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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>From the bestselling author of Eating Animals and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - a brilliant, fresh take on climate change and what we can do about it &apos;Your burger isn&apos;t something you bought and paid for. It is a symbol of a debt that, one day, must be repaid.&apos;(Chelsea Harvey) Climate change is the single biggest threat to human survival - and we are dealing with it all wrong. We take shorter showers to save water - because we don&apos;t know that producing one pound of meat requires the equivalent of six months&apos; showers in water waste. We buy hybrid cars - because we don&apos;t know that just one day a week without meat consumption is equivalent to taking every car in America off the road. The link between meat-eating and the climate crisis isn&apos;t talked about - because our leaders think we&apos;re not ready to make small personal sacrifices to save our way of life. But these sacrifices need to be made - and they&apos;re so much easier than you think. You don&apos;t have to go cold turkey. Cutting out meat for just part of the day is enough to change the world. With his distinctive wit, insight and humanity, Jonathan Safran Foer presents this essential debate as no one else could, bringing it to vivid and urgent life, and offering us all a much-needed way out.</p>

<p>A Brief History of Time for the 21st CenturyAt the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly, not even light can escape its grasp. Its secrets lie waiting to be discovered. It's time to explore our universe's most mysterious inhabitantsBlack HolesAt the heart of the Milky Way lies a supermassive black hole 4 million times more massive than our Sun.</p><p></p><p>A place where space and time are so warped that light is trapped if it ventures within 12 million km. According to Einstein, inside lies the end of time. According to 21st-century physics, the reality may be far more bizarre.Black holes lie where the most massive stars used to shine and at the edge of our current understanding.</p><p></p><p>They are naturally occurring objects, the inevitable creations of gravity when too much matter collapses into not enough space. And yet, although the laws of nature predict them, they fail fully to describe them.Black holes are places in space and time where the laws of gravity, quantum physics and thermodynamics collide. Originally thought to be so intellectually troubling that they simply could not exist, it is only in the past few years that we have begun to glimpse a new synthesis; a deep connection between gravity and quantum information theory that describes a holographic universe in which space and time emerge from a network of quantum bits, and wormholes span the void.In this groundbreaking book, Professor Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw take you to the edge of our understanding of black holes; a scientific journey to the research frontier spanning a century of physics, from Einstein to Hawking and beyond, that ends with the startling conclusion that our world may operate like a giant quantum computer.</p>

<p><b>An inspirational and beautifully illustrated book that tells the stories of 80 plants from around the globe.</b><br/><br/>In his follow-up to the bestselling <i>Around the World in 80 Trees</i>, Jonathan Drori takes another trip across the globe, bringing to life the science of plants by revealing how their worlds are intricately entwined with our own history, culture and folklore. From the seemingly familiar tomato and dandelion to the eerie mandrake and Spanish 'moss' of Louisiana, each of these stories is full of surprises. Some have a troubling past, while others have ignited human creativity or enabled whole civilizations to flourish. With a colourful cast of characters all brought to life by illustrator Lucille Clerc, this is a botanical journey of beauty and brilliance.<br/><br/><b>'A beautiful celebration of the plants and flowers that surround us and a quiet call to arms for change'</b> <i>The Herald</i><br/><br/><i><b>'</b></i><b>This charming and beautifully illustrated book takes readers on a voyage of discovery, exploring the many ingenious and surprising uses for plants in modern science and throughout history'</b> <i>Kew Magazine</i><br/><br/><i><b>'</b></i><b>With beautiful illustrations from Lucille Clerc, this captivating book traverses the globe via plants: nettles in England, mangoes in India and tulips in the Netherlands'</b> <i>Daily Mail</i></p>

Trimeresurus albolabris is to me an iconic snake. I have a few specimens of the species at home in my basement and it is a very nice snake to keep in a terrarium. I have also had the privilege of having this species on my snake hook in its natural habitat.<br/>The book tries to cover everything about the species, from husbandry to the pit viper's role in the Vietnam War.

<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>