Presents the inside story of the creation of the atomic bomb in terms understandable to the layman, and discusses the crisis of conscience following the demonstration of the bomb's...9999903425083Charles Percy Snow Snow (...
Little, Brown and Company
viernes, 30 de enero de 2026
"In this original and highly entertaining book, Dr. Jonathan Miller considers the functioning of the body as a subject of private experience. He explores our attitudes towards our ...9999903424901Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Cape
viernes, 30 de enero de 2026
What kind of intelligence allows a bird to anticipate the arrival of a distant storm? Or find its way to a place it has never been before, though it may be thousands of miles away?...9999903420552Jennifer Ackerman
Corsair
viernes, 23 de enero de 2026
A HistoryConsiders the roots of the ideas of the modern ecological movement in two distinct strands of the scientific community, the biological and economic, and then traces the intellectua...9999903418689Anna Bramwell
Yale University Press
viernes, 16 de enero de 2026
How does city life change the way we act? What accounts for the increasing prevalence of violence and anxiety in our world? In this new edition of his controversial 1969 bestseller...9999903418542Desmond Morris
Black Swan
viernes, 16 de enero de 2026
'This Is the Book Everyone Should Read about COVID-19' Kate MosseALL ROYALTIES FROM SALES GO TO HEROES, A CHARITY PROTECTING AND SUPPORTING HEALTHCARE WORKERS. The first book to tell the full story of the Covid-19 pandemic, from an NHS doctor wo...9999903413714Dominic Pimenta
Editors Varis
lunes, 29 de diciembre de 2025
Why Things Spread - and why They Stop'It is hard to imagine a more timely book ... much of the modern world will make more sense having read it.' The Times'Brilliant and authoritative' - Alex Bellos, author of Alex's ...9999903413578Adam Kucharski
Profile
lunes, 29 de diciembre de 2025
"Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery" - Richard Dawkins In this book a master scientist tells the great story of how...9999903411611Wilson, Edward O.
Penguin Books Ltd
sábado, 20 de diciembre de 2025
This work is the story of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution, transforming matter and life into consciousness, how science and civilization grew up together and the forces and in...9999903403876Carl Sagan,
Time Warner Books UK
sábado, 29 de noviembre de 2025
This short memoir mixes science with human interest. It charts the author's journey working at the forefront of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF), test tube baby research. It recounts t...9999903401544Steve Green
Editors Varis
jueves, 27 de noviembre de 2025
Animal Minds and the Birth of ConsciousnessThe follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The scuba-diving philosopher explor...9999903399254Peter Godfrey-Smith
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
miércoles, 19 de noviembre de 2025
Searching for Kinship in the CosmosOne of the most potent questions we ask about the cosmos is: are we alone? From astrobiology to exoplanets in the 'Goldilocks Zone', Jaime Green traces our understanding of what an...9999903399223Jaime Green
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
miércoles, 19 de noviembre de 2025
Stories of ExtinctionDynamic naturalist Michael Blencowe has travelled the globe to uncover the fascinating backstories of eleven extinct animals, which he shares with charm and insight in Gone.'Really...9999903399179Michael Blencowe
Frances Lincoln Publishers
miércoles, 19 de noviembre de 2025
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