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The Improbability Principle: Why coincidences, miracles and rare events happen all the time

By David Hand

LIVING SNAKES OF THE WORLD

By Mehrtens, John M.

Medicine's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary but true stories from over five centuries of medical history

By O'Donnell, Michael

In Our Own Image: Will artificial intelligence save or destroy us?

By George Zarkadakis

The Cloud Book: How to Understand the Skies in Association with the Met Office

By Richard Hamblyn (Author), The Met The Met Office (Author)

The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge

By Matt Ridley

Night Sky Almanac 2023: A stargazer's guide

By Storm Dunlop, Wil Tirion, Royal Observatory Greenwich, Collins Astronomy

Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences

By Cordelia Fine

Symbiosis: An Introduction to Biological Associations

By Vernon Ahmadjian, Surindar Paracer, Lynn Margulis

The Ultimate Mathematical Challenge: Over 365 puzzles to test your wits and excite your mind

By The UK Mathematics Trust

The Quest for Mars: NASA scientists and Their Search for Life Beyond Earth

By Laurence Bergreen

The Complete Idiot's Guide (R) to NASA

By Thomas Jones, Ph.D., Michael Benson

Private Life of Spiders

By Paul Hillyard

Fossils, Finches and Fuegians: Charles Darwin's Adventures and Discoveries on the Beagle

By Richard Keynes

Math for Scientists: Refreshing the Essentials

By Natasha Maurits, Branislava Curcic-Blake

The History of Astronomy: A Very Short Introduction

By Michael Hoskin (, Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge)

Evolution: A Very Short Introduction

By Brian Charlesworth (Senior Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh), Deborah Charlesworth (Senior Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh, and FRS)

Isaac Newton

By Gleick, James

At Sixes and Sevens: How to Understand Numbers and Make Maths Easy

By Rachel Riley, Dr Gareth Moore

Trivial Pursuit Quiz Book

By Trivial Pursuit

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

By Richard H. Thaler, Cass R Sunstein

The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition (Oxford Landmark Science)

By Richard Dawkins

Walker's Carnivores of the World

By Ronald M. Nowak, David W. MacDonald, Roland W. Kays

Emergence: From Chaos to Order

By John H. Holland (Professor of Psychology and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Professor of Psychology and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Cluster Analysis for Researchers

By Charles Romesburg

Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

By Matt Parker

Dictionary of Named Effects and Laws in Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics

By D. W. G. Ballentyne, D. Lovett

A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe,

Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life

By A. A. Long (, Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley)

Climate Change in Prehistory: The End of the Reign of Chaos

By William James Burroughs