Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation by David Baker
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Category: Science and Nature
The big history of sex from early life to sexbots How did sex begin? How did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence does our genetic ancestry have on our love life today? And what might sex look like in the future? Sex traces where all the facets of human sexuality came from, ...Show more
The Basis of Everything: Before Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project there was the Cavendish Laboratory by Andrew Ramsey
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Category: Science and Nature
Before the Manhattan Project, before nuclear warfare and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was the twentieth century's great scientific quest to fathom the secrets of the atom.The unlikely story of an Antipodean friendship that changed the world forever. Before the Manhattan Project, before n ...Show more
Rethinking Our World: an invitation to rescue our future by David Shaw, Maja Gopel
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Category: Science and Nature
A compelling and persuasive look at the social transformations needed to cope with our environmental crises.Our world is at a tipping point, and we feel it every day. On the one hand, we have never been so well off; on the other hand, we find destruction and crisis everywhere we look. Whether throughout ...Show more
Cosmic Wonder: Halley's Comet and Humankind by Ashley Benham-Yazdani
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Category: Science and Nature
An innovative and visually sweeping picture book imagines Halley's Comet observing Earth and its inhabitants at every pass, tracing human evolution over millennia. First recorded traveling overhead in 240 BCE, Halley's Comet returns every seventy-six years or so for a fresh glimpse of life on bounti ...Show more
To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before: A Joyous Journey Through All of Science by Luke O'Neill
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Category: Science and Nature
A spellbinding and often hilarious history of (almost) the entirety of science from world-renowned immunologist Luke O'Neill *The Irish Times Top 10 Bestseller* Scientists have been participants in the best reality show of all time, with all the highs, lows, bust-ups, and strange personalities of any sh ...Show more
Noise by Daniel Kahneman
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Category: Science and Nature
Wherever there is human judgement, there is noise.From the world-leaders in strategic thinking and the multi-million copy bestselling authors of Thinking Fast and Slow and Nudge, the next big book to change the way you think.Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical ...Show more
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
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Category: Science and Nature
'Astonishing ... an amazing book ... absolutely chocker full of things that we need to know' Chris Evans 'Matthew Walker is probably one of the most influential people on the planet' Evening Standard THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER TLS, OBSERVER, SUNDAY TIMES, FT, GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL AND EVENING STANDAR ...Show more
The Mind of God: Popular Penguins by Paul Davies
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Paul Davies' The Mind of God is a scientific search for the meaning of the universe. Ranging across the cosmos, Davies explores the origin of the universe, the laws of nature, mathematics, the beginning and end of everything. Ultimately, he seeks to provide a glimpse the meaning of it all. This is a boo ...Show more
Many Things Under a Rock The Mysteries of Octopuses by David Scheel
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Category: Science and Nature
"Fascinating... the deepest of octopus books.' Peter Godfrey-Smith 'Mind-blowing and soul-expanding' Sy Montgomery Of all the creatures of the deep blue, none captivates us quite like the octopus. This highly intelligent master of disguise is one of our planet's most intriguing and enigmatic creatures ...Show more
Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything by Tim James
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Category: Science and Nature
If you want to understand how our world works, the periodic table holds the answers. When the seventh row of the periodic table of elements was completed in June 2016 with the addition of four final elements--nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson--we at last could identify all the ingredients n ...Show more
Origins: How the Earth Made Us by Lewis Dartnell
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Category: Science and Nature
Why do so many of us eat cereal for breakfast?Is it because we like the taste? Or because 20 millions years ago, a certain species of plant colonised the same hospitable land that humanity did?Why is the world the way it is?If we follow chains of explanation as far back as they go - and keep asking, lik ...Show more
Rise of the Robots Technology and the threat of mass unemployment by Martin Ford
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Category: Science and Nature
If a 'robot' could do your job quicker than you and better than you for no pay, would you still be employed? Today it's travel agents, data-analyst and paralegals whose jobs are under threat. Soon it will be doctors, taxi-drivers and, ironically, even computer programmers. Without a radical reassessment ...Show more