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"Lively... Berlinski guides us through an austere world of shapes and numbers with enthusiasm, assurance, and mischievous humour."-The New Yorker

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If the world as we know it ended tomorrow, how would you survive

A nuclear war, viral pandemic or asteroid strike.

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If you found maths lessons at school irrelevant and boring, thats because you didnt have a teacher like Bobby Seagull.

***As seen on Monkman & Seagull's Genius Guide to Britain***

Long before his rise to cult fandom on University Challenge, Bobby Seagull was obsessed with numbers.

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These fantastical myths are fun but what are the real answers to such questions

Professor Richard Dawkins has teamed up with renowned illustrator Dave McKean to take you on an amazing journey from atoms to animals, pollination to paranoia, the big bang to the bigger picture.

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Captivating and lucid, The Making of the Fittest delves deep into the DNA record to reveal not just how the fittest survive but also how they are made.

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The secret history of our most vital organ--the human heart

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From the presenters of popular podcast Geek Chic's Weird Science comes a book with the answers to all the scientific questions you never knew you should have asked.

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In a stunning, historical narrative, The Music of the Primes reveals the history behind one of the biggest ideas in science.

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A brilliantly engaging guide to the reproductive habits of creatures great and small.

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Explore the wet and wild frontiers of human nature

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A far from average book: the real story behind the statistics on risk, chance and choice.

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From the author of The Music of the Primes and Finding Moonshine comes a short, lively book on five mathematical problems that just refuse be solved and on how many everyday problems can be solved by maths.

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Brian Freeman presents a translation of Blechschmidt's overview of the changing form and structure of the human anatomy. This research is based on a major collection of accurate reconstructions of human embryos and offers a new way of looking at human development.

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Do all humans originate from Africa How did we spread across the globe Are we separate from Neanderthals, or do some of us actually have their genes Has human evolution stopped, or are we still evolving This title tackles the big questions in the ongoing debate about the beginnings of human life on earth.

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The definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the greatest science story of our time a Best Science Book of the Year for the Guardian, Financial Times, and New Scientist

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Combining sports trivia and science, a physicist discusses the scientific principles involved in pitching and hitting a baseball, looks at the properties of bats, describes the flight of a baseball, and features new sections on the neurophysiology of batting, ball constancy and elasticity over time,

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Is it really possible to change the structure and function of the brain, and in so doing alter how we think and feel The answer is a resounding yes.

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A compact, digestible guide to the science of sound and a practical exploration of the health benefits of 'tidying up' the noise in your life

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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

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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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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.