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A guide to mentally calculating maths. It reveals the secrets of easy mental arithmetic, and the secrets to memorisation and other feats of mind. It includes puzzles, sudoku and games of mental stimulation.

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Mathematical savant and bestselling author of BORN ON A BLUE DAY, this is Tammet's engaging and personal exploration of what numbers can teach us about our lives and minds.

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A Nobel prize-winning physicist, a social psychologist and a philosopher on how science can help us navigate information overload, thrive amidst uncertainty and heal our fractured society

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From the bestselling editor of This Explains Everything, 206 of the world's most brilliant minds tackle Edge.org's 2017 question: What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known

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From the satirical mind behind the Ig Nobel Prizes comes a laugh-out-loud compendium of outlandish and thought-provoking science

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Over 150 of the world's leading scientists and thinkers offer their choice of the ideas, and arguments. Every year the author sets them a question, this year that question was: What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit In this book, their answers are collected and explores philosophy, psychology, and other disciplines.

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The clearest, most accessible explanation yet of the amazing world of quantum mechanics: a Duckworth contemporary classic, beautifully repackaged for our 125th anniversary

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Have you ever been in an accident and felt that time slowed down Have you felt time stretch radically, or even apparentlydisappear, in a state of deep meditation Psychologist Dr Steve Taylor calls these Time Expansion Experiences, and in this book he shares his years of research into this life-changing phenomenon.

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Large, dramatic photographs of a variety of ants and a brief fact- filled text will fascinate developing readers. Ages 6+.

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Beginning readers will discover how bees live and work together in a title with clear, interesting text and a lively photograph on every spread. Ages 6+.

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Nothing seems more real than time passing. We experience life as a succession of moments. But just as some of us see God as eternal, so physicists understand the truths of mathematics and the laws of nature as constant, transcending time. This book explains how the true nature of time impacts on us, our world, and our universe.

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An astrophysicist provides this investigation into the possibility of time travel.

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Moving from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad to Oxford, and from the Museum of Alexandria to the Royal Society of London, the author shows that the scientists of the past not only did not understand what we understand about the world - they did not understand what there is to understand.

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In two main sections, this volume covers peaks of random functions and the effects of noise on relays and nonlinear self-excited oscillations in the presence of noise

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"This book presents a modern, category-theory-based approach to topology to supplement the more traditional algebraic topology graduate course"--

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Exploring the many surprising facts and myths about our sense of touch, this book reveals how it defines us - and how, by understanding it, we can better know ourselves.

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The space-time continuum of physics ignores the realm of the mind. But consciousness is unconfined by space or time and represents a higher organizing principle, a fifth dimension, that transcends the speed of light. Marc Seifer examines relativity, ether theory, precognition, telepathy, and synchronicity, all from the perspective of the conscious universe.

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With the help of illustrations and examples from biology, linguistics and social and cultural phenomena, this book shows that the process of learning is not a means of knowing an absolute world of facts, but is rather an active process which itself creates the world of human experiences.