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Anna Levin
Incandescent: We Need to Talk About LightLight is changing, dramatically. Our world is g...Light is changing, dramatically. Our world is getting brighter - you can see it from space. But is brighter always better? Artificial light is voracious and spreading.Vanquishing precious darkness ... -
Alison Goldsworthy, Laura Osborne
Poles Apart: Why People Turn Against Each Other, and How to Bring Them Togethere humans are social animals, naturally driven t...e humans are social animals, naturally driven to form close-knit groups. All too often, though, these groups become partisan. They start to compete with one another.They become mutually hostile. Wh... -
Katie Goh
The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters: 5 (Inklings)Throughout history, apocalypse fiction has expl...Throughout history, apocalypse fiction has explored social injustice through fantasy, sci-fi and religious imagery, but what can we learn from it? Why do we escape very real disaster via dystopia? ... -
Gwen Adshead and Eileen Horne
The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic PsychiatryDr Gwen Adshead is one of Britain's leading for...Dr Gwen Adshead is one of Britain's leading forensic psychiatrists.She treats serial killers, arsonists, stalkers, gang members and other individuals who are usually labelled 'monsters'. Whatever t... -
Sally Adee
We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body’s ElectromeYou may be familiar with the idea of our body's...You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome - the bacterial fauna that populates our gut and can so profoundly affect our health. In We Are Electric we cross the next frontier of scientif... -
Josie Jeffery
Let's Wildflower the World: Save, swap and seedbomb to rewild our worldThis is an exciting introduction to the global ...This is an exciting introduction to the global seed-swapping and grassroots gardening movement, exploring how we can rewild the world around us with beautiful wildflowers. As seedbombing and seed s... -
Rekha Mistry
Rekha's Kitchen Garden: Seasonal Produce and Home-Grown Wisdom from One Gardener's Allotment YearWelcome to Rekha's Kitchen Garden: a North Lond...Welcome to Rekha's Kitchen Garden: a North London allotment that is bursting with the very best seasonal produce all year round. With more than 30 years' experience as both an amateur and professio... -
Sam Delaney
Sort Your Head Out: Mental health without all the bollocksSam Delaney was Jack the Lad. He was confident,...Sam Delaney was Jack the Lad. He was confident, loud and funny; an absolute legend, to be honest. Or at least that was what he pretended to be.But when he reached his thirties, work, relationships ... -
Richard Firth-Godbehere
A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We KnowHow have our emotions shaped the course of hum...How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions evolved with us? We humans like to think of ourselves as rational creatures, wh... -
Dr Norman Lazarus
The Lazarus Strategy: How to Age Well and WiselyWe are all living longer. The World Health Orga...We are all living longer. The World Health Organisation predicts that by 2050 there will be two billion people over 60 with 434 million of those over 80 years of age. But there's a catch: the quali... -
Michael Perry
Hortus Curious: Discover the World's Most Weird and Wonderful Plants and FungiCelebrate the weird, wacky, and wonderful world...Celebrate the weird, wacky, and wonderful world of plants with a book that revels in the diversity of the botanical world. Plants are truly awe-inspiring. They can be vast, minute, smelly, or spect... -
Holly Farrell
The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Herbs: The art and science to grow your own herbs Volume 2The new Kew guide to planting and cultivating h...The new Kew guide to planting and cultivating herbs features 12 easy and inspiring projects as well as detailed information on 80 of the most important species to grow, all accompanied by Kew's bea...
