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Universal: A Journey Through the Cosmos
The Top Ten bestselling authors of The Quantum Universe take us on an awe-inspiring journey of scientific exploration We dare to imagine a time before the Big Bang, when the...
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 Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well
The neuroscientist and best-selling author of The Organized Mind explains what happens to our brains from womb to tomb. We have long been encouraged to think of old age as...
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline
From bestselling author Michael Pollan comes a radical challenge to how we think about drugs Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is...
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...
Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physics
A delightful intellectual adventure that brings together physics and ancient philosophy Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Who...
Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control
Humans dream of super-intelligent machines. But what happens if we actually succeed? Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, according to the world's pre-eminent AI...
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...
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we? A spotter's guide to bullshit in the wild from two brilliantly contrarian scientists The world is awash in...
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural
Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe? The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols -...
Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health
The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases like diabetes. A key remedy, we...
The Order of Time
The number 1 bestseller from the superstar physicist hailed as 'the new Hawking' (Sunday Times) Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets...
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...
The Meritocracy Trap
A revolutionary argument from an eminent Yale Law professor, attacking the myth of meritocracy to show how it has caused today's political, economic, and psychological crises - and how we...
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
From one of the world's top geneticists, the controversial and cutting-edge book that's making us rethink who we are The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA...
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly
The spellbinding story of a visionary British surgeon who changed medicine forever In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when...
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
The enchanting international bestselling sensation on modern physics comes to paperback In this mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Carlo Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes,...
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
A talented young planetary scientist charts our centuries-old obsession with Mars - Winner of the 2021 Whiting Award for Non-Fiction Right now, spacecraft are circling Mars, sweeping over Terra Sabaea,...
The Art of Flight
Two more tales of memory, nature, travel and collecting from the author of the Swedish bestseller The Fly Trap Stories just begin. We rarely know where and almost never why....
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the
A renegade quantum physicist argues for a radical new interpretation of the structure of reality Human beings, says Lee Smolin, have always had a problem with the boundary between reality...
The Origin Of Species
Charles Darwin's classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world. Few other books have created such a lasting...
Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist's Patients Taught Him About the Brain
What makes us who we are? Is it our background that creates our identities? Or our families, where we lived, how we were brought up and educated, the jobs we've...
The Art of Physics: How ideas from science can transform your life
'Exceptionally interesting' - Alain de Botton 'Fascinating ... You'll never again view your own world in quite the same way. A delight to read' - Ian Stewart ' A book...
The Knowledge Gene: The incredible story of the supergene that gives us human creativity
Over 500,000 years ago, a single gene mutated. It spread over time, becoming critical in the journey that transformed our earliest ancestors into fully modern humans, capable of navigating the...
Tasmanian Tiger: The tragic story of the thylacine
Is it still out there? People claim to keep seeing it still. Once the world's largest marsupial predator, the Tasmanian tiger roamed the Australian mainland. Then confined to Tasmania for...
First Astronomers: How Indigenous Elders read the stars
Shortlisted, Best Nonfiction, Indie Book Awards Our eyes have been drawn away from the skies to our screens. We no longer look to the stars to forecast the weather, predict...
Flight Lines
Winner of the Premier's Prize for Non-fiction, Tasmanian Literary Awards 2022 Winner of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW Whitely Award for the Best Natural History Book 2020 Shortlisted for...
This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter Frankopan'A wonderful book' Sunday Telegraph, 5*'Triumphant' Literary ReviewDURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, an anonymously authored volume containing a wealth...
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...
Untangling the Web
The World Wide Web is the most revolutionary innovation of our time. In the last decade, it has utterly transformed our lives. But what real effects is it having on...
Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?: and 130 other science questions answered
Why do birds sing at dawn? What's the slowest a plane can fly without stalling and falling out of the sky? And how long can you keep a tiger cub...
Hollywood Wants to Kill You: The Peculiar Science of Death in the
Asteroids, killer sharks, nuclear bombs, viruses, deadly robots, climate change, the apocalypse - why is Hollywood so obsessed with death and the end of the world? And how seriously should...
Is Maths Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023A NEW SCIENTIST BEST BOOK OF 2023WINNER OF THE LA TIMES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2023 BOOK PRIZE'A generous tour of mathematics for anyone whose instincts...
Mending the Mind: The Art and Science of Overcoming Clinical
'A tour de force . . . an important, affecting and effective book' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL'[A] gorgeous and urgent book' STEVEN PINKER'Reminds us that, despite our hazy understanding of depression, and...
How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions and (SIGNED)
A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023'Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman'Absolutely fascinating' James O'Brien'An exceptional book - readable, funny and more needed than ever'...
An Optimist's Tour of the Future
Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot going for it. His voyage of discovery...
Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How
Nominated for the best popular science book of 2024 by Smart Book.'Who said science was dry? Certainly not Tim James' New York Post 'James writes with infectious enthusiasm and optimism'...
It's Not Rocket Science
THE EXPLOSIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBlack holes.Dinosaurs.Exploding particles.Ever had the feeling that you are missing out on some truly mind-blowing science but never had the time to do something about it?Ben...
Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100-1700
Crombie shows how the particular intellectual and practical interests of Western thinkers, especially from the 12th century, led them to ask particular kinds of questions about the natural world. In...
The Cradle of Chemistry: The Early Years of Chemistry at the
This book describes the progress of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh from the appointment of the first professor, James Crawford, in 1713 to the career of Thomas Charles Hope,...
Math-ish: Finding Creativity, Diversity, and Meaning in Mathematics
From Stanford professor, author of Limitless Mind, youcubed.org founder, and leading expert in the field of mathematics education Jo Boaler comes a groundbreaking guide to finding joy and understanding by...
The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
When the world stopped, all hopes rested on finding a vaccine. An unlikely team answered the call.Before Covid-19 was even given its name, a select group of scientists in Germany,...
The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work
'A manifesto for future-proofing our jobs and prosperity' THE SUNDAY TIMESWe stand on the edge of a new era that will bring change to our world on a par with...
The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness
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The holy grail of psychologists and scientists for nearly a century has been to understand and replicate both human thought and the human mind. In fact, it's what attracted the...
Gut: the inside story of our body's most under-rated organ
The key to living a happier, healthier life is inside us. The key to living a happier, healthier life is inside us. Our gut is almost as important to us...
Attention Span: Finding Focus for a Fulfilling Life
AS SEEN ON ARMCHAIR EXPERT WITH DAX SHEPARD AND IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES**A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NEW NON-FICTION BOOK TO ADD TO YOUR TBR...
Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it
One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think...
G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology
Stephen J. Gould declared G. Evelyn Hutchinson the most important ecologist of the twentieth century. E. O. Wilson pronounced him "one of the few scientists who could unabashedly be called...