No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine by Professor Steve Jones
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Category: Science and Nature
Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an upheaval both of understanding and of politics. Many had an astonishing breadth of talents. The Minister ...Show more
The Rules of Contagion by Adam Kucharski
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Category: Science and Nature
'It is hard to imagine a more timely book ... much of the modern world will make more sense having read it.' The Times'Brilliant and authoritative' - Alex Bellos, author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland A deadly virus suddenly explodes into the population. A political movement gathers pace, and then q ...Show more
Beginners: The Curious Power of Lifelong Learning by Tom Vanderbilt
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Category: Science and Nature
Discover why learning is good for us and how to develop a 'Beginner's Mindset'. For many of us, the last time we learned a new skill was during childhood. We live in an age which reveres expertise but looks down on the beginner. Upon entering adulthood and middle age, we begin to shy away from trying n ...Show more
The Story of Life in 10½ Chapters by Marianne Taylor
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Category: Science and Nature
An exploration of the key aspects of life on Earth - now and in the future - through the study of 10 and a half species. If an alien visitor were to collect ten souvenir life forms to represent life on earth, which would they be? This is the thought-provoking premise of Marianne Taylor's The Story of L ...Show more
Magnificent Principia - Exploring Isaac Newton's Masterpiece by Colin Pask
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Despite its dazzling reputation, Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, or simply the Principia, remains a mystery for many people. Few of even the most intellectually curious readers, including professional scientists and mathematicians, have actually looked in the Principia or ap ...Show more
Ultimate Explorer Rocks and Minerals by National Geographic Kids
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: Nat Geo - Ultimate Explorer Ser.
This fun, photo-filled, fact-packed guide to rocks and minerals will get kids outside to discover the amazing world underneath their feet. Created for the ultimate explorer, this book gives kids the knowledge and skills they need to identify just about anything they dig up and become true rock hounds. W ...Show more
Understanding Numbers (Build and Become): 20 Thought-Provoking Lessons by Marianne Freiberger; Rachel Thomas
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: Build+become Ser.
Mathematics is an indispensable tool for life. From the systems that underpin our newsfeeds, through to the data analysis that informs our health and financial decisions, to the algorithms that power how we search online - mathematics is at the heart of how our modern world functions. In 20 dip-in less ...Show more
What Is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker
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Category: Science and Nature
"A thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science." --New York Times Book ReviewEvery physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physi ...Show more
Maddox by Chris Abrahams
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Category: Science and Nature
After a stint as a music venue proprietor, Geoff Maddox is getting on with his life: managing his complex domestic situation; visiting the local shopping mall; and socialising with the regulars at the Stella Maris Hotel. This routine is disrupted by a fateful encounter with a young dancer, Amber, and th ...Show more
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord
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Category: Science and Nature
Humanity stands at a precipice. We live at a time of unprecedented innovation. Technology is accelerating faster than at any point in history, granting us ever greater power, and creating ever greater risk. In the twentieth century, we developed the means to destroy ourselves o without developing the mo ...Show more
Fossil Men - The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind by Kermit Pattison
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Category: Science and Nature
A behind-the-scenes account of the shocking discovery of the skeleton of "Ardi," a human ancestor far older than Lucy - a find that shook the world of paleoanthropology and radically altered our understanding of human evolution. In 1994, a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White--"the Steve Jobs of ...Show more
Plate Tectonics A Ladybird Expert Book by Iain Stewart
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: Ladybird Expert Ser.
Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series. Discover in this accessible and authoritative introduction the fundamental theory of how our dynamic planet works. Written by the celebrated geologist, academic and popular science presenter Iain Stewart, Plate Tectonics explores the Earth as a planetary machi ...Show more