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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more...
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery
A spellbinding journey through the life of an English monk, an age of discovery and the mysteries of the medieval mind The Middle Ages were a time of wonder. They...
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel,
The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning vision of our future in space Human civilization is on the verge of spreading beyond Earth....
Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It
Huge swathes of people spend their days performing tasks they secretly believe are not really necessary. This book shows why, and what we can do about it Back in 1930,...
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
'The physicist transforming how we see the universe' (Financial Times) What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli...
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine
A spell-binding quest for the one algorithm capable of deriving all knowledge from data, including a cure for cancer Society is changing, one learning algorithm at a time, from search...
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and
One of the world's greatest thinkers tells the heroic story of human progress - and why we neglect it at our peril Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed...
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
One of the world's most original and provocative thinkers offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious mind What is human consciousness and how is it possible?...
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
The second volume in Leonard Susskind's hugely popular, one-of-a-kind introductory series on physics In The Theoretical Minimum, world-class physicist Leonard Susskind provided a brilliant first course in classical mechanics, offering...
Physics of the Future: The Inventions That Will Transform Our Lives
'A whirlwind tour of technological possibility' New Scientist 'A whirlwind tour of technological possibility' New Scientist Welcome to the future, where you'll be able to take an elevator hundreds of...
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering
The international bestseller on memory and how to master it Can anyone get a perfect memory? Joshua Foer used to be like most of us, forgetting phone numbers and mislaying...
The Blind Watchmaker
'This might just be the most important book on evolution since Darwin' John Gribbin in The Good Book Guide Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the...
Peak: For Fans of Atomic Habits
Reveals that all of us can excel at our chosen activities and offers a guide to unlocking our potential 'Anyone who wants to get better at anything should read Peak.'...
The Gene: An Intimate History
The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history. ** NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ** The Gene is the story...
The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the
An agenda-setting, myth-debunking book by neuroscientist Professor Gina Rippon that demolishes the idea of biology as destiny and the myth of the male or female brain. Barbie or Lego? Reading...
Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History
The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations Read the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape...
Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your
The paperback edition of the liberating Sunday Times bestseller is set to enhance readers' lives even further with extra content on how we can all spend our four thousand weeks....
A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes
Stunningly repackaged edition of the international bestseller with a new appendix of updates from the author. Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite...
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design are Changing the Way We
A fascinating look at the secrets of user experience and how brilliant design changes everything, by Robert Fabricant, one of the most influential design minds in the industry AMAZON BEST...
Letters from an Astrophysicist
'The most popular scientist in the world' (Sunday Times) bares his soul and answers the biggest questions in the galaxy INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Join the galactic conversation on...
The Grand Design
New answers to the ultimate questions of life from the world's most famous living scientist. When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Is the apparent 'grand...
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Britain's greatest science writer comprehensively rebuts the creationists by pulling together the incontrovertible evidence for evolution Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook society to its core on...
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
Bill Gates' favourite scientist is on a mission to make facts matter Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy? From earth's nations...
The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding
An exploration of human rationality from two ground-breaking thinkers Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If reason is so useful,...
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...
The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking)
An acclaimed theoretical astrophysicist explores the end of the Universe. When will it take place? How is it likely to happen? How do scientists know? You're going to die. The...
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...
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...
Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory
The third volume in Leonard Susskind's one-of-a-kind physics series cracks open Einstein's special relativity and field theory In the first two books in his wildly popular The Theoretical Minimum series,...
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...
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business - and there's no one better to explore that future than Max Tegmark We stand at the beginning of a new...
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...