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A hundred years. Thousands of women. One extraordinary pond. I have learned about peacocks and terrapins, giant cobras and booming widgeons; I have heard about celebrity spottings and al-fresco lovemaking and digestive biscuits. These things make up the history of the Ladies’ Pond, but they...

Brought to you by Penguin. Wildfires burning dozens of houses in London suburbs. Downpours so severe they can drown people trapped in basements. Record heatwaves paralysing our railways and hospitals. This sounds like fiction but it isn’t. The climate is turning far more hostile than many...

The extraordinary story of one plucky dog, his quest for a forever home and the woman who saved him. What happens when a backpacking adventure turns into a global rescue mission – all because of one determined little street dog? That’s exactly what happened to Mirelle. She set off to Peru...

The challenge for most who are wrestling with whether to give a vaccine is a lack of understanding about what information they really need to make an informed decision. Written by a pediatrician who witnessed the difference over decades in the health outcomes of the vaccinated, partially vaccinated, and unvaccinated children in his practice, Vax Facts will enlighten parents and guardians and provide the information needed for informed consent.

Most agree on the urgent need for climate action, yet we are often divided on how to stop the destruction of the natural world. Earth for Sale exposes the danger of governments giving over this responsibility to powerful private interests, namely the same energy, chemical, agribusiness, and bottled water corporations that brought us to this ecological brink.

Today's paradigms are "sustainable" and "responsible mining", mining that is profitable but protects the environment, human rights, and health. Mining: A Very Short Introduction covers this information and looks to the future to see where mining ideally will go.

A lively and revelatory journey through the evolution of caretaking on Earth, from animal parents to modern-day humans, making the case that caring for children and each other made us who we are Poison frog fathers carry tadpoles on their backs. Killer whale grandmothers hunt to feed their adult...

Award-winning journalist Jesse Winter takes us on a dangerous and often heroic journey to the frontlines of three Canadian wildfires, introducing readers to firefighters, volunteers and others who are facing the country’s most devastating infernos In Wild Fire, Jesse Winter takes readers on a...

"A sweeping tour of the laws of physics, the scope of the universe, and the place of life within it." —Sean Carroll, New York Times bestselling author of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe An elegant exploration of humanity’s continuous search to find the hidden truths of the universe and...

Man nutzt es jeden Tag, jede Sekunde, und doch wissen die wenigsten, wie das Gehirn wirklich funktioniert. Dr. Jens Foell, renommierter Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftskommunikator, entführt in die faszinierende Welt der Neuropsychologie und liefert praktische Ratschläge für den Alltag. Er erklärt, warum das Gehirn einen manchmal anlügt, beschreibt seine erstaunliche Plastizität (also die Fähigkeit, sich grundlegend zu verändern und zu heilen) und geht den Mechanismen nach, die Hoffnungslosigkeit auslösen. Dr.

In seinem neuen Hörbuch zeigt Bestsellerautor und Hirnforscher Manfred Spitzer, warum Mikroplastik eine unsichtbare Gefahr für unsere mentale Gesundheit und unsere geistige Fitness darstellt. Anhand brandaktueller wissenschaftlicher Studien erklärt Spitzer, wie Mikroplastik die Blut-Hirn-Schranke überwindet, sich im Nervengewebe anreichert – und dabei das Risiko für neurologische Erkrankungen wie Alzheimer, Demenz oder Verhaltensstörungen erhöhen kann.

Peter Wohlleben eröffnet uns eine faszinierende Welt: das Verständnis für Organismen, die mit bloßem Auge nicht erkennbar sind, aber die Geschicke der Menschheit lenken. Sie sind nicht nur praktische Alltagshelfer – ohne Bakterien kein Joghurt, keine Salami und kein Sauerkraut – und wohnen auf der Haut, der Zunge oder im Darm, sondern in jeder unserer Körperzellen, wo sie uns nach ihren Bedürfnissen steuern. Der Autor zeigt, dass wir aus Bakterien gemacht sind und wie stark sie uns prägen, etwa durch die Produktion von Hormonen, die unsere Stimmungen beeinflussen.

In the now-classic Forensics, internationally bestselling and award-winning “queen of crime” (CrimeReads) Val McDermid picks up the scalpel to uncover the secrets of forensic science, from the crime scene to the courtroom In the course of researching her best-selling books, McDermid has...

Seeking not the absence of light, but the presence of the universe, master storyteller Craig Childs sets out to bike from the blinding lights of the Las Vegas Strip to one of the darkest spots in North America. A fearless explorer of both the natural world and the human imagination, Childs guides us on a quest to rediscover the heavens and to ask: "What does it do to us to not see the night sky?"

How humanity’s long pursuit of ever-larger numbers broke the boundaries of mathematics and propelled us into the Information Age “A charming tour”—Jordan Ellenburg, author of Shape What if, every time you wanted to write down 1,000,000, you had to draw a picture of a god? And what if...

From the renowned paleontologist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a sweeping evolutionary history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to the 10,000+ extraordinary species alive today. Tens of billions of birds share the planet with us, an astonishingly diverse...

An expert on otters dives into their wild and wondrous world You’ve heard of a murder of crows and a pride of lions—but what about a romp of otters? In this informative and entertaining book, animal behaviorist Heide Island takes readers on an odyssey through otterdom, focusing on a family...

A rollicking history of the life and work of an unheralded genius: Dr. Solomon Snyder, whose experiments with mind-altering drugs helped change the way we think about the causes and treatments of schizophrenia. In the 1950s, the field of psychiatry had nothing to show for itself. While polio was...

Planet Earth has been a familiar concept for a mere fraction of recorded history. Until about the mid-1600s, most humans thought of Earth as immobile, likely either dim or simply invisible from the Moon or anywhere else in the heavens, and not (like the planets) participating in what Galileo called "the dance of the stars." A Universe of Earths retraces the exhilarating story of how all that changed, and how we came to perceive the Earth as a "wandering star."

Dieses Buch verknüpft anschauliche Physik mit überraschenden Anekdoten aus Biologie, Technik und Kultur und stellt dabei die große Frage: Was ist Wirklichkeit–und wie entsteht sie in unserem Kopf?