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<p> <strong>The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough's classic <em>Life</em> trilogy.<em> Life on Earth</em> covered evolution, <em>Living Planet </em>, ecology, and now <em>The Trials of Life</em> tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave.</strong> </p> <p>'This is, quite simply, the best thing I've ever done.' Sir David Attenborough on the TV series, <em>The Trials of Life</em>, upon which this book is based.</p> <p>This is the third and last of Sir David's great natural history books based on his TV series and competes his survey of the animal world that began with <em>Life on Earth</em> and continues with <em>Living Planet</em>.</p> <p>In <em>Life on Earth</em>, Sir David showed how each group of animals evolved. In<em> Living Planet</em> he looked at the way they have adapted to the whole range of habitats in which they live. Now, in <em>Trials of Life</em>, he completes the story by revealing how animals behave - and why.</p>

<p>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE</p><p>A wry, provocative and very funny debut novel about identity, authenticity and the self in the age of the internet </p><p>'I loved it' Zadie Smith 'Brilliant, very funny' Guardian 'Prepare to feel very seen' I-D</p><p>On the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend's phone and makes a startling discovery: he's an anonymous Internet conspiracy theorist, and a popular one at that. Already fluent in Internet fakery, irony, and outrage, she's not exactly shocked by the revelation. But this is only the first in a series of bizarre twists that expose a world whose truths are shaped by online lies.</p><p>Suddenly left with no reason to stay in New York - or be anywhere in particular - she flees to Berlin, and embarks on her own cycles of manipulation in the deceptive spaces of her daily life, from dating apps to expat social events, open-plan offices to bureaucratic waiting rooms. Narrated in a voice as seductive as it is subtly subversive, Fake Accounts is a wry, provocative and very funny debut novel about identity and authenticity in the age of the internet.</p>

'A funny and beautifully written welcome to the enigmatic, weird and wonderful world of wasps' DAVE GOULSON, author of <em>SILENT EARTH</em> There may be no insect with a worse reputation than the wasp, and none guarding so many undiscovered wonders. <p> <strong>Where bees and ants have long been the darlings of the insect world, wasps are much older, cleverer and more diverse. They are the bee's evolutionary ancestors - flying 100 million years earlier - and today they are just as essential for the survival of our environment. A bee, ecologist Professor Seirian Sumner argues, is just a wasp that has forgotten how to hunt.</strong> </p> <p>For readers of <em>Entangled Life</em>, <em>Other Minds</em> and <em>The Gospel of Eels</em>, this is a book to upturn your expectations about one overlooked animal and the wider architecture of our natural world.</p> <p>With endless surprises, this book might teach you about the wasps that spend their entire lives sealed inside a fig, about stinging wasps, about parasitic wasps, about wasps that turn cockroaches into living zombies, about how wasps taught us to make paper.</p> <p>It offers up a maligned insect in all its diverse, unexpected splendour; as both predator and pollinator, the wasp is an essential pest controller worldwide. Inside their sophisticated social worlds is the best model we have for the earth's major evolutionary transitions. In their understudied biology are clues to progressing medicine, including a possible cure for cancer.</p> <p>The closer you look at these spurned, winged insects - both custodians and bouncers of our planet - the more you see. Their secrets have so far gone mostly untapped, but the potential of the wasp is endless.</p>

#1 New York Times Bestseller and #1 TIME Best Book of the Year for 2017! The exquisite and thought-provoking new book from the multi award-winning, internationally best-selling picture book creator of Lost and Found, Oliver Jeffers.

Learn how to draw cats in all their adorableness with step-by-step tutorials in this mini edition of Kawaii Kitties.

Horses are the epitome of grace, power and freedom. They, also, have an ability to touch our souls and connect with our hearts in a way that few other animals can. From a little girl's first pony to a gnarled cowboy's last horse, they can offer us some of our deepest friendships and inspire us to be the best version of ourselves. SPIRIT is a compendium of enduring quotes that capture the essence of our affection for these magnificent animals. Some are by famous people (Winston Churchill, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, Dale Carnegie, Ralph Waldo Emerson), others not; some are philosophical, others light-hearted - all are memorable.

From the internationally bestselling author of <em>The Hidden Life of Trees</em> <p> <strong>An illuminating manifesto on ancient forests: how they adapt to climate change by passing their wisdom through generations, and why our future lies in protecting them.</strong> </p> <p>In his beloved book <em>The Hidden Life of Trees</em>, Peter Wohlleben revealed astonishing discoveries about the social networks of trees and how they communicate. Now, in <em>The Power of Trees</em>, he turns to their future, with a searing critique of forestry management, tree planting and the exploitation of old growth forests.</p> <p>As human-caused climate change devastates the planet, forests play a critical role in keeping it habitable. While politicians and business leaders would have us believe that cutting down forests can be offset by mass tree planting, Wohlleben offers a warning: many tree planting schemes lead to ecological disaster. Not only are these trees more susceptible to disease, flooding, fires and landslides, we need to understand that forests are more than simply a collection of trees. Instead, they are ecosystems that consist of thousands of species, from animals to fungi and bacteria. The way to save trees, and ourselves? Step aside and let forests - which are naturally better equipped to face environmental challenges - heal themselves.</p> <p>With the warmth and wonder familiar to readers from his previous books, Wohlleben also shares emerging scientific research about how forests shape climates both locally and across continents; that trees adapt to changing environmental conditions through passing knowledge down to their offspring; and how old growth may in fact have the most survival strategies for climate change.</p> <p>At the heart of <em>The Power of Trees</em> lies Wohlleben's passionate plea: that our survival is dependent on trusting ancient forests and allowing them to thrive.</p>