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By: Matt Simon
ISBN: 9781472242013
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 21st September 2017
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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An absurdist, comical romp through evolution's weirdest solutions to nature's problems.
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By: Alok Jha
ISBN: 9781472209535
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 19th May 2016
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A biography of the strangest molecule in the universe. Alok Jha takes the most every day of subjects - water - and explodes it into a story that takes us from the Big Bang to the latest developments of modern science
(Hardback)
By: Jeff Jarvis
ISBN: 9781541604124
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Basic Books
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A bold defense of the internet, arguing that attempts to fix and regulate it are often misguided
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By: John List
ISBN: 9781847946751
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2015
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Based on groundbreaking original research, The Why Axis is a colourful examination of why people do what they do and how effective incentives can spur people to change their behaviour and achieve more.
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By: Charles C. Mann
ISBN: 9781509884186
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 10th January 2019
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The Wizard and the Prophet tackles the biggest question we humans are facing: can the earth sustain our growing population Our very existence is reliant on finding an answer to this one big question.
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By: Professor Bryan Sykes
ISBN: 9780008244453
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
UK Publication Date: 14th November 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today.
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By: Rob Myers
ISBN: 9781770410619
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
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(Paperback)
By: Alan Weisman
ISBN: 9780753559710
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 12th May 2022
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Arik Kershenbaum
ISBN: 9780241986844
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Theodore Gray
ISBN: 9781579128753
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2005
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
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The author of the bestselling book "The Elements" demonstrates essential scientific principles through 54 thrilling daredevil experiments. Every experiment is accompanied by full-color photographs that provide a front-row seat to rarely seen chemical reactions and glorious subatomic activity.
(Hardback)
By: Theodore Gray
ISBN: 9780316395083
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2016
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
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The ultimate Theodore Gray collection, Completely Mad Science collects every one of Gray's dramatic, visually spectacular, and ultimately enlightening scientific experiments-94 in all- into one complete volume.
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By: Christopher Summerfield
ISBN: 9780241694657
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Daniel Tammet
ISBN: 9781444737448
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
UK Publication Date: 17th January 2013
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Mathematical savant and bestselling author of BORN ON A BLUE DAY, this is Tammet's engaging and personal exploration of what numbers can teach us about our lives and minds.
(Hardback)
By: Saul Perlmutter
ISBN: 9781399705493
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 26th March 2024
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A Nobel prize-winning physicist, a social psychologist and a philosopher on how science can help us navigate information overload, thrive amidst uncertainty and heal our fractured society
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By: John Brockman
ISBN: 9780062230171
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: John Brockman
ISBN: 9780062698216
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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From the bestselling editor of This Explains Everything, 206 of the world's most brilliant minds tackle Edge.org's 2017 question: What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known
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By: Marc Abrahams
ISBN: 9781851689316
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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From the satirical mind behind the Ig Nobel Prizes comes a laugh-out-loud compendium of outlandish and thought-provoking science
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By: Rahul Jandial
ISBN: 9781529909449
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th April 2024
Publisher: Cornerstone
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By: John Brockman
ISBN: 9780552778480
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
UK Publication Date: 31st January 2013
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Over 150 of the world's leading scientists and thinkers offer their choice of the ideas, and arguments. Every year the author sets them a question, this year that question was: What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit In this book, their answers are collected and explores philosophy, psychology, and other disciplines.
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By: Lee Smolin
ISBN: 9780141046525
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
UK Publication Date: 29th May 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Nothing seems more real than time passing. We experience life as a succession of moments. But just as some of us see God as eternal, so physicists understand the truths of mathematics and the laws of nature as constant, transcending time. This book explains how the true nature of time impacts on us, our world, and our universe.
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By: Ben Hubbard
ISBN: 9781445156989
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
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Explore the past and discover history with a time travel guidebook
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By: Richard Gott
ISBN: 9780753813492
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2003
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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An astrophysicist provides this investigation into the possibility of time travel.
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By: Claudia Hammond
ISBN: 9781847677914
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2013
Publisher: Canongate Books
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A fascinating and mind-bending journey through the science of time perception.
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By: Steven Weinberg
ISBN: 9780141980874
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Moving from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad to Oxford, and from the Museum of Alexandria to the Royal Society of London, the author shows that the scientists of the past not only did not understand what we understand about the world - they did not understand what there is to understand.
