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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.
(Hardback)
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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(Paperback)
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
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By: Professor Steve Jones
ISBN: 9780349123486
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Britain's favourite geneticist, Steve Jones, updates the Bible from the point of view of modern science.
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By: Lily Bernheimer
ISBN: 9781472137869
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A fascinating new popular science title that shows how our behaviour and character is subtly influenced by our environment - both natural and designed.
(Hardback)
By: Daniel Oberhaus
ISBN: 9780262049351
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 21st January 2025
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Why the race to apply AI in psychiatry is so dangerous, and how to understand the new tech-driven psychiatric paradigm.
(Paperback)
By: Simon Singh
ISBN: 9781408842812
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 25th September 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Prof Steven Mithen
ISBN: 9780753820513
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2006
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2006
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A fascinating and incisive examination of our language instinct from award-winning science writer Steven Mithen.
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By: Sarah Stewart Johnson
ISBN: 9780141981581
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Michael Shermer
ISBN: 9781576076538
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A thorough, objective, and balanced analysis of the most prominent controversies made in the name of science-from the effectiveness of proposed medical treatments to the reality of supernatural claims.
(Hardback)
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
ISBN: 9781847925978
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The Soul of Genius: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting that Changed the Course of Science
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By: Jeffrey Orens
ISBN: 9781643137148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2021
Publisher: Pegasus Books
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A prismatic look at the meeting of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein and the impact these two pillars of science had on the world of physics, which was in turmoil.
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By: Frances Ashcroft
ISBN: 9780141046532
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From before birth to the last breath we draw, from consciousness to sexual attraction, fighting infection to the beating of our hearts, electricity is essential to everything we think and do. This title reveals the secrets of ion channels, which produce the electrical signals in our cells.
(Hardback)
By: Christopher T. Conner
ISBN: 9781666948387
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Spectacle of Online Life explores digital paradoxesconnection and isolation, empowerment and controlthrough topics like influencer culture, AI moderation, and online conspiracies.
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By: Alanna Mitchell
ISBN: 9781786075505
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2019
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The fascinating history of electromagnetism and how, in the not-so-distant future, the Earths poles will switch places with potentially catastrophic results
(Hardback)
By: Alanna Mitchell
ISBN: 9781786074249
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2018
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The fascinating history of electromagnetism and how, in the not-so-distant future, the Earths poles will switch places with potentially catastrophic results
(Hardback)
By: James Trefil
ISBN: 9781426217050
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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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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By: Daniel Lieberman
ISBN: 9780141399959
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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.
(Paperback)
By: Christopher J. Preston
ISBN: 9780262537094
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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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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By: Sam Kean
ISBN: 9781784161033
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th March 2015
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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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.
(Hardback)
By: Alexander C. Karp
ISBN: 9781847928528
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 20th February 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: V. S. Ramachandran
ISBN: 9780099537595
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2012
Publisher: Cornerstone
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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;
(Hardback)
By: Stephen Witt
ISBN: 9781847928276
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th April 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Lee Smolin
ISBN: 9780141018355
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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.
