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The brilliantly told and gripping story of the most familiar - yet, amazingly, still poorly understood - substance in the universe: Water.

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A fresh and entertaining perspective on materials science, involving the craftspeople who have built their careers around working with materials such as clay, stone, steel and wool.

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How did the human brain evolve Why did it evolve as it did What is man's place in evolution This book explores the big ideas about the brain, the nervous system and man's place in history. It reveals how science actually works - the passions, the irrational flashes, the moments of insight; the big ideas that work and turn out to be wrong.

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"Exhaustive history of Helmholtz's work on the conservation of energy and its broad acceptance"--

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A fascinating and illuminating look at the sun and our relationships to it, from one of our greatest science writers.

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A fascinating and illuminating look at the sun and our relationships to it, from one of our greatest science writers.

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DNA technology has already changed our health care, the food we eat, and our criminal justice system. This title reveals information about the experiment's participants and scientists; how the experiment was, is, and can be conducted; and, the profound implications of having an unfiltered view of our hardwired selves for us and for our children.

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On July 4th, 2012, one of physics' most exhilarating results was announced: a new particle and very likely a new kind of particle had been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider, the huge particle accelerator designed to reproduce energies present in the universe a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

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The hilarious new popular science book from the bestselling authors of the Sunday Times Book of the Year Science(ish).

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A fascinatingly original look at how the sea has defined Britain - and decided the course of its past - for thousands of years. Combining science, history and travel into a unique and irreverent guide to the British coast, this book will ensure the next time you stand on a beach you will never look at the coast the same way again.

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When did the first people arrive here What did they look like How did they survive Who were the Neanderthals The author takes us back to when it was so tropical we lived alongside hippos, elephants and sabre-toothed tigers or to times so cold we hunted reindeer and mammoth, and to others even colder when we were forced to flee a wall of ice.

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Provocative, ground-breaking and entertaining, the worlds leading expert on sexuality and the ovulation cycle reveals the hidden intelligence of hormones.

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Answers to 20 of the most mindbending and perplexing mathematical questions.

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A lively and eclectic sequence of more than 150 concise and intellectually challenging essays in which the world's leading thinkers reflect on how the internet has changed their modes of thought.

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New Scientist's brilliant million-selling Christmas book comes of age, exploring everything from the science of bubbles to whether cats are better than dogs

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Robin Dunbar explains how the distant past underpins our current behaviour, through the groundbreaking experiments that have changed the thinking of evolutionary biologists forever.

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Why do men talk, women gossip, and which is better for you When is it good to be tall and why is monogamy a drain on the brain And why should you suspect someone who has more than 150 friends on Facebook

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We are attracted, whether we know it or not, to the hidden aspects of things and people. Some teenagers enjoy cutting themselves with razors. Some men pay good money to be spanked by prostitutes. The average Briton spends over a day a week watching television. This title examines the science behind these curious desires, attractions and tastes.

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The Just So stories retold in the light of evolution by France's brightest young natural scientist