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By: Professor Michael Gordin
ISBN: 9781781251157
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 16th March 2017
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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'Michael Gordin's excellent Scientific Babel asks what drives the languages science uses, and how English came to dominate.' - New Scientist
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By: Chris van Tulleken
ISBN: 9780008256562
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 17th May 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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206 bones. One heart. Two eyes. Ten fingers. You may think you know what makes up a human. But it turns out our bodies are full of surprises.
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By: Jack Challoner
ISBN: 9780262544351
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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By: Antonio Damasio
ISBN: 9780099498025
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In Self Comes to Mind, world-renowned neuroscientist Antonio Damasio goes against the long-standing idea that consciousness is separate from the body, presenting compelling new scientific evidence that consciousness - what we think of as a mind with a self - is in fact a biological process created by a living organism.
(Hardback)
By: Jackie Higgins
ISBN: 9781529030778
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 24th June 2021
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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An enthralling examination of some of the most remarkable creatures in the animal kingdom, and what they tell us about what it means to be human.
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By: Telmo Pievani
ISBN: 9780262049153
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"In science, it frequently happens that researchers look for something and find something else: understanding why leads us to the heart of how scientific method works and to the root of its wonder"--
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By: Guy Leschziner
ISBN: 9780008615697
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 21st November 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Pride. Envy. Lust. Anger.
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By: Roger Penrose
ISBN: 9780099582113
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1995
UK Publication Date: 7th September 1995
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By the author of "The Emperor's New Mind", this is an exploration of what modern physics has to tell us about the mind, and a visionary description of what a new physics might look like. It is also a speculation on the biological process that makes consciousness what it is.
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By: Alex Pentland
ISBN: 9780262050999
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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How to build a flourishing society by using what we know about human nature to design our technology rather than let technology shape our society.
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By: Brandon R. Brown
ISBN: 9780262546959
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd August 2023
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"This book is a personal, practical, and inspirational guide for scientists and other technically trained professionals who seek to be more effective and empathetic in their writings for professional and nontechnical audiences"--
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By: Carl Zimmer
ISBN: 9781509818556
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 13th June 2019
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Award-winning, celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity in this sweeping, resonating overview of a force that shaped human society - a force set to shape our future even more radically.
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By: Professor Ian Stewart
ISBN: 9781781254301
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2018
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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Vivid accounts of the lives of 25 of the world's greatest mathematicians with clear descriptions of their far-reaching discoveries.
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By: Dave Goulson
ISBN: 9781529114423
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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He passionately argues that we must all learn to love, respect and care for our six-legged friends.
Eye-opening, inspiring and riveting, Silent Earth is part love letter to the insect world, part elegy, part rousing manifesto for a greener planet.
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By: Aarathi Prasad
ISBN: 9780008451844
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics.
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By: Jeffrey Kluger
ISBN: 9780719568138
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Simplexity. A groundbreaking new concept that reveals the hidden ways the world really works.
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By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780241507001
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: William Hartston
ISBN: 9781786494221
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A wonderfully entertaining celebration of that most unique of creatures: the sloth.
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By: Jon Butterworth
ISBN: 9781472210333
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2015
Publisher: John Murray Press
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY WINTON PRIZE 2015.
The first insider account of the work at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the discovery of the Higgs particle - and what it all means for our understanding of the laws of nature.
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By: Gemma Milne
ISBN: 9781472143662
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
UK Publication Date: 23rd April 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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An insightful guide to cutting through the hype (and idealism) that blinds us in the world of science and technology. Gemma Milne looks at nine different areas of research, from feeding the world to cures for cancer, and reveals how we're prevented from seeing what is really going on in the world, and held back from making real progress.
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By: Steven Hatch
ISBN: 9781782399896
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A unique insight into how and why medicine can go wrong: combines Daniel Kahneman with Atul Gawande to explain the science behind our health
(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: David Sumpter
ISBN: 9781472924148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 9th March 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Soccer as you have never viewed it before--an eye-opening presentation of the world's favorite sport.
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By: Charles Arthur
ISBN: 9780861542291
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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An impassioned exploration of the ways in which social media has manipulated us all
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By: Neil Shubin
ISBN: 9781786079428
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th April 2021
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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Nothing begins when you thought it did
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By: Sean Carroll
ISBN: 9781786076335
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The great genius of modern physics explains why quantum theory makes perfect sense
