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Into the Dream Lab: The New Science of Dreams and Nightmares
To most, dreams are things that slip away when you re-emerge into the waking world, their remnants jumbled-up and only half-recalled. At their best, they are populated by pleasant recollections...
Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth
Flush with hundreds of illustrations, this book revisits the histories of chemistry, medicine, ideas, and culture through the lens of alchemy The craft of alchemy has intrigued and mystified people...
Food or War
Ours is the Age of Food. Food is a central obsession in all cultures, nations, the media, and society. Our future supply of food is filled with risk, and history...
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and
From the bestselling philosopher, a gripping history of science, thought, life on earth and the human mind - and what we might know in the future In very recent times...
The Telomerase Revolution: The Story of the Scientific Breakthrough
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Science is on the cusp of a revolutionary breakthrough. We now understand more about ageing - and how to prevent and reverse it - than ever before. In The Telomerase...
The Cosmic Revolutionary's Handbook: (Or: How to Beat the Big Bang)
Free yourself from cosmological tyranny! Everything started in a Big Bang? Invisible dark matter? Black holes? Why accept such a weird cosmos? For all those who wonder about this bizarre...
Big Sky: When the Emu Left the Earth
Big Sky, when the emu left the earth is an exquisite conversation of sky knowledge between Aboriginal farmer and award-winning writer Bruce Pascoe and astrophysicist Professor Ray Norris. This meeting...
Time Travel: In Einstein's Universe
Human beings have a strong desire to travel through time. Although scientists are not yet taking out patents on a time machine, they are investigating whether it is possible under...
Why We Die: The New Science of Longevity - 'Changed my perspective on
'Changed my perspective on the whole living world but most of all myself.' - CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN 'E nthralling and packed with insights.' - BILL BRYSON 'A must-read.' - STEPHEN...
Art and Fear
Art and Fear is compulsory reading for anyone still wondering where art has gone and where science is taking us. Paul Virilio traces the twin development of art and science...
The Earth Encompassed: A History of the Environmental Sciences
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This authoritative volume chronicles humanity's long quest to understand its own origins. Peter J. Bowler brilliantly synthesizes discoveries in geography, geology, and evolutionary biology that have brought us to our...
Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology 1: From Antiquity to 1881
A comprehensive history of the study and understanding of ancient Egypt, filled with intriguing mysteries, great discoveries, and scholarly creativity, the first of three-volumes--new in paperback The discovery of ancient...
Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life The
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2022*** Did you know that we can lead longer and healthier lives by making simple changes right now? Professor Rose Anne Kenny...
The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction
The acclaimed international bestseller that will change the way you think about the future Every time we choose a route to work, decide whether to go on a second date,...
Alive: An Alternative Anatomy
A profound and provocative journey through the human body from the award-winning writer, broadcaster and surgeon. A profound and provocative journey through the human body from the award-winning writer, broadcaster...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024
Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year. "This was the most...
Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body
Sara is a comedian who has talked and joked about female sexuality, psychology and the media's portrayal of women on stage and screen. While researching her most recent live show,...
Seven Deadly Sins: The Biology of Being Human
'Has the power to change the way you look at the world' Steven Bartlett 'The heir to Oliver Sacks' David Baddiel A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2024 AN INDEPENDENT...
The Sexual Evolution: How 500 million years of sex, gender and mating
We find ourselves in a time of great social upheaval. People are testing the boundaries of just about everything related to sex and gender. Biological sex, long thought to be...
The Princeton Field Guide to Pterosaurs
The most up-to-date and authoritative illustrated guide to the marvellous flying reptiles that dominated the skies of the Mesozoic for 160 million years Once seen by some as evolutionary dead-enders,...
Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic
A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powers. When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great...