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This science book shows how the subject really works with amazing photographs showing the ins and outs of chemistry physics and biology Welcome to the Explanatorium where the wonders of science are revealed Watch as mixtures merge and matter changes state Discover how some chemical changes can be reversed yet others can t and why some reactions produce a bang This science book for kids aged 9 12 answers the biggest and smallest questions about our Universe whether it s elements evolution or energy Exploratorium of Science brings science to life with striking photographic explanations helping kids to understand just how the world works This fact filled science compendium for children offers An extensive chemistry physics and biology guide explaining more than 100 scientific principles including matter reactions materials forces energy life and Earth Supports the science curriculum in schools up to Key Stage 3 Detailed close up photography plus incredible macro images cross sections exploded views time lapse x ray and ultra violet photography This impressive visual guide explains every aspect of science from gigantic galaxies to tiny cells and miniscule atoms Kids will love to see bacteria at work in the world around us and e

AN INTRIGUING AND BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF YORICK WILKS INSIDERS GUIDE TO AIThe benefits and potential nightmares of artificial intelligence have long inspired science fiction writers but in a world where most of us carry a portable device that knows infinitely more than we do these are increasingly real concerns Artificial Intelligence is the essential companion to this unsettling science It surveys the history philosophies and current state of AI and asks key questions such as how should robots think and can machines really learn With subjects ranging from the World Wide Web to artificial companions the book considers such ethical issues as automated warfare internet surveillance and fake news speculating on just how far robots will infiltrate our future This illustrated edition combines compelling photographs with circuit board infographics to lift the curtain on the hidden world of AI

With humor easy to understand language and fun illustrations marine scientist Ellen Prager and meteorologist Dave Jones use frequently asked and zany questions about the ocean and atmosphere to combat misinformation and make science engaging and understandable for all

This definitive and bestselling field guide is the perfect companion for nature enthusiasts and birdwatchers Now revised and updated this lavishly illustrated bird book includes crystal clear photography and the latest taxonomic changes From Robins to Jays from Kingfishers to Ravens this is your complete photo guide to all the birds of Britain and Europe A Must Have for Any Birdwatcher The sheer variety in shape colour and size of the birds to be found in Britain and Europe provide birdwatchers with a truly spectacular pastime Whether out for a walk in the local park or in the heart of the countryside there is always something interesting to see This bird guide is an essential reference for the novice and experienced birdwatcher It includes Full page profiles of the 330 most seen species in Britain and Europe Audio app that gives access to the bird songs and calls of key species Stunning photographs that capture the beauty and detail of each bird Key facts relating to each bird which has been expertly verified by the RSPB and top bird author Rob Hume For ornithology enthusiasts or if you just want to identify the visitors coming into your garden this bird guide will tell you everything you need to know about our local birds It has been auth

A revelatory journey from the tin mines of Cornwall to the gold mountains of Georgia in search of the substances which have both shaped our imagination and imperilled our very existence

How science has changed our perceptions of God from the age of Newton to the era of quantum mechanics

Shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing What a wonderful book this is I loved the enchanting and beautifully written story but also the fascinating and thoughtful excursions along the way Nigel Slater A garden contains secrets we all know that buried elements that might put on strange growth or germinate in unexpected places The garden that I chose had walls but like every garden it was interconnected wide open to the world In 2020 Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk an overgrown Eden of unusual plants The work drew her into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with gardens Moving between real and imagined gardens from Milton s Paradise Lost to John Clare s enclosure elegies from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth But the story of the garden doesn t always enact larger patterns of privilege and exclusion It s also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams From the improbable queer utopia conjured by Derek Jarman on the beach at Dungeness to the fertile vision of a common Eden propagated by William Morris New modes of living can and have

Powerful profound and completely engrossing a meditation on not only technology but also history culture ideas ethics psychology and above all what it means to be human Michael Bhaskar co author of The Coming Wave Wise Animals explores the history of our relationship with technology and our deep involvement with our creations from the first use of tools and the taming of fire via the invention of reading and printing to the development of the computer the creation of the internet and the emergence of AI Human children know no more of modern technology than their ancestors did of older technologies thousands of years ago and develop in relation to the technologies of their time We co evolve with technology as individuals as we have as a species over thousands of years Rather than see technology as a threat this deeply humanist contribution to the debate proposes that we are neither masters nor victims of our technologies They are part of who we are and our future and theirs is in our hands

A seagoing scientist explores how life thrives in one of the most mysterious environments on Earth The open ocean far from the shore and miles above the seafloor is a vast and formidable habitat that is home to the most abundant life on our planet from giant squid and jellyfish to anglerfish with bioluminescent lures that draw prey into their toothy mouths Into the Great Wide Ocean takes readers inside the peculiar world of the seagoing scientists who are providing tantalizing new insights into how the animals of the open ocean solve the problems of their existence Sonke Johnsen vividly describes how life in the water column of the open sea contends with a host of environmental challenges such as gravity movement the absence of light pressure that could crush a truck catching food while not becoming food finding a mate raising young and forming communities He interweaves stories about the joys and hardships of the scientists who explore this beautiful and mysterious realm which is under threat from human activity and rapidly changing before our eyes Into the Great Wide Ocean presents the sea and its inhabitants as you have never seen them before and reminds us that the rules of survival in the open ocean though they may seem strange to us are the prim

A thrilling exploration of nature s symbiotic relationships some comforting and familiar others wildly alien by the award winning author of Forget Me Not What can nature teach us about living together Investigating eight symbiotic relationships trying to survive the climate and biodiversity crises Sophie Pavelle explains why it has never been more vital for us to understand symbiosis Symbiotic relationships regulate ecosystems strengthen resilience and bind pivotal connections Species living together in symbiosis is no accident these dynamics evolved Species form and sever alliances everywhere from deep within temperate rainforests to the open ocean quiet tidal pools or chalk grasslands and nature thrives on relationships as glamorous as they are grotesque and as bizarre as they are engrossing In To Have or To Hold Sophie relishes the interconnectedness between species and celebrates the relationships that underpin natural environments Low carbon travelling around the British Isles she presents nature s frauds fortune tellers misfits and cheaters The natural world is built on parasitism a cunning blend of bargaining and exploitation in the name of survival In our relationship with the natural world are we the parasites Will we continue to expl

A special important book of hope action and integrity Mark Diacono food and garden writer After reading Adam s book I won t look at a handful of seed the same way again Joe Swift garden designer writer presenter BBC s Gardeners WorldAcross the world chefs farmers plant scientists and backyard growers are doing something extraordinary creating new generations of fruit vegetables and cereals all bred specifically to flourish locally taste delicious and contribute to our food future In The Accidental Seed Heroes Adam Alexander dons his seed detective homburg to meet these twenty first century seed heroes who are not only championing traditional varieties but also breeding delicious new ones that will help create a sustainable future for our planet We don t all need to become backyard breeders or even like Adam accidental ones We don t even need to eschew as growers the modern hybrid cultivars our seed catalogues are stuffed with or as consumers boycott those same uninspiring specimens that populate our supermarket shelves Adam just wants that choice to be better informed and infinitely more diverse and enjoyable This story is a celebration of the locally and sustainably grown produce whether traditional or innovative that is at the hear

The 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 to capture the birds were in trouble whenever sailors visited their once remote breeding colonies Places like Funk Island off north east Newfoundland became scenes of unimaginable slaughter with birds killed in their millions By 1800 the auks of Funk Island were gone A scramble by private collectors for specimens of the final few birds then began a bloody unthinking destruction of one of the world s most extraordinary species But their extinction in 1844 wasn t the end of the great auk story as the bird went on to have a remarkable afterlife skins eggs and skeletons became the focus for dozens of collectors in a story of pathological craving and unscrupulous dealings that goes on to this day In a book rich with insight and packed with tales of birds and of people Tim Birkhead reveals previously unimagined aspects of the bird s life before humanity its death on the killing shores of the North Atlantic and the unrelenting subsequent quest for its remains The great auk remains a symbol of human folly and the necessity of conservation This book tells its st

Young farmers go hard or go home Strictly speaking we do both one after the other Although the second one is optional and often not accomplished on the same night

Each animal on the planet owes its existence to one very simple but crucial piece of evolutionary engineering the egg It s time to tell a new story of life on Earth

A posthumous work from the beloved conservationist and naturalist Gerald Durrell to celebrate the centenary of his birth with a new foreword by HRH Princess Anne Gerald Durrell was magic SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH A wise genial and world encompassing book SUNDAY TIMES Fills important gaps in the biographical narrative Truly there is magic here GUARDIAN Myself and Other Animals is a new book mosaicked from unpublished autobiographies uncollected pieces and previously published extracts from Durrell s work and archives The result is an extraordinary journey through Durrell s life in his own words edited and introduced by his widow Lee Durrell Drawing on a memoir that Durrell started writing before he became too ill to continue it and an unfinished book from a trip to Australia in 1969 to the Great Barrier Reef Northern Territory and Queensland here is the unvarnished story of Durrell s life from touching family tributes to golden bats and pink pigeons Moving from India to England and then to the always sun lit Corfu told with dry wit and insight into our fellow animals here is the vivid finale of one of Britain s most beloved conservationists and prose stylists Funny and readable and hugely charming i One of the finest and most lyrical nature

The Return of the Grey Partridge tells the extraordinary story of how wildlife is restored to the Arundel Estate in West Sussex Prompted by the collapse in numbers of one species the grey partridge of the title the managers of the estate woke up to the devastating effect modern farming methods were having on wildlife Following the estate through the seasons of one year the book shows how the farm of Peppering is gradually renatured fields are divided up with hedgerows and trees beetle banks are built across fields the land is manured rather than fed with artificial fertilisers and much of it is returned to pasture Detailed descriptions of nature give a sense of this large estate coming back to life still very much farmland but with a rapid increase in wildlife and biodiversity And the partridges return Written in collaboration with the Duke of Norfolk owner of the Arundel Estate this moving and hopeful account shows how modern farming can work in partnership with nature to restore not only birdlife but to benefit the whole ecosystem

Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2024 Couldn t be a bolder more forthright SOS for sport The ObserverThe world of sport has a new opponent climate change In recent years a world championship marathon was held at midnight to avoid the blistering sun Professional athletes needed oxygen tanks to play during wildfire season in California Players collapsed and play was suspended amid the heat and bushfire smoke at the Australian Tennis open Ski resorts in the Alps have turned into ghost towns Golf courses are sinking into the sea And then there s the Qatar World Cup among the greatest follies in sporting history one that saw hundreds perhaps thousands of heat induced deaths before a ball was even kicked The threat climate change poses to sport is clear but with billions of participants and fans around the world who rely on the sector for entertainment jobs fitness and health this is one industry we can t afford to lose In this book Madeleine Orr shows it doesn t have to be this way There are ways to mitigate and perhaps counter even the worst elements of climate change A world leading sport ecologist Madeleine interviews athletes coaches politicians and thought leaders to learn more about the inevitable consequences for thi

What will remain of our plastic cans and other junk long after humans have vanished What kind of fossils will we leave as relics into the far future A blizzard of new objects has suddenly appeared on Earth plastic bottles ballpoint pens concrete flyways outsize chicken bones aluminium cans teabags mobile phones T shirts They re produced for our comfort and pleasure then quickly discarded The number of our constructions has exploded to outweigh the whole living world This new made treasure chest underpins our lives But it is also giving a completely new style of fossilization to our planet as hyper diverse and hyper rapidly evolving technofossils spin out of our industrialized economy Designed to resist sun wind rain corrosion and decay and buried in soils seafloor muds and the gigantic middens of our landfill sites many will remain petrified as future geology What will these technofossils look like in future rock How long will they last and how will they change as they lie underground for decades then millennia then millions of years Discarded describes how they transform as they are attacked by bacteria baked by the Earth s inner heat squashed by overlying rock permeated by subterranean fluids crumpled by mountain building m

Revolutionise your running techniques! learn how to run better and faster, with more energy while avoiding injury. there is a science to running, and now you can learn about it too! whether you are new to running, or have conquered a few marathons in your time, this runners guide will show you how to train efficiently, find a suitable running regime, and master the art of running for life! inside the pages of this running book, youll find: -explanations on the anatomy and physiology of the runner -easy-to-read descriptions of how running involves every system in the body -a scientific breakdown of what happens under the skin at every stage of the running cycle -featuring anatomy of common injuries and exercise programmes for both prevention and recovery -30 key exercises and how to perfect precision to optimise their benefits -bespoke training plans for runners at all levels expert-led insights backed by scientific research will show you how to start running, how to run faster, and how to improve your flexibility and gait for running efficiency and safety. included in the science of running are exercises and training programmes that target each muscle to ensure you become a stronger, better runner. the clear cgi images show annotations to muscle mechanics so you know you are taking the right steps and perfecting technique. learn the science behind your bodys energy systems, proper hydration and nutrition. from long-distance to marathon running, this sports book will completely transform your performance of injury-free running and help you to smash your goals one step at a time, proving the ideal running gift for the fitness fanatic in your life. at dk, we believe in the power of discovery. so why not dive deeper into our successful science of series, where you can discover the research and scientific theories behind exercise and sport. explore the anatomy of yoga to perfect your practice in science of yoga; or redefine your daily routine with science of living. achieve a healthier and happier you this new year!