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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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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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Confidence lies at the core of what makes things happen.

Exploring the science and neuroscience behind confidence that has emerged over the last decade, clinical psychologist and neuroscientist Professor Ian Robertson tells us how confidence plays out in our minds, our brains and indeed our bodies.

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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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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

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For anyone who has ever wondered, "How do they make that" How Things Are Made is an entertaining, illustrated exploration of the process behind the manufacture of everyday items.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about physics in 35 bite-size chapters.

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A fascinating exploration of how we can make better, accessible, mathematically-informed predictions about the world around us.

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A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in genetic editing, cloning and neural downloading.

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How to develop robots that will be more like humans and less like computers, more social than machine-like, and more playful and less programmed.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about science in 35 bite size chapters.

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A startling investigation of what it means to be human.

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A collection of practical lessons that demonstrates how the true mathematician learns to draw unexpected analogies, tackle problems from unusual angles, and extract information from the data.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about maths in 35 bite-size chapters.

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Bruce isnt pretending that science isnt tricky, but in simple, maths-free explanations and just-the-good-parts historical recaps, he shows us that the greatest scientific discoveries and theories dont have to remain beyond our grasp.

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Distinguished biologist Lewis Wolpert explains how cells provide the answers to fundamental questions about our lives.

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A compelling, perspective-shifting work by a top behavioural neuroscientist on the science of how we sense our bodies-how we feel the world beneath the skin-and how our bodies create the very experience of being alive.

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From caveman to modern man ...

Few people doubt that humans are descended from the apes; They explain why a happily married man will fantasize about the pretty, slim, young woman sitting across from him in the tube and why thousands of people spend their week entirely focused on whether their team will win their next crucial match.