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Digital vs Human: how we'll live, love, and think in the future
From the author of the international bestseller Future Files comes the one book you need to prepare for the world of tomorrow. From the author of the international bestseller Future...
The End of Bias: Can We Change Our Minds?
Drawing on ten years of immersion in the topic, Nordell digs into the cognitive science and social psychology that underpin efforts to eliminate bias, meets the people working to end...
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
grunt n. informal a low-ranking soldier At a converted movie studio amputee actors prepare army medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds, while at a base in East...
Nine Musings on Time: Science Fiction, Science Fact, and the Truth
Surprisingly, time travel is not forbidden by the laws of physics - and John Gribbin argues that if it is not impossible then it must be possible. Gribbin brilliantly illustrates...
The Multiverse: When One Universe Isn't Enough
The universe was supposed to be all there was - the whole of existence. For centuries the size of the universe and whether or not it is finite, fascinated scientists...
Strange Universe: An Offbeat Tour of Our World and beyond
An illuminating and entertaining scientific exploration of everyday oddities Bob Berman's "Strange Universe "is a unique guidebook to some of the more bizarre moments in astronomy and astonishingly true facts...
The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery
This book offers a largely chronological illustrated guide to how the chemical elements were discovered over the past three millennia. It provides a view not just of how we came...
Five More Golden Rules: Knots, Codes, Chaos and Other Great Theories
"Casti is one of the great science writers." -San Francisco Examiner "Casti's gift is to be able to let the nonmathematical reader share in his understanding of the beauty of...
What Einstein Told His Cook 2: The Sequel: Further Adventures in
This sequel to the best-selling What Einstein Told His Cook continues Bob Wolke's investigations into the science behind our foods?rom the farm or factory to the market, and through the...
God after Einstein: What's Really Going On in the Universe?
A leading theologian presents a hopeful account of the universe after Einstein, exploring it as a meaningful drama of awakening "This book is a deep and provocative piece of theology...
Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality
Why efforts to create a scientific basis of morality are neither scientific nor moral In this illuminating book, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky trace the origins and development of...
Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
Even by Victorian standards, the Scots/Canadian Sir Sandford Fleming was a man of extraordinary energy - designer of Canada's first postage stamp and the first street maps of Canadian cities,...
What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions
The story of the universe in thirty cosmological conundrums In the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery. It's as if something has taken a huge bite out of...
The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women
An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life 'A powerful antidote to the myth of a "weaker...
The Keys to Kindness: How to be Kinder to Yourself, Others and the
In The Keys to Kindness Claudia Hammond takes us on an eye-opening tour of kindness: what constitutes kindness (it's not what you think), effective strategies to build more of it...
Australian Science: Expanding the Frontiers
The book titled Australian Science: Expanding the Frontiers by the author Robyn Williams. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Choke
In the tradition of Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works , popular psychologist Sian Beilock, an expert on performance and brain science, reveals the astonishing new science of why we...
The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human
A razor-sharp analysis of how record-breaking exploits in extreme sport are redefining the limits of being human. Right now, more people are risking their lives for their sports then ever...
Maths in Bite-sized Chunks
Let the real world show you how maths works. Maths is often cited as the 'most difficult' or 'complex' subject to study, many people admitting to a wariness that was...
Murderous Contagion: A Human History of Disease
Disease is the true serial killer of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis and the like have claimed more lives and caused more misery than...
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
THE FOLLOW UP TO THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE AGE OF AI In his final book, the late Henry Kissinger joins forces with two leading technologists to mount a profound exploration...
Simplexity: The Simple Rules of a Complex World
Why does kicking the TV work What can the US military learn from the lowly bacterium Why are the instruction manuals for cell phones incomprehensible How does a spark of...
The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning
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Celebrities drive hybrids, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, and supermarkets carry no end of so-called green products. And yet the environmental crisis is only getting worse. In The...
On the Equality of All Things: Physics and Philosophy
'The poet of physics' returns with a dazzling exploration of our place in the universe What can we really know about the world around us? Or is there beauty in...
The Creativity Code: How AI is learning to write, paint and think
Will a computer ever compose a symphony, write a prize-winning novel, or paint a masterpiece? And if so, would we be able to tell the difference? As humans, we have...
The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest
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...
Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body
'Thrust this book into the hands of any young female. Their brothers should take a look, too.' Hepzibah Anderson, Mail on Sunday **** 'Comedian Sara Pascoe shares the latest scientific...
Cassell's Laws of Nature
'All living things on our planet share the same genetic code - we are all just different messages written in the universal language of DNA.' CASSELL'S LAWS OF NATURE is...
The Puzzle Universe: A History of Mathematics in 315 Puzzles
The Puzzle Universe is intended for general readers and devoted puzzlers but it has also found its way into school libraries and curricula. It is about the latent beauty of...
Feynman's Lost Lecture: Motion of Planets Around the Sun
Richard Feynman's fame rests to a large extent on his picaresque exploits, but he was also a theoretical physicist of some significance. The discovery of the notes for his major...
Ten Tantalising Truths: Why the Sky is Blue, and other Big Answers to
Obvious questions do not always have obvious answers. John Gribbin is known for giving us simple explanations of big concepts in science. But there is another way to probe the...
So Very Small: How humans discovered germs, uncovered infectious
In 1665, an infectious disease swept through the British capital and claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people. It would take another two hundred years for the cause...
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life,
Frigid, remote and inhospitable - the polar regions seem far removed from everyday lives. But these seemingly isolated ice realms shape life on our planet far more than we realise,...
A Brief History of Time: a Readers Companion
In 1989 Anglia Television joined with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, NBC and the Tokyo Broadcasting System to announce production of a 90-minute feature on the life of Stephen Hawking and...
Superhuman: The Awesome Power within
Explores the mystery of the body, the fantastic way in which it works and its amazing ability to repair itself. The book relates dramatic tales offuturistic medicine taking place today,...
One, Two, Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science
Over 120 delightful pen-and-ink illustrations by the author add another dimension of good-natured charm to these wide-ranging explorations. A mind-expanding volume for the layman and the science-minded. By one of...
Eight Little Piggies
This collection of essays range from history to the latest theories in biology, from controversies over palaeontology to the origins of language. The title is a pun and as always...
The Blind Watchmaker
The book titled The Blind Watchmaker by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took
What is space? What is time? Where did the universe come from? The answers to mankind's most enduring questions may lie in science's greatest enigma: black holes. A black hole...
The Centre of the Earth: The Traveller's Guide
What if we could tunnel to the centre of the Earth? This book tells you everything you would need to know about a trip to the planet's core, with the...
The Inner Clock: Living in Sync With Our Circadian Rhythms
Sleep better. Feel more energised. Reset your body clock. ' The Inner Clock explores the science of why your circadian rhythms fall out of sync - and how to get...
The Power of Nuclear
From the pilot's seat in the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to Chernobyl's exclusion zone and to the site in Finland where highly radioactive waste will be...
The Dark Side of Isaac Newton: A Modern Biography
Isaac Newton was accorded a semi-divine status in the 18th and 19th centuries, whereby his image linked together religion and science. The real human being behind the demi-god image has...
The Phone Fix: The Brain-Focused Guide to Building Healthy Digital
What is really happening in your brain when you use your phone, and how to harness it. We pick up our phones on average 80 times a day, and approximately...
Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in
Enter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories... 'There is magic in these pages.' Daisy Dunn, author of The Missing Thread In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus...
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins
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When homo sapiens made their entrance 100,000 years ago they were confronted by a wide range of other early humans - homo erectus, who walked better and used fire; homo...
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
What happens if the world's richest and most powerful men decide to dismantle democracy? This is the story of the radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel,...
V is for Venom: Agatha Christie's Chemicals of Death
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARDS ( BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL) 'Hugely entertaining and informative' MARK ALDRIDGE 'Harkup balances the macabre with the scientifically intricate' NEW SCIENTIST Fourteen stories. Fourteen...