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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.
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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: David J. Linden
ISBN: 9780241184066
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
UK Publication Date: 11th February 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Exploring the many surprising facts and myths about our sense of touch, this book reveals how it defines us - and how, by understanding it, we can better know ourselves.
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By: Marc Seifer
ISBN: 9781594772290
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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The space-time continuum of physics ignores the realm of the mind. But consciousness is unconfined by space or time and represents a higher organizing principle, a fifth dimension, that transcends the speed of light. Marc Seifer examines relativity, ether theory, precognition, telepathy, and synchronicity, all from the perspective of the conscious universe.
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By: Dr Dr. Simon Singh
ISBN: 9780552157629
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2009
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Analyzes the evidence for and against alternative therapies. This book presents an examination and judgment of more than thirty of the most popular treatments, such as acupuncture, homeopathy, aromatherapy, reflexology, chiropractic and herbal medicine.
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By: George Dyson
ISBN: 9780141015903
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In 1945 a small group of brilliant engineers and mathematicians gathered at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, determined to build a computer that would make Alan Turing's theory of a 'universal machine' reality. This bok is the story behind how the PC, ipod, smartphone and almost every aspect of modern life came into being.
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By: Marcia Bjornerud
ISBN: 9781472298454
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2024
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A remarkable study of rocks, the stories they can tell us and the various ways they continue to shape and influence our lives, from the author of Timefulness.
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By: Peter D PhD. Ward
ISBN: 9780061137921
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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According to paleontologist Ward, all but one of the major extinction events in history have been brought on by climate change--the same global warming that occurs today. The author argues that events in the past can give valuable information about the future of our planet.
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By: Lisa Margonelli
ISBN: 9781786071903
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The bug to save the millennium
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By: Lisa Margonelli
ISBN: 9781786076823
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2020
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The bug to save the millennium
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By: Steven Solomon
ISBN: 9780060548315
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Matt Strassler
ISBN: 9781541603295
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: Basic Books
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A theoretical physicist takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey-found in "no other book" (Science)-to discover how the universe generates everything from nothing at all: "If you want to know what's really going on in the realms of relativity and particle physics, read this book" (Sean Carroll, author of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe).
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By: Michael Bond
ISBN: 9781509841097
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2021
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A fascinating investigation of our ability to navigate: from the earliest humans, to cutting-edge spatial neuroscience, and the increasing loss, in today's world, of our ability to find our way.
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By: Sally Adee
ISBN: 9781838853327
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2023
Publisher: Canongate Books
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Award-winning science and technology journalist Sally Adee reveals the new science of our body's electrome
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By: Mark Stevenson
ISBN: 9781781253014
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 14th December 2017
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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Futurologist Mark Stevenson introduces the unlikely innovators breaking the rules to make our world better.
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By: Richard Masland
ISBN: 9781786078162
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2021
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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Definitive pop science from a world expert.
