Rewording the Brain by David Astle
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Category: Nature and Science
Master wordsmith and crossword king David Astle scientifically proves how cryptic crosswords can ward off dementia.
The Frog with Self-Cleaning Feet - And Other Extraordinary Tales from the Animal World by Michael Bright
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Category: Nature and Science
Wild animals do the most extraordinary things. Some are exceptionally bright, use tools and solve complex problems. Others are devious: they cheat, steal and run protection rackets. There are animals with enormous appetites and those that self-medicate. In this fascinating collection author and film-mak ...Show more
The Hidden Life of Trees (Illustrated Edition) by Peter Wohlleben
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Category: Nature and Science
In his international bestseller, The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben opened readers? eyes to the wonders and amazing processes at work in the forest. Now this new, breathtakingly illustrated edition brings those wonders to life like never before. With compelling selections from the original book a ...Show more
Honey Factory by Jurgen. Tautz; Diedrich Steen
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Category: Nature and Science
Bee hives might look like seething anarchy at first glance, but bees know exactly what they are doing. The universe of the beehive is an intricately organised, delicately balanced ecosystem. From the mighty queen to the lowliest worker bees, each bee plays its part in the whole.The Honey Factoryplunges ...Show more
Adam Spencer's World of Numbers by Adam Spencer
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Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: very good
What's a 'firkin'? Is a tardigrade animal, vegetable or mineral? How fast is Usain Bolt ... really? And what's the record for the most lobster rolls eaten in 10 minutes? All these questions and more are answered in Adam Spencer's World of Numbers. This is a book for young and old - for anyone who's ever ...Show more
Chariots of the Gods? by Erich von Daniken
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Category: Nature and Science
All over the world there are fantastic ruins and objects which cannot yet be explained by conventional theories. Erich von Daniken's book, which has sold 11 million English language copies, comes up with some controversial explanations.
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
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Category: Nature and Science
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness. Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell a bold new ...Show more
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
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Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: good-very good
A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics Rare is the work of philosophy that invites both the casual reader and the academic. Rare, too, is the text so universal that luminaries across an array of fields lay claim to it. Yet, that is precisely the case with Gaston Bachelard’s The P ...Show more
The Climate Cure: Solving the Climate Emergency in the Era of COVID-19 by Tim Flannery
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Category: Nature and Science
Australians are witnessing an unprecedented government response to crisis-swift decisive action to avert catastrophe. And the advice of scientists has informed every step of the way. But for decades the advice of scientists on the impending catastrophe that climate change will bring has been ignored, di ...Show more
Vesper Flights - New and Collected Essays by Helen Macdonald
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Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: very good
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to th ...Show more
Innate - How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are by Kevin J. Mitchell
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Category: Nature and Science
A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you think What makes you the way you are--and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human diversity and individual difference ...Show more
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
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Category: Nature and Science
‘Meticulous research, lyrical writing … A book that goes to the eeriest, most desolate places on Earth and finds hope' LOUISE GRAY This is a book about abandoned places: exclusion zones, no man's lands, ghost towns and post-industrial hinterlands – and what nature does when we're not there to see it. ...Show more