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The life, death and afterlife of one of the true icons of extinction, the Great Auk The great auk was a flightless, goose-sized bird superbly adapted for life at sea. Fat, flush with feathers and easy to capture, the birds were in trouble whenever...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 AAAS/SUBARU SB&F PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE BOOKS How new elements are discovered, why they matter and where they will take us. Creating an element is no easy feat. Its the equivalent of firing six trillion bullet...

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From the pilot's seat in the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to Chernobyl's exclusion zone and to the site in Finland where highly radioactive waste will be buried, this is the incredible story of nuclear power. Providing...

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** WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 ** 'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox 'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in huma...

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'Football looked at in a very different way' Pat Nevin, former Chelsea and Everton star and football media analyst Football the most mathematical of sports. From shot statistics and league tables to the geometry of passing and managerial...

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The deep sea is the last, vast wilderness on the planet. This is the story of how we imagine, explore and exploit it. For centuries, myth-makers and storytellers have concocted imaginary monsters of the deep, and now scientists are looking there t...

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We love to imagine the future. But why are groundbreaking future technologies always just around the corner, and never a reality? For decades we've delighted in dreaming about a sci-fi utopia, from flying cars and bionic humans to hyperloops ...

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For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, but over the last 20 years scientists have uncovered new fossils and used new technologies that have upended this story. In Beasts Before Us,...

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Shortlisted for the BMA Book Awards and Macavity Awards 2016 Fourteen novels. Fourteen poisons. Just because it's fiction doesnt mean it's all made-up ... Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in h...

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The incredible story of spaceflight before the establishment of NASA. NASAs history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But Americas space agency wasnt created in a vacuum. I...

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A deep dive into the science behind the creative ways Shakespeare killed off his characters. William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions shock, sadness, fear tha...

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'By mixing lo-fi charm into hi-fi science Into the Groove captures all the wonder and absurdity of its subject, jumping and skipping with real analogue delight.' - Sunday Times The story of recorded sound the technological developments, ...

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'Fascinating' - Financial Times Algorithms are running our society, and as the Cambridge Analytica story has revealed, we dont really know what they are up to. Our increasing reliance on technology and the internet has opened a window fo...

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'Gripping and wonderfully informative' Tom Holland, New Statesman Adored by children and adults alike, Tyrannosaurus is the most famous dinosaur in the world, one that pops up again and again in pop culture, often battling other beasts s...

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'A first class book' Sunday Times Were all conspiracy theorists. Some of us just hide it better than others. Conspiracy theorists do not wear tin-foil hats (for the most part). They are not just a few kooks lurking on the paranoid fringe...

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The human brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. For more than a century, a diverse array of researchers searched for a language that could be used to capture the essence of what these neurons do...

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Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2024 Couldnt be a bolder, more forthright SOS for sport The Observer The world of sport has a new opponent: climate change. In recent years, a world championship marathon was held at midnight...

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The Tomb of the Mili Mongga lives up to its magnificent billing DAILY TELEGRAPH - A fossil expedition becomes a thrilling search for a mythical beast deep in the Indonesian forest and a fascinating look at how fossils, folklore, and biodiversity c...

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Terrifying and timely, this is a book everyone should read and heed - George Monbiot 'Urgent, gripping and sobering, Six Minutes to Winter is a hair-raising wake-up call - David Wallace-Wells Powerful and insightful. Although many have forgot...

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The spinosaurs the controversial group that includes the largest land predator of all time, the awe-inspiring Spinosaurus are brought to life in this cutting-edge review. The giant sail-backed carnivorous dinosaur Spinosaurus is one of the most fa...

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Fourteen stories. Fourteen more poisons. Just because it's fiction doesnt mean it's all made-up ... Agatha Christie is renowned for her captivating plots and creative ways of killing off ill-fated victims. And what better way to add intr...

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How the world needs to adapt to climate change, and the key problems and hard choices that lie ahead for the global community. Heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes and flooding caused by climate change are already impacting people and nature. Adaptati...

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At once an elegy and an exhortation.ELIZABETH KOLBERT A revelatory exploration of climate change from the perspective of wild species and natural ecosystems - an homage to the miraculous, vibrant entity that is life on Earth. The stories we usuall...

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A social, historical and scientific exploration of ghost-hunting, and why our fascination with the paranormal is as timeless as the ghosts we hope to find. The history of ghosts is ancient, but the history of active ghost-hunting is relatively rec...

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How much of the folk tales of our ancestors is rooted in fact, and what can they tell us about the future? In todays society it is the written word that holds the authority. We are more likely to trust the words found in a history textbook over th...

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Illuminating and entertaining The Washington Post Astronomers have successfully observed a great deal of the Universes history, from recording the afterglow of the Big Bang to visualising the shadow of a black hole. However when it comes to unders...

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A journey of discovery through the ins and outs of reproduction in the animal kingdom 'Written with Bill Bryson-like wit' Booklist 'A writ er who blends professional expertise in zoology with charm, wit, and a cockeyed sense of humor. What better ...

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The language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make your eyes blue, your hair curly or your nose straight. The media tells us that our genes control the risk of cancer, heart disease, alcoholism or Alzheimer's. The cost of DNA sequ...

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The BMA Medical Book Award-shortlisted story of the search for p53 - the most important gene in medicine. All of us have lurking in our DNA a most remarkable gene, which has a crucial job it protects us from cancer. Known simply as p53, this gene ...

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'A rewarding glimpse of another world' THE GUARDIAN Seashells are the sculpted homes of a remarkable group of animals: the molluscs. These are some of the most ancient and successful animals on the planet, and they have fascinating tales...

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