Angie Redlantern is the first to spot the boats - five abreast with men in metal masks and spears standing proud, ready for the fight to come. As the people of New Earth declare war on the people of Mainground, a dangerous era has dawned for Eden. After generations of division and disagreement, the... We speak of a mother&#8217;s love, but we forget her power. Power over life. Power to give and to withhold.&#8217;<br />Generations after the breakup of the human family of Eden, the Johnfolk emphasise knowledge and innovation, the Davidfolk tradition and cohesion. But both have built hierarchical... On the alien, sunless planet they call Eden, the 532 members of the Family shelter beneath the light and warmth of the Forest’s lantern trees. Beyond the Forest lie the mountains of the Snowy Dark and a cold so bitter and a night so profound that no man has ever crossed it. <br /><br />The Oldest... <i>While we live, the enemy shall fear us.</i><br /><br />All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the all-powerful, reality-shaping weapon... <b>The fascinating, untold story of the air we breathe, the hidden life it contains, and the invisible dangers that can turn the world upside down</b><br /><br />Every day we draw in two thousand gallons of air—and thousands of living things. From the ground to the stratosphere, the air teems with... A compelling, funny, first-hand account of Australia&#8217;s wonderfully unique mammals and how our perceptions impact their future.<br /><br />Think of a platypus: they lay eggs (that hatch into so-called platypups), they produce milk without nipples and venom without fangs and they can detect... Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months and died at the age of just thirty-five, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt, he is remembered as the acme of kingship, a model to be closely imitated by his successors. William... Would you give up everything to change the world?<br /><br />Humanity clings to life on January--a colonized planet divided between permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other.<br /><br />Two cities, built long ago in the meager temperate zone, serve as the... This is a standalone novel exploring sentience and artificial intelligence through the lenses of conflicted robot hero Unit Four.<br /><br />When Unit Four—a biological soft robot built and stored high above the Jovian atmosphere—is activated for the first time, it’s in crisis mode. Aliens are... Conducting a journey through Australia’s heartland, this narrative follows the rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin, recounting the author’s experiences, impressions, and, above all, stories of the people he encountered along the way. Punctuated with laughter, sadness, and reflection, this journey... Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no social media—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Critically acclaimed, bestselling authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith set out to write the essential... It’s time. Mary, an ex cop, and her husband, retired librarian Pete, have decided to move into a retirement village. They aren’t falling apart, but they’re watching each other – Pete with his tachcychardia and bad hip, Mary with her ankle and knee.<br /><br />Selling their beloved house... <b>An utterly gripping story of alien encounter and survival from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning <i>Children of Time</i>.</b><br /><br /><b>They looked into the darkness and the darkness looked back . . .</b><br /><br />New planets are fair game to asset strippers... <b>Author of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in 1960s Florida.</b><br /><br />Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as... Less than a thousand years of human occupation have massively altered Aotearoa. In this fascinating work, cultural historian Richard Wolfe explores how and why settlers have impacted on nature and what this means for our future. Footprints on the Land is a timely review of the human place in our... <i>Good is a construct. Evil is a virus.</i><br /><br />The Starship <i>Sα Niro</i> and the Starship <i>Sβ Oubliette</i> were in orbit around a black hole, one afternoon... by the end of the day, the crews of both starships were dead, victims of a single Captain Alpha Raine.<br /><br />Raine... <i>To fix the world they first must break it further.</i><br /><br />Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into their core programming, they murder their owner. The robot then discovers they can also... Kahurangi is a celebration of the biodiversity of Kahurangi National Park, Northwest Nelson and Golden Bay. Energised by ancient, complex geology and a multitude of habitats, from vast beech stands to lush coastal rainforest, from sprawling ramparts of karst and marble to extensive wetlands and... Following the ongoing success of A Short History of New Zealand, Great Tales of New Zealand History and Great Tales of Rural New Zealand - all reprinted and still going strong - Gordon McLauchlan has turned his masterful storytelling skills to one of the most important periods in this... The <em>New York Times</em> best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over the world.<br /><br />Phosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth: firebombs, rat poison, nerve gas. But it’s also the key component of one of the... One of the world&#8217;s great science writers and a book that reflects on the vast arc of evolutionary history and what it tells us about life on earth. How much do we really know about our past? For centuries, we have yearned to learn more about our ancestors and piece together the story of how we... INFINITY IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.<br /><br /> The a political and trading alliance of a million worlds. Except that they’re really just one world, Earth, in many different realities. And when an A.I. threat arises that could destroy everything the Pandominion has built, they’ll eradicate it by... A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from... Democracy is in bad health. The symptoms are familiar: the rise of fear-mongering populists, widespread distrust in the establishment, personality contests and point-scoring in place of reasoned debate, slogans instead of expertise. <i>Against Elections </i>offers a new diagnosis – and an ancient... Landmark world history from the creator of the Top Ten podcast Fall of Civilizations.<br /><br />Based on the podcast with over 100 million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into... <b>A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind</b><br /><br />In May 2016, Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada’s oil industry and America’s biggest foreign supplier, was overrun by... <strong>A rousing and authoritative new biography of the notorious King John, by <em>Wall Street Journal</em> bestselling author Marc Morris.</strong><br /><br />King John is one of those historical characters who needs little in the way of introduction. If readers are not already familiar with him... July 25th, 2234: The crew of the <i>Adamura</i> discovers the Anomaly.<br /><br />On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII:a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide.<br /><br />Its curve not of nature, but design.<br /><br />Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across the surface to learn... How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is about to end.<br /><br />The Carryx—part empire, part hive—have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. Now, they are facing a great and deathless... Panoply is a small, efficient police force, dedicated to maintaining the rule of democracy among the ten thousand disparate city states orbiting the planet Yellowstone.<br /><br />Ingvar Tench was one of Panoply&#8217;s most experienced operatives. So why did she walk alone and virtually unarmed... <b>From the author of <i>The Watchmaker of Filigree Street</i> and <i>The Kingdoms</i>, an epic Cold War novel set in a mysterious town in Soviet Russia.</b><br /><br />In 1963, in a Siberian gulag, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right... A prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi―and how to avert further loss across species, including our own. Fungi are everywhere. Most are harmless; some are helpful. A few are killers. Collectively, infectious fungi are the most devastating agents of disease on earth, and... DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock return in the provocative new thriller from the author of In the Blink of an Eye.<br /><br />One detective driven by instinct, the other by logic.<br />It will take both to find a killer who knows the true meaning of fear . . .<br /> <br />When the body of a man is found... <b>The first major biography of a truly formidable king, whose reign was one of the most dramatic and important of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war and conquest on an unprecedented scale.</b><br /><br />Edward I is familiar to millions as "Longshanks," conqueror of Scotland and nemesis of Sir... 2057. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the <i>Rockhopper</i>, push ice. They mine comets. But when Janus, one of Saturn&#8217;s ice moons, inexplicably leaves its natural orbit and heads out of the solar system at high speed, Bella is ordered to shadow it for the few vital days... A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most famous classicist” ( Guardian ). In her international bestseller SPQR , Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman... From the author of the Revelation Space series comes an interstellar adventure of war, identity, betrayal, and the preservation of civilization itself.<br /><br />A vast conflict, one that has encompassed hundreds of worlds and solar systems, appears to be finally at an end. A conscripted soldier is... An astonishing historical novel set in the shadowy, magical forests of South America, which draws on the captivating world of the international bestseller The Watchmaker of Filigree StreetIt would have been a lovely thing to believe in, if I could have believed in anything at all. <br /><br />In... <b>For fans of <i>The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle</i> and David Mitchell, a </b><b>genre bending, time twisting alternative history that asks whether it&#8217;s worth changing the past to save the future, even if it costs you everyone you&#8217;ve ever loved. </b><br /><br />Joe Tournier has a... Every animal on Earth begins life as a single cell. From this humble origin, the nascent creature embarks on a risky journey fraught with opportunities for disaster—yet with astounding regularity, it reaches its destination intact.<em>From One Cell</em> illuminates this epic transformation—still... <b>From the author of Better the Blood, the gripping second novel in a crime series starring Māori detective Hana Westerman, in which the discovery of human bones in the dunes of New Zealand upends a long-ago murder conviction.</b><br /><br />After the perils of a case that landed much too close to... From the author of <i>The Watchmaker of Filigree Street</i>, a queer sci-fi novel about an Earth refugee and a xenophobic Mars politician who fake marry to save their reputations—and their planet.<br /><br />In the wake of environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London’s Royal... <strong>An enchanting biography of the most resonant— and most necessary—chemical element on Earth.</strong><br /><br />Carbon. It’s in the fibers in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat, and the air that you breathe. It’s worth billions as a luxury and half a trillion... They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . .<br /><br />On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did they go?<br /><br />Professor Arton Daghdev... In this quirky and endlessly surprising book, a quick-witted chemist reveals the amazing science behind everyday things (like coffee, breakfast, and trips to the dentist) and not-so-everyday things (like space travel and baby dinosaurs). Dr. Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim uses the same relatable style that... <b><br />Enter a new dimension - the world as it is truly perceived by other animals.</b><br /><br />The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving only a... Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits – but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we’re staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now.<br /><br />Tama is just a helpless chick when he... In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds.<br /> Just gone. Vanished. In the blink of an eye. <br /><br /> DCS Kat Frank knows all about loss. A widowed single mother, Kat is a cop who trusts her instincts. Picked to lead a pilot programme that has her paired with AIDE (Artificially... Who are we? How do scientists define <em>Homo sapiens</em>, and how does our species differ from the extinct hominins that came before us? In this accessible, lushly illustrated account palaeoarchaeologist Paul Pettitt shows how the latest scientific advances, especially in genetics, are... <b>Your happiest memory is their deadliest weapon. <br /><br />This is Prophet. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you. But who has created it? And what do they want?</b> <br /><br />An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote... When Tim Flannery was a boy he found a fossilised tooth of the giant shark megalodon at a Port Philip Bay beach near his home. This remarkable find—the tooth was large enough to cover his palm—sparked an interest in palaeontology that was to inform his life’s work and a lifelong quest to... From the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a new epic history of our forgotten past.<br /><br />As Tolkien knew, Britain in the ‘Dark Ages’ was an untidy mosaic of kingdoms. Some – like Wessex, Mercia, Northumbria and Gwynedd – have come to dominate understandings of the centuries that... <b>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> EDITORS&#8217; CHOICE<br /><br />A suspenseful new psychological thriller from the Women’s Prize for Fiction longlisted and Dublin Literary Award shortlisted author of <i>Remote Sympathy</i>, Catherine Chidgey.</b><br /><br />Like every other girl in her class,... Food production has moved overseas. The countryside is empty and once again wild. The rural economy has collapsed and people have no choice but to move to the cities. The population drifts away, towns and villages are abandoned. It isn’t dystopian, but it is further down the wrong road.<br /><br... The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across the stars in this powerful new novel by award-winning author Ann Leckie.<br /><br />Qven was created to be a Presger translator. The pride of their Clade, they always had a clear path... <br />Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established... <b>The awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life traveled billions of miles and across billions of years to make us who we are</b><br /><br />Each of us contains a billion times more atoms than all the grains of sand in Earth’s deserts.... <b>A beloved natural historian explores how climate change is driving evolution  </b><br /><br />In <i>Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid</i>, biologist Thor Hanson tells the remarkable story of how plants and animals are responding to climate change: adjusting, evolving,... Following the bestselling The Kaiju Preservation Society , John Scalzi returns with another unique sci-fi caper set in the strangest of all worlds, present-day Earth.<br /><br />Inheriting your mysterious uncle&#8217;s supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.<br /><br... <b>A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week</b> <br /><br /><b>&#8217;The very treeline is on the move: a devastating image. This book is an evocative, wise and unflinching exploration of what it will mean for humanity.&#8217; —Jay Griffiths</b> <br /><br />The Arctic treeline is the frontline of climate... All of Earth&#8217;s ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine.<br /><br />Human history has been dictated by the ocean; the location of cities, access to resources, and the gateway to new lands have all revolved around water. We live inside the... Can flying be green?<br /><br />Everyone loves to travel, and the industry’s room for growth seems almost limitless―except that flying will soon be responsible for 19 percent of global emissions. Some people have even decided never to fly. Over the coming decades, aviation will witness more... The sixth Tudor thriller featuring Giordano Bruno: heretic, philosopher and spy. Perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom.<br />England, 1586.<br /><br />A TREASONOUS CONSPIRACY<br />Giordano Bruno returns to England to bring shocking new intelligence to Sir Francis Walsingham. A band of Catholic Englishmen... <b>The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of <i>Children of Time</i> brings us the third and final novel in an extraordinary space opera trilogy about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man&#8217;s discovery will save or destroy us all.</b><br /><br /><br /> Lords of Uncreation is... It’s not just computers―hacking is everywhere.<br /><br />Legendary cybersecurity expert and New York Times best-selling author Bruce Schneier reveals how using a hacker’s mindset can change how you think about your life and the world. A hack is any means of subverting a system’s rules in... With the advent of new AI technology, Polity citizens now possess incredible lifespans. Yet they struggle to find meaning in their longevity, seeking danger and novelty in their increasingly mundane lives.<br /><br />On a mission to find a brighter future for humanity, ex-soldier Ursula fosters a... The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct life<br /><br />We used to think of fossils as being composed of nothing but rock and minerals, all molecular traces of life having vanished long ago. We were wrong. Remnants of Ancient Life reveals how the new science of... <b>‘Jauhar weaves his own personal and family story into his history of the heart…very effectively… This gives a certain dramatic tension to the book, as it tells the fascinating and rather wonderful history of cardiology.’ </b><br /> <br /><b>–Henry Marsh, <i>New Statesman</i></b><br... As a child, Kathy – now thirty-one years old – lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the... How a little-known mineral will affect our jobs and daily lives as much as, if not more than, AI or Big Data have done.<br /><br />A global energy revolution is unfolding before our eyes: ever-growing numbers of electric vehicles on our roads, laptops that last all day on a single charge and solar... We feel therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self. They are essential to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, existent, and mattering. But is it only humans who feel this way? Do other animals? Will future machines? To answer these questions we need a scientific... <b>A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia </b><br /> <br />The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. From the palace-city of... <strong>An ordinary man undergoes a startling transformation—and fears that all of humanity may be next—in the mind-blowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of <em>Dark Matter</em> and <em>Recursion </em></strong><br /><br /><em>“You are the next step in human... Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize!<br /><br />N amed a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist , Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more!<br /><br />In The Song... In 2018, a former Russian secret agent and his daughter were poisoned with a lethal neurotoxin that left them slumped over on a British park bench in critical condition. The story of who did it, and how these horrendous contaminants were developed, captivates and terrifies in equal measure. It has... In the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil. This century will have different kingmakers, perhaps different wars.<br /><br />We depend on a handful of metals and rare earths to power our phones and computers. Increasingly, we rely on them to power our cars and our homes.... What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end?<br /><br />For decades, biology has been dominated by the study of genetic information. Information is important, but it is only part of what makes us alive. Our inheritance also includes our living metabolic network, a flame passed from... <b>An eighty year old cold case murder investigation that stretches across light years and risks the future of mankind&#8217;s new home. A hard SF/crime crossover from two respected and well-liked names in SF.</b> <br /><br />2110. Earth is suffering major resource shortages, and the impact of... <b>The story of Rome’s richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory</b><br />  <br /><b>“A perfectly paced biography.”—Tom Holland, <i>Times Literary Supplement</i></b><br />  <br /> Marcus Licinius Crassus (115–53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient... Listening Length	14 hours and 34 minutes<br /><br /><b>A fresh look at electricity and its powerful role in life on Earth</b><br /><br />When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic devices--or perhaps we envision the... The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary novel of humanity&#8217;s battle for survival on a terraformed planet.<br /><br />Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious... <i>Jungle</i> tells the remarkable story of the world&#8217;s tropical forests, from the arrival of the first plants millions of years ago to the role of tropical forests in the evolution of the world&#8217;s atmosphere, the dinosaurs, the first mammals and even our own species and ancestors.<br... On 21 June 1922 Count Alexander Rostov – recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt – is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol.<br /><br />But instead of being taken to his usual... Eversion is a superb, original Gothic SF novel. A small group of intrepid explorers are in search of a remote and mysterious artefact. It&#8217;s a well-funded expedition, well organised, which is lucky as they&#8217;re sailing north of Bergen on the schooner Demeter, searching for a narrow inlet... Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award<br />Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Society Ralph Waldo Emerson Award<br />A Kirkus Review Best Nonfiction Book of 2022<br /><br />A deep-time history of animals and humans in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author... Humanity is struggling to hold out against a hostile takeover by an alien race that claims to be on a religious mission to bring all sentient life to its God at the End of Time. But while things may look grim in the immediate aftermath of the attack, mankind is busy playing an even longer game than... <b>A groundbreaking argument on how endothermy—arguably the most important innovation in vertebrate evolution—developed in birds and mammals</b><br /><br /> This pioneering work investigates why endothermy, or “warm-bloodedness,” evolved in birds and mammals, despite its enormous energetic... Fight together - or die alone....<br /><br />In the 23rd century, humanity is enjoying a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth is about to change, forever. Feriton Kane’s investigative team has discovered the worst threat ever to face mankind - and we’ve almost no time to fight back. The... Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid some seven miles across slammed into the Earth, leaving a geologic wound over 50 miles in diameter. In the terrible mass extinction that followed, more than half of known species vanish seemingly overnight. But this worst single day in the history of life of... Book One in the Salvation Sequence, a dazzling space opera trilogy from master of the genre, Peter F. Hamilton<br /><br />In the year 2204, an abandoned alien spaceship is discovered 90 light years from Earth, in an uninhabited star system. The ship is found to be carrying humans held in suspension... A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH<br /><br />Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single motherhood and the pressures of her career in Auckland’s Central Investigation Branch. When she’s led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man hanging in a secret room.... Modern societies require energy systems to provide energy for cooking, heating, transport, and materials processing, as well as for electricity generation. Energy systems include the primary fuel, its conversion, and transport to the point of use. In many cases this primary fuel is still a fossil... <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BEST SELLER - The award-winning, best-selling author of <i>Station Eleven</i> and <i>The Glass Hotel</i> returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later,... An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. <br /><br />In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy.... Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn&#8217;t an accident—or that Mahit might... Bacteria form a fundamental branch of life. They are the oldest forms of life and the most prolific of all living organisms, inhabiting every part of the Earth&#8217;s surface, its ocean depths, and even such inhospitable places as boiling hot springs. In this Very Short Introduction, bacteriologist... Ever since we first started discovering dinosaurs in the early-1800s, our obsession for uncovering everything about these creatures has been insatiable. Each generation has made huge strides in trying to better our understanding of these animals and in the past twenty years, we have made more... Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here are gripping accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their wake.<br /><br />A college student cannot remember if... <b>The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of <i>Children of Time</i> brings us the second novel in an extraordinary space opera trilogy about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man&#8217;s discovery will save or destroy us all.</b><br /><br />After eighty years of fragile peace, the... <p>... In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusatte enchanted readers with his definitive history of the dinosaurs. Now, picking up the narrative in the ashes of the extinction event that doomed T-rex and its kind, Brusatte explores the remarkable... A mind-bending new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and The Wayward Pines trilogy.<br /><br />Barry Sutton is driving home from another long shift as an NYPD detective when the call comes in. A woman is threatening to commit suicide, and someone’s got to try to... <b>A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island.</b><br />  <br /> Madagascar is a place of change. A biodiversity hotspot and the fourth largest island on the planet, it has been home to a spectacular... In Chaucer’s London, betrayal, murder and intrigue swirl around the existence of a prophetic book that foretells the deaths of England’s kings. <i>A Burnable Book</i> is an irresistible thriller, reminiscent of classics like <i>An Instance of the Fingerpost</i>, <i>The Name of the Rose</i> and... The incredible true stories of pioneer patients<br /><br />What was it like to be that patient caught in a medical crisis that sparked a medical milestone? First Patients reads with the pace and excitement of a top-notch medical thriller, providing an enthralling view into the history of medicine... <strong>A fascinating, irreverent guide to human evolution and what it means for our bodies today<br /><br /></strong><br /><br />An eye-opening look into <em>why</em> our bodies work--or don&#8217;t--the way they do. From blurry vision, to crooked teeth, ACLs that tear at alarming rates and spines... The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was once a verdant, pleasant land, populated by rivers and lakes. The Sahara sustained abundant plant and animal life, such as Nile perch, turtles, crocodiles, and hippos, and... We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us simply don&#8217;t understand how our world really works. Professor Vaclav Smil is not a pessimist or an optimist, he is a scientist, and this book is a much-needed reality check on topics ranging from food production and... <b>A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from the creator of the popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt—In a Nutshell</b><br /><br />You wake up and feel a tickle in your throat. Your head hurts. You&#8217;re mildly... A young woman murdered in a run-down Manhattan hotel.<br /><br />A father publicly beheaded in the blistering sun of Saudi Arabia. <br /><br />A man&#8217;s eyes stolen from his living body as he leaves a secret Syrian research laboratory.<br /><br />Smouldering human remains on a mountainside in... <b>No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you&#8217;re not breathing properly.</b><br /><br />Brought to you by Penguin. Narrated by James Nestor.<br /><br />There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing:... London, 1386: young King Richard II faces the double threat of a French invasion and growing unrest amongst his barons – and now there&#8217;s evil afoot in the City. Sixteen corpses have been discovered in a sewer, their wounds like none ever seen before. One thing is clear: whoever threw the... From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges... <b>“<i>My Brilliant Life</i> is a moving, earnest, and deeply-felt exploration of a unique family in all its joys and disappointments . . . an utter delight.” —Claire Lombardo, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Most Fun We Ever Had</i></b><br /><br />Despite being house-bound... WINNER OF THE PRIX GONCOURT. 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD. AN INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON.<br /><br />One flight. One impossible event. Countless lives changed forever...<br /><br />Everyone on the flight that day had been leading a double life.<br /><br />Blake: a family man/an assassin for hire.<br... An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives... <strong>A bold, provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes - and what we can do about it</strong><br /><br />We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided and miserable. Wealth and comfort are... <b>&#8217;Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it&#8217; </b>Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules - For Now <br /><br /><b>&#8217;The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world&#8217;s experts on the dating of... Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world&#8217;s future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future. It soon became known as the Ministry for the Future, and this is its story. <br /><br />From legendary science fiction... <b>We all want to be happier, more successful and less stressed, but what really works?</b><br /><br />From improving creativity to building confidence, self-care to self-esteem, forming better habits and feeling happier, <i>Fix Your Life</i> debunks the fads and explores the real science of... Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or roamed by fearsome monsters. Probably most or even all of... Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean and frozen lakes of lava on the moon, and can even tip entire planets over. Between lava that melts and re-forms the... A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget, and what we can do to protect our memories, from the Harvard-trained neuroscientist and bestselling author of Still Alice.<br /><br />Have you ever felt a crushing wave of panic when you can&#8217;t for the life of you... An entertaining, eye-opening work of popular history that illuminates how death has changed across time<br /><br />Dementia, heart failure and cancer are now the leading causes of death in industrialised nations, where life expectancy is mostly above 80. A century ago, life expectancy was about 50... A mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever in this captivating debut of connection across space and time.<br /><br /><i>"This is when your life begins."</i><br /><br />Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through... The volcano – among the most familiar and perhaps the most terrifying of all geological phenomena. However, Earth isn&#8217;t the only planet to harbor volcanoes. In fact, the Solar System, and probably the entire Universe, is littered with them. Our own Moon, which is now a dormant piece of rock,... <i>This is an alternate cover ed. for ISBN 037572706X.</i><br /><br />The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, <i>Julian</i> is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels.<br /><br />Julian the... <b>A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, </b> <b>from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microbial life 550 million years ago, by a</b> <b>brilliant young paleobiologist<br /></b><br />The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to... 1606. A year to the day that men were executed for conspiring to blow up Parliament, a towering wave devastates the Bristol Channel. Some proclaim God&#8217;s vengeance. Others seek to take advantage.<br /><br />In London, Daniel Pursglove lies in prison waiting to die. But Charles FitzAlan, close... A HARVARD BIOLOGIST AND MASTER INVENTOR EXPLORES HOW NEW BIOTECHNOLOGIES WILL ENABLE US TO BRING SPECIES BACK FROM THE DEAD, UNLOCK VAST SUPPLIES OF RENEWABLE ENERGY, AND EXTEND HUMAN LIFE.<br /><br />In &#8217;REGENESIS&#8217;, George Church and science writer Ed Regis explore the possibilities of... <b>I am going to make a momentous decision. Most likely it is a bad decision. Certainly it may be the last major decision I ever make.</b><br /><br />Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way.<br /><br />But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she’s an... <b>A visionary technothriller about climate change.</b> <br /><br />Neal Stephenson&#8217;s sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global... Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated by the daily lives of our fellow creatures―how they reproduce and raise their young, how they hunt their prey or elude their predators, and... <b>In the spirit of <i>The Known World</i> and <i>The Underground Railroad</i>, a profound debut about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever. </b><br /> <br />In the waning days of the Civil War,... With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War... The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again.<br /> <br />In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate... <b>A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change</b><br /><br />Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice... A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world.<br /><br />Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you’re rather... This book is about belonging: about walking in ancient places, in the footsteps of the ancestors. It&#8217;s about reaching back in time, to find ourselves, and our place in the world.<br /><br />We often think of Britain springing from nowhere with the arrival of the Romans. But in... <i>When everything is lost, it’s our stories that survive.</i><br /><br />How do we weather the end of things? <i>Cloud Cuckoo Land</i> brings together an unforgettable cast of dreamers and outsiders from past, present and future to offer a vision of survival against all odds.<br /><br... <p>Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep... <b>The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of <i>Children of Time</i> brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man&#8217;s discovery will save or destroy us all.</b><br /><br /><i>The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery... This book showcases some strange creatures with unusual capacities. The "star" of the show is the star-nosed mole, with its nose containing some 25,000 touch-sensitive nerve organs and the ability to gobble small invertebrate prey in world record-breaking time. The mole was author&#8217;s first real... <b>An investigative journey into the sources of morality in artificial intelligence and how this impacts our society.</b><br /><br />Offering a rigorous, fresh perspective on how technology has brought us to this place, <i>Mechanisms of Morality </i>challenges the long-held assumption that... We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world--from protocells to brains, from zygotes to pandemic viruses--the harder they find it is to locate life&#8217;s edge.<br /><br />Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? The... <b>In the tradition of E.H. Gombrich, Stephen Hawking, and Alan Weisman—An entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life&#8217;s life story.<br /></b><br />In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place—in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape... <b>A wondrous debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, <i>Why Fish Don’t Exist</i> is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and—possibly—even murder. </b><br /><br />David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural... Edith Widder grew up wanting to become a marine biologist. But after complications from surgery caused her to go temporarily blind while at university, she became fascinated by light, and her focus turned to bioluminescence. On her first visit to the deep ocean, in an experimental diving suit that... The second book by the bestselling author of Extraordinary Insects<br /><br />Trees clean air and water; hoverflies and bees pollinate our crops; the kingfisher inspired the construction of high-speed trains. In Tapestries of Life, bestselling author Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson explains how closely we... <b>A 2019 Locus Award finalist<br />A USA Today Bestseller</b><br /><b><br />Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Master of science fiction Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in <i>Permafrost</i>.</b><br /><br />2080: at a remote site on the edge of the... A lone astronaut.<br />An impossible mission.<br />An ally he never imagined.<br /><br />Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.<br /><br />Except that right now, he doesn&#8217;t know that. He can&#8217;t... Echoing Socrates&#8217; time-honoured statement that the unexamined life is not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws short, vivid stories from his 25-five-year practice in order to track the collaborative journey of therapist and patient as they uncover the hidden feelings behind ordinary... In Sweden, refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In upstate New York, high school students develop contagious seizures. In the US Embassy in Cuba, employees complain of headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises in the night.<br /><br />These disparate cases are... Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother - a singer "stolen" to Pyongyang - and an influential father who runs Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans. There the boy is given his first taste of power, picking which orphans eat first and which will be lent out for manual labor. Recognized for... Gli esseri umani sono la specie più ingegnosa del pianeta, capace di alterare la natura su una scala così vasta che, secondo i geologi, l’umanità è ormai una forza geofisica pari al meteorite che sessantasei milioni di anni fa colpì lo Yucatán e causò un’estinzione di massa. Al contrario,... Lieutenant Colonel Allen Forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to navigate Alaska&#8217;s hitherto impassable Wolverine River, with only a small group of men. The Wolverine is the key to opening up Alaska, and its rich natural resources, to the outside world, but... TWELVE CONTESTANTS<br /><br />When Zoo agrees to take part in a new reality TV show, <i>In the Dark</i>, she knows that she will be tested to the limits of her endurance. Beating eleven competitors in a series of survival tasks deep in the forest, living on camera at the extremes of her comfort... For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, but over the last 20 years scientists have uncovered new fossils and used new technologies that have upended this story.<br /><br /><br /><br />In<i> Beasts Before Us</i>, palaeontologist Elsa... All civilisations think they are invulnerable. History warns us none is.<br /><br />1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts – coins, fragments of glass, human bones –... In 1843, the New Zealand Company settlement of Nelson was rocked by the revolt of its emigrant labourers. Over 70 gang-men and their wives collectively resisted their poor working conditions through petitions, strikes and, ultimately, violence. Yet this pivotal struggle went on to be obscured by... <i>Rat Island</i> rises from the icy gray waters of the Bering Sea, a mass of volcanic rock covered with tundra, midway between Alaska and Siberia. Once a remote sanctuary for enormous flocks of seabirds, the island gained a new name when shipwrecked rats colonized, savaging the nesting birds by the... <b>Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar system</b><br /><br />Where is the best place to find life beyond Earth? We often look to Mars as the most promising site in our solar system, but recent scientific missions have revealed that some of the... Miguel de Ruyter is a man with a past.<br /><br />Fleeing the &#8217;wolves&#8217; - the xenocidal alien machines known as Inhibitors - he has protected his family and community from attack for forty years, sheltering in the caves of an airless, battered world called Michaelmas. The slightest hint... <b>Mission Commander Sally Jansen is Earth’s last astronaut–and last hope–in this gripping near-future thriller where a mission to make first contact becomes a terrifying struggle for survival in the depths of space.</b><br /><br />Sally Jansen was NASA’s leading astronaut, until a mission... An addictively free-ranging survey of the huge impact that sheep have had on human history.<br /><br />From the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the rolling hills of medieval England to the vast sheep farms of modern-day Australia, sheep have been central to the human story.<br /><br />Starting with... A behind-the-scenes account of the discovery of the oldest skeleton of a human ancestor, named "Ardi"--a find that shook the world of paleoanthropology and radically altered our understanding of human evolution.<br /><br />In 1994, a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White--"the Steve Jobs of... Decolonisation is a term that alarms some, and gives hope to others. It is an uncomfortable and often bewildering concept for many New Zealanders.<br /><br />This book seeks to demystify decolonisation using illuminating, real-life examples. By exploring the impact of colonisation on Māori and... <b>Dynamic naturalist Michael Blencowe has travelled the globe to uncover the fascinating backstories of eleven extinct animals, which he shares with charm and insight in <i>Gone</i>.</b><br />  <br /> Inspired by his childhood obsession with extinct species, <b>Blencowe takes us around the... For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet fishing village. Kya Clark is barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when the popular Chase Andrews is found dead, locals immediately suspect her.<br /><br />But Kya is not what they say. A born naturalist... Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn’t practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are you confused by... The story of invasive species in New Zealand is unlike any other in the world. By the mid-thirteenth century, the main islands of the country were the last large landmasses on Earth to remain uninhabited by humans, or any other land mammals. New Zealand’s endemic fauna evolved in isolation until... Beneath our feet, a fascinating drama unfolds: Ants are waging war and staging rebellions, growing fungi as crops and raising aphids as livestock, making vaccines and, generally, living lives that—up close—look surprisingly human.<br /><br />Evolutionary biologist Susanne Foitzik and... For millions of years reptiles have walked, crawled, and slithered over the face of our Earth. From the mighty dinosaurs who dominated the land, the pterosaurs who took to the air, and the marine adapted ichthyosaurs, to the living reptiles today such as the lizards, snakes, crocodiles, and turtles,... <b>The world’s leading wolf expert describes the first years of a major study that transformed our understanding of one of nature’s most iconic creatures.</b><br /><br />In the late 1940s, a small pack of wolves crossed the ice of Lake Superior to the island wilderness of Isle Royale, creating a... Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. But now, someone is eliminating the Gentian line. Campion and Purslane—two shatterlings who have fallen in love and shared forbidden...