Birth Biology

A New Statesman and Daily Mail BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best book I've ever read about motherhood' Jude Rogers, Observer 'I kept scribbling in the margins: 'We need to know this stuff!'' Joanna Pocock, Spectator A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind...

In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman—chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the field—gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years, even as it shows how the increasing...

This program is read by Peter Godfrey-Smith with Mitch Riley. The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness. Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges...

A New York Times Notable Book Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a...

NAMED A BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF 2021 BY KIRKUS * An acclaimed experimental physicist at CERN takes you on an exhilarating search for the most basic building blocks of our universe, and the dramatic quest to unlock their cosmic origins. "A fascinating exploration of how we learned what matter...

A rollicking, myth-busting history of sex that moves from historical attempts at birth control to Hildegard von Bingen’s treatise on the female orgasm, demystifying plenty of urban legends along the way. Roman physicians told female patients they should sneeze out as much semen as possible...

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With...

The Body Myth will transform the way a generation of women think, not just about one single aspect of being female, but about their lifetime experience of the female body. The female body has been misunderstood for centuries. Declared defective. Pathologised. Controlled. Exploited In The Body...

Bloomsbury presents Growing Up Human by Brenna Hassett, read by Laurel Lefkow. Brings the science of biological anthropology to bear on understanding how our evolutionary history has shaped a phenomenon everyone has experienced – childhood. Tracking deep into our evolutionary history...

WITH PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT How does a shark sense a heartbeat through solid sand, detecting an electrical field five billionths of a volt across a single centimeter? Every fact is sourced from peer-reviewed academic research and official scientific records. This True Verified Facts book delivers 600+ surprising entries about the animal kingdom, each one built to educate, entertain, and arm you with knowledge worth sharing. Real science about the senses, journeys, and minds of the creatures we only think we know. Inside This Book: The mole that can find, identify, and eat its prey in under ...

NEW RELEASE WITH PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT ~ HARDCOVER IN FULL COLOR Why did the world's most talked-about weight-loss drug begin with venom from a desert lizard, and what else about peptides isn't what it seems? Every fact is sourced from peer-reviewed academic research and official scientific records. This True Verified Facts book puts the peptide boom to the test with 190 documented facts, grading every claim by the evidence standing behind it. It is built to educate, entertain, and arm you with facts worth repeating at any table. Inside This Book: The desert lizard whose venom launched the...

NEW RELEASE ~ WITH PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT What kind of worm has no mouth, yet devours entire whale skeletons by dissolving the bone with acid? Every fact is sourced from peer-reviewed academic research and official scientific records. This True Verified Facts book dives into 300+ documented discoveries from the surface to the crushing hadal deep, each one built to educate, entertain, and arm you with knowledge worth sharing at any table. Inside This Book: Why a single wave once climbed more than 1,700 feet up an Alaskan mountainside. The mouthless creatures that survive by dissolving whale ...

100 Fun Facts About Life: Discover the Wonders of Our Existence, from Birth to the Cosmos Subtitle: A Fun and Thought-Provoking Journey Through the Science, Nature, and Mysteries of Life for Kids, Teens, and Curious Minds! Have you ever wondered how life began… why we dream… what makes your heart beat… or whether life could exist on other planets? 🌍✨🚀 If you’ve ever asked big questions like “What is life?” or “How does the world work?”, then this book is exactly what you’ve been waiting for! 100 Fun Facts About Life: Discover the Wonders of Our Existence, from ...

WITH PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT How can a plant with no brain and no nervous system learn from an experience and remember the lesson for up to forty days? Every fact is sourced from peer-reviewed academic research and official scientific records. This True Verified Facts book delivers 450+ documented botanical secrets, each one built to educate, entertain, and arm you with knowledge worth sharing. Real science about the strangest survivors, communicators, and record-breakers in the plant kingdom. Inside This Book: Why the Venus flytrap counts the touches on its trigger hairs before it ever ...

What Jane Goodall did for chimpanzees, international ecologist and conservation scientist Hannah Mumby now does for elephants in this compelling, eye-opening account that brings into focus this species remarkably similar to humans—and makes a persuasive argument for saving them. From early...

The 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 explores the origins of animal consciousness. Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that...

“Crackling and bighearted...A powerhouse [that] echoes with the truth that we find harmony when we listen first to ourselves.” —Oprah Daily * “Takes off with magnificent speed and never lets up.” —The New York Times * “Revolutionary.” —NPR’s Morning Edition * A Los Angeles...

A bountiful group of poems--direct, honest, and revelatory--that reflect on language, nature, old age, young love, Judaism, and our current politics, from one of our most read and admired poets "Words are my business," Marge Piercy begins her twentieth collection of poetry, a glance back at a...

Winner of the Children's Literature Festivals Book Award for Non-fiction and the Teachers’ Award Inspired by the incredible human body? Take a tour with DR RONX – TV presenter on CBBC’s Operation Ouch! and an award-winning trans non-binary emergency doctor – to discover spongy brains...

A brilliantly silly question-and-answer book, fact-checked by world-leading experts from across the University of Cambridge. Did you know that there's no set number of bones in the human body? Most babies are born with around 300 bones, but by the time they've grown up, they usually have between...