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The Colour Code: Why we see red, feel blue and go green
How many colours are there? In the West we see seven, but the Chinese see five, while the Piraha tribe in the Amazon have no words for the spectrum. Colour...
I Am a Part of Infinity: The Spiritual Journey of Albert Einstein
A spiritual biography of Albert Einstein that reveals for the first time the scientific and religious origins of his ethical philosophy Nearly everyone is familiar with Einstein's scientific accomplishments-but few...
I Am a Part of Infinity: The Spiritual Journey of Albert Einstein
A spiritual biography of Albert Einstein that reveals for the first time the scientific and religious origins of his ethical philosophy Nearly everyone is familiar with Einstein's scientific accomplishments-but few...
No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the
Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents...
When We Touch: The new science of why touch matters
'A mind-expanding tour of what touch means.' DAVID EAGLEMAN, neuroscientist and author of Incognito and Livewired Why is a hugged person a healthier person? Why do high-fiving teams win more...
New Answers Book 1, The
An essential resource for any believer, The New Answers Book provides a ready defense against the attacks of evolutionary thought. An impressive list of reputable creation scientists join author Ken...
Letters from an Astrophysicist
The world's favourite astrophysicist bares his soul and answers the biggest questions in the galaxy INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Join the galactic conversation on the biggest issues in the universe,...
Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug
Aspirin is effective not only against everyday ailments, but is also useful as a preventative treatment for heart attacks, strokes, and even some types of cancers. Add to that its...
Sounds Wild and Broken
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An awe-inspiring exploration of the sounds of the living Earth, and the joys and threats of human music, language and noise. 'A symphony, filled with the music of life ....
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement
A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew. 'A wildly ambitious book by a formidably talented young writer.' - ROBERT...
Technologies of the Human Corpse
The relationship of the dead body with technology through history, from nineteenth-century embalming machines to the death-prevention technologies of today. "One of our greatest thinkers" on death presents a radical...
Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science
There are few fields of science that carbon-14 has not touched. A radioactive isotope of carbon, it stands out for its unusually long half-life. Best known for its application to...
The Anatomy of Melancholy
A guidebook to melancholia or depression, and a masterly, all-encompassing examination of the human condition The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the seventeenth-century...
Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It is the building block of every cell that makes up every living...
Life: an Unauthorized Biography
A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain's most dazzling science writers. What...
No Such Thing as Normal: Disorders, Diagnoses and the Limits of
Within the scientific community, the field of Psychiatry has been in freefall for a number of years. Its treatments and medications rest on assumptions that are, at best, unsupported, and...
Raising the Dead: The Men Who Created Frankenstein
Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, Frankenstein , introduced readers around the world to the concept of raising the dead through scientific procedures. Those who read the book were thrilled by this...
I Am a Part of Infinity: The Spiritual Journey of Albert Einstein
A spiritual biography of Albert Einstein that reveals for the first time the scientific and religious origins of his ethical philosophy Nearly everyone is familiar with Einstein's scientific accomplishments-but few...
Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How
'Who said science was dry? Certainly not Tim James.' New York Post 'James writes with infectious enthusiasm and optimism' Kirkus Reviews 'A science teacher by profession, Mr. James knows how...
Wired For Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss and
From the world's foremost neuroscientist of romantic love comes a personal story of connection and heartbreak that brings new understanding to an old truth: better to have loved and lost...
Microlands: The Future of Life on Earth (and Why It's Smaller Than You
'An epic travelogue, brimming with the excitement of discovery. With characteristic panache, Venter unveils the teeming array of bacteria, viruses, and eukaryotes that crowd our planet's oceans' - Siddhartha Mukherjee...
The Maths Handbook: Everyday Maths Made Simple
This is the perfect introduction for those who have a lingering fear of maths. If you think that maths is difficult, confusing, dull or just plain scary, then The Maths...
The Possibility of Life: Searching for Kinship in the Cosmos
One of the most potent questions we ask about the cosmos is: are we alone? From astrobiology to exoplanets in the 'Goldilocks Zone', Jaime Green traces our understanding of what...
The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal
'Shocking... a damning portrait of a man who, in the name of psychiatric progress, left a trail of broken lives in his wake' Telegraph , five stars 'Compelling' Sunday Times...
Filterworld: How Algorithms Make Everything the Same
One of the BBC's most anticipated books for 2024 An i-D non-fiction book of 2024 A Stylist non-fiction book of 2024 'An essential book' i-D What happens when our cultural...
Emotional Ignorance: Lost and found in the science of emotion
Why do we have nightmares? Get hangry? Relive embarrassing memories? Find canned laughter so annoying - and fake news so effective? Emotions can be a pain. If only we were...
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and
' Magisterial . . . you reach the end of this profound, revealing book rewarded. West shows how scientific method helps to peel back the hidden reality of our world'...
The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are
A surprising and compelling journey into the business of paranormal investigation, and the state of scientific literacy in America. In 2010, in a small New Hampshire town, next door to...
Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free And Unlocked the
'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator 'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul Davies Life is...
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth - A BBC Radio 4 'Book of
A FINANCIAL TIMES SUMMER BOOK OF 2021 PICK A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online 'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read' All...
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World
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From the coauthors of the New York Times bestseller Abundance comes their much anticipated follow-up: Bold --a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to...
Superstition and Science: Mystics, sceptics, truth-seekers and
'A dazzling chronicle, a bracing challenge to modernity's smug assumptions' - Bryce Christensen, Booklist 'O what a world of profit and delight Of power, of honour and omnipotence Is promised...
Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our
Few figures loom as large as Albert Einstein in our contemporary culture. It is truly remarkable that a man from such humble beginnings, an unemployed dreamer without a future or...
The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
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In the global village that our world has become, travel and technology fuel each other and us. "Everywhere is made up of everywhere else", motion is our most constant state...
The Sleep Room: A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived Him
'A beautifully researched, wildly unsettling study of a psychiatrist running amok' Sam Knight, author of The Premonitions Bureau 'A devastating account of the effects one unchecked psychiatrist had on vulnerable...
The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal
'Shocking... a damning portrait of a man who, in the name of psychiatric progress, left a trail of broken lives in his wake' Telegraph , five stars 'Compelling' Sunday Times...
Life As No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence
What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we...
The Lazarus Heist: Based on the No 1 Hit podcast
The jaw-dropping story behind North Korea's dangerous cyber-criminals, the Lazarus Group, who hacked Hollywood and the world In 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment was brutally hacked, with thousands of computers wiped...
Statistics without Tears: An Introduction for Non-Mathematicians
A clear and trustworthy guide to understanding statistics, a perennial bestseller now fully revised and updated. This book is written for anyone who needs or wants to know how statistics...
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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A New York Times Bestseller In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon...
Superior: The Return of Race Science
Financial Times Book of the Year Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year Guardian Book of the Year New Statesman Book of the Year 'Roundly debunks racism's core lie -...
What Is Inside a Black Hole?
'If you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out' What is inside a black hole? Is time travel possible? Throughout his extraordinary career,...
Elixir: A Story of Perfume, Science and the Search for the Secret of
A FINANCIAL TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR A STRONG WORDS TOP 50 BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Dizzying and fragrant . . . truly a captivating achievement!' Aimee Nezhukumatathil 'If...
Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State and
Joseph Banks is one of the most significant figures of the English Enlightenment. This book places his work in promoting 'imperial science', in the context of the consolidation of the...
The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
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Bestselling author Joshua Cooper Ramo explains how to understand and survive the modern age. Not since the twin hammers of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution battered apart the foundations...
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
A new strategy to increase productivity, focus, happiness and creativity through a mindful use of digital technology Most of us know that we're addicted to texting, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter...
The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us
'Our relationship with nature has changed . . . radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion,...
Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future
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The sequel to Dougal Dixon's "After Man" showing how Homo Sapiens might evolve or be adapted to meet a new ice age, the greenhouse effect, ozone depletion or a magnetic...