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  What if?

  £25.00

  Fans of Randall Munroe ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you hit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British Empire? When will Facebook contain...

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  The life of birds

  £10.99

  A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough’s bestselling classic.

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  Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 3

  £22.00

  Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators. But are they really the ones in the driving seat? This volume takes us on an immersiv...

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  Unknown universe

  £16.99

  A lens into the unexplored and unseen cosmos

  A beautiful book showcasing the most stunning images from the first years of the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful...

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  A brief history of intelligence

  £10.99

  Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be.

  ‘I found this book amazing’ Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in ...

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  The story of the Solar System

  £22.00

  The BBC is the world’s oldest and most recognised public service broadcaster, with a mission to enrich people’s lives through programming that informs, educates, and entertains. At the ...

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  Close encounters of the fungal kind

  £25.00

  ‘A very enjoyable book that brilliantly blends science, insight and passion’ TRISTAN GOOLEY

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  Nexus

  £28.00

  For the last 100,000 years, humans have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the ve...

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  Dust

  £12.99

  Four-and-a-half billion years ago, Planet Earth was formed from a vast spinning nebula of cosmic dust, the detritus left over from the birth of the sun. Within the next 100 years, human life on swa...

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  My life in sea creatures

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  As a mixed Chinese and white non-binary writer working in a largely white, male field, science journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to...

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  Mountains of fire

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  We are made of the same stuff as the breath and cinders of volcanoes. No matter where we live on the planet, these fiery mountains have long shaped the path of humanity. World-famous volcanologist ...

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  Silk

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  There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future.

  Aarathi Prasad’s Silk is a gorgeous new history...

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  The science of plant-based nutrition

  £20.00

  Overwhelming evidence indicates plant-based eating is the healthy way forward, both for people and the planet. But there are a wealth of misconceptions and unanswered questions that need to be addr...

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  The universe in a box

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  How was our universe built? What happened at its beginning? And where do humans fit in? We are a minuscule part of an incredible continuum: a chain of events spanning 13.8 billion years, with an in...

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  Dark matter

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  The microbiome is the missing link in modern medicine: a vast genetic universe of bacteria, yeasts, viruses and parasites that live inside us, influencing every aspect of our health, even the way w...

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  It’s not rocket science

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  Black holes. Global warming. The Hadron Collider. Ever had that sinking feeling that you really should know about these things, but somehow never quite grasped them? Don’t worry – you&#...

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  Allergic

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  Hay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Billions of people worldwide have some form of allergy; millions have one severe enough to seriously endanger their health. And over the past decade, the number...

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  Ultra-processed people

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  We have entered a new ‘age of eating’ where most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called ultra-processed food – food which is industrially processed a...

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  On the origin of time

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  Here is a new theory of the universe, twenty years in the making, by Stephen Hawking and his close collaborator Thomas Hertog. Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his ex...

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  Food for life

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  Food is our greatest ally for good health, but the question of what to eat has never seemed so complicated. In this book, Tim Spector creates a unique, thorough, evidence-based guide to the real sc...

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  The Art & Science of Foodpairing

  £35.00

  Foodpairing is a method for identifying which foods go well together, based on groundbreaking scientific research that combines neurogastronomy (how the brain perceives flavour) with the analysis o...

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  Underland: A Deep Time Journey

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  In ‘Underland’, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland’s glaciers, to the underground networks by which tr...

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  Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know

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  In July 2015, a young black woman named Sandra Bland was pulled over for a minor traffic violation in rural Texas. Minutes later she was arrested and jailed. Three days later, she committed suicide...

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  Humble Pi

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  Matt Parker, the brilliant stand-up mathematician, shows us what happens when maths goes wrong in the real world. We would all be better off if everyone saw mathematics as a practical ally. Sadly, ...

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  Collins Gem Birds

  £6.99

  The ideal portable companion, the world-renowned Collins Gem series returns with a fresh new look and updated material.

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