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The Pill That Steals Lives - One Woman's Terrifying Journey to
When Katinka Blackford Newman was prescribed a common anti-depressant drug by her doctor, she could never have predicted the almost fatal consequences it would have.Shortly after she began taking the...
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 names,...
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness: Our leading theories of how
"Stylish, witty and insightful" -The Wall Street Journal"Makes us look at ourselves and the human mind in a series of fascinating ways" - New Scientist"House is a pleasure to read....
Who Am I and If So How Many?: A Journey Through Your Mind
There are many books about philosophy, but Who Am I? And If So How Many? is different from the rest. Never before has anyone introduced readers so expertly and, at...
Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers
Ian Stewart explores the astonishing properties of numbers from 1 to 10 to zero and infinity, including one figure that, if you wrote it out, would span the universe. He...
What If?2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd
WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science.The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to...
Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines
As featured on CNN's Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4's Start the Week with Andrew MarrOne of the Financial Times' best books of 2021 In this extraordinary journey through...
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think
The New York Times bestselling "manifesto for the future that is grounded in practical solutions addressing the world's most pressing concerns: overpopulation, food, water, energy, education, health care and freedom"...
Coffee Break Su Doku Book 1: 200 challenging Su Doku puzzles (Collins
Quiz your family at home with crosswords, puzzles and games.Stretch your powers of logical deduction with these 200 new Su Doku puzzles, in easy, medium and difficult categories. Keep your...
The First of Everything: A History of Human Invention, Innovation and
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A lively and highly readable account of the origins, invention and discovery of just about everything on the planet, the truly global coverage of The First of Everything ranges from...
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...
Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
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The Book of Wonders: The Many Lives of Euclid's Elements
Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics - often hailed as the...
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go
Triumphs and disasters in the deep seaThis is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see...
Taking Flight: How Animals Learned to Fly and Transformed Life on
The miracle of flight as you've never seen it before: the evolutionary story of life on the wing. A bird flits overhead. It's something so normal, so entirely taken for...
The Universe: The book of the BBC TV series presented by Professor
Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary,...
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and
'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read. Bookworms...
The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar
A "captivating, behind-the-scenes account" of NASA's historic OSIRIS-REx mission to return an asteroid sample and unlock the mystery of formation on life on earth braided with the remarkable life story...
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
An Economist book of the year 2024.The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life.In the 18th century, two men dedicated their...
Numbercrunch: A Mathematician's Toolkit for Making Sense of Your World
'Lucid and entertaining. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all' - Tom Whipple, The...
Do Polar Bears Get Lonely: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions
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Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? is the third compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly. Following the...
The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover
'A fascinating and challenging story' New York Review of Books 'This is an incredibly absorbing and insightful book about the most important scientific question of our age' Mark Miodownik, author...
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the
What is transhumanism? Simply put, it is a movement whose aim is to use technology to fundamentally change the human condition, to improve our bodies and minds to the point...
Breakfast with Einstein: The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects
A Sunday Times Book of the Year From the author of the international bestseller How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog Your humble alarm clock, digital cameras, the smell...
Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech's Race for the Future of Food
A fast-paced, gripping insider account of the global race to be the first company to put a lab-produced meat product on the market, and to enact the biggest upheaval to...
The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time
A wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of the importance of long-term thinking.Humans are unique in our ability to understand time, able to comprehend the past and future like no other species....
Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget and what we can do to protect our memories, from the Harvard-trained neuroscientist and bestselling author of...
The Secret Lives of Molecules
What happens when you really get under the skin of the world around you? Everything that surrounds us - and we ourselves - are made of molecules, constructed from a...
Smoke & Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It
'Couldn't be more timely. Fascinating and vitally important' Jamie Bartlett, author of THE PEOPLE VS TECH'A much-needed blast of fresh air! Gemma Milne expertly shows us how to separate the...
The Idea of the Brain: A History: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD
Longlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford PrizeThis is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain.Today we tend to picture it...
Time Travel: In Einstein's Universe
Human beings have a strong desire to travel through time. Although scientists are not yet taking out patents on a time machine, they are investigating whether it is possible under...
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human
'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype'If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we'll...
Smoke & Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It
'Couldn't be more timely. Fascinating and vitally important' Jamie Bartlett, author of THE PEOPLE VS TECH'A much-needed blast of fresh air! Gemma Milne expertly shows us how to separate the...
The Copernicus Complex: The Quest for Our Cosmic (In)Significance
Though the concept of "the universe" suggests the containment of everything, the latest ideas in cosmology hint that our universe may be just one of a multitude of others-a single...
When We Touch: Handshakes, hugs, high fives and the new science behind
'A mind-expanding tour of what touch means.' DAVID EAGLEMAN, neuroscientist and author of Incognito and LivewiredWhy is a hugged person a healthier person?Why do high-fiving teams win more matches?How does...
Numbercrunch: A Mathematician's Toolkit for Making Sense of Your World
In our hyper-modern world we are bombarded with more facts, stats and information than ever before. Often these statistics can seem contradictory and say wildly different things depending on who...
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
Exploring evolution, animal behaviour and human psychology, THE SOCIAL INSTINCT reveals how and why cooperation has shaped and defined humankind - and what happens when it goes wrong. The first...
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us
'From your brain to your fingertips, you emerge from her book entertained and with a deeper understanding of yourself' Richard Dawkins'A masterful account of why our bodies are the way...
Last Word's Uncommon Women
Last Word is the popular BBC Radio 4 series broadcast weekly, featuring the lives of several famous people who have recently died. More than standard obituaries, the lives are summarised...
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each...
The Ethnobotanical: A world tour of Indigenous plant knowledge
Since the beginning of humanity's existence, plants have provided us with everything we need for our survival - they sustain us with air to breathe, food to eat, materials to...
Human Origins: 7 million years and counting
Where did we come from? Where are we going?Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink...
The Invention of Miracles: language, power, and Alexander Graham
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A revelatory revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell - renowned inventor of the telephone and powerful enemy of the deaf community. When Alexander Graham Bell first unveiled his telephone to...
Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World
From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine - meet the men and women preparing for the end of the worldIn the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers...
Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Our World
Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary global utility which is omnipresent, universal, and available to all: the Global Positioning System (GPS). A network of twenty-four satellites...
Open When...: A Companion for Life's Twists & Turns
Million-copy bestselling psychologist Dr Julie is back with the book that will carry you through life's difficult moments This is a book for when you feel overwhelmed - whether you're...
Why Balloons Rise and Apples Fall: The Laws That Make the World Work
'Everything we do is touched by physics. Whether we're on the motorway, at the beach or in the pub, its laws tell us what happens in our world and why.'From...
The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and
The long history of one of physics' most enticing ideas: that the universe we know isn't the only one? Our books, our movies-our imaginations-are obsessed with extra dimensions, alternate timelines,...