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Uninhabitable Earth
Life After Warming
2024 || Paperback || David Wallace-Wells || Crown
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon."-Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Economist • The Paris Review • Toronto Star • GQ • The Times Literary Supplement • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews
It is worse, much wor...
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...
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The Nutmeg's Curse
Parables for a Planet in Crisis
2024 || Paperback || Amitav Ghosh || John Murray Press
From the bestselling author of the Ibis trilogy and The Great Derangement, The Nutmeg's Curse is an enthralling, panoramic history of the influence of colonialism on the world today, told through the surprising story of the nutmeg.
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The Insect Crisis
The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run the World
2024 || Paperback || Oliver Milman || Atlantic Books
When is the last time you were stung by a wasp? Or were followed by a cloud of midges? Or saw a butterfly? All these normal occurrences are becoming much rarer. A groundswell of research suggests insect numbers are in serious decline all over the world - in some places by over 90%.
The Insect Crisis explores this hidden emergency, arguing that its consequences could even rival climate change. We rely on insect pollination for the bulk of our agriculture, they are a prime food source ...
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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.
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Is Maths Real?
How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths
2024 || Paperback || Eugenia Cheng || Profile Books Ltd
One of the world's most creative mathematicians offers new ways to look at maths - focusing on questions, not answers
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Forests: A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
2024 || Paperback || ETH Zurich) Department of Environmental Systems Science Jaboury (Professor of Ecosystem Management Ghazoul || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Forests have been entwined with human development and cultural history for centuries. In this Very Short Introduction Jaboury Ghazoul explores their origins, dynamics, and the range of goods and services they provide to human society, as well as looking at issues of deforestation, reforestation, and the effects of climate change.
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Conjectures and Refutations
The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
2024 || Paperback || Karl Popper || Taylor & Francis Group Limited
One of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, it provides the clearest statement of the fundamental idea that guided his work: that our knowledge grows by an unending process of trial and error.