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This Is Why You Dream: What your sleeping brain reveals about your
Uncover the incredible truth of your dreaming brain with Sunday Times bestselling neurosurgeon Dr Rahul Jandial A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'COMPLETELY TRANSFORMED MY WAY...
Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a
The world's leading educational technologist makes an inspirational case for how we should use AI to support pupils and teachers The generative AI revolution has come to education. Salman Khan,...
Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic: How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal
The transformative guide to recognising, preventing and healing trauma by Dr Paul Conti, with a foreword by Lady Gaga. 'I can say with certainty that this man saved my life....
And Finally: A Neurosurgeon's Reflections on Life
From the No.1 bestselling author of Do No Harm, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and what matters in the end. From the No.1 bestselling author of...
Food for Life: Your Guide to the New Science of Eating Well
Your essential guide to eating well from the gut-health expert and publishing phenomenon 'Life-changing' DAVINA McCALL 'A must-read' Dr RUPY AUJLA 'Fascinating' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Empowering' LIZ EARLE **AS HEARD ON...
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...
Spoon-Fed: Why almost everything we've been told about food is wrong
One of the world's leading scientists of food and nutrition reveals why so much of the current advice about food and nutrition is dangerously inaccurate, misleading and often downright wrong....
The Song of the Cell: The Story of Life
From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, the stunning odyssey of the cell - the key to life and ourselves **Longlisted for...
The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Football is Wrong
A new sporting classic - 'The book that could change the game forever' (The Times) Football has always been a numbers game- 4-4-2, the big number 9 and 3 points...
Brain Food: How to Eat Smart and Sharpen Your Mind
The eminent neuroscientist and nutritionist explains how what we eat affects how we think 'We are what we eat' is an age-old adage. But while we often talk about diets...
Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
A renowned complexity scientist promotes a revolution to make economic predictions more scientific, allowing us to build a better world We live in an age of increasing complexity, where accelerating...
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...
In Defence of Dogs: Why Dogs Need Our Understanding
The acclaimed Top Ten Bestseller that tells you everything you need to know about your dog 'Every dog lover, dog owner or prospective dog buyer should read this book' John...
The Hidden Life of Trees (Illustrated Edition)
This new, breathtakingly illustrated edition of Peter Wohlleben's international bestseller is a visually stunning journey into the diversity and wonders of forests - a groundbreaking look at how trees communicate...
Naked Eggs and Flying Potatoes
Author, celebrity teacher and science guy Steve Spangler teaches you how to transform the ordinary into the amazing as you make everyday items ooze, bubble, fizz, pop. Make people wonder...
Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red
It's the age-old question: is there life on Mars? This is the story of the Mars Exploration Rover mission, the most ambitious attempt yet to explore the surface of another...
The Secret Life of the Mind: How Our Brain Thinks, Feels and Decides
* Where do our thoughts come from? * How can we manipulate our dreams? * What is the role of the unconscious? * How do we make decisions and trust...
The Origin of Species (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his...
The Biology of Desire: why addiction is not a disease
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Through the vivid, true stories of five addicts, a neuroscientist explains how addiction happens in the brain, and what we can do to overcome it. The psychiatric establishment and rehab...
The Communication Superhighway: Social and Economic Change in the
The communication superhighway, or the information superhighway as it is often more limitingly called, does not exist. It is an idea, the conceptualisation of which will largely shape its final...
Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
The Earth's climate has always been in flux: glacial periods and warm ones have slowly and relentlessly alternated for millennia. But the period of global warming of the last 15,000...
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask. Millions visit xkcd.com...
Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's Brain
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One of Galileo's fingers is in a museum in Florence, Napoleon's severed penis is in the hands, as it were, of an American urologist. And the brain of the greatest...
Think Like a Mathematician: Get to Grips with the Language of Numbers
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Was mathematics invented or discovered? Why do we have negative numbers? How much math does a pineapple know? Think Like a Mathematician will answer all your burning questions about mathematics,...
Slime: A Natural History
Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid. It inspires revulsion even while it compels our fascination. It is a both a vehicle for pathogens...
The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can
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What ants, bees, fish, and smart swarms can teach us about communication, organization, and decision-making The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first-century humans actually have...
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of
A thrilling, witty, genre-busting book on microbes, one of science's hottest topics, by a debut writer with a huge following. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE...
Beethoven's Hair
After his death, Fremming's daughter inherited the lock, and eventually put it up for sale at Sotheby's, where two American Beethoven enthusiasts, Ira Brilliant and Che Guevara, purchased it in...
Gender Medicine
Over millions of years, male and female bodies developed crucial physiological differences to improve the chances for human survival. These differences have become culturally obsolete with the overturning of traditional...
The Nothing That is: A Natural History of Zero
In this text, Robert Kaplan explores the peculiar course that the notion of "nothing" or its mathematical representative, zero, has taken throughout history. Forced into our awareness 4000 years ago...
The Mind of a Bee
A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees. Most of us are aware of the hive mind - the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do...
The Lost Art of Finding Our Way
Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for...
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
Nobelist Eric Kandel's account of how his personal quest to understand memory intersected with the emergence of a new science. In Search of Memory relates the astonishing story of how...
Personal Intelligence
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John D. Mayer, the renowned psychologist who co-developed the groundbreaking theory of emotional intelligence, now draws on decades of research to introduce another paradigm-shifting idea: that in order to become...
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the
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From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table. Why did Gandhi...
The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious
An exploration of why we don't talk to strangers and the wonderful things that would happen if we did. In our cities, we barely acknowledge one another on public transport,...
How to Be Human: The Manual
A practical and inspiring new book by the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author of A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled It took us 4 billion years to evolve to...
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of
A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide a much-needed new framework for making sense of mental illness With his...
Investigations
"It may be that I have stumbled upon an adequate description of life itself." These modest yet profound words trumpet an imminent paradigm shift in scientific, economic, and technological thinking....
Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death
When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralysed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying...
A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet,
Longlisted for thePEN America Literary Awards 2021:PEN/E.O Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Waterstone's Best Books of 2020: Popular Science American Scientist's 2020 Science Book Gift Guide Why is the world...
The Joy of Science
Today's world is unpredictable and full of contradictions, and navigating its complexities while trying to make the best decisions is far from easy. The Joy of Science presents 8 short...
The Mind of a Bee
A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees. Most of us are aware of the hive mind - the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do...
Do Plants Know Math?: Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals, from
A breathtakingly illustrated look at botanical spirals and the scientists who puzzled over them. Charles Darwin was driven to distraction by plant spirals, growing so exasperated that he once begged...
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
Dr Francis S. Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, working at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of...
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Einstein is the great icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol...
Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World
A prescient analysis of what makes artificial intelligence so ... artificial The brave new world of faking it ... Artificial intelligence is, as the name suggests, artificial and fundamentally different...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in
An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella and his SGU co-hosts, which Richard Wiseman calls "the perfect...