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Want to know what's next for the human race Step into Jim Al-Khalili's time machine ...

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The ground-breaking exploration of a universal subject - how touch is at the centre of our lives, health and wellbeing.

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A lively and engaging contribution to the sex and gender debate, from Lewis Wolpert, acclaimed author and developmental biologist.

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An entertaining guide to how maths is relevant to our everyday lives.

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Everything you once learnt in science class, but have definitely forgotten along the way

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A radical reexamination of memory, by the pioneering neuroscientist and internationally-renowned memory researcher.

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Why do birds sing at dawn What's the slowest a plane can fly without stalling and falling out of the sky And how long can you keep a tiger cub as a pet Will We Ever Speak Dolphin has the answers to these questions and many more.

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'A glorious, fascinating encyclopaedic look at the wonder of the female body.' WOMAN'S JOURNAL

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In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale might tell us about evolution and the nature of history.

The Darwinian theory of evolution is a well-known, well-explored area.

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An account of how language actually works.

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Provides a provocative tour of the catastrophic outlier scenarios that could quickly send us crashing back to the pre-industrial age: global financial black swans; a world-wide crash of the Internet that would halt all communication; end of oil; nuclear winter; nano-plagues; robot uprisings; electromagnetic-pulse bombs; pandemic viruses; and more.

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An objective look at masculinity - from bodies to brains, from genes to genitals.

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An up-to-date introduction to how your brain works.

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Tells the story of how one creature's journey out of the water made the human body what it is today - and one man's voyage of discovery in search of our origins. This book reveals the secrets of our biology: why if we want to understand our limbs we should take a close look at Tiktaalik, the first fish capable of doing a push-up.

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A short popular science book about how the brain works

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All the light you cannot see, is it friend or foe

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Is it possible that - rather than thinking in terms of 'good' and 'evil' - all of us instead lie somewhere on the empathy spectrum, and our position on that spectrum can be affected by both genes and our environments Why do some people treat others as objects This book examines an understanding in a study of what it means to be human.

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An anthology that gathers together nearly one hundred selections from the past 500 years of popular math writing. Ranging from the late fifteenth to the late twentieth century, and drawing from books, newspapers, magazines, and websites, it includes recreational, classroom, and work mathematics; mathematical histories and biographies; and, more.

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Describes the discoveries being made in the very real science of astrobiology, an intriguing field that blends astronomy, biology, and geology to explore the possibility of life on other planets. This book explains how the search for extraterrestrial life can help bridge the divide that sometimes exists between science and religion.

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Offers an account of how life transforms itself - from the production of bacteria to the emergence of complex civilizations. This title tells a story with genes, embryos, neurons, and fascinating discoveries. It explores how dogs make predictions, how weeds tell the time of day, and how our brains distinguish a Modigliani from a Rembrandt.

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Cells to Civilizations is the first unified account of how life transforms itself--from the production of bacteria to the emergence of complex civilizations. What are the connections between evolving microbes, an egg that develops into an infant, and a child who learns to walk and talk Award-winning scientist Enrico Coen synthesizes the growth of

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The publication of The Origin of Species in 1859 was the culmination of more than twenty years of work by Charles Darwin and the ideas he presented in it would lead to a fundamental change in the way we think about life on earth. Evolution, as it came to be known, described how the extraordinary variety of life could develop...