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A Primate’s Memoir
£10.99A Primate’s Memoir
In this volume, Sapolsky sets out to study the relationship between stress and disease in baboons. He reinvents traditional field research study with this exhilarating and daring memoir of more than 20 years studying a troop of baboons in Kenya.
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Deep water
£22.00Deep water
The ocean has shaped and sustained life on Earth for billions of years. Its waters contain our past, from the deep history of evolutionary time to exploration and colonialism; our present, as a place of solace and pleasure, and as the highway that underpins the global economy; and – as waters heat and sea levels rise ever higher – our future. ‘Deep Water’ is both a hymn to the beauty, mystery and wonder of the ocean, and a reckoning with our complex relationship to the natural world. It is a book shaped by tidal movements and deep currents, and lit by the presence of other minds and other ways of being. Weaving together science, history and personal reflection, it explores the way the ocean connects every living being on Earth, the origins of the environmental catastrophe that is overtaking us, and the question of what lies ahead.
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Joined-Up Thinking
£22.00Joined-Up Thinking
Almost everything we’ve ever achieved has been done by groups of people working together, sometimes across time and space. Like a hive of bees, or a flock of birds, our naturally social, interconnected brains are designed to function best collectively. New technology is helping us share our wisdom and knowledge much more diversely across race, class, gender and borders. And AI is sparking a revolution in our approach to intelligent thinking – linking us into fast-working brainnets for problem solving. Hannah Critchlow brings us an enlightening guide to our future through the evolving new science of collective intelligence. She reveals what it says about us as human beings, shares compelling examples and stories, and shows us how best we can work collectively at work, in families, in any team situation to improve our outcomes, our wellbeing, and our prospects.
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Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction
£8.99Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction
This book explains the philosophical and historical concepts that shape current debates about science and religion. It also considers some of the themes and issues that have become more prominent in the past decade, such as science denial, climate change and environmentalism, and religion and public health – including responses to Covid-19.
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The genetic book of the dead
£25.00The genetic book of the dead
From one of the world’s great science writers, a book that explores the deepest principles of evolutionary history. Richard Dawkins shows how the body, behaviour, and genes of every living creature can be read as a book – an archive of the worlds of its ancestors.
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The Science of Sewage
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Why don’t things fall up?
£10.99Why don’t things fall up?
Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue? Could you explain why ice cream melts? Have you forgotten why scientists think the universe started with a Big Bang, and do you understand the difference between respiration and breathing? ‘Why Don’t Things Fall Up?’ will gently remind you of everything you may have learnt once upon a time, but have somehow forgotten along the way. If you’ve ever changed the subject when a child has asked for homework help, or if you have forgotten the basics of science – then this is the book for you. Using questions asked by children as a starting point, Alom Shaha takes us on a tour of the ‘big ideas’ of science from his unique perspective.
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