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Science & Geography
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The Genius of Trees : How trees mastered the elements and shaped the world (Paperback)Special Price €12.99 Regular Price €15.99
The extraordinary story of the inventive and astonishing ways trees have shaped our natural world. Over hundreds of millions of years, from the prehistoric forests to those standing tall over us today, trees have evolved to sculpt the environments.
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The Age of Diagnosis : Are Medical Labels Doing Us More Harm Than Good?€13.99From autism to allergies, ADHD to long Covid, more people are being labelled with medical conditions than ever before. But can a diagnosis do us more harm than good?
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A Brief History of the Universe (and our place in it)€23.99We have always looked up at the sky and wondered. The desire to explore and understand what lies beyond us is at the heart of scientific discovery. Ever since the ancient Babylonians tracked celestial objects on clay tablets, the search for meaning in an infinitely vast universe has been a profoundly human pursuit.
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Your Life Is Manufactured : How the World is Made and How We Can Do it Better€13.99From mega-factory floors, engineering laboratories and seaports to distribution hubs, supermarkets and our own homes, embark on an eye-opening guided tour through the world of manufacturing and its transformational influence on our lives - and the planet.
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This Way Up : When Maps Go Wrong (and Why it Matters)€20.99The debut book from the YouTube sensation and all-round cartographical nerds, The Map Men! Hello, we're the Map Men, and in the following pages we've selected what we believe to be some of the very best wrong maps.
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The Genius of Trees : How trees mastered the elements and shaped the world€29.99The extraordinary story of the inventive and astonishing ways trees have shaped our natural world. Over hundreds of millions of years, from the prehistoric forests to those standing tall over us today, trees have evolved to sculpt the environments.
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No Straight Road Takes You There : Essays for Uneven Terrain€21.99This book's title, No Straight Road Takes You There, is an evocation and a declaration.
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Tim Marshall : Prisoners of Geography (Fully updated Edition)€12.99The iconic bestseller Prisoners of Geography, now fully updated with brand new content to reflect the changing global geopolitical landscape since it was first published in 2015.
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Why We Die : The New Science of Longevity€15.99How can science help us live better and longer? A groundbreaking exploration of longevity from Nobel Prize-winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan
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Impossible Monsters : How the Discovery of Dinosaurs Changed the World€16.99In 1811, a twelve-year-old girl uncovered some strange-looking bones in Britain’s southern shoreline - and so sparked a crisis that would engulf science and religion for the next six decades.
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The City of Today is a Dying Thing : In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow€12.99Cities are bad for us: polluted, noisy and fundamentally unnatural. We need green space, not concrete. Trees, not tower blocks.
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Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole : Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain€14.99Updated and revised edition, with a new epilogue and interview with Michael J Fox. What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack?
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Collins Stargazer’s Bible : Your Illustrated Companion to the Night Sky€39.00Combining practical stargazing information and advice, the insights of internationally renowned astronomers and the history, technological advances and art revering the night sky, Collins Stargazer's Bible is a stunning celebration of the remarkable sky above.
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Dust : The Modern World in a Trillion Particles€16.99Dust may seem inconsequential, so tiny and mundane as to slip below the threshold of thought. Yet within the next one hundred years, life on Earth will be profoundly changed by heat and drought - and that means dust.
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Not the End of the World : Surprising facts, dangerous myths and hopeful solutions for our future on planet Earth€14.50We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that we should reconsider having children.
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Friction : An Ethnography of Global Connection€27.50What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around us. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick.
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Material World : A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future€14.50Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium. They built our world, and they will transform our future.
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Upgrade Your Brain : Unlock Your Life’s Full Potential€20.99Discover the 8 steps you can take to optimise your brain for better mood, memory, sleep and stress resilience. The results are in: our mental health, memory and intelligence are deteriorating.
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The Weight of Nature : How a Changing Climate Changes Our Minds, Brains and Bodies€29.99A riveting, revelatory account of how the climate emergency is changing us from the inside outIt is now inarguable that climate change threatens the future of life on Earth.
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Co-Intelligence : Living and Working with AI€21.99The urgent and definitive guide to working, learning, and living in the new age of artificial intelligence from the acclaimed Wharton Professor of Management and author of the One Useful Thing Substack.
