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By: Professor Robin Dunbar
ISBN: 9780571253425
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Robin Dunbar explains how the distant past underpins our current behaviour, through the groundbreaking experiments that have changed the thinking of evolutionary biologists forever.
(Hardback)
By: Jan Spitzer
ISBN: 9780262045575
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"An original physicochemical contribution to the problem of understanding life and its emergence, incorporating concepts from planetary sciences, chemistry and biology"--
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By: Paul Bloom
ISBN: 9780099548768
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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We are attracted, whether we know it or not, to the hidden aspects of things and people. Some teenagers enjoy cutting themselves with razors. Some men pay good money to be spanked by prostitutes. The average Briton spends over a day a week watching television. This title examines the science behind these curious desires, attractions and tastes.
(Hardback)
By: Joseph Jebelli
ISBN: 9781529300130
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving.
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By: Lo Grasset
ISBN: 9781781256299
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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The Just So stories retold in the light of evolution by France's brightest young natural scientist
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By: Sharon Rose
ISBN: 9780316439251
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
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For anyone who has ever wondered, "How do they make that" How Things Are Made is an entertaining, illustrated exploration of the process behind the manufacture of everyday items.
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By: Nicholas Agar
ISBN: 9780262038744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 12th March 2019
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy.
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By: Marcus du Sautoy
ISBN: 9781786484970
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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Part of the Little Ways to Live a Big Life series, an enlightening and informative book that teaches you how to count to infinity and beyond, by Britain's most celebrated mathematician.
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By: Paul Parsons
ISBN: 9780857388377
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 30th August 2012
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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Everything you ever wanted to know about physics in 35 bite-size chapters.
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By: Kit Yates
ISBN: 9781529408676
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A fascinating exploration of how we can make better, accessible, mathematically-informed predictions about the world around us.
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By: Philip Ball
ISBN: 9780008331818
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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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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By: Mark H. Lee
ISBN: 9780262043731
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2020
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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How to develop robots that will be more like humans and less like computers, more social than machine-like, and more playful and less programmed.
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By: Alok Jha
ISBN: 9780857388353
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 30th August 2012
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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Everything you ever wanted to know about science in 35 bite size chapters.
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By: Christopher Potter
ISBN: 9780007447817
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A startling investigation of what it means to be human.
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By: Mark Ridley
ISBN: 9781862077287
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Publisher: Granta Books
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How to Read is a personal master-class in reading, bringing you face to face with the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history
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By: Nick Clegg
ISBN: 9781847928597
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2025
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Nicholas Mirzoeff
ISBN: 9780141977409
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In recent decades, we have witnessed an explosion in the number of visual images we encounter, as our lives have become increasingly saturated with screens. Drawing on art history, theory and everyday experience, this book provides an overview of how visual materials shape and define our lives.
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By: George Polya
ISBN: 9780140124996
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 26th April 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of practical lessons that demonstrates how the true mathematician learns to draw unexpected analogies, tackle problems from unusual angles, and extract information from the data.
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By: Richard Elwes
ISBN: 9780857388384
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2012
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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Everything you ever wanted to know about maths in 35 bite-size chapters.
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By: Bruce Benamran
ISBN: 9780753548806
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2018
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Bruce isnt pretending that science isnt tricky, but in simple, maths-free explanations and just-the-good-parts historical recaps, he shows us that the greatest scientific discoveries and theories dont have to remain beyond our grasp.
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By: Tom Mustill
ISBN: 9780008363383
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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By: Stephen P Kramer
ISBN: 9780690045659
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1987
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Uses questions about hypothetical situations to introduce the process of thinking according to scientific method.
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By: Robert Martin
ISBN: 9780465030156
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
Publisher: Basic Books
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A leading primatologist offers a provocative new look at the past, present and future of sex, pregnancy, and childcare
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By: Giovanni Frazzetto
ISBN: 9780552778817
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2014
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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What can a brain scan, or our reaction to a Caravaggio painting, reveal about the deep seat of guilt How can reading Heidegger, or conducting experiments on rats, help us to cope with anxiety in the face of the world's economic crisis This title takes us on a journey through our everyday lives and most common emotions.
