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A Universe From Nothing

A Universe From Nothing

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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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Adam Spencer's Top 100

Adam Spencer's Top 100

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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...
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 Idea of the Brain: A History: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

The Idea of the Brain: A History: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

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Author: Professor Matthew Cobb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Longlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize This is the story of our quest to understand the most...
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...
The Ultimate Biography of Earth: From the Big Bang to Today!

The Ultimate Biography of Earth: From the Big Bang to Today!

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Author: Nick Lund Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 The story of planet Earth, its history and how and why it changes over time, for kids 10 and up. Here's...
D Is for Desert: An ABC Desert Primer

D Is for Desert: An ABC Desert Primer

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Author: Ashley Marie Mireles Format: Board book Number of Pages: 20 Coming in hot! An arid ABC primer from armadillo and bedrock to yucca and zephyr. A is for armadillo...
Physics of Star Trek

Physics of Star Trek

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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...
Testosterone: The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us

Testosterone: The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us

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Author: Carole Hooven Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports and politics, we need a good explanation of the science and its...
Origins of Existence: How Life Emerged in the Universe

Origins of Existence: How Life Emerged in the Universe

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Infinite Potential: What Quantum Physics Reveals About How We Should Live

Infinite Potential: What Quantum Physics Reveals About How We Should Live

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The Mind of God: Science and the Search for Ultimate Meaning

The Mind of God: Science and the Search for Ultimate Meaning

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Reshaping Life: Key Issues in Genetic Engineering

Reshaping Life: Key Issues in Genetic Engineering

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The Fifth Miracle: Search for the Origins of Life

The Fifth Miracle: Search for the Origins of Life

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Great Mythconceptions

Great Mythconceptions

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The Day Before Yesterday: Five Million Years of Human History

The Day Before Yesterday: Five Million Years of Human History

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Our Cosmic Habitat

Our Cosmic Habitat

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How to Fossilise Your Hamster: And other amazing experiments for the armchair scientist

How to Fossilise Your Hamster: And other amazing experiments for the armchair scientist

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The Universe Next Door

The Universe Next Door

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Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide to the Universe

Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide to the Universe

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A Short History Of Nearly Everything

A Short History Of Nearly Everything

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The Matter Myth: Towards Twenty First Century Science

The Matter Myth: Towards Twenty First Century Science

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Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China

Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China

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SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING_ A

SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING_ A

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Science: A History

Science: A History

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Under A Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future

Under A Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future

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Author: Peter D PhD. Ward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 According to University of Washington paleontologist Peter D. Ward, all but one of the major extinction events in the...
Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World

Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World

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Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century and Beyond

Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century and Beyond

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50 Chemistry Ideas You Really Need to Know

50 Chemistry Ideas You Really Need to Know

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Author: Hayley Birch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Chemistry is at the cutting edge of our lives. How does a silicon chip work? How can we harness natural products...
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...
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,...
Good Blood: A Doctor, a Donor, and the Incredible Breakthrough that Saved Millions of Babies

Good Blood: A Doctor, a Donor, and the Incredible Breakthrough that Saved Millions of Babies

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Author: Julian Guthrie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 When James Harrison was a 14 year old boy in Australia in the 1950s, he had emergency surgery and received a...
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...
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

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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...
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...
The Four Horsemen

The Four Horsemen

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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,...
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality

Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality

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Author: Manjit Kumar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many years it was equally baffling...
The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth

The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth

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Author: Michael Marshall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'The story of the quest to understand life's genesis is a universal one, in which everyone can find pleasure and fascination....
End Times: Asteroids, Supervolcanoes, Plagues and More

End Times: Asteroids, Supervolcanoes, Plagues and More

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Author: Bryan Walsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Newsweek and Bloomberg popular science and investigative journalist Bryan Walsh explores the history of extinction and offers a cutting-edge examination of...
Darwin and the Barnacle

Darwin and the Barnacle

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Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over the Edge

Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over the Edge

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The Origin of Life

The Origin of Life

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God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science

God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science

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Author: James Hannam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilised behaviour. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could...