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
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This magnificent large-format illustrated book takes you down to the most spectacular wrecks in the Baltic Sea. This unique sea holds close toere are nearly 100,000 wrecks on the seabed here – many o
Albertus Seba’s unrivaled catalog of animals, insects, and “freaks of nature”
The Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century’s greatest natural history achievements and remains one of
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A deep-dive into the astonishing nature and true science of longevity Molecular Biologist Nicklas Brendborg takes us on a journey from the farthest reaches of the globe to the most cutting-edge resea
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Dive into this uniquely elegant visual exploration of the sea
An informative and utterly beautiful introduction to marine life and the ocean environment, The Science of the Ocean book brings the r
The microbiome comprises the vast genetic universe of bacteria, yeasts, viruses and parasites that live within us. It influences every aspect of our health, even the way we think and feel, and it is
The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens
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Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have liv
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In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment.
How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technolog
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving awa
'A compelling narrative of the human story' TIM MARSHALL, author of Prisoners of Geography
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We live in an age of increasing complexity, where accelerating technology and global interconnection hold more promise – and more peril – than any other time in human history. The fossil fuels that h
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war.
It could start in as little as 26 minutes and 40 seconds from now…
When planning for the future we often ask, "What will the economy be doing this time next year?" Or, "What will be different ten years from now?" But forecasting is hard. The important events that wi
A radical examination by a leading financial analyst, commentator and investor of the ills of capitalism and how they can be fixed
What went wrong with capitalism? Ruchir Sharma’s explanation is u
A history from early calculating machines to today
The story of the evolution of machines in computer history is full of the disruptive innovations that have led to today’s world. From the early beg
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Why do human beings behave as they do?
We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other?
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The accounts gathered in this volume concern the period from September 1939 to July 1944, whereas the leitmotif that conjoins them are the executions that were conducted by the Germans in Warsaw and