Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Category: Science and Nature
Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal, Braiding Sweetgrass is poised to be a classic of nat ...Show more
Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan
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Category: Science and Nature
The knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. Our fear of death has underpinned our religions, inspired our cultures, and also driven our science. Today we are living through a revolution in biology. Giant strides are being made in our understanding of why we a ...Show more
The Origin of Species: and The Voyage of the Beagle (Vintage Classics) by Charles Darwin; Ruth Padel (Introduction by)
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Category: Science and Nature
"WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, RUTH PADEL When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a proc ...Show more
Other Minds - The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith
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Category: Science and Nature
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. What if intelligent life on earth not only evolved on land, but also in the sea? Other Min ...Show more
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: Picador Collection
'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - GuardianHailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the ext ...Show more
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present, and Future by Vaclav Smil
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Category: Science and Nature
Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperi ...Show more
The Body Illustrated: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
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Category: Science and Nature
A new, beautifully illustrated edition of the Number One Bestseller and Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, which takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. A directory of wonders' - Guardian 'Jaw-dropping' -The Times 'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts in ...Show more
The Two-Headed Whale: Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy of Whaling in the Antarctic by Sandy Winterbottom
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: David Suzuki Institute Ser.
"Urgent and moving."--Publishers Weekly ★An elegant blend of "polemic, industrial history, nautical writing, elegy and ecology" (The Scotsman), The Two-Headed Whale charts the tragic history of the post-war whaling industry alongside the author's thrilling memoir of sailing the Antarctic.In 2016, Sandy ...Show more
The Naked Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak
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Category: Science and Nature
A Neanderthal hunter takes us on a riveting journey of discovery What if we have completely misunderstood who the Neanderthals truly were? For over a century we saw them as inferior to Homo Sapiens. Today, Neanderthals are seen as fully human, different from us only because of their distant cultural tra ...Show more
Being Mortal - Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: Wellcome Collection Ser.
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mort ...Show more
The Brain that Changes Itself: stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science by Norman Doidge
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: The Neuroplasticity Chronicles
An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age. Psychiatrist and researcher Norman Doidge, MD, travelled around th ...Show more
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
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Category: Science and Nature
The God Delusioncaused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical. While E ...Show more