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Drawing on recent discoveries and insights, How Life Works outlines a new vision of biology for the 21st century.

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No longer reviled, curiosity is now celebrated.

By examining the rise of curiosity from the dawn of modern science to today, we can examine how it functions in science, how it is spun, packaged and sold, and how the changing shape of science influences the kinds of questions it may ask.

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Philip Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim - known to later ages as Paracelsus - stands on the borderline between medieval and modern;

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Unnatural delves beneath the surface of the cultural history of 'anthropoeia' - the artificial creation of people - to explore what it tells us about our views on life, humanity, creativity and technology, and the soul.

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Drawing on recent discoveries and insights, How Life Works outlines a new vision of our understanding of life for the 21st century.

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Prize-winning science writer Philip Ball explores the diversity of thinking minds, from the variety of human minds to those of mammals, insects, computers and plants, in a book that brilliantly illuminates how many different ways there are to think and engage with the world; and how unique are our own.

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The first fully illustrated history of the chemical elements.

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Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from

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Is there a physics of society Ranging from Hobbes and Adam Smith to traffic flow and market trading, and across economics, sociology and psychology, Ball shows how much we can understand of human behaviour when we cease trying to predict and analyse behaviour of individuals and look to the impact of millions of individual human decisions.

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The brilliantly told and gripping story of the most familiar - yet, amazingly, still poorly understood - substance in the universe: Water.

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Drawing on recent discoveries and insights, How Life Works outlines a new vision of our understanding of life for the 21st century.

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A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in genetic editing, cloning and neural downloading.

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If you could be invisible, what would you do The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex. Perhaps all three. Impulses like these have always been at the heart of our fascination with invisibility. This book offers a history of humanity's turbulent relationship with the invisible.

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Among them were world-renowned physicists Max Planck, Peter Debye and Werner Heisenberg.

After the war most scientists in Germany maintained they had been apolitical or even resisted the regime: Debye claimed that he had gone to America in 1940 to escape Nazi interference in his research;

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"This book will combine photographs with evocative text to show how chemistry underpins the formation of snowflakes, the patterns of animal markings, and much more"--

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Prize-winning science writer Philip Ball explores the diversity of thinking minds, from the variety of human minds to those of mammals, insects, computers and plants, in a book that brilliantly illuminates how many different ways there are to think and engage with the world; and how unique are our own.

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Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music Why does music excite such rich emotion And how do we make sense of musical sound This title explores how the research in music psychology and brain science is piecing together the puzzle of how our minds understand and respond to music.

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A dazzlingly energetic debut novel about the search for unlimited energy.

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Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The Economist

China's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and imperial intrigue.