(Hardback)
By: Thomas D. Seeley
ISBN: 9780691147215
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Honeybees make decisions collectively - and democratically. This book reveals that these incredible insects have much to teach us when it comes to collective wisdom and effective decision making. It presents an account of scientific discovery. It investigates how evolution has honed the decision-making methods of honeybees over millions of years.
(Paperback)
By: Martie Haselton
ISBN: 9781786075109
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2019
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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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.
(Paperback)
By: Ian Robertson
ISBN: 9781787633728
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2021
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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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.
(Hardback)
By: Rob Eastaway
ISBN: 9781911622260
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th April 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A fascinating book, from a leading maths educator and demystifier, that shows how maths is relevant to our everyday lives.
(Paperback)
By: Jordan Ellenberg
ISBN: 9780718196042
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores the mathematician's method of analyzing life, from the everyday to the cosmic, showing us which numbers to defend, which ones to ignore and when to change the equation entirely. This book tells us that maths touches on everything we do, and a little mathematical knowledge reveals the hidden structures that lie beneath the chaotic surface.
(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780241989678
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Melanie Challenger
ISBN: 9781786895752
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2022
Publisher: Canongate Books
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Combining popular science, history and moral philosophy, this is a wide-ranging and radical take on the human story and what it means for us today.
(Paperback)
By: New Scientist
ISBN: 9781529334029
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2021
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Everything you need to know about being human from New Scientist
(Paperback)
By: Ray Kurzweil
ISBN: 9780715654538
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2024
Publisher: Duckworth Books
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From the world's preeminent AI futurist: a fascinating account of how mapping the human mind leads to ever more intelligent machines.
(Paperback)
By: Kit Yates
ISBN: 9781529408690
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 15th August 2024
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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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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By: Chad Orzel
ISBN: 9780465023318
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2012
Publisher: Basic Books
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Everyone talks to their pets; Chad Orzel tells his about relativity.
(Paperback)
By: Chris Balakrishnan
ISBN: 9781250374462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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(Paperback)
By: Nathan Lents
ISBN: 9781474608350
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 28th May 2020
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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An illuminating, entertaining tour of the physical imperfections, from faulty knees to junk DNA, that make us human - and a unique approach to telling our evolutionary history
(Hardback)
By: Llus Quintana-Murci
ISBN: 9780241609156
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Maitrii Aung-Thwin
ISBN: 9781780230313
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A revealing and accessible study of the controversial Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
(Paperback)
By: Ed Yong
ISBN: 9781784700171
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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I Contain Multitudes is science journalism at its best' Bill Gates
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2017
(Paperback)
By: Professor Tim Spector
ISBN: 9781399624794
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 21st November 2024
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Professor Tim Spector reveals the astonishing new science that is changing everything we thought we knew about genes and identity - 'Lucid, surprising and with a very human face. It brings epigenetics alive' MICHAEL MOSLEY
(Hardback)
By: Philipp Dettmer
ISBN: 9781529360684
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2021
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A gorgeously-illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body - how it works and why it is both your greatest ally and most dangerous enemy - from the creator of the popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell.
(Paperback)
By: Julian Havil
ISBN: 9780691150024
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Whenever Forty-second Street in New York is temporarily closed, traffic doesn't gridlock but flows more smoothly - why is that Or consider that cities that build new roads can experience dramatic increases in traffic congestion - how is this possible This title includes some of these counterintuitive mathematical occurrences.
(Paperback)
By: Jane Monckton Smith
ISBN: 9781526613226
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 17th March 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Paul J. Nahin
ISBN: 9780691166933
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Jonathan Scott
ISBN: 9781472979834
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Mark Miodownik
ISBN: 9780241985595
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Mark Miodownik
ISBN: 9780241376386
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 11th July 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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