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Human olfaction - the sense of smell - enables us to appreciate food and drink, it warns us of dangers and it makes our environments more enjoyable. However, olfaction is one of our least explored sen..
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A brilliant young neuroscientist explains how to preserve our minds indefinitely, enabling future generations to choose to revive us Just as surgeons once believed pain was good for their patient..
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How will the world produce more, cleaner energy? Climate communications expert Richard Black sets out a vision for the future which could benefit us all. How will the world produce more, cleaner ..
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2020 Foreword Indie Award Winner in the "Health" Category From the coauthor of The China Study and author of the New York Times bestselling follow-up, Whole Despite extensive research and o..
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From one of the world's great science writers, a book that explores the deepest principles of evolutionary history. In this groundbreaking new approach to the evolution of all life, Richard Dawki..
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The bestselling physicist returns with a thrilling account of the search for the 'God Equation' This is the story of a quest- to find a Theory of Everything. Einstein dedicated his life to seekin..
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CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY WATERSTONES AND THE TIMES The viruses that do us harm are vastly outnumbered by viruses that can actually save lives. These good viruses are called 'pha..
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'Full of gems of information and hope for the future.' SUZANNE O'SULLIVAN 'This thrilling book will amaze you.' MATTHEW COBB 'A new scientific frontier that couldn't be..
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Discover the fascinating history of medicine from its primitive beginnings to the lifesaving technologies of today. Award-winning author Dr Carol Cooper takes you on a journey through the 12 obje..
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a fascinating mix of memoir and science, telling the story of how one woman's cells have saved countless lives. Now an HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey & Rose By..
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The first biography - 'a stunning achievement' (Kai Bird, American Prometheus) - of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger PenroseWhen he was six years old, Roger Penrose..
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Over 500,000 years ago, a single gene mutated. It spread over time, becoming critical in the journey that transformed our earliest ancestors into fully modern humans, capable of navigating the entire ..
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Our understanding of ourselves and the cosmos has advanced immeasurably over the last five hundred years of modern science, yet many fundamental mysteries of existence persist. How did our Universe be..
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LEGO bricks meet The Way Things Work in this fun, informative tour of the world of engineering, from the creative mind of expert LEGO builder Jeff Friesen. In The LEGO Engineer, you'll explore..
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A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit. The more you delve into the stories behind history's greatest names, the more..
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The fascinating and dramatic story of a forgotten, life-saving cure to conquer deadly bacterial infections - bacteriophages - and the remarkable scientists behind them When antibiotics started to..
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We love to imagine the future. But why are groundbreaking future technologies always just around the corner, and never a reality? For decades we've delighted in dreaming about a sci-fi utopia, fr..
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An inspiring introduction to science and a fascinating exploration of the natural world. Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swall..
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As heard on BBC Radio 4 Start The Week 'Felix Flicker brilliantly reveals the secrets behind the modern-day magic we call physics' Marcus du Sautoy Imagine you had a crystal that lit upon yo..
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A fascinating exploration of how our senses can enrich our experience of the world around us - and how they can work against us Our senses form an integral part of our daily experiences, memori..
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What defines who we are? For decades, the biological answer has been our genes. In The Master Builder, leading biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias breaks with decades of scientific and popula..
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A Neanderthal hunter takes us on a riveting journey of discovery What if we have completely misunderstood who the Neanderthals truly were? For over a century we saw them as inferior to Homo ..
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The Neuroscience of Yoga and Meditation presents a comprehensive review of scientific research on the effects of yoga and meditation on the brain. The author offers tools for interpreting scientific l..
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At the age of twenty-eight, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a new relationship blossoming, Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorecta..
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'Brilliant and fundamental, this is the necessary book about our prime global emergency' Ian McEwan The news is full of hotly debated and divergent claims about the impacts and risks of climate c..
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Learn how to understand the skies with this comprehensive pocket guide to cloudspotting. Clouds have been the object of fascination throughout history, their fleeting magnificence and endless variabi..
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New in Penguin paperback, this bestseller explores why certain brief experiences can jolt, elevate and change us, and show how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our own life and wor..
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From the creators of the A Brief History of Stuff podcast and inspired by the Science Museum Group Collection, discover the remarkable stories of everyday objects in this engaging popular science titl..
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Get to grips with the essential topics in biology today through 100 key ideas, each one explained clearly in 100 words. Biology- 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingerti..
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Get to grips with the essential topics in maths today through 100 key ideas, each one explained clearly in 100 words. Maths- 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, ..
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Get to grips with the essential topics in physics today through 100 key ideas, each one explained clearly in 100 words. Physics- 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingerti..
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Why exactly is the Earth round? How is it that boomerangs can turn in mid-air? And why do cats always land on their feet? It's time to stop thinking in straight lines...
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Over the last few decades, space exploration has revolutionised our understanding of our place in the cosmos. We now know that there are many habitable environments within our solar system. Yet a prof..
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A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths 'Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday Times Mathematics shapes almost everythin..
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Telegraph Best Books of 2021 'Marvellous...Gooley's witty, conversational writing makes reading a joyful breeze' Geographical Magazine 'A sensitive study that combines theo..
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'Startling in scope and bravado' The New York Times In his now-classic and hugely influential exploration of the evolving union of human and machine, world-renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurz..
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The legendary oracle of technological change explains how AI will transform our species beyond recognition within two decades 'Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of a..
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________________ WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION ________________ 'An invaluable contribution to our understanding of present circumstances, just as the paradigm ..
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From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, the stunning odyssey of the cell - the key to life and ourselves **Longlisted for the Baillie Giff..
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER DEAR LIFE AND BREATHTAKING, A MAJOR TV DRAMA Longlisted for the 2024 Baille Gifford Prize A Guardian 2024 Book to Look Out For ..
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There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and feeling. And yet each cell is a mystery of beauty, with branching, intricate pattern..
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This is not a book of facts; it's a book of 'facts'. Should you finish it believing we became the planet's dominant species because predators found us too smelly to eat; or that the living bloodline o..
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From Stonehenge to microchips, discover the one simple method used to engineer the world as we know it-now in paperback! "This book unravels the mysteries behind humanity's greatest masterpieces...
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'The Tomb of the Mili Mongga lives up to its magnificent billing' DAILY TELEGRAPH - A fossil expedition becomes a thrilling search for a mythical beast deep in the Indonesian forest - and a ..
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Wherever you are in this world - whether that be in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere, in the city or a remote region - this book guides you through the remarkable features of planet Earth's starry ..
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Let Lonely Planet take you further than ever before with the world's first and only travel guide to the Universe. Developed with the latest data from NASA, we take you from our home on Earth and out i..
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Did you know that the number of atoms in a cookie is about the same number of stars in the universe? Geoff Engelstein tackles the big questions of the universe and how it works using the sweet and ..
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Will we ever truly understand our cosmic home? This is the story of the technologies that allow us to look up, to learn and to discover our place in the cosmos. **AS SEEN ON BBC BREAKFAST** ..
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*Available for pre-order: a definitive guide to thinking clearly in a world full of overwhelming information* __________ In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to..
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This highly accessible history of science brings key milestones and events to life in visual timelines Discover the world of science as never before in this richly illustrated guide. The hi..
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A spellbinding and often hilarious history of (almost) the entirety of science from world-renowned immunologist Luke O'Neill *The Irish Times Top 10 Bestseller* Scientists have been part..
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