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Override: my quest to go beyond brain training and take control of my mind
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Author: Caroline Williams (Science journalist and editor) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Can you really rewire an adult brain? In theory the answer is 'yes', but there's a problem:...
The Second Tree: Stem Cells, Clones, Chimeras, and Quests for
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In the past century and a half, the evolution of biology has outstripped that of any of its subjects. Since Darwin's monumentally influential but rudimentary discoveries, biologists have advanced their...
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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The Life Scientific: Inventors
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Spoon-Fed: Why almost everything we've been told about food is wrong
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What Colour is the Sun?: Mind-Bending Science Facts in the Solar System's Brightest Quiz
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Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health
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Earthly Remains: History and Science
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Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker
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The Life Scientific: Inventors
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Skylarks And Scuttlebutts: A Treasure Trove Of Nautical Knowledge
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The Life Scientific: Explorers
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The Earth: An Intimate History
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Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral
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The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World
Author: Ziya TongFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 214mm, 456g, 384 pagesPublished: Canongate Books, United Kingdom, 2020Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to...
Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds
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Nature Is Never Silent: how animals and plants communicate with each other
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Author: Madlen ZiegeFormat: Hardback, 135mm x 216mm, 240 pagesPublished: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, 2021For readers of Entangled Life and The Hidden Life of Trees, a fascinating journey into the world...
Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human
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Stardust
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Forces of Nature
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Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers
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Aliens and Other Worlds: True Tales from Our Solar System and Beyond
Author: Lisa Harvey-SmithFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 230mm, 410g, 120 pagesPublished: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd, Australia, 2021Did life on Earth arrive on a meteorite from outer space? Are there...
The Anxiety Epidemic: The Causes of our Modern-Day Anxieties
Author: Graham Davey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Highly commended at the British Medical Association Book Awards 2019 Are we living in an age of unprecedented anxiety, or has...
The Year in Space: From the makers of the number-one space podcast, in conjunction with the Royal Astronomical Society
Author: The Supermassive Podcast (Izzie Clarke, Dr Becky Smethurst, Richard Hollingham and Robert Massey) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Is it possible for humans to live on other planets?...
Brief Lives 3 - Newton
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd's Brief Lives. Newton is a companion volume to Chaucer and Turner. Isaac Newton...
Fantastic Voyage
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The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
Author: Kate Summerscale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANIACSA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND DAILY MAILA WATERSTONES BEST...
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
Author: Kate SummerscaleFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 200g, 256 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANIACSA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES,...
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
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Author: Lisa Feldman Barrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 'Highly accessible, content-rich and eminently readable . . . Fascinating and informative . . . popular science at its best.'...
From Our Own Correspondent: Dispatches of a Decade from Across the World
Author: Polly Hope Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 For more than sixty years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes. It...
Personality: A User's Guide
Author: Nikita Mikhailov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'The best introduction to personality psychology I have ever read' Robert Hogan, founder and president, Hogan Assessment Systems We are each...
Blood: The science, medicine and mythology of menstruation
Author: Dr. Jennifer Gunter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'The world's most famous and outspoken gynaecologist' (The Guardian) fights myths and fearmongering with real science, inclusive facts, and shame-free...
The Truth Detective: A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World
Author: Alex O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 From uncertainty and risk to ambiguity, emotion and non-verbal behaviour, life can be like a game of poker. So approach it...
Sensational: A New Story of our Senses
Author: Ashley Ward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A future classic of popular science' Mail on Sunday 'A dazzling account' Financial Times 'Absorbing, surprising and at times profound. After...
Trees: 10 Things You Should Know
Author: Carolyn Fry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Discover the wonders at the centre of our planet's ecosystem. In ten short and accessible essays, science and nature writer Carolyn...
Invincible: How we can train our hearts to beat stress and achieve success
Author: Dr Leah Lagos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Stress is not in your head, it's in your heart - this is the key to peak performance that Dr...
Appetite For Wonder: The Making of a Scientist, An-Bantam Press
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Magnitude: The Scale of the Universe
Author: Kimberly Arcand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 In MAGNITUDE, Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke take us on an expansive journey to the limits of size, mass, distance, time,...
The Ig Nobel Prizes: The Annals of Improbable Research
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Why Am I Like This?: The Science Behind Your Weirdest Thoughts & Habits
Author: Jen Martin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Why can't I stop taking photos? Why do I always feel like I'm missing out? Why can't I remember why I...
Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal about our Uniquely Mathematical Mind
Author: Brian Butterworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Every pet owner thinks their own dog, cat, fish or hamster is a genius. What makes CAN FISH COUNT? so exciting...
Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal about our Uniquely Mathematical Mind
Author: Brian Butterworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Every pet owner thinks their own dog, cat, fish or hamster is a genius. What makes CAN FISH COUNT? so exciting...
Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making
Author: Chris Packham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Combines the natural history of programmes such as David Attenborough's Planet Earth with the planetary focus of Brian Cox's Universe' Guardian...
The Age of Cats: From the Savannah to Your Sofa
Author: Jonathan B. Losos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great...
Cousins: Our Primate Relatives
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Silk & Venom: The incredible lives of spiders
Author: James O'Hanlon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 There are more than 50 000 species of spiders. They surround us in our daily lives and, contrary to popular belief,...
The Best Australian Science Writing 2023
Author: Donna Lu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Should we alter animals' DNA to save them from extinction? What secrets will old ice reveal to us about the Earth's...