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Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains
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
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
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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
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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
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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
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
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?
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...
Dinosaur in a Haystack
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Who Discovered What When
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Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China
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Homo Deus: 'An intoxicating brew of science, philosophy and futurism' Mail on Sunday
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The Faber Book of Science
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How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
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
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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
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
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...
Football School Season 1: Where Football Explains the World
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...
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
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
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The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds
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
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
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
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The Science of the Oven
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
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
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
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
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Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love
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The End of Bias: Can We Change Our Minds?
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
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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
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
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
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
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...
The Best Australian Science Writing 2019
Author: Bianca Nogrady Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Good science writing makes us feel. It makes us delight in the discovery of a black hole munching on a star,...
Physics of the Future: The Inventions That Will Transform Our Lives
Author: Michio Kaku Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'A whirlwind tour of technological possiblity' New Scientist We all wish we could predict the future, but most of...
The Unreality of Memory: Notes on Life in the Pre-Apocalypse
Author: Elisa Gabbert (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'A work of sheer brilliance, beauty and bravery' - Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less 'Masterly... Her essays have a...
Keeping Healthy: Why Do I Run?
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...
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
Author: Harry Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From the critically-acclaimed author of Anatomy of a Soldier Harry Parker's life changed overnight, when he lost his legs to an...
The Four Horsemen
Author: Emily Mayhew Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The Four Horsemen - War, Pestilence, Famine and Death - first appeared in the Book of Revelations a thousand years ago,...
12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love
Author: Jeanette Winterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 *A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND EVENING STANDARD* Twelve bytes. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny...
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
Author: Sean B. Carroll Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 For more than a century, we were restricted to studying evolution from the outside, observing its progress only...
Intensive Care: A GP, a Community & a Pandemic
Author: Gavin Francis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 13 January, 2020. A bulletin from Health Protection Scotland is sent to all GP practices, describing a 'novel Wuhan coronavirus'. 'Current...
Science Makers: Making with Living Things
Author: Anna Claybourne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Be a SCIENCE MAKER by experimenting, tinkering and building to discover the wonders of science! Learn all about LIVING...
Brief Lives - Newton (Peter Ackroyd)
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd's Brief Lives. NEWTON is a companion volume to CHAUCER and TURNER...