(Hardback)
By: Duncan Wu
ISBN: 9781541672932
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Basic Books
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Dogs in verse -- from Homer to Wordsworth to Gwendolyn Brooks
(Paperback)
By: Don Norman
ISBN: 9780465051366
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2005
UK Publication Date: 11th May 2005
Publisher: Basic Books
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Did you ever wonder why cheap wine tastes better in fancy glasses Why sales of Macintosh computers soared when Apple introduced the colorful iMac New research on emotion and cognition has shown that
(Paperback)
By: George Weigel
ISBN: 9780465075676
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Basic Books
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"A serious and acute work.... Weigel's ability to combine the spiritual insights of a believer with the dispassionate analysis of a historian makes Evangelical Catholicism valuable for Catholics and non-Catholics, of all political persuasions, who care about the Church's future."- National Review
(Paperback)
By: Matthew Sands
ISBN: 9780465060719
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2014
Publisher: Basic Books
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A long-awaited compilation of exercises to accompany the Feynman Lectures on Physics
(Hardback)
By: Irvin Yalom
ISBN: 9780465021475
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 1980
Publisher: Basic Books
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Distills the essence of a wide range of therapies into a creative synthesis, opening up a new way of understanding each person's confrontation with four ultimate concerns: isolation, meaninglessness, death, and freedom.
(Paperback)
By: Bjorn Lomborg
ISBN: 9781541606388
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Basic Books
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An "important" (Times UK) and "meticulously researched" (Forbes) book by the "skeptical environmentalist" argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than good
(Paperback)
By: Richard Feynman
ISBN: 9780465027972
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 29th January 2013
Publisher: Basic Books
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Essential advice on problem solving from physics' clearest teacher
(Hardback)
By: Paul Lockhart
ISBN: 9781541672963
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th November 2021
Publisher: Basic Books
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How military technology has transformed the world
(Hardback)
By: Paul Halpern
ISBN: 9781541673595
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 16th September 2021
Publisher: Basic Books
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The great battle over the Big Bang Theory and the quest to answer physics' greatest questions: how did the Universe begin, could it change, and would it end
(Paperback)
By: Peter Gray
ISBN: 9780465084999
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2015
UK Publication Date: 10th February 2015
Publisher: Basic Books
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A passionate defense of the power of play-a child development expert shows why "unschooling" is the best way to get kids to learn
(Paperback)
By: Douglas R. Hofstadter
ISBN: 9780465026562
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1999
UK Publication Date: 5th February 1999
Publisher: Basic Books
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A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll
(Paperback)
By: Sari Botton
ISBN: 9781541675681
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th April 2021
Publisher: Basic Books
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From Roxane Gay to Leslie Jamison, 30 brilliant writers share their timeless stories about the everlasting magic -- and occasional misery -- of living in the Big Apple, in a new edition of the classic anthology
(Hardback)
By: Scott Weems
ISBN: 9780465031702
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Basic Books
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An entertaining tour of the science of humour and laughter
(Paperback)
By: Ted Gioia
ISBN: 9780465093496
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2017
Publisher: Basic Books
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An acclaimed music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz
(Paperback)
By: Chad Orzel
ISBN: 9780465023318
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2012
Publisher: Basic Books
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Everyone talks to their pets; Chad Orzel tells his about relativity.
(Paperback)
By: Douglas Hofstadter
ISBN: 9780465030798
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 8th July 2008
Publisher: Basic Books
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One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from--and how our selves can exist in the minds of others
(Hardback)
By: Kelsey Johnson
ISBN: 9781541604360
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Basic Books
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A leading astronomer and gifted teacher takes readers on a wondrous tour of how science confronts the big questions-about the universe's origins, destiny, and fundamental nature-and how it contends with the limits of our knowledge
(Hardback)
By: Jack Szostak
ISBN: 9781541602960
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Basic Books
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A New York Times-bestselling astrophysicist and a Nobel laureate describe the quest to discover how and where the universe breathed life into matter
(Paperback, 5th edition)
By: Michael Walzer
ISBN: 9780465052714
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Basic Books
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A penetrating investigation into moral and ethical questions raised by war, drawing on examples from antiquity to the present
(Paperback)
By: Mark Seidenberg
ISBN: 9781541617155
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2018
Publisher: Basic Books
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"Every teacher of young children as well as those who train them should read this book." --Wall Street Journal
(Paperback)
By: Christopher Hitchens
ISBN: 9780465030330
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2005
UK Publication Date: 13th April 2005
Publisher: Basic Books
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From bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreement
(Paperback)
By: Nadia Comaneci
ISBN: 9780465025053
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
UK Publication Date: 8th November 2011
Publisher: Basic Books
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A unique glimpse into the remarkable life, and fascinating mindset, of the woman who broke records-and boundaries-for female athletes everywhere
(Paperback)
By: Albert-laszlo Barabasi
ISBN: 9780465085736
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2014
Publisher: Basic Books
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"Linked could alter the way we think about all the networks that affect our lives."-New York Times
(Paperback)
By: Edward Frenkel
ISBN: 9780465064953
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2014
UK Publication Date: 9th September 2014
Publisher: Basic Books
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"Fascinating...Frenkel deftly takes the reader from the beginnings of this mathematical symphony to the far reaches of our current understanding." -Nature
