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By: Cook, Michael
Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves
$28.00HardcoverRead moreHow generative systems are reshaping the way games are made, how we experience them, and what this reveals about creativity itself.
In video games creativity isn’t just seen – it’s played – from explo- Author: Cook, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1399423398
- Language: English
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By: Hone, David
Spinosaur Tales: The Biology and Ecology of the Spinosaurs
$28.00HardcoverAdd to cartThe spinosaurs – the dinosaur group that includes the largest land predator of all time, the awe-inspiring Spinosaurus – star in this cutting-edge review.
The giant sail-backed carnivorous dinosaur Sp- Author: Hone, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1399412469
- Language: English
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By: Chapman, Emma
First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time, Revised Edition
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cart‘Illuminating and entertaining’
Astronomers have successfully observed a great deal of the Universe’s history, from recording the afterglow of the Big Bang to visualising the shad
The Washington Post- Author: Chapman, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1399427431
- Language: English
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By: Fisher, Susannah
Sink or Swim: How the World Needs to Adapt to a Changing Climate
$28.00HardcoverAdd to cartThe world needs to adapt to climate change – but how? What are the key problems and hard choices that lie ahead for the global community? This book reveals all.
Heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes and f- Author: Fisher, Susannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1399414054
- Language: English
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By: Vernon, Alice
Ghosted: A History of Ghost Hunting, and Why We Keep Looking
$28.00HardcoverAdd to cartA social, historical and scientific exploration of ghost-hunting, and why our fascination with the paranormal is as timeless as the ghosts we hope to find.
The history of ghosts is ancient, but the hi- Author: Vernon, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 139941870X
- Language: English
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By: Visscher, Marco
The Power of Nuclear
$28.00HardcoverAdd to cartFrom the pilot’s seat in the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to Chernobyl’s exclusion zone and to the site in Finland where highly radioactive waste will be buried, this is the incredi
- Author: Visscher, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1399419072
- Language: English
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By: Harkup, Kathryn
V Is for Venom: Agatha Christie’s Chemicals of Death
$28.00HardcoverAdd to cartFourteen stories. Fourteen more poisons. Just because it’s fiction doesn’t mean it’s all made-up …
Agatha Christie is renowned for her captivating plots and creative ways of killing off ill-fated vi- Author: Harkup, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1399413074
- Language: English
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By: Birkhead, Tim
The Great Auk: Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife
$28.00HardcoverAdd to cartThe life, death and afterlife of one of the true icons of extinction, the Great Auk
The great auk was a flightless, goose-sized bird superbly adapted for life at sea. Fat, flush with feathers and easy- Author: Birkhead, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1399415743
- Language: English
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By: Lynas, Mark
Six Minutes to Winter: Nuclear War and How to Avoid It
$28.00HardcoverAdd to cart‘Terrifying and timely, this is a book everyone should read and heed’ – George Monbiot
‘Urgent, gripping and sobering, Six Minutes to Winter is a hair-raising wake-up call’ – David Wallace-Wells
‘Powerf- Author: Lynas, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1399410512
- Language: English
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By: Orr, Madeleine
Warming Up: How Climate Change Is Changing Sport – A Guardian Sports Book of the Year 2024
$28.00HardcoverRead moreLonglisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2024
“Couldn’t be a bolder, more forthright SOS for sport” The Observer The world of sport has a new opponent: climate change. In recent years,- Author: Orr, Madeleine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1399404520
- Language: English
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By: Scott, Jonathan
Into the Groove: The Story of Sound from Tin Foil to Vinyl
$18.00PaperbackRead more‘By mixing lo-fi charm into hi-fi science Into the Groove captures all the wonder and absurdity of its subject, jumping and skipping with real analogue delight.’ – Sunday Times
The story of recorded so- Author: Scott, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1472979834
- Language: English
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By: Chapman, Emma
First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time
$18.00PaperbackRead moreFirst Light opens a window into a previously dark and secret time in our Universe’s history – the time when the first starts were born.
Astronomers have successfully observed a great deal of the Unive- Author: Chapman, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 147296294X
- Language: English
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By: Panciroli, Elsa
Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
$20.00PaperbackRead moreFor most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, but over the last 20 years scientists have uncovered remarkable fossils and new technologies t
- Author: Panciroli, Elsa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 147298398X
- Language: English
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By: Scales, Helen
Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartA biological and cultural biography of the ubiquitous yet mystical seashell.
Seashells, stretching from the deep past into the present day, are touchstones leading into fascinating realms of the natur- Author: Scales, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1472911385
- Language: English
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By: Winkless, Laurie
Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces
$19.99PaperbackRead moreYou are surrounded by stickiness. With every step you take, air molecules cling to you and slow you down; the effect is harder to ignore in water. When you hit the road, whether powered by pedal or en
- Author: Winkless, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1472950852
- Language: English
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By: Harkup, Kathryn
Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts
$19.99PaperbackRead moreWilliam Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions – shock, sadness, fear – that they did more than 400 years ago when th
- Author: Harkup, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1472958209
- Language: English
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By: Smith, Ginny
Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life Is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals
$18.00PaperbackRead moreA NEW SCIENTIST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Our lives are ruled by one particular group of chemicals. These are the hormones and neurotransmitters that regulate and drive our brains. Overloaded looks at the role- Author: Smith, Ginny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1472969375
- Language: English
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By: Hart, Adam
The Deadly Balance: Predators and People in a Crowded World
$28.00HardcoverRead moreThe predators that can hunt, kill and eat us occupy a unique place in the human psyche – and for good reason.
Whether it’s lions in Africa, tigers in India or sharks in the world’s oceans, we are fasc- Author: Hart, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1472985362
- Language: English
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By: Wimpenny, Jo
Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables
$20.99PaperbackAdd to cartDespite originating more than two-and-a-half thousand years ago, Aesop’s Fables are still passed on from parent to child, and are embedded in our collective consciousness. The morals we have learned f
- Author: Wimpenny, Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1472966929
- Language: English
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By: Kobie, Nicole
The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow’s Technology Still Isn’t Here
$28.00HardcoverRead moreWe love to imagine the future. But why are groundbreaking future technologies always just around the corner, and never a reality?
For decades we’ve delighted in dreaming about a sci-fi utopia, from fl- Author: Kobie, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1399403109
- Language: English










