Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla (Word Cloud Classics) by Thomas Commerford Martin
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
The early works of famed inventor Nikola Tesla, and a source of inspiration for generations of innovators. At the time it was first published in 1893, The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla was considered the bible of electrical engineering and inspired generations of inventors. Th ...Show more
Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe by Brian Clegg
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Category: Science and Nature
How patterns--from diagrams of spacetime to particle trails revealed by supercolliders--offer clues to the fundamental workings of the physical world. Our universe might appear chaotic, but deep down it's simply a myriad of rules working independently to create patterns of action, force, and consequence ...Show more
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run the World by Oliver Milman
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Category: Science and Nature
How would we live if insects no longer existed? When is the last time you were stung by a wasp? Or were followed by a cloud of midges? Or saw a butterfly? All these normal occurrences are becoming much rarer. A groundswell of research suggests insect numbers are in serious decline all over the world - i ...Show more
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century by Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein
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Category: Science and Nature
A bold, provocative history of our species finds the deep origins of society's success and failure in our evolutionary history.
Australian Birds in Pictures by Duade Matthew ; Paton Jones
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Category: Science and Nature
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A History of Delusions - The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse by Victoria Shepherd
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Category: Science and Nature
The extraordinary ways the brain can misfire. 'Fascinating and compassionate' Horatio Clare The King of France - thinking he was made of glass - was terrified he might shatter...and he wasn't alone. After the Emperor met his end at Waterloo, an epidemic of Napoleons piled into France's asylums. Th ...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 Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on It by Fiona McMillan-Webster
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Category: Science and Nature
Plants evolved seeds to hack time. Thanks to seeds they can cast their genes forward into the future, enabling species to endure across seasons, years, and occasionally millennia. When a 2000-year-old extinct date palm seed was discovered, no one expected it to still be alive. But it sprouted a healthy ...Show more
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 by Matt Ridley
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Category: Science and Nature
Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus came from nature or from a lab will help us to safeguard against the next pandemic. This disease will forever punctuate modern history. It has led to the deaths of millions, ...Show more
Regeneration - The Rescue of a Wild Land by Andrew Painting
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Category: Science and Nature
Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2021In 1995 the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge Estate in the heart of the Cairngorms. Home to over 5,000 species, this vast expanse of Caledonian woodlands, subarctic mountains, bogs, moors, roaring burns and frozen lochs could be a place where envi ...Show more
The Skeptics' Guide to the Future by Steven Novella
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Category: Science and Nature
Pre-order now: the new book from the bestselling authors and hosts of the wildy popular 'The Skeptics Guide to the Universe'__________Our predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to our present hopes and fears, biases and ignorance. Whether they be the outlandish leaps predicted ...Show more
Mystery: A Seduction, A Strategy, A Solution by Jonah Lehrer
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Category: Science and Nature
New York Times bestselling author Jonah Lehrer “unravels the mystery of mysteries” in this “absolute delight” (Malcolm Gladwell) of a book that blends psychology, neuroscience, and anthropology to shine a new light on everything from the formulas of our favorite detective shows to the tricks of successf ...Show more