Natural sciences
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Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess
Owen, AmandaPan Macmillan 2019The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller by the shepherdess and star of Channel 5's Our Yorkshire Farm. 'With its fizzing energy and celebration of nature and community, this is perfect...
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Underland : A Deep Time Journey
Macfarlane, RobertW. W. Norton & Company 2019National Bestseller • New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year" • NPR "Favorite Books of 2019" • Guardian "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" • Winner of the National Outdoor...
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No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Thunberg, GretaPenguin Books Ltd 2019In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. No One is Too Small to Make a Difference collects Greta Thunberg's history-making speeches, fr...
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The Case for Space : How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility
Zubrin, RobertGlobe Pequot 2019A noted space expert explains the current revolution in spaceflight, where it leads, and why we need it. A new space race has begun. But the rivals in this case are not superpowers...
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Hacking Darwin : Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
Metzl, JamieSourcebooks 2019"A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril." — Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Tim...
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Facing Up to Climate Reality : Honesty, Disaster and Hope: Honesty, Disaster and Hope
London Publishing Partnership 2019We are used to hearing that the climate crisis is serious, but still tractable if we start acting on it soon. The reality is different. Things are going to get much worse, for a lo...
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Mama's Last Hug : Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
de Waal, FransW. W. Norton & Company 2019A New York Times Bestseller and winner of the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "Game-changing." —Sy Montgomery, New York Times Book Review Mama's Last Hug is a f...
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SEXICON : A sexual dictionary (Epub2)
Bond, JNicotextEBOOK, Epub2 format ISBN 9789188755490 A sexual lexicon Sexicon is an encyclopedia for all kinds of sexual terms that are explained in a simple way. Every fetish, pervesion, s...
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SEXICON : A sexual dictionary (PDF)
Bond, JNicotextEBOOK, PDF ISBN 9789188755476 A sexual lexicon Sexicon is an encyclopedia for all kinds of sexual terms that are explained in a simple way. Every fetish, pervesion, symptom and...
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Midnight in Chernobyl : The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Higginbotham, AdamSimon & Schuster 2019A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner One of NPR...
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Digital Minimalism : Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Newport, CalPenguin Books Ltd 2019Learn how to switch off and find calm - from the New York Times bestselling author of A World Without Email 'Digital Minimalism is the Marie Kondo of technology' Evening Standard*...
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Einstein's Monsters : The Life and Times of Black Holes
Impey, ChrisW. W. Norton & Company 2018"[A] skillfully told history of the quest to find black holes." —Manjit Kumar, Financial Times Black holes are the best-known and least-understood objects in the universe. In Einst...
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Maailmanloppu peruttu : kootut kolumnit. II
Valtaoja, EskoTähtitieteellinen yhdistys Ursa ry 2018 1. editionEsko Valtaoja on viihdyttänyt ja valistanut ilolla ja suurella sydämellä myös lukuisilla kolumneillaan. Hän uskaltaa sanoa asiat suoraan eikä tassuttele keskitiellä siltä varalta,...
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How to Invent Everything : Rebuild All of Civilization (with 96% Fewer Catastrophes This Time)
North, RyanEbury Publishing 2018***One of BBC Focus magazine's top books of 2018***Get ready to make history better... on the second try. Imagine you are stranded in the past (your time machine has broken) and t...
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Unthinkable : An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains
Thomson, HelenHarperCollins 2018An Amazon Best Nonfiction Book of the Month Indiebound Bestseller Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson unlocks the biggest mysteries of the human brain by examining nine extr...
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The Order of Time
Rovelli, CarloPenguin Books Ltd 2018'A dazzling book ... the new Stephen Hawking' Sunday Times The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting, consoling journey to discover the mea...
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The Feather Thief : Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
Johnson, Kirk WallaceRandom House 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLD DAGGER AWARD'A tale of obsession ... vivid and arresting' The TimesOne summer evening in 2009, twenty-year-old musical prodigy Edwin Rist broke into the Na...
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs : A New History of a Lost World
Brusatte, SteveHarperCollins 2018"THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY," hails Scientific American: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. "A masterpiece of science wr...
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Factfulness : Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Rosling, Hans; Rosling Rönnlund, Anna; Rosling, OlaFlatiron Books 2018INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "One of the most important books I've ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world." – Bill Gates"Hans Rosling tells the s...
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Who We Are and How We Got Here : Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Reich, DavidKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2018A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human history. Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of g...