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In a single work of colossal scope one of the world's greatest scientists has given us a complete and unrivalled guide to the glories of the universe that we all inhabit.

'Roger Penrose is the most important physicist to work in relativity theory except for Einstein.

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The bestselling - and hugely timely - guide to the science of contagion, revised and updated to address Covid-19.

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Centuries of scientific thought in one volume

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In this fascinating scientific tour of household objects, The One Show's resident scientist Marty Jopson explains the answers to many baffling questions about the chemistry and physics of the stuff we use every day.

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The Sunday Times top ten bestseller - neuroscientist Hannah Critchlow shows how our future is already largely hardwired into our brains. Like Sapiens and Thinking Fast and Slow, The Science of Fate revolutionises the way we understand our species and ourselves.

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A myth-busting, mind-blowing, jaw-dropping and fun-filled expedition through the world of Game of Thrones.

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A myth-busting, mind-blowing, jaw-dropping and fun-filled expedition through the world of Game of Thrones.

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A brilliant and sparkling exploration of the extraordinary nature of romantic love - from the frontline of cutting-edge scientific research.

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Dyson profiles scientists-Newton Einstein, Teller, Feynman-whose independent thought allowed them to make great conceptual leaps.

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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.

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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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Britain's favourite geneticist, Steve Jones, updates the Bible from the point of view of modern science.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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;

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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.

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A journey through 55 alternative realities, parallel worlds and possible futures from the million-selling New Scientist series.