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Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe

Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe

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Author: Johnjoe McFadden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 "In short, Life Is Simple is enthralling."--Michael Blastland, Prospect A biologist argues that simplicity is the guiding principle of the universe...
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking

Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking

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Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate

Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate

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Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In the past decade, Paul Halpern has brought readers three stunning histories of science -- Einstein's Dice and Schroedinger's Cats, The...
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

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Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the...
The Infinite Monkey Cage - How to Build a Universe

The Infinite Monkey Cage - How to Build a Universe

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Author: Prof. Brian Cox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels....
The Planets

The Planets

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Homo Deus: 'An intoxicating brew of science, philosophy and futurism' Mail on Sunday

Homo Deus: 'An intoxicating brew of science, philosophy and futurism' Mail on Sunday

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The Fly in the Cathedral: How a Small Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the Race to Split the Atom

The Fly in the Cathedral: How a Small Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the Race to Split the Atom

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Identically Different: Why You Can Change Your Genes

Identically Different: Why You Can Change Your Genes

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Author: Professor Tim Spector Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Since the discovery of DNA, scientists have believed that genes are fixed entities that cannot be changed by...
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: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A tour de force . . . an important, affecting and effective book' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL '[A] gorgeous and urgent book' STEVEN...
Blue: A Scientist's Search for Nature's Rarest Colour

Blue: A Scientist's Search for Nature's Rarest Colour

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Author: Kai Kupferschmidt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world - and to understand our collective obsession with this bewitching colour....
The Future Eaters: Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People

The Future Eaters: Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People

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The Fellowship: The Story of a Revolution

The Fellowship: The Story of a Revolution

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E=mc2

E=mc2

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Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

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Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart

Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart

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Author: Rachel Botsman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions...
Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding how our genes work

Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding how our genes work

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The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

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The Eureka Effect: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking

The Eureka Effect: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking

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An Equation for Every Occasion: Simple Formulas for Surviving the Unexpected

An Equation for Every Occasion: Simple Formulas for Surviving the Unexpected

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Author: Chris Waring Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 If you're a little worried about what the future holds, you might be stock-piling cans of beans or building an underground...
Time

Time

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The Grand Design

The Grand Design

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Faster: Our Race Against Time

Faster: Our Race Against Time

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Paranormality: Why we see what isn't there

Paranormality: Why we see what isn't there

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Plagues

Plagues

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The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines

The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines

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The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop

The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop

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Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old

Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old

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Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes

Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes

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Convergence: The Deepest Idea in the Universe

Convergence: The Deepest Idea in the Universe

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White Heat

White Heat

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Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking

Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking

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The Burning Answer: A User's Guide to the Solar Revolution

The Burning Answer: A User's Guide to the Solar Revolution

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Author: Professor Keith Barnham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A user's guide to the solar revolution - and why we must all get on board, before it is too...
Secrets of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-aged Mind

Secrets of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-aged Mind

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A Universe From Nothing

A Universe From Nothing

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Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places

Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places

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Anaximander: And the Nature of Science

Anaximander: And the Nature of Science

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Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved the way to cosmology, physics, geography,...
Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains

Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains

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Author: Vitalik Buterin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 At only nineteen years old Vitalik Buterin published a visionary paper outlining the ideas behind what would become Ethereum....
Lightning Often Strikes Twice: The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in Science

Lightning Often Strikes Twice: The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in Science

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Author: Brian Clegg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 You may well be familiar with the fact that lightning, contrary to the popular saying, often strikes the same place twice....
Gut: the inside story of our body's most under-rated organ

Gut: the inside story of our body's most under-rated organ

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Relax: A User's Guide to Life in the Age of Anxiety

Relax: A User's Guide to Life in the Age of Anxiety

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Author: Timothy Caulfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Masterfully, and humorously . provides much needed sanity in a world of claims run amok . I devoured it.' - DANIEL...
50 Shades of Grey Matter

50 Shades of Grey Matter

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The Dawn of Industry: 1750 to 1810

The Dawn of Industry: 1750 to 1810

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Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World

Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World

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Author: David Blistein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 2017 over 60,000 Americans died as the result of opioid overdoses, more than died annually in this country during the...
Clearing the Air: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE

Clearing the Air: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE

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Author: Tim Smedley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 **SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2019** 'Read this book and join the effort to terminate air...
The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies

The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies

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The Brain That Changes Itself

The Brain That Changes Itself

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Time Machine

Time Machine

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