The Sloth Lemur's Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present by Alison Richard
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Category: Science and Nature
A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island.Madagascar is a place of change. A biodiversity hotspot and the fourth largest island on the planet, it has been home to a spectacular parade of animals, from giant fl ...Show more
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution - The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum by Lee Smolin
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Category: Philosophy
From Canada's leading mind on contemporary physics, a daring new vision of the universe, and the scandals controversies, and questions that will illuminate our future. Quantum physics is the golden child of modern science. It is the basis of our understanding of our world--atoms, radiation, elementa ...Show more
The Age of Resilience - Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth by Jeremy Rifkin
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Category: Science and Nature
The Age of Resilience: Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth is a wide-ranging look at the political, economic and cultural effects of the global shift from an economy based on efficiency to one based on resilience.
The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention by Simon Baron-Cohen
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Category: Science and Nature
'Celebrates human cognitive diversity, and is rich with empathy and psychological insight' Steven PinkerWhy can humans alone invent? In this book, psychologist and world renowned autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen puts forward a bold new theory- because we can identify patterns, specifically if-and-then pa ...Show more
The Chemistry Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) by .
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Category: Science and Nature
An accessible guide to more than 95 of the most important discoveries and theories in the history of chemistryDiscover and understand the key ideas that underpin the core science of chemistry and learn about the great minds who uncovered them Written in plain English, The Chemistry Book is packed with s ...Show more
50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need To Know by Ben Dupre
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Have you ever lain awake at night fretting over how we can be sure of the reality of the external world? Perhaps we are in fact disembodied brains, floating in vats at the whim of some deranged puppet-master? If so, you are not alone - and what's more, you are in exalted company. For this question and o ...Show more
The Man Who Loved Pink Dolphins: A true story of life and death in the Amazon by Anthony Ham
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Category: Science and Nature
Acclaimed travel and nature writer Anthony Ham spotlights the world's largest rainforest in this unique combination of international politics, conservation, true crime, travel, biography and memoir. When Chris Clark was born in Glasgow in 1960, the Amazon was still intact and magnificent. Over his lifet ...Show more
Uncovering Einstein's New Universe: From Wallal to Gravitational Wave Astronomy by David Blair, Ron Burman, Paul Davies
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Category: Science and Nature
Einstein gave us a vision of a new universe in which time and space are warped and rippling in response to everything else in the universe. Vast bursts of energy in the form of ripples of pure and empty space are passing through us at light speed, carrying messages about a dying universe and about the p ...Show more
Quantum Supremacy: How Quantum Computers will Unlock the Mysteries of Science - and Address Humanity's Biggest Challenges by Michio Kaku
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Category: Science and Nature
"The runaway success of the microchip processor may be nearing its end, with profound implications for our economy, society and way of life, even leaving Silicon Valley as a new Rust Belt, its technology obsolete. Step forward the quantum computer, which harnesses the power and complexity of the atomic ...Show more
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic by Bill Gates
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Category: Science and Nature
The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, but even as governments around the world strive to put it behind us, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent a new pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy? Can we even hope to accomplish this?Bill Gat ...Show more
Underground Lovers: Encounters with fungi by Alison Pouliot
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Category: Science and Nature
'Mists waft gently around me and slowly drizzle water through the fronds of tree ferns. Lichens wrap around twisted blackwood limbs like ornate scarves. In the gloom of the forest floor, fallen branches are sheathed with fungal stripes of yellow and purple. But beneath the colourful surface, the fallen ...Show more
The Social Lives of Animals: How Co-operation Conquered the Natural World by Ashley Ward
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Category: Science and Nature
Everything you ever wanted to know about how animals live together, and what that means for us 'Any writer who can evoke the existential sadness of a lonely cockroach, or make krill thrilling, or describe a snorkelling colleague being engulfed in a "gargantuan cetacean bum detonation" is a real gift to ...Show more