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A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

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Author: Heather Heying Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet people are more listless, divided and miserable...
Through Two Doors At Once

Through Two Doors At Once

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Author: Anil Ananthaswamy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Some of the greatest scientific minds have grappled with this experiment. Thomas Young devised it in the early 1800s to show...
Meet Your Hormones

Meet Your Hormones

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Author: Catherine Whitlock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Did you know that you have thousands, perhaps millions, of hormones in your bloodstream? Did you know that these complex chemical...
Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

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Author: Amir Alexander Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Pulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal celebrates the spirit of discovery, innovation, and intellectual achievement-and it will forever change the way...
Stuff You Should Know About the Human Body

Stuff You Should Know About the Human Body

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Author: John Farndon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 In this fascinating introduction to the human body, large, colourful diagrams are brought to life by tiny people running...
Eight Improbable Possibilities: The Mystery of the Moon, and Other Implausible Scientific Truths

Eight Improbable Possibilities: The Mystery of the Moon, and Other Implausible Scientific Truths

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Author: John Gribbin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Echoing Sherlock Holmes' famous dictum, John Gribbin tells us: 'Onceyou have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, is certainlypossible,...
The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds

The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds

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Author: Jessica Nordell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Implicit bias affects us all, every day of our lives. But it can be overcome.Here's how we begin to...
Mending the Mind: The Art and Science of Overcoming Clinical Depression

Mending the Mind: The Art and Science of Overcoming Clinical Depression

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Author: Oliver Kamm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A tour de force . . . an important, affecting and effective book' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL '[A] gorgeous and urgent book' STEVEN...
Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet

Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet

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Author: Richard Panek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An award-winning science writer plumbs the depths of the greatest mystery in physics, showing how gravity has shaped our universe, minds,...
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology

Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology

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Author: Lisa Margonelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates...
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

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Author: Ben Goldacre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly...
Why We Love: The new science behind our closest relationships

Why We Love: The new science behind our closest relationships

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Author: Anna Machin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'This book opens the Pandora's Box on this most complex and puzzling aspect of what it is to be human' Robin...
Keeping Healthy: Why Do I Run?

Keeping Healthy: Why Do I Run?

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Author: Angela Royston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 24 Why is exercise important? How do your muscles work? Why do you need oxygen? How can you improve your ball skills...
The Space Business: From Hotels in Orbit to Mining the Moon - How Private Enterprise is Transforming Space

The Space Business: From Hotels in Orbit to Mining the Moon - How Private Enterprise is Transforming Space

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Author: Andrew May Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Twentieth century space exploration may have belonged to state-funded giants such as NASA, but there is a parallel history which has...