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A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution
The world-famous scientist behind 'one of the most monumental discoveries in biology' explores its devastating power to change the course of human history 'The most important advance of our era....
The Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on
Plants evolved seeds to hack time. Thanks to seeds they can cast their genes forward into the future, enabling species to endure across seasons, years, and occasionally millennia. When a...
The Best Australian Science Writing 2019
Good science writing makes us feel. It makes us delight inthe discovery of a black hole munching on a star, laugh at the image of alienspuzzling over golf balls on...
Zobi and the Zoox: A Story of Coral Bleaching
With her home under threat from a warming ocean, Zobi, a brave rhizobia bacterium, teams up with a family of slow but steady Zoox (zooxanthellae). As the coral bleaches, everyone...
Man, Beast and Zombie: The New Science of Human Nature
In an extraordinarily wideranging discussion of the state of the current understanding of the human condition, Kenan Malik weaves together history, philosophy and science to present a provocative challenge both...
Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals
Do baboons have a sense of right and wrong? Can cats and dogs have their feelings hurt? Animal behavior expert Jonathan Balcombe makes the case that animals, once viewed only...
What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on
Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today's most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of "machines that think." Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, "The development of full...
Humans 3.0: The Upgrading of the Species
Welcome to Human 3.0. Life for early humans wasn't easy. They may have been able to walk on two feet and create tools 4 million years ago, but they couldn't...
The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself
The Well-Dressed Ape is a gleeful naturalist's extensive, profound, and entertaining biological description of a much-vaunted mammal, the human, including a treasure-trove of factoids about every species that shares this...
Mythopedia: Mythbusting from A to Z
In 2006, Nicholas Searle worked as a writer on the science series slash cult phenomenon called Mythbusters, and he could never quite bring himself to leave. How else would he...
Why the Lion Grew Its Mane: A Miscellany of Recent Scientific
A leopard that changed its spots, a substance just one atom thick, an invisibility cloak, and a creature that sees with its feet. They all sound too far fetched to...
Platypus
'In this remote part of the earth, Nature (having made horses, oxen, ducks, geese, oaks, elms, and all regular productions for the rest of the world) seems determined to have...
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the
We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided and miserable. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, but our political landscape is...
Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies
A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2017 A New Scientist Gift Pick 2017 In Science(ish) , Rick Edwards and Dr Michael Brooks confront all the questions that your favourite...
The Attention Fix: How to Focus in a World that Wants to Distract You
Million-selling wellbeing guru and psychiatrist's guide to why our addiction to technology causes us to feel anxious, stressed and lost - and what we can do to take back control....
30-Second Physics: The 50 most fundamental concepts in physics, each
The bestselling 30-Second series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the...
Swearing Is Good For You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
Swearing, it turns out, is an incredibly useful part of our linguistic repertoire. Not only has some form of swearing existed since the earliest humans began to communicate, but it...
Conscience and Courage: How Visionary CEO Henri Termeer Built a
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Henri Termeer was one of the first of a pioneering group of business executives who built a disparate group of fledgling companies into a biotech industry that has driven decades...
Escape from Shadow Physics: The Quest to End the Dark Ages of Quantum
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The "artfully written...splendid history of classical and quantum physics" ( Science ) that "rightfully highlights the limitations of current physics" ( Wall Street Journal ) and argues for a revolutionary...
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...
Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food ...
An event publication that promises to change how we eat, saving ourselves and the planet at the same time. An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of...
The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat
Fully updated throughout and with a new foreword for this edition. Why do most diets fail? Why does one person eat a certain meal and gain weight, while another eating...
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies
Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral? Why don't animals dig up all the graves? Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried? Every day, funeral director...
Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Science in the Soul is a kaleidoscopic argument for the power and glory of science- the wonder of scientific discovery; the practical necessity of scientific...
Lectures on Physics: Six Easy Pieces
Designed for non-scientists, Six Easy Pieces is an unparalleled introduction to the world of physics by one of the greatest teachers of all time.. }Richard P. Feynman (19181988) was widely...
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop
'It is hard to imagine a more timely book...much of the modern world will make more sense having read it.' - The Times 'Brilliant and authoritative' - Alex Bellos, author...
Aliens and Other Worlds: True Tales from Our Solar System and Beyond
Did life on Earth arrive on a meteorite from outer space? Are there living beings on planets beyond our solar system? If they are out there, what might these aliens...
12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and
How is AI changing the way we live and love? This is the hugely entertaining, eye-opening new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author. 'Joins the dots in a neglected...
Seven Mysteries Of Life, The
An American Book Award finalist, Guy Murchie's The Seven Mysteries of Life "embraces all the important information about everything humanity needs to know for continuance aboard planet Earth, or anywhere...
The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital
Previously published as Naked Diplomacy . Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future? Digital technology is...
Body: A Graphic Guide to Us
BODY: The Infographic Book of Us is the ultimate visual guide to the human body broken down into thematic sections of the physical, chemical, genetic, sensitive, coordinated, thinking, growing and...
Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life
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A "gifted and tireless mathematical communicator" (Financial Times) shows why math is the ultimate timesaver--and how everyone can make their lives easier with a few simple shortcuts. Success isn't about...
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....
Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest
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One of the world's most creative mathematicians offers a "brilliant" and "mesmerizing" ( Popular Science ) new way to look at math--focusing on questions, not answers Winner of the Los...
Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions
From the phenomenal New Scientist series, with over 2,500,000 copies sold DO POLAR BEARS GET LONELY? is the third compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word'...
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
Some have seen philosophy embedded in episodes of The Simpsons ; others have detected elements of psychology and religion. Simon Singh, bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem , The Code...
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-eye View of the World
The author mtells the story of four domesticated species - the apple, the tulip, marijuana and the potato, and describes how each has thrived by satisfying humankind's most basic desires.
The God Particle
"One of the clearest, most enjoyable new science books in years... explains the entire history of physics and cosmology. En route, you'll laugh so hard you won't realize how much...
Terrors of the Table: The curious history of nutrition
Terrors of the Table is an absorbing account of the struggle to find the necessary ingredients of a healthy diet, and the fads and quackery that have always waylaid the...
The Strange Case Of Mrs Hudson's Cat: or Sherlock Holmes Solves the
Learning the basic laws of physics - mechanics, thermodynamics, relativity, quantum mechanics - can be a struggle. But when that master of deduction, Sherlock Holmes, leads the way, those difficult...
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that DNA...
The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie: The Science and Aesthetics of Tie Knots
Paul Smith stylishness collides with Einsteinian precision when, bored with waiting for the next sartorial breakthrough in male fashion, two physicists prove that there are not just four ways to...
Space: The Human Story
The first human history of space travel - from the Apollo missions to our journey to Mars - by Britain's beloved astronaut From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake,...
Awe: The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder
From a foremost expert on the science of emotions, a ground-breaking exploration into the history, psychology and meaning of awe Social psychologist Dacher Keltner has spent his career speaking to...