NF: Science, Tech, Medicine & Nature

The animal kingdom includes over 8 million known living species. They come in many different shapes and sizes they each to weird and wonderful things and they live all over planet Earth. Explore the six groups of the animal kingdom in depth via full-colour...

An RSPB audio and book guide to the birdsong of Britain's best known bird species. Birdsong is the natural soundtrack to our lives and can evoke a powerful sense of time, place and season. Often profoundly beautiful, it is also the most effective way...

The history of science is often seen as a story of advancement but nothing could be further from the truth. Science, it is true, has progressed, but rarely in the direction intended and seldom for the reasons given. This has a lot to do...

Mac Basics is easy steps will cover all the essentials a novice need to know, from getting started to security issues. Areas covered will include:* Getting to grips with the Mac* Dealing with Documents* Mastering email* Browse the web with Safari* Calendars & Contacts* Photos...

 Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is often dismissed as a trivial complaint blown out of proportion by neurotic hypochondriacs. The reality is very different. It is an extremely common and distressing problem affecting up to 20% of the population at any one time. The symptoms...

How to use the insights of neuroscience and the techniques of mindfulness to get a good night's sleep. Everyone's familiar with the consequences of lost sleep: you're groggy and irritable, your focus is off, you don't perform at your best, and you're likely to...

The Math(s) Fix: An Education Blueprint for the AI Age is a groundbreaking book that exposes why maths education is failing worldwide and how the only fix is a fundamentally new mainstream subject. It argues that today's maths education is not working to elevate society...

Take a look into the hidden world of your favorite creepy-crawlies with The Ultimate Bug Field Guide--created as if an entomologist painted these illustrations and made these notes while out collecting research. Pick up the journal of a nature explorer and discover the best bugs...

'I decided to write this book, because I didn't want to stop living the story of what happened when Harry met Minnie. I didn't want to forget any of it, even the sad parts. This story of unexpected friendship, of love, was a wonderful...

MacBook in Easy Steps focuses on this area of mobile computing and contains all of the information you need to use MacBooks for both business and pleasure. MacBook in Easy Steps also covers the MacBook operating system, OS X Lion, in detail, including the...

The animal kingdom includes over 8 million known living species. They come in many different shapes and sizes they each do weird and wonderful things and they live all over planet Earth. Explore the six groups of the animal kingdom in depth via full-colour...

In April 2019 Lord Ashcroft published the results of his year-long investigation into South Africa s captive-bred lion industry. Over 11 pages of a single edition of the Mail on Sunday he showed why this sickening trade, which involves appalling cruelty to the King...

In Ciderology, Gabe Cook, aka 'The Ciderologist,' leading global cider expert, shares his passion for all things cider (and perry!), with an essential history of the drink and production processes, and a round-the-world tour of the most important and exciting cider makers in operation. You'll...

The Collins Nature Library is a new series of classic British nature writing - reissues of long-lost seminal works. The titles have been chosen by one of Britain's best known and highly acclaimed nature writers, Robert Macfarlane, who has also written new introductions that...

  We have ten years to change the fate of our planet's future - this is how. With an introduction from HRH Prince William and contributions from David Attenborough, Shakira, Christiana Figueres and more. As Prince William, founder of The Earthshot Prize, said, 'The...

Trials have shown that following the MIND diet could cut your risk of dementia by as much as 53%. In Diet for the MIND, Dr Martha Clare Morris, lead creator of the MIND diet, presents the foods with the most compelling scientific evidence for prevention...

In the winter of 1950, Margaret Sanger, then seventy-one, and who had campaigned for women's right to control their own fertility for five decades, arrived at a Park Avenue apartment building. She had come to meet a visionary scientist with a dubious reputation more...

There's a running joke among radiologists: finding a possible tumour in a mammogram, they say, is akin to finding a snowball in a blizzard. The result? Up to 30% of breast cancer surgeries are done on those who have no cancer at all.In this...

Birdsong is woven into our culture, our emotions, our landscape; it is the soundtrack to our world. We have tried to capture this fleeting, ephemeral beauty, and the feelings it inspires, for millennia.In this fascinating account, Richard Smyth asks what it is about birdsong...

For over 113 years Ley's Malleable Castings was at the heart of Derby's industrial life. Bob Read, a former employee of Ley's has put together a fascinating survey of the history of the foundry and its importance in Derby's industrial history.