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Written for science geeks and everyone curious about the world around us, this comprehensive sweep through modern science and technology is a solid family reference, covering the most important innovations and inventions in engineering, physics, medicine, chemistry, biology, and more.

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Shows how we need to change our world to fit our hunter-gatherer bodies. This book of popular science explores how the way we use our bodies is all wrong. It asks how our bodies got to be the way they are, and considers how that evolutionary history - both ancient and recent - can help us evaluate how we use our bodies.

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Dr. Amir Raz collects decades of research and case studies to offer the definitive, interdisciplinary account of how suggestion changes the brain and shapes our behavior, and how we can harness suggestibility in our own lives.

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How many different combinations of ice cream sundaes can be made Readers get the scoop along with Winnie the lunch lady, her cat Marshmallow, and some curious kids in this delicious tale. Full-color illustrations.

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Imagining a future in which humans fundamentally reshape the natural world using nanotechnology, synthetic biology, de-extinction, and climate engineering.

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For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendous accidents, phantom limbs, Siamese twins - and see how the victims changed afterwards.

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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018.

Our understanding of the tree of life, with powerful implications for human genetics, human health and our own human nature, has recently completely changed.

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John, aged sixty, suffered a stroke and recovered fully, except in one respect: although he can see perfectly, he can no longer recognise faces, even his own reflection in a mirror.

Whenever Francesca touches a particular texture, she experiences a vivid emotion: denim = extreme sadness;

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Can you multiply 5132437201 by 452736502785 in 70 seconds without reaching for your calaulator Well you could if you used the techniques in this revolutionary book for high-speed multiplication, division, addition, subtraction and square root.

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Presents an account of the state of modern physics: of how we got from Einstein and Relativity through quantum mechanics to the strange and bizarre predictions of string theory, full of unseen dimensions and multiple universes.

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Unravelling the latest amazing breakthroughs in theoretical physics, Stephen Hawking guides the reader through the evolution of Einsteinian physics to a universe of ten dimensions and a so-called theory of everything.

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A journey through 55 alternative realities, parallel worlds and possible futures from the million-selling New Scientist series.

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What links the birth of the moon to our body clocks How did the creation of the Atlantic Ocean affect how we have children What does the water inside us and on Earth have to do with the deepest stretches of space This book deals with these questions.

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A manifesto and a field guide for a new dawn of natural history, practiced by community scientists in their own urban jungle.

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Calling all of the trivia buffs! Loaded with over 200 entries and almost 2,000 bits of trivia, this book will arm you with hundreds of useless scientific tidbits perfect for curious minds.

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A youthful Charles Darwin records his impressions of the flora, fauna, and geology of the South American coasts.

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"A mind-bending jaunt ... that makes clear in fascinating detail how math is more than a sum of its parts" (Publishers Weekly)

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An absurdist, comical romp through evolution's weirdest solutions to nature's problems.

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A biography of the strangest molecule in the universe. Alok Jha takes the most every day of subjects - water - and explodes it into a story that takes us from the Big Bang to the latest developments of modern science