Science: general issues

Breath: The Lost Art and Science of Our Most Misunderstood Function [9780241289075]

300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens had bigger skulls. Cooked food meant our heads shrunk; alongside a growing brain, our airways got narrower. Urbanisati…

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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Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art [9781472937490]

Our perception of the Neanderthals has undergone a metamorphosis since their discovery 150 years ago, from the losers of the human family tree to A-li…

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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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 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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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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Soonish: Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything [9781846148996]

From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, an illustrated investigation into future techn…

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Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors [9780241360231]

Matt Parker, the brilliant stand-up mathematician, shows us what happens when maths goes wrong in the real world We would all be better off if everyo…

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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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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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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Space Atlas: Mapping the Universe and Beyond [9781426219696]

For space enthusiasts, science lovers, and star gazers, the newly revised edition of National Geographic's enduring guide to space, with a new introdu…

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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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