Science: general issues

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art [9780241289129]

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThere is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times …

The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well [9780241379387]

More of us are living into our eighties than ever before - what if the best was yet to come? The bestselling author of The Organized Mind reveals the …

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Climate Change (A Ladybird Expert Book) [9780718185855]

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Climate Change is a clear, simple and enlightening introduction to one of the most important issues facing our…

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The Body: A Guide for Occupants [9780552779906]

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes o…

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Bad Science [9780007284870]

Ben Goldacre's wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering j…

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Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors [9780141989143]

What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? How do billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? How does a building rock when its res…

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Being You: A New Science of Consciousness [9780571337705]

Anil Seth's radical new theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of perception and reality, doing for brain science what Dawkins did for e…

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The Body: A Guide for Occupants [9780857522405]

In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our worl…

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The Science Book [9781409350156]

All the big ideas in science, simply explained Part of the popular Big Ideas series, The Science Book explores the history of science, how scientists …

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The People Vs Tech: How the internet is killing democracy (and how we save it) [9781785039065]

The internet was meant to set us free. Tech has radically changed the way we live our lives. But have we unwittingly handed too much away to shadow…

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Inferior: The True Power of Women and the Science That Shows it [9780008172039]

Physics World Book of the Year 2017 Are women more nurturing than men? Are men more promiscuous than women? Are males the naturally dominant sex? And…

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Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity [9780141983219]

'The physicist transforming how we see the universe' (Financial Times) 'A joy to read...an intellectual feast' (Michael Brooks New Statesman) 'A hug…

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Superior: The Return of Race Science [9780008293864]

Financial Times Book of the Year Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year Guardian Book of the Year New Statesman Book of the Year For millennia, domina…

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Gut: the inside story of our body's most under-rated organ [9781911344773]

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'The world's most surprising page-turner. A publishing sensation that ... sets out to free toilet talk from its taboo.' …

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Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century, A: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life [9781800750746]

A bold, provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes - and what we can do about it We are living throu…

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Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures [9781408870372]

'A fascinating celebration of the impact that structural engineering has on all our lives...[an] eye-opening book' The Sunday Times In BUILT, stru…

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The Science of Living: 219 reasons to rethink your daily routine [9780241387375]

Explore the science behind your daily living habits and make your day healthier, happier, and more productive. Many of the activities we take for gran…

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Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years [9781529124194]

Map-making is an ancient impulse. From the moment homo sapiens learnt to communicate we have used them to make sense of our surroundings. But as Albe…

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Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse [9781787333345]

Insects are essential for life as we know it. As they become more scarce, our world will slowly grind to a halt; we simply cannot function without the…

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The Idea of the Brain: A History 'This is a masterpiece' - Adam Rutherford [9781781255896]

This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Today we tend to picture it as a computer. …

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