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'Required reading for everyone' Adam Rutherford

Medicine, education, psychology, economics - wherever it really matters, we look to science for guidance.

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"On many of the most critical issues of our time, the'progressive' perspective is often rooted in out-dated, anti-empirical junk science paradigms that threaten innovation... Read Science Left Behind. It's a clarion call for the empirically minded amongst us, regardless of your ideological persuasion."- Forbes

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Genius Inventions gives us a fantastic perspective on the great minds and events that shaped our modern world today. Includes fascinating on-the-page reproductions of letters, designs, plans and blueprints sourced from the museums and collections around the world. An official Science Musuem publication.

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They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time track. Can the God of Evolution come to humanity's aid and ensure Darwin writes a very different book

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Written by self-confessed geeks, and experienced science writers who are adept at translating the complicated concepts of 'hard science' into engaging insights for the general reader, this is a light-hearted, yet incredibly useful guide to life.

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Do aliens with acid blood exist Will we ever go Back to the Future And just why were the original Planet of the Ape movies so terrible

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This is a history of intellectual courage, hard work, occasional inspiration and every conceivable form of human failing.

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Provides thought-provoking answers to a variety of baffling questions about the world of science, providing an intriguing glimpse into everything from astronomy and biology to human anatomy and physiology, chemistry, physics, zoology, and more.

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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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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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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.

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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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"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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Among them were world-renowned physicists Max Planck, Peter Debye and Werner Heisenberg.

After the war most scientists in Germany maintained they had been apolitical or even resisted the regime: Debye claimed that he had gone to America in 1940 to escape Nazi interference in his research;

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Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Pride. Envy. Lust. Anger.

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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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"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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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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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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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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Simplexity. A groundbreaking new concept that reveals the hidden ways the world really works.

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A wonderfully entertaining celebration of that most unique of creatures: the sloth.