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The Inner Life of Animals
Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
2024 || Paperback || Peter Wohlleben || Vintage Publishing
We tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings but have you ever wondered what’s going on in an animal’s head? From the leafy forest floor to the inside of a bee hive, The Inner Life of Animals opens up the animal kingdom like never before.
Chaos
2024 || Paperback || James Gleick || Vintage Publishing
Brings together work in the field of chaos theory, an extension of classical mechanics, in which simple and complex causes are seen to interact.
Science Fictions
Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science
2024 || Paperback || Stuart Ritchie || Vintage Publishing
'Required reading for everyone' Adam RutherfordMedicine, education, psychology, economics - wherever it really matters, we look to science for guidance.
Black Hole Survival Guide
2024 || Paperback || Janna Levin || Vintage Publishing
Our solar system is currently orbiting a Black Hole 26,000 light years away at a speed of 200 km per second. In Ten Tips for Surviving a Black Hole physicist and novelist Janna Levin takes you on a journey inside a black hole, explaining what would happen to you in there and why.
Origins
How the Earth Shaped Human History
2024 || Paperback || Lewis Dartnell || Vintage Publishing
Read the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth’s awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations. ‘Stands comparison with Sapiens… Thrilling’ Sunday Times Human evolution in East Africa was driven by geological forces.
Before the Big Bang
Our Origins in the Multiverse
2024 || Paperback || Laura Mersini-Houghton || Vintage Publishing
Determined
Life Without Free Will
2024 || Paperback || Robert M Sapolsky || Vintage Publishing
One of the world’s greatest scientists of human behaviour, the bestselling author of Behave, shows that free will does not exist - and sets out the disturbing yet liberating implications of accepting this fact.
‘One of the best scientist-writers of our time’ OLIVER SACKS
What if free will is an illusion? As Robert Sapolsky shows in this masterful account of the science of human behaviour, everything we think and do is caused by the luck of our biology and the influence of our environmen...
A Crack in Creation
The New Power to Control Evolution
2024 || Paperback || Jennifer Doudna e.a. || Vintage Publishing
Jennifer Doudna, the world-famous scientist behind CRISPR, 'one of the most monumental discoveries in biology' (New York Times), explains its discovery, describes its power to reshape the future of all life and warns of its use. 'Urgent, riveting and endlessly fascinating, this book is destined to become an instant classic.