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The Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us by Adam Rutherford
RRP: £9.99£3.32*FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYONE WHO EVER LIVED and HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST* WHAT MAKES US HUMAN?Waging war?Sex for pleasure?Creating art?Mastery of fire?In this thrilling tour of the animal kingdom, Adam Rutherford tells... -
Rewild Your Garden: Create a Haven for Birds, Bees and Butterflies by Frances Tophill
RRP: £16.99£11.54**A SUNDAY TIMES GARDENING BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**'A must-read for every gardener who wants to up their game for wildlife and do their bit for the planet.' -- Isabella Tree'A refreshing, uplifting and positive look at the true value of a garden.' -- Alan... -
The Insect Crisis: Our Fragile Dependence on the Planet's Smallest Creatures by Oliver Milman
RRP: £10.99£7.32***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***A New Scientist Book of the YearShortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing 'Fascinating... There is something wondrous in Milman's revelation of our fragile dependency on insect life as well... -
Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web by Jeff Lowenfels
RRP: £20.00£15.14"A breakthrough book. No comprehensive horticultural library should be without it." -American Gardener When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains plants, and then become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of toxic... -
Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey Into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon by Paul Rosolie 9780062259523
RRP: £19.99£15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062259523Author Paul RosolieFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making by Chris Packham 9780008507206
RRP: £25.00£17.73'Combines the natural history of programmes such as David Attenborough's Planet Earth with the planetary focus of Brian Cox's Universe' Guardian A beautiful, full colour book to accompany the 5 part BBC TV series... -
Land Healer: How Farming Can Save Britain's Countryside Jake Fiennes 9781785947315
RRP: £12.99£8.32'Jake Fiennes is changing the face of farming in Britain... a revolutionising force' Isabella TreeOur relationship with our land is broken: we must heal it.Jake Fiennes is on a mission to change the face of the English countryside. As Conservation... -
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
RRP: £10.99£7.12On the Origin of Species outlines Charles Darwin's world-changing theory that life on Earth had not been brought into being by a creator, but had arisen from a single common ancestor and had evolved over time through the process of natural selection... -
Nature’s Ghosts: The world we lost and how to bring it back by Sophie Yeo 9780008474126
RRP: £22.00£14.31What history can teach us about how to avoid ecological catastrophe ‘Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues facing nature conservationists today.’ Chris Packham For thousands of years, humans have been the architects of the... -
Shieldbugs (Collins New Naturalist Library) by Richard Jones 9780008334918
RRP: £35.00£22.20An eagerly anticipated addition to the New Naturalist series. The shieldbug is an amazing and beautiful species, rich with diversity in shape, form, size, life history, ecology, physiology and behaviour. But they are not commonly known,... -
Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence by Marc Bekoff 9781577319542
RRP: £15.99£9.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781577319542Author Marc BekoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
Cornerstones: Wild Forces That Can Change Our World by Benedict Macdonald 9781472971593
RRP: £10.99£8.38FINALIST IN THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2022/2023 - WRITTEN BY THE WAINWRIGHT-CONSERVATION-PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF REBIRDING. Transform your understanding of the natural world forever and discover the wild forces that once supported... -
Reconnection: Fixing our Broken Relationship with Nature by Miles Richardson
RRP: £20.00£15.24How did our relationship with nature become broken, why does it matter and how can we fix it? From a past in which we were embedded in the natural world, revolutions in farming, science and industry have seen the human bond with nature eroded with the... -
Dancing with Bees: A Journey Back to Nature Brigit Strawbridge Howard 9781645020257
RRP: £10.99£7.40SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE A naturalist's passionate dive into the lives of bees (of all stripes)-and the natural world in her own backyard Brigit Strawbridge Howard was shocked the day she realised she knew more about the French... -
A New Era for Wolves and People: Wolf Recovery, Human Attitudes, and Policy by Marco Musiani 9781552382707
£32.25Wolves hold an almost mythical status in the cultural history of Europe and North America. For hundreds of years, they have been the subject of fairy tales and other lore, embodying mystery, cunning, and sometimes threat. People are drawn to their... -
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction Michelle Nijhuis 9781324001683
RRP: £21.99£18.55In the late nineteenth century, humans came at long last to a devastating realization: their rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving scores of animal species to extinction. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle... -
The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity by Alexandre Antonelli
RRP: £16.99£12.28We don't know what we've got until it's gone...This brief, lucid book by the Director of Science at Royal Botanical Gardens takes you on an unforgettable tour of the natural world, showing how biodiversity - the rich variety of life in the world and in... -
The Life Cycle: 8,000 Miles in the Andes by Bamboo Bike by Kate Rawles
RRP: £18.99£13.23'A gripping read for anyone who cares about what we're doing to the planet and how we can change it' DAVID SHUKMAN, FORMER BBC NEWS SCIENCE EDITOR'Searing observations focused on our need to protect biodiversity - A tour de force' SIR TIM SMIT OBE,... -
Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old by Andrew Steele
RRP: £10.99£7.51'A stunner ... If you haven't got this book in your house, I don't know why' Chris Evans 'A startling wake-up call . . . Writing with the vim of a Bill Bryson and the technical knowledge of a scientist, Steele gives us a chance to grasp what's at... -
Where Do Camels Belong?: The story and science of invasive species by Ken Thompson
RRP: £10.99£7.77Where do camels belong? In the Arab world may seem the obvious answer, but they are relative newcomers there. They evolved in North America, retain their greatest diversity in South America, and the only remaining wild dromedaries are in Australia. ... -
Land Healer by Jake Fiennes
RRP: £20.00£14.29'Jake Fiennes is changing the face of farming in Britain... a revolutionising force' Isabella TreeOur relationship with our land is broken: we must heal it.Jake Fiennes is on a mission to change the face of the English countryside. As Conservation... -
Do We Need Pandas?: The Uncomfortable Truth About Biodiversity by Ken Thompson
RRP: £12.99£9.79How much do we really know about the species that make up the natural world? In this fascinating book Ken Thompson explains what we do and don't understand about biodiversity. We know that most species remain undiscovered, and that biodiversity is... -
Principles of Neurobiology Liqun Luo (Professor of Biology and Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Biology, at Stanford University) 9780815346050
RRP: £68.99£61.92Principles of Neurobiology, Second Edition presents the major concepts of neuroscience with an emphasis on how we know what we know. The text is organized around a series of key experiments to illustrate how scientific progress is made and helps... -
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: How the Natural World is Adapting to Climate Change by Thor Hanson 9781785788475
RRP: £20.00£13.46'An original, wide-ranging and carefully researched book ... contains important lessons for humanity.' Mark Cocker, The SpectatorA fascinating insight into climate change biology around the globe, as well as in our own backyards.Hurricane Lizards and... -
The Bee-friendly Beekeeper: A Sustainable Approach by David Heaf
RRP: £24.99£20.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904846604Author David HeafFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Northern Bee BooksPublisher Northern Bee Books -
The Power of When: Learn the Best Time to do Everything by Dr. Michael Breus
RRP: £16.99£12.28The latest research shows that there is a right time for all of us to do everything, from drinking a cocktail to getting a flu shot. The catch? That 'right time' varies from person to person. Fortunately, as Dr Michael Breus proves in The Power of When,... -
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould 9780393314250
RRP: £14.99£13.03When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. And yet the idea of innate limits-of biology as... -
Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling and the Metamorphosis of Science by Andreas Weber
RRP: £21.99£17.06The disconnection between humans and nature is perhaps one of the most fundamental problems faced by our species today. The schism between us and the natural world is arguably the root cause of most of the environmental catastrophes unraveling around us... -
Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and STAN by Richard McElreath
RRP: £76.99£68.05Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan builds your knowledge of and confidence in making inferences from data. Reflecting the need for scripting in today's model-based statistics, the book pushes you to perform step-by-step... -
The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: £12.99£9.09"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 life on earth evolved. E.O. Wilson eloquently describes how the species... -
How Biology Works: The Facts Visually Explained by DK
RRP: £18.99£14.01Discover everything you need to know about biology, with the simplest most visual guide to the science of life.How do vaccines work? What is special about stem cells? How did we evolve from bacteria? The science of life can be dauntingly complex, and it... -
Biodiversity Conservation: A Very Short Introduction David W. Macdonald (Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Oxford University and Senior Research Fellow in Wildlife Conservation at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford) 9780199592272
RRP: £8.99£6.45Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Extinction is a natural process. In geological time there have been several periods of mass extinction. One of these periods is unfolding right now but all the evidence suggests that current... -
NG Photo Ark by Joel Sartore
£24.94The lush and unique photography in this book represents National Geographic's Photo Ark, a major initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the world's animals-especially those that are endangered. His powerful... -
Invasive Species: A Very Short Introduction by Julie Lockwood
RRP: £8.99£6.45Today there is no place on Earth that does not harbour invasive exotic species. Invasive plants and animals can be found on every continent, including Antarctica, and within all waterbodies, including all oceans. In our increasingly connected world, with... -
Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and its Birds by Benedict Macdonald
RRP: £19.99£16.82Rebirding takes the long view of Britain's wildlife decline, from the early taming of our landscape and its long-lost elephants and rhinos, to fenland drainage, the removal of cornerstone species such as wild cattle, horses, beavers and boar - and... -
How Evolution Explains Everything about Life by New Scientist
RRP: £10.99£3.51How did we get here? All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of evolution on the first simple life form and its... -
Life Unfolding: How the human body creates itself by Jamie A. Davies
RRP: £12.99£9.09Where did I come from? Why do I have two arms but just one head? How is my left leg the same size as my right one? Why are the fingerprints of identical twins not identical? How did my brain learn to learn? Why must I die? Questions like these remain... -
Wilder: How Rewilding is Transforming Conservation and Changing the World by Millie Kerr 9781472990426
RRP: £12.99£9.79FINALIST IN THE 2024 AAAS/SUBARU PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE WRITING - YOUNG ADULT SCIENCE A global rewilding journey, exploring innovative and eye-opening projects led by passionate conservationists. Rewilding is a radical new approach to... -
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run the World by Oliver Milman
RRP: £16.99£11.27***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***A New Scientist Book of the YearShortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing 'Fascinating... There is something wondrous in Milman's revelation of our fragile dependency on insect life as well... -
Origin Africa: Safaris in Deep Time by Jonathan Kingdon
RRP: £30.00£20.53A major new look at how Africa's geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found there. It is also the story of how it was the crucible for the evolution most extraordinary species on...