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The Sexual Life of Flowers

'A fascinating treasure trove for plant lovers and gardeners alike.' - Frances Tophill

Often beautiful and sometimes strange, flowering plants have evolved to become masters of seduction.

We are surrounded by extraordinary partnerships between plants and the birds, bees and other insects that pollinate them. In The Sexual Life of Flowers, botanist Simon Klein

€17.00 excl tax

Why Brains Need Friends

The new science of social interaction - and how it can give us healthier, happier, longer lives

€17.00 excl tax

Food for Life

'Life-changing' DAVINA McCALL
'A must-read' DR RUPY AUJLA
'Fascinating' NIGELLA LAWSON
'Empowering' LIZ EARLE

**AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST**

Empowering and practical, Food for Life is nothing less than a new approach to how to eat - for our health and the health of the planet.

Food is our greatest ally for good hea

€8.40 excl tax

Entangled Life - The phenomenal Sunday Times bestseller exploring how fungi

The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself.

'Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing' Robert Macfarlane

The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them.

€8.40 excl tax

Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman - Adventures of a Curious Character

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BILL GATESIn this warm, insightful portrait of the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, we see the wisdom, humour and curiosity of Richard Feynman through a series of conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton.

€8.40 excl tax

In a Flight of Starlings

From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, a remarkable journey into the practice of groundbreaking science

'Giorgio Parisi is renowned for his scientific creativity, originality, and power. In this exhilarating little book, he shows his human side, too. By its end, readers will feel they've made a charming, witty new friend' Frank Wilczek

The world is shaped by

€7.50 excl tax

A Brief History of Time

Published more than two decades ago to great critical acclaim and commercial success, A Brief History of Time has become a landmark volume in science writing. Stephen Hawking, one of the great minds of our time, explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending—or are there bounda

€5.20 excl tax

Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water

A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes—from an award-winning science writer “Sing Like Fish is that rare book that makes you see the world differently.”—Mark Kurlansky, New York Times bestselling author of Salt and Cod LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL

€9.50 excl tax

Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race

Musk versus Bezos. China versus the United States. The government versus the private sector. Welcome to the rivalries and alliances defining the New Space Age. At stake? Billions of dollars, national prestige, and a place in the history books. Moon landings and space walks once captivated the public´s attention. But, in recent decades, the U.S. space enterprise has felt moribund. Now, that´s

€16.00 excl tax

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The Physics of Superheroes Goes Hollywood: An All-New Exploration of the Real Science of the Multiverse, the Quantum Realm,and Everything In Between

Discover the surprisingly real physics at work within some of the most popular superhero movies and tv shows The multiverse and the quantum realm are fictional plot devices made popular by some of our favorite superheroes. But what if science-fiction may actually be science-fact? The truth is that many of the fantastical elements we see on the screen are based in real science. And in The Physic

€15.50 excl tax

Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself - a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared.

€7.50 excl tax

How to Speak Whale

'A must-read' New Scientist
'Fascinating' Greta Thunberg
'Enthralling' George Monbiot
'Brilliant' Philip Hoare

A thrilling investigation into the pioneering world of animal communication, where big data and artificial intelligence are changing our relationship with animals forever

€7.50 excl tax

The Universe

Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell.

€17.00 excl tax

Counter-Intelligence

Best Books of 2024, The Economist

From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers - what the secret world can teach us about performance and creativity

€7.50 excl tax

Counting

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?

€12.90 excl tax

Foolproof

How do people come to believe in misinformation?

How and why does it spread?

And what can we do about it?

€11.60 excl tax

Math Without Numbers

The only numbers in this book are the page numbers. Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to the three main branches of abstract math-topology, analysis, and algebra-which turn out to be surprisingly easy to grasp. This book upends the conventional approach to math, inviting you to think creatively about shape and dimension, the infinite and infinitesimal, sy

€9.50 excl tax

Projections: The New Science of Human Emotion

A groundbreaking tour of the human mind that illuminates the biological nature of our inner worlds and emotions, through gripping, moving—and, at times, harrowing—clinical stories “[A] scintillating and moving analysis of the human brain and emotions.”—Nature “Beautifully connects the inner feelings within all human beings to deep insights from modern psychiatry and n

€9.50 excl tax

The Space Oracle

A radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos, reinventing the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar. Astronomy is another form of cinema. Time is fragmented and extended. Matter becomes light in motion. The camera remains fixed, looking outwards into the darkness, while the earth moves beneath our feet. A carefully constructed text in sixty numbered sections, The

€9.30 excl tax

Air-Borne

The fascinating, untold story of the air we breathe, the hidden life it contains, and invisible dangers that can turn the world upside down Every day we draw in two thousand gallons of air—and thousands of living things. From the ground to the stratosphere, the air teems with invisible life. This last great biological frontier remains so mysterious that it took over two years for scientists

€16.00 excl tax

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Natural sciences

The Sexual Life of Flowers

Why Brains Need Friends

Food for Life

Entangled Life - The phenomenal Sunday Times bestseller exploring how fungi

Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman - Adventures of a Curious Character

In a Flight of Starlings

A Brief History of Time

Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water

Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race

The Physics of Superheroes Goes Hollywood: An All-New Exploration of the Real Science of the Multiverse, the Quantum Realm,and Everything In Between

Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

How to Speak Whale

The Universe

Counter-Intelligence

Counting

Foolproof

Math Without Numbers

Projections: The New Science of Human Emotion

The Space Oracle

Air-Borne

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