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The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's [...]
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,...
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,...
We Do Things Differently: The Outsiders Rebooting Our World
Our systems are failing. Old models - for education, healthcare and government, food production, energy supply - are creaking under the weight of modern challenges. As the world's population heads...
Big Data: How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives
Is the Brexit vote successful big data politics or the end of democracy? Why do airlines overbook, and why do banks get it wrong so often? How does big data...
The Life Scientific: Explorers
Inside the lives of the scientists who are exploring the world, our universe, the past and ourselves.Based on the interviews broadcast on BBC Radio 4's hugely popular series, THE LIFE...
Beneath the Skin: Love Letters to the Body by Great Writers
Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are essential to our survival but remain largely unknown to us.In Beneath...
Heaven on Earth: How Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo [...]
'What Fauber does well is humanize these four residents of the pantheon of science... The story is seldom less than fascinating. A readable, enjoyable contribution to the history of science.'...
Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn
'Sarma's book may be the most important work on education written this century' - SkepticAs the head of Open Learning at MIT, Sanjay Sarma has a daunting job description: to...
Identically Different: Why You Can Change Your Genes
Since the discovery of DNA, scientists have believed that genes are fixed entities that cannot be changed by environment - we inherit them, pass them on to our children and...
Where the Universe Came From: How Einstein's relativity unlocks the past, present and future of the cosmos
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Mismatch: How Our Stone Age Brain Deceives Us Every Day (And [...]
Our brains evolved to solve the survival problems of our Stone Age ancestors, so when faced with modern day situations that are less extreme, they often encounter a mismatch. Our...
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our...
The New Cosmic Story: Inside Our Awakening Universe
A foremost thinker on science and religion argues that an adequate understanding of cosmic history requires attention to the emergence of interiority, including religious aspiration Over the past two centuries...
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our...
A Clone of Your Own?
Someday soon (if it hasn't happened in secret already), a human will be cloned, and mankind will embark on a scientific and moral journey whose destination cannot be foretold. In...
A Clone of Your Own?
Someday soon (if it hasn't happened in secret already), a human will be cloned, and mankind will embark on a scientific and moral journey whose destination cannot be foretold. In...
Feynman's Lost Lecture
Rescued from obscurity, Feynman's Lost Lecture is a blessing for all Feynman followers. Most know Richard Feynman for the hilarious anecdotes and exploits in his best-selling books "Surely You're Joking,...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing
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Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests-from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to...
The Long Space Age: The Economic Origins of Space Exploration from Colonial America to the Cold War
An economic historian argues that privately funded space exploration is not a new development, but a trend beginning with the astronomical observatories of the nineteenth century Over the last half-century...
Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless cast of physicists--Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023
Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022. "What's most compelling about a scientific...
Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity
Winner of British Psychological Society Best Book Prize (Popular Science) 2023Nature's Top 10 Books of 2023A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023 A Waterstones Book of the Year for...
Tales from the Ant World
"Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony," writes E.O. Wilson, one of the world's most beloved scientists, "their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg." In...
Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics
How do cats land on their feet? Discover how this question stumped brilliant minds and how its answer helped solve other seemingly impossible puzzles The question of how falling cats...
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
'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...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us about the World of Tomorrow
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Talking to Robots: How Humans and Machines Will Live Together in the Future
Author: David Ewing DuncanFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 260g, 320 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2022'If you want to see what that future might look like, Duncan's book...
Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains: Four Humanists and the New Philosophy, c 1680-1740
Author: Ruth Hill (Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia (United States))Format: Hardback, 163mm x 239mm, 304 pagesPublished: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom, 2000This study centres on science,...
Knowing: The Nature of Physical Law
Author: Michael MunowitzFormat: Hardback, 163mm x 239mm, 726g, 432 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press Inc, United States, 2006We ask question after question of an indifferent universe that would just as soon...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023
Author: Carl ZimmerFormat: Paperback, 140mm x 210mm, 454g, 272 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that...
Einstein: A Life in Science
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The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science
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The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases,and the panic and corruption that make them worseThroughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black...
The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest Minds
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,...
Beneath the Skin: Love Letters to the Body by Great Writers
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Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just
Author: Kenneth R. Manning (Professor of the History of Science, Professor of the History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 This biography illuminates the...
How Your Brain Works: Inside the most complicated object in the known universe
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Ever wondered what's going on inside your head? You are your brain. Everything that makes you you, and all your experiences...
Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science
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Natural Creation and the Formative Mind
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The Best American Science Writing 2009
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Laughter: A Scientific Investigation
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Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide
Author: J.P. McEvoy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 An enjoyable, comic-style book on the most successful set of ideas ever devised by human beings. Quantum theory confronts us with...
Towards a Digital Renaissance: The evolution of creativity, values and business from cyberspace to the metaverse
Towards a Digital Renaissance traces the excitement and optimism of the early internet, the outsider cyberpunk ethic and open access. But it also monitors the more complex but ultimately more...
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the WeekAn eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI are altering our understanding of what it means to be...
A Literary Companion to Science
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Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
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Climbing Mount Improbable
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