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The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity
Author: Robin InceFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 240mm, 765g, 400 pagesPublished: Atlantic Books, United Kingdom, 2021'A delightful and scintillating hymn to science.' - Carlo RovelliComedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at...
Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the
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The smash-hit bestseller which exposes the invisible bias in our everyday lives - 'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things' (Caitlin Moran)...
Sapiens: THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER
What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history of our species challenges everything we know about being human. **THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Interesting...
The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest Minds
A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit.The more you delve into the stories behind history's greatest names,...
The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and
Mathematician and popular science author Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to show you that mathematics can be flexible, creative, and visual. This joyful journey through the world of abstract...
Trees - 10 Things You Should Know: The perfect stocking filler [...]
Discover the wonders at the centre of our planet's ecosystem.In ten short and accessible essays, science and nature writer Carolyn Fry takes us on an awe-inspiring journey of the Earth's...
The Life of Birds
A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough's bestselling classic. BIRDS. 11,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home...
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
*A FINANCIAL TIMES , GUARDIAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE SUMMER* 'The fascinating story of ancient words ... new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist ________________________________ One...
Behave: The bestselling exploration of why humans behave as they do
A groundbreaking synthesis of the entire science of human behaviour by 'one of the best scientist-writers of our time' (Oliver Sacks) Why do human beings behave as they do? 'Awe-inspiring......
The Origin Of Species
Charles Darwin's classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world. Few other books have created such a lasting...
Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It
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Huge swathes of people spend their days performing tasks they secretly believe are not really necessary. This book shows why, and what we can do about it Back in 1930,...
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more...
How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Smart Predictions
A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023 'Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman 'Absolutely fascinating' James O'Brien 'An exceptional book - readable, funny and more...
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly
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The spellbinding story of a visionary British surgeon who changed medicine forever In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when...
The Race Against Time: Adventures in Late-Life Running
A transformational quest for the secrets of happy, healthy, whole-life running that will change the way you think about growing older. 'Inspirational' - Observer A transformational quest for the secrets...
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
*A FINANCIAL TIMES , GUARDIAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE SUMMER* 'The fascinating story of ancient words ... new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist ________________________________ One...
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains-eating, pooping, and dying along the way-are its heart and arteries, pumping nitrogen and phosphorus...
Homo Deus: 'An intoxicating brew of science, philosophy and futurism'
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Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. **THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** Sapiens showed us where we came from. In uncertain times, Homo Deus...
Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science Of Human Goodness
Cynicism is making us sick; Stanford psychologist Dr Jamil Zaki has the cure - a 'ray of light for dark days' (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author).For thousands...
The Information Trade: How Big Tech Conquers Countries, Challenges Our
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"A timely, compelling, and expertly researched passport to the tech companies that rule today's digital landscape." -- Blake Harris, bestselling author of Console Wars and The History of the Future...
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to
From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world From renowned historian and #1...
Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the
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The world-leading scientist of plant communication and intelligence reveals how she discovered the secrets of the forest Raised in the hardy forest communities of British Columbia, scientist Suzanne Simard overturned...
Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic
In Waves in an Impossible Sea , physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human experience, and empty space. He begins with a simple mystery of motion....
The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness
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The holy grail of psychologists and scientists for nearly a century has been to understand and replicate both human thought and the human mind. In fact, it's what attracted the...
Why Balloons Rise and Apples Fall: The Laws That Make the World Work
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'Everything we do is touched by physics. Whether we're on the motorway, at the beach or in the pub, its laws tell us what happens in our world and why.'From...
Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food ...
Launching the runaway bestseller with ambitions to be the biggest non-fiction paperback of the year IT'S NOT YOU. IT'S THE FOOD. 'If you only read one diet or nutrition book...
A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes
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Stunningly repackaged edition of the international bestseller with a new appendix of updates from the author. Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite...
The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
The legendary oracle of technological change explains how AI will transform our species beyond recognition within two decades By the end of this decade, AI will exceed human levels of...
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than
One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on science, history and humanity One of our most beloved...
Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity
Winner of British Psychological Society Best Book Prize (Popular Science) 2023 Nature's Top 10 Books of 2023 A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023 A Waterstones Book of the...
Starborn: How the Stars Made Us (and Who We Would Be Without Them)
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An astronomer "who writes like a poet" ( Wall Street Journal ) gives a sweeping, "beautifully written" ( Nature ) inquiry into how the night sky has shaped human history...
The Keys to Kindness: How Kindness Unlocks Wellbeing, Success and
Kindness can be your super-power. It feels good to be kind to others. And it feels good to receive kindness. Making the world better, in however small a way, feels...
How Not to Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life
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How a little mathematics goes a long way in helping you not to be wrong The maths we learn in school can seem like an abstract set of rules, laid...
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business - and there's no one better to explore that future than Max Tegmark We stand at the beginning of a new...
Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry
Explore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and No. 1 bestselling author of Humble Pi Why can no two people ever see the same rainbow? What...
Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics
How do cats land on their feet? Discover how this question stumped brilliant minds and how its answer helped solve other seemingly impossible puzzles The question of how falling cats...
Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep
WINNER OF THE 2024 ASJA BOOK AWARD, BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW YORKER NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE SELECTION From award-winning journalist Kenneth...
Intuition: Unlock Your Brain's Potential to Build Real Intuition and
We have all experienced a 'gut reaction' or acted 'on a hunch' we've used our intuition.Until recently, science didn't have a good explanation for how intuition works. In fact, some...
The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time
'A beautifully turned, calmly persuasive but urgent book' IAN MCEWAN 'A landmark book that could help to build a much brighter future' DAVID ROBSON A wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of...
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing
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A powerful argument for reclaiming childhood - and all human relationships - from the online world, from the influential social psychologist and international bestselling author Jonathan Haidt has spent his...
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life
The world leading expert reveals his extraordinary exploration of stories of near-death experiences and what they tell us about consciousness after life. After is a ground-breaking book for anyone curious...
Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
Stand-up mathematician, star of 'Festival of the Spoken Nerd', Matt Parker takes us on a riotous journey through the infinite possibilities of numbers in our everyday lives This is the...
The Blind Watchmaker
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'This might just be the most important book on evolution since Darwin' John Gribbin in The Good Book Guide Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the...
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life)
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A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed by Patternity, the award-winning creative studio and pattern consultancy. Yuval Noah...
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, The Cold War and the Birth of
'It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents.' The generation that survived the second World War emerged with...
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
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A new strategy to increase productivity, focus, happiness and creativity through a mindful use of digital technology Most of us know that we're addicted to texting, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter...
The Authority Gap: Why women are still taken less seriously than men,
Based on new, original research and interviews with pioneering women including Baroness Hale, Mary Beard and Bernadine Evaristo, this is a fresh feminist take on how to address and counteract...
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality
Brian Greene'sThe Fabric of the Cosmosis an astonishing grand tour of the universe and the best layman's guide to current thinking on 'how everything works'. Brian Greene's The Fabric of...