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Tim Minshall
Your Life Is ManufacturedWe live in a manufactured world. Unless you are...We live in a manufactured world. Unless you are floating naked through space, you are right now in direct contact with multiple manufactured products. How often do we stop to think: where do the th... -
Mark Rowlands
The Book of Memory : Or, How to Live Forever'The book of you is dominated by night-black se...'The book of you is dominated by night-black seas, sprinkled with shining island sentences: tiny islets of remembrance, glimmering in the night.' Memory isn't all that we think it is. Each time we ... -
John Davidson
I Swear : My Life with Tourette’sFrom the remarkable man whose life inspired the...From the remarkable man whose life inspired the heartstopping film, ‘I Swear’, a book that offers extraordinary insight into what it’s like to live with a severe form of Tourette’s Syndrome: a fasc... -
David Farrier
Nature's GeniusFor nearly four billion years, life on Earth ha...For nearly four billion years, life on Earth has found new ways to adapt, reproduce and thrive, taking on new forms to meet the environment of the moment. Human impact on the planet, and the potent... -
Philip Marsden
Under a Metal Sky : A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and WonderThe discovery of minerals beneath our feet has ...The discovery of minerals beneath our feet has transformed our species.Ochre first prompted humans to express themselves in art; tin and copper helped instigate the Bronze Age and later the Industr... -
Sophie Yeo
Nature's GhostsLonglisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Wr...Longlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation. For thousands of years, humans have been the architects of the natural world. Our activities have permanently altered the envir... -
Tom Heap
39 ways to save the planetWe got ourselves into this. Here's how we can g...We got ourselves into this. Here's how we can get ourselves out. We know the problem: the amount of biodiversity loss, the scale of waste and pollution, the amount of greenhouse gas we pump into th... -
Daniel Tammet
Nine MindsJapanese researcher in psychology sets out to m...Japanese researcher in psychology sets out to measure loneliness while drawing on her own experience of autism. A quirky boy growing up in 1950s Ottawa sows the seeds of his future Hollywood stardo... -
Tom Chatfield
Wise Animals : How Technology Has Made Us What We AreWise Animals explores the history of our relati...Wise Animals explores the history of our relationship with technology, and our deep involvement with our creations from the first use of tools and the taming of fire, via the invention of reading a... -
Dr Richard Shepherd
The Seven Ages of DeathDr Richard Shepherd, a medical detective and Br...Dr Richard Shepherd, a medical detective and Britain's top forensic pathologist, shares twenty-four of his most intriguing, enlightening and never-before-told cases. These autopsies, spanning the s... -
Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens : A Brief History of Humankind (10 Year Anniversary Edition)What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? ...What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human. Earth... -
Martin Rees
If Science Is to Save UsThere has never been a time when ‘following the...There has never been a time when ‘following the science’ has been more important for humanity. At no other point in history have we had such advanced knowledge and technology at our fingertips, nor...
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