anniversary edition) by Richard Dawkins
    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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  • Cover image of book Black Holes: The Reith Lectures by Stephen Hawking
    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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  • Cover image of book The Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution by Robert Newman
    The Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution - by Robert Newman

    £11.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908885531 | ISBN 10: 190888553x

    In this witty, fact-packed A-Z, Robert Newman takes the reader on a whirlwind tour from caring, sharing vampire bats to intelligent slime-mould; from pacifist baboons to Richard Dawkins wrestling naked with his postman; from the invisibility cloak of ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Used to Know That: General Science by Marianne Taylor
    I Used to Know That: General Science - by Marianne Taylor

    £6.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782434474 | ISBN 10: 178243447x

    For those whose memories of learning science at school consist of burning magnesium and playing with iron filings and a magnet, and whose brains shut down as soon as things start to sound ‘too technical’, I Used to Know That: General Science is here ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Science Magpie: Fascinating Facts, Stories, Poems, Diagrams and Jokes Plucked from Science by Simon Flynn
    The Science Magpie: Fascinating Facts, Stories, Poems, Diagrams and Jokes Plucked from Science - by Simon Flynn

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781848315990 | ISBN 10: 1848315996

    From the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton, The Science Magpie is a compelling collection of scientific curiosities.   Expand your knowledge as you view the history of the Earth on the face of a clock, tremble at the power ... more

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  • Cover image of book Neurocomic by Dr Hana Roš and Dr Matteo Farinella
    Neurocomic - by Dr Hana Roš 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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  • Cover image of book This is Improbable: Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens, and Other WTF Research by Marc Abrahams
    This is Improbable: Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens, and Other WTF Research - by Marc Abrahams

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781851689750 | ISBN 10: 1851689753

    Marc Abrahams, the founder of the famous Ig Nobel Prize, offers an addictive, wryly funny expose of the oddest, most imaginative, and just plain improbable research from around the world. He looks into why books on ethics are more likely to get stole ... more

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  • Cover image of book Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
    Proust Was a Neuroscientist - by Jonah Lehrer

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857862310 | ISBN 10: 0857862316

    Is science the only path to knowledge?   In this sparkling and provocative book Jonah Lehrer, author of The Decisive Moment, explains that when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first. Taking a group of celebrated writers ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nothing: A Very Short Introduction by Frank Close
    Nothing: A Very Short Introduction - by Frank Close

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780199225866 | ISBN 10: 0199225869

    What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, vi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Kingdom of Infinite Space: A Fantastical Journey around Your Head by Raymond Tallis
    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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  • Cover image of book Li: Dynamic Form in Nature by David Wade
    Li: Dynamic Form in Nature - by David Wade

    £5.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781904263548 | ISBN 10: 1904263542

    Why does Nature use the same special patterns over and over again? What are the main families of natural design? How are they formed? Did the ancient Chinese really study this subtle and elegant subject?  In this beautiful book, illustrated by D ... more

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  • Cover image of book Symmetry: The Ordering Principle by David Wade
    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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  • Cover image of book Why the Toast Always Lands Butter Side Down: The Science of Murphy
    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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  • Cover image of book Rosalind Franklin; The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
    Rosalind Franklin; The Dark Lady of DNA - by Brenda Maddox

    £10.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780006552116 | ISBN 10: 0006552110

    Although Rosalind Franklin took the crucial photograph of DNA revealing its double helix structure, her work was overlooked when, four years after her death, three men – Maurice Wilkins of King's College London, Francis Crick of the Cavendish Laborat ... more

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