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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity

Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity

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Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'The physicist transforming how we see the universe' (Financial Times) What are time and space made of? Where does...
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time

Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time

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Author: Gaia Vince Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2019- the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful...
Football School Season 1: Where Football Explains the World

Football School Season 1: Where Football Explains the World

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Author: Alex Bellos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A groundbreaking new series from two bestselling writers that teaches you about the world through football. The first book...
Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness

Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness

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Author: Charles Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A wonderful, wild, dazzling book. You will feel more human for having read it' - Literary Review 'Foster's daringly imaginative exploration...
The Female Brain

The Female Brain

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Author: Louann Brizendine, MD Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Female Brain is a thought-provoking, accessible and fun guide that will help women to better understand themselves...
Body Bits: Hair-raising Human Body Facts

Body Bits: Hair-raising Human Body Facts

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Author: Paul Mason Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Bizarre, incredible and downright gross facts about human and animal bodies In Hair-raising Human Body Facts, you'll learn about some of...
Science Without the Boring Bits: A Curious Chronology of Discovery, Invention and Wild Speculation

Science Without the Boring Bits: A Curious Chronology of Discovery, Invention and Wild Speculation

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Author: Ian Crofton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Forget Boyle's law, polymer chains, cellular respiration and fields of force - here's all the really interesting stuff you never learnt...
Dolphin Mysteries: Unlocking the Secrets of Communication

Dolphin Mysteries: Unlocking the Secrets of Communication

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Author: Kathleen M. Dudzinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Exciting new technologies and research methods help scientists unravel the mysteries of dolphin communication, intelligence, and culture Dolphins...
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences

The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences

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Author: Mary Jo Nye (Oregon State University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 708 A narrative and interpretative history of the physical and mathematical sciences from the early nineteenth century to...
Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science

Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science

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Author: Professor John Marra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 There are few fields of science that carbon-14 has not touched. A radioactive isotope of carbon, it stands out for...
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...
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....
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...
Game of Knowns

Game of Knowns

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How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate

How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate

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Author: Paolo Giordano Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 'The literature of the time after begins here' EVENING STANDARD 'A jolt of brevity and simplicity' THE TIMES 'In...
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...
The Shape of Things to Come: Exploring the Future of the Human Body

The Shape of Things to Come: Exploring the Future of the Human Body

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Author: Druin Burch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A vision of what the future holds for our bodies and the medicine used to treat them. In this...
Man vs Big Data: Everyday data explained

Man vs Big Data: Everyday data explained

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Author: Stewart Cowley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Man vs Big Data explains to readers the science and theories that impact on our everyday existence. It taps...
What's Next?: Even Scientists Can't Predict the Future - or Can They?

What's Next?: Even Scientists Can't Predict the Future - or Can They?

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Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Thought the science of the future was all hoverboards and space travel? Think again. Every day, scientists come up...
Sharing the Universe

Sharing the Universe

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Dinosaur in a Haystack

Dinosaur in a Haystack

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Who Discovered What When

Who Discovered What When

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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 Faber Book of Science

The Faber Book of Science

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How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

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Author: Vaclav Smil Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world We have never had so...
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...
Behave :The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Behave :The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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Author: Robert Sapolsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that...
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...
Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II

Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II

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Dogology: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Dogs

Dogology: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Dogs

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Author: Stefan Gates Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Dog-ology explores the bizarre and very funny world of canine science. Packed with fascinating facts, quirky scientific revelations and weird stories...
Mr Darwin's Incredible Shrinking World

Mr Darwin's Incredible Shrinking World

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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: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Unconscious bias: persistent prejudiced behaviour that clashes with our consciously held beliefs. Its effects can be corrosive, even lethal. It robs...
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

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Author: Peter Godfrey-Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come...
Home: How Habitat Made Us Human

Home: How Habitat Made Us Human

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Author: John Allen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 As the adage goes, home is where the heart is. This may seem self-explanatory, but none of our close primate cousins...
The Naked Scientist

The Naked Scientist

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The Science of the Oven

The Science of the Oven

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Author: Herve This (AgroParisTech) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 Mayonnaise "takes" when a series of liquids form a semisolid consistency. Eggs, a liquid, become solid as they are heated,...
Mapping The Mind

Mapping The Mind

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Author: Rita Carter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Brain scans reveal our thoughts, memories - even our moods - as clearly as an X-ray reveals our bones. We can...
Expert: Understanding the Path to Mastery

Expert: Understanding the Path to Mastery

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Author: Roger Kneebone Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 THE EXPERT ON EXPERTS SHOW US WHAT IT TAKES TO MASTER ANY SKILL What could a lacemaker have in...
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum

Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum

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Author: Lee Smolin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A renegade quantum physicist argues for a radical new interpretation of the structure of reality Human beings, says Lee...
New Scientist Instant Expert Where the Universe Came From

New Scientist Instant Expert Where the Universe Came From

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Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love

Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love

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The End of Bias: Can We Change Our Minds?

The End of Bias: Can We Change Our Minds?

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Author: Jessica Nordell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Drawing on ten years of immersion in the topic, Nordell digs into the cognitive science and social psychology that...
Where the Universe Came from: How Einstein's Relativity Unlocks the Past, Present and Future of the Cosmos

Where the Universe Came from: How Einstein's Relativity Unlocks the Past, Present and Future of the Cosmos

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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 How did it all begin? Where is it all going?WHY GENERAL RELATIVITY LEAVES UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH THE COSMOS A...
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

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Author: Kate Murphy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you? This life-changing book will...
Say Why to Drugs: Everything You Need to Know About the Drugs We Take and Why We Get High

Say Why to Drugs: Everything You Need to Know About the Drugs We Take and Why We Get High

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Author: Dr Suzi Gage Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Essential' Adam Rutherford, bestselling author of How to Argue With a Racist __________ A definitive and authoritative guide to drugs...
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World

The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World

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Author: Sarah Stewart Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A talented young planetary scientist charts our centuries-old obsession with Mars - Winner of the 2021 Whiting Award...
The Science of Meditation: How to Change Your Brain, Mind and Body

The Science of Meditation: How to Change Your Brain, Mind and Body

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Author: Daniel Goleman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A fascinating and practical guide from two New York Times bestselling authors, backed by state-of-the-art scientific research. Drawing on...
Dis Information And Other Wikkid Myths: More Great Myths In Science

Dis Information And Other Wikkid Myths: More Great Myths In Science

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