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A tantalising journey into the weird and wonderful world of fermentation, from its role in our evolution to the foods we love and everything in ...
In How Life Works, Philip Ball explores the new biology, revealing life to be a far richer, more ingenious affair than we had guessed. Ball ...
The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life.
In the 18th century, two men dedicated their ...
A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveller, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selection
Alfred Russel Wallace (18231913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist ...
Metamorphosis has always been one of biology's greatest wonders and toughest riddles. To emerge a butterfly, a caterpillar dissolves inside its chrysalis and builds ...
'Fun, rooted in science... May this book give all women strength for the times we now live in.' Cat Bohannon
A myth-busting vindication of women ...
Humankind's fascination with the animal kingdom began as a matter of survival - differentiating the edible from the toxic, the ferocious from the tractable. Since ...
What with consciousness and perception, memory and dementia, altered mental states and Artificial Intelligence, the modern landscape of brain science is an extraordinary place to ...
"An extraordinary history of the perils and promise of every breath we take" James Nestor, New York Times bestselling author of Breath
"Another brilliant work ...
A leading scientist's guide to the way our immune system protects us-but only most of the time
What is our immune system, and how ...
A new biography of Carl Linnaeus, offering a vivid portrait of Linnaeus's life and work.
Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), known as the father of modern ...
DK's best-selling guide to the history of ecology - fully revised and updated
Get to grips with the key concepts that have shaped the way ...
An awe-inspiring journey into the world of proteins-how they shape life, and their remarkable potential to heal our bodies and our planet.
Each fall, a ...
The environmental crisis will not be solved by battery technology alone. Thinking Small and Large reveals the ingenuity of microbes at key stages in life ...