Our world: New science books
Enjoy delving into natural history or exploring how we think about the universe? Have a browse of this month's new science books.
- Turning to stone: discovering the subtle wisdom of rocks / Bjornerud, Marcia
Entwined with her own life's journey as one of the few women in her geological field, Marcia Bjornerud discusses the complex transformative life of rocks; how our understanding of the Earth has changed and what it tells us about our world - Infinite life: a revolutionary story of eggs, evolution and life on Earth / Howard, Jules
Many forms of life on Earth begin as an egg. Jules Howard takes us from the Cambrian Period to the end of the dinosaurs when live-birthing mammals began to dominate. Through the story of the modest egg comes the epic tale of life itself. - Breakthrough: how to think like a scientist, learn how to fail and embrace the unknown / Pang, Camilla
There is a lot we know about our world but so much more that we don't know. Camilla Pang investigates the current big mysteries in science and the approaches scientists are taking to figure them out. - Counting: humans, history and the infinite lives of numbers / Wardhaugh, Benjamin
Acclaimed historian and mathematician Benhamin Wardhaugh looks into counting from the Stone Age until now, from Chinese peasants to ancient South Africa. He unravels this vast story of human order. - A periodic tales: my sciencey memoir / Kruszelnicki, Karl
From a shy Polish immigrant kid to a hippy to an all-round science media personality, Karl Kruszelnicki has lived an interesting life. In his autobiography you will learn that life doesn't have to be a linear process. - When the ice is gone: what a Greenland ice core reveals about Earth's tumultuous history and perilous future / Bierman, Paul R.
In 2018 Paul Bierman and his team rediscovered samples from the world's first deep ice core that had been missing for decades and in doing so discovered that Greenland's ice sheet melted 400,000 years ago. In When the ice is gone Bierman investigates Greenland's ice and the impact on the world if it were to melt again. - Quanta and fields / Carroll, Sean
Sean Carroll is back with his second book in the internationally acclaimed series The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. In Quanta and fields Carroll creates a new approach to sharing physics with a bigger audience. - Twelve trees: and what they tell us about our past, present and future / Lewis, Daniel
Across the world - from the United States to Cameroon - Professor Daniel Lewis introduces twelve tree species that show strength against many adversities such as climate change, parasites and even elephants.