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By: Stephen Kurczy
ISBN: 9780062945495
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Daniel Bor
ISBN: 9780465020478
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
Publisher: Basic Books
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A brash young neuroscientist presents his solution to biology's hardest problem-what consciousness is, and why we have it, and what it means for our self perception and our mental health
By: Professor Helmut Pulte
ISBN: 9780826479709
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The writings and example of Isaac Newton transformed understandings of the practice and meaning of the sciences across Europe in the century or so following the publication of the "Principia" in 1687. This title surveys Newton's reception across Europe.
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By: Matt Ridley
ISBN: 9780140167726
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1994
UK Publication Date: 6th October 1994
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from the contentious problem of why the wasteful reproductive process exists at all, to how individuals choose their mates and what traits they find attractive. This book explores those findings.
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By: Monty Lyman
ISBN: 9781784163525
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 20th February 2020
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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By: Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN: 9780099488675
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2007
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Stephen Jay Gould's writings on history - both of the natural world and of the study of that natural world - had made him a household name by the time of his death in 2002. This work contains a selection of Gould's writing, including some of the most famous of his essays and extracts from his major books.
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By: Joe Dr. Schwarcz
ISBN: 9780385671590
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Random House Canada
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A big part of Dr. Joe's job as director of McGill University's Office of Science and Society is persuading people that the pursuit of science knowledge is a potential source of wonder, enlightenment and well-being for everyone. And as a chemist, he's particularly keen to rescue chemistry from the bad rep it's developed over recent decades.
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By: Martin Ford
ISBN: 9781780748481
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2016
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015
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By: Roger Penrose
ISBN: 9780099440680
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2006
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In a single work of colossal scope one of the world's greatest scientists has given us a complete and unrivalled guide to the glories of the universe that we all inhabit.
'Roger Penrose is the most important physicist to work in relativity theory except for Einstein.
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By: Katherine Mathieson
ISBN: 9781785515309
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd
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In this enjoyable guide to the Royal Institution, Director Katherine Mathieson shares her favourite features associated with its famous scientists over the last 220 years.
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By: Adam Kucharski
ISBN: 9781788160209
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 28th January 2021
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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The bestselling - and hugely timely - guide to the science of contagion, revised and updated to address Covid-19.
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By: National Geographic
ISBN: 9781426208089
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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Centuries of scientific thought in one volume
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By: Chiara Marletto
ISBN: 9780141986463
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Marty Jopson
ISBN: 9781782439608
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2018
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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In this fascinating scientific tour of household objects, The One Show's resident scientist Marty Jopson explains the answers to many baffling questions about the chemistry and physics of the stuff we use every day.
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By: Hannah Critchlow
ISBN: 9781473659315
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2021
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The Sunday Times top ten bestseller - neuroscientist Hannah Critchlow shows how our future is already largely hardwired into our brains. Like Sapiens and Thinking Fast and Slow, The Science of Fate revolutionises the way we understand our species and ourselves.
(Hardback)
By: Helen Keen
ISBN: 9781473632318
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A myth-busting, mind-blowing, jaw-dropping and fun-filled expedition through the world of Game of Thrones.
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By: Helen Keen
ISBN: 9781473632349
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 29th June 2017
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A myth-busting, mind-blowing, jaw-dropping and fun-filled expedition through the world of Game of Thrones.
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By: Professor Robin Dunbar
ISBN: 9780571253456
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2013
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A brilliant and sparkling exploration of the extraordinary nature of romantic love - from the frontline of cutting-edge scientific research.
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By: Lee McIntyre
ISBN: 9780262538930
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2020
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence.
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By: Freeman J. Dyson
ISBN: 9781590172940
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2008
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Dyson profiles scientists-Newton Einstein, Teller, Feynman-whose independent thought allowed them to make great conceptual leaps.
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By: Brian Switek
ISBN: 9780715653791
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
UK Publication Date: 8th August 2019
Publisher: Duckworth Books
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InThe Secret Life of Bones, Brian Switek frames the history of our species through the importance of bone from instruments and jewellery, to objects of worship and conquest from the origins of religion through the genesis of science up to today.
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By: Aram Sinnreich
ISBN: 9780262048811
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 19th April 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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By: Mariano Sigman
ISBN: 9780008210953
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 14th June 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Where do our thoughts come from
How can we manipulate our dreams
What is the role of the unconscious
How do we make decisions and trust the judgement of both others and ourselves
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By: Tom Oliver
ISBN: 9781474611763
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 21st January 2021
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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An explosive popular science book that brings to life the overwhelming evidence contradicting the perception we have of ourselves as independent beings
