Christmas 2023: Science & Natural History
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The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller now illustrated with over 100 spectacular full-colour images, showcasing this wondrous and wildly various lifeform as never before'Astonishing ... it seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down'…
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A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics‘If you want to remember why you once fell in love with the idea of the cosmos, or want to fall in love with…
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‘I love this book for so many reasons, because of so many people:because of Ted Hughes’s poems, because of the photographs by James Ravilious, because it’s about the place where Clare and I live, where our family grew…
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling authors of Soonish, a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into space settlementEarth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate…
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Important and empowering' - BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH'Get this great guide and be inspired' - STEPHEN FRY'A handbook of hope ... Buy it, read it, start changing things right now' - JOANNA…
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'A masterpiece' - Max PorterIf trees have memories, respond to stress, and communicate, what can they tell us? And will we listen?A stunning international collaboration that reveals how trees make our world, change our minds and rewild our…
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One of the world's greatest scientists of human behaviour, the bestselling author of Behave, shows that free will does not exist - and challenges us to rethink the notions of choice, identity, responsibility, justice, morality and…
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A compendium of sounds from this world and beyond, from the author of A New Map of Wonders and The Book of Barely Imagined BeingsSound shapes our world in invisible but profound ways, and here Caspar Henderson brings his characteristic…
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AI. SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY. QUANTUM COMPUTING. Everything is about to change. This is the only book you need to understand this new world. From the ultimate AI insider, Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, part of Google.'Fascinating,…