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From astrophysics to artificial intelligence, and from planets to psychology, here you’ll find our vast selection of popular science books. Expand your mind with bestselling popular science classics such as A Short History of Nearly Everything and A Brief History of Time and explore the latest releases to find the perfect presents for those who love fresh journeys of discovery.

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Our Bestselling Popular Science Books

Ultra-Processed People
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Chris van Tulleken
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The Body Keeps the Score
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Bessel van der Kolk
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What If?2
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Randall Munroe
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The Theory of Everything Else
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Dan Schreiber
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Breath
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James Nestor
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Otherlands
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Night Sky Almanac 2024
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Entangled Life
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Merlin Sheldrake
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Other Minds
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Peter Godfrey-Smith
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The Song of the Cell
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Siddhartha Mukherjee
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A Brief History Of Time
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Stephen Hawking
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The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 1
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Sean Carroll
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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Carlo Rovelli
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Earth
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Chris Packham
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The Universe
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The Universe
Andrew Cohen
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The Matter of Everything
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The Matter of Everything
Suzie Sheehy
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Helgoland
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Carlo Rovelli
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Pathogenesis
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Jonathan Kennedy
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Undoctored
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Adam Kay
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An Immense World
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Ed Yong
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What If?2
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Randall Munroe
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Otherlands
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Thomas Halliday
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Henry Marsh
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The Song of the Cell
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Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 1
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Sean Carroll
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Life Time
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Life Time
Russell Foster
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The Madness
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Fergal Keane
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2024 Guide to the Night Sky
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The Matter of Everything
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Suzie Sheehy
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How to Speak Whale
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How to Speak Whale
Tom Mustill
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Nomad Century
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Nomad Century
Gaia Vince
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Four Ways of Thinking
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Four Ways of Thinking
David Sumpter
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Am I Normal?
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Am I Normal?
Sarah Chaney
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Fire Weather
John Vaillant
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Our Bestselling New Popular Science Hardbacks

The Coming Wave
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Mustafa Suleyman
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Earth
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Chris Packham
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The Balanced Brain
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The Balanced Brain
Camilla Nord
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Mountains of Fire
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Mountains of Fire
Clive Oppenheimer
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Extinctions
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Michael J. Benton
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Big Meg
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Big Meg
Tim Flannery
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The Other Pandemic
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The Other Pandemic
James Ball
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Interstellar
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Avi Loeb
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The Secret Lives of Molecules
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Kathryn Harkup
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Talking Heads
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Shane O'mara
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In a Flight of Starlings
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Giorgio Parisi
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Why Don't Things Fall Up?
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Why Don't Things Fall Up?
Alom Shaha
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It's Not Just You
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It's Not Just You
Tori Tsui
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Concussed
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Concussed
Sam Peters
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Some of Us Just Fall
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Some of Us Just Fall
Polly Atkin
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Wonder Drug
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Wonder Drug
Jennifer Vanderbes
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Many Things Under a Rock
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Many Things Under a Rock
David Scheel
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Fire Weather
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John Vaillant
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Space
Tim Peake
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From the first moon walk to the future of space travel, the astronaut and author of Limitless delivers a fascinating and highly readable history of the remarkable individuals who have taken space exploration to where it is today, as well as shedding light on what's coming next.
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Black Holes
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Professor Brian Cox
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Life on Our Planet
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Life on Our Planet
Dr. Tom Fletcher
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Planet Earth III
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Planet Earth III
Matt Brandon
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Eve
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Eve
Cat Bohannon
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The Life of Birds
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The Life of Birds
Sir David Attenborough
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Einstein in Time and Space
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Einstein in Time and Space
Samuel Graydon
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The Notebook
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Roland Allen
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UNMASKED
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Ellie Middleton
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White Holes
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Carlo Rovelli
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Keira & Me
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Space
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Tim Peake
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This Book May Save Your Life
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This Book May Save Your Life
Dr Karan Rajan
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Going Infinite
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Michael Lewis
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A City on Mars
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Dr. Kelly Weinersmith
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Dispersals
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Jessica J. Lee
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Entangled Life
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Merlin Sheldrake
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Plastics: Just a Load of Rubbish?
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Alicia Chrysostomou
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Great Books You Must Read

A selection of classic paperbacks

A Brief History Of Time
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Stephen Hawking
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli
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In Search Of Schrodinger's Cat
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In Search Of Schrodinger's Cat
John Gribbin
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The Selfish Gene
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The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
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Bad Science
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Bad Science
Ben Goldacre
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The Quantum Universe
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The Quantum Universe
Brian Cox
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Chaos
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Chaos
James Gleick
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DNA
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DNA
James Watson
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Genome
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Matt Ridley
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Why Does E=mc2?
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Brian Cox
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Parallel Worlds
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Michio Kaku
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Pale Rider
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Laura Spinney
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Fermat's Last Theorem
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Fermat's Last Theorem
Simon Singh
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Six Easy Pieces
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Matthew Sands
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The Road to Reality
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Roger Penrose
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The Elegant Universe
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Brian Greene
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Luxury Editions & Gift Books

Night Sky Almanac 2024
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Life on Our Planet
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Life on Our Planet
Dr. Tom Fletcher
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The Book of Wilding
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The Book of Wilding
Isabella Tree
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The Last Tree
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The Last Tree
Luke Adam Hawker
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The Climate Book
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The Climate Book
Greta Thunberg
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Space
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Space
Rebecca Smethurst
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Time
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Time
Colin Stuart
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Evolution
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Evolution
Dr Alice Roberts
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Dinosaurs
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Dinosaurs
Dr Dean Lomax
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Can You Get Rainbows in Space?
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Can You Get Rainbows in Space?
Dr Sheila Kanani
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Weather Almanac 2024
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Weather Almanac 2024
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Many Things Under a Rock
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Many Things Under a Rock
David Scheel
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Underworlds
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Underworlds
Stephen Ellcock
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The Book of Phobias and Manias
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The Book of Phobias and Manias
Kate Summerscale
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The Body - Illustrated
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The Body - Illustrated
Bill Bryson
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Remarkable Plants
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Remarkable Plants
Helen Bynum
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Green Ideas Slipcase
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Green Ideas Slipcase
Greta Thunberg
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You Are What You Watch
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You Are What You Watch
Walter Hickey
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Costing the Earth: The Essential Environment Texts

The Lost Rainforests of Britain
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Guy Shrubsole
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How to Read a Tree
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How to Read a Tree
Tristan Gooley
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Regenesis
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Regenesis
George Monbiot
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Islands of Abandonment
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Islands of Abandonment
Cal Flyn
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The Uninhabitable Earth
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The Uninhabitable Earth
David Wallace-Wells
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Breathe
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Sadiq Khan
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
Bill Gates
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Silent Spring
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Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
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The Last Tree
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The Last Tree
Luke Adam Hawker
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Sixty Harvests Left
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Sixty Harvests Left
Philip Lymbery
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Hothouse Earth
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Hothouse Earth
Bill McGuire
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The Climate Book
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Greta Thunberg
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Our Final Warning
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Mark Lynas
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Rewilding the Sea
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Rewilding the Sea
Charles Clover
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The Sixth Extinction
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The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert
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Net Zero
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Dieter Helm
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The Precipice
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Toby Ord
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The Stars Our Destination

Our bestselling astronomy and space books

Back to Earth
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Nicole Stott
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A Brief History Of Time
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Stephen Hawking
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Limitless: The Autobiography
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Tim Peake
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The Planets
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Professor Brian Cox
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The Order of Time
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Carlo Rovelli
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Cosmos
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Carl Sagan
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The Secret Lives of Planets
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Paul Murdin
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Letters from an Astrophysicist
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
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A Universe From Nothing
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A Universe From Nothing
Lawrence M. Krauss
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The Future of Humanity
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Michio Kaku
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Universal
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Universal
Brian Cox
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Ask an Astronaut
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Ask an Astronaut
Tim Peake
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The Moon
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The Moon
Oliver Morton
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Hidden Figures
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Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly
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Carrying the Fire
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Carrying the Fire
Michael Collins
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Moondust
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Moondust
Andrew Smith
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Chasing the Moon
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Robert Stone
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Secrets of the Universe
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Paul Murdin
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Future Proof

Our bestselling books on AI, robots and the future of technology.

Life 3.0
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Max Tegmark
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Scary Smart
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Mo Gawdat
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Superintelligence
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Nick Bostrom
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Hello World
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Hannah Fry
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Human Compatible
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Stuart Russell
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Artificial Intelligence
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Melanie Mitchell
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The Creativity Code
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Marcus du Sautoy
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The System
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James Ball
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The Rise of the Robots
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Martin Ford
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To Be a Machine
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Mark O'Connell
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The Future of the Professions
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Richard Susskind
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A World Without Work
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A World Without Work
Daniel Susskind
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The People Vs Tech
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The People Vs Tech
Jamie Bartlett
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Don't Be Evil
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Rana Foroohar
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12 Bytes
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Jeanette Winterson
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Towards a Digital Renaissance
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Towards a Digital Renaissance
Jeremy Silver
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The Great Acceleration
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The Great Acceleration
Robert Colvile
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Number Crunching

Our bestselling mathematics books

Humble Pi
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Matt Parker
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The Art of Statistics
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The Art of Statistics
David Spiegelhalter
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The Art of Logic
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The Art of Logic
Eugenia Cheng
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Numbers Don't Lie
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Numbers Don't Lie
Vaclav Smil
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Statistics without Tears
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Statistics without Tears
Dr Derek Rowntree
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How to Make the World Add Up
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How to Make the World Add Up
Tim Harford
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Alex's Adventures in Numberland
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Alex's Adventures in Numberland
Alex Bellos
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Math Without Numbers
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Math Without Numbers
Milo Beckman
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The Maths of Life and Death
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Kit Yates
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Infinite Powers
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Infinite Powers
Steven Strogatz
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The Ten Equations that Rule the World
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The Ten Equations that Rule the World
David Sumpter
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Beyond Infinity
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Beyond Infinity
Eugenia Cheng
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Weapons of Math Destruction
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Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O'Neil
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The Music of the Primes
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The Music of the Primes
Marcus du Sautoy
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A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics
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A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics
Daniel Levitin
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How to Read Numbers
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How to Read Numbers
Tom Chivers
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The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers
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The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers
Bobby Seagull
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Very Short Introductions 

Chaos: A Very Short Introduction
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Chaos: A Very Short Introduction
Leonard Smith
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Robotics: A Very Short Introduction
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Robotics: A Very Short Introduction
Alan Winfield
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Big Data: A Very Short Introduction
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Big Data: A Very Short Introduction
Dawn E. Holmes
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Weather: A Very Short Introduction
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Storm Dunlop
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Insects: A Very Short Introduction
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Insects: A Very Short Introduction
Simon Leather
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Genes: A Very Short Introduction
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Genes: A Very Short Introduction
Jonathan Slack
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Darwin: A Very Short Introduction
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Darwin: A Very Short Introduction
Jonathan Howard
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Newton: A Very Short Introduction
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Rob Iliffe
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An Exclusive Q&A with Ed Yong on An Immense World

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Lewis Dartnell on the Surprising Intersections of Human Biology and History

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Brad Fox on the Inspiration Behind The Bathysphere Book

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Brad Fox, author of The Bathysphere Book, recounts the extraordinary story behind the volume and his own eventful journey writing it.

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