Science in the Soul -Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist by Richard Dawkins
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Category: Science and Nature
Science in the Soul is a kaleidoscopic argument for the power and the glory of science. Breathtaking, brilliant and passionate, the essays, journalism, lectures and letters in this new collection make an unanswerable case for the wonder of scientific discovery and its power to stir the imagination; for ...Show more
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith
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Category: Science and Nature
'Brilliant' Guardian 'Fascinating and often delightful' The Times What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher ...Show more
From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel C. Dennett
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Category: Science and Nature
"What is human consciousness and how is it possible? These questions fascinate thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. This is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in surprising directions, exploring the deep i ...Show more
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What they Teach Us by Frans De Waal
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Category: Science and Nature
Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which investigated animal intelligence, Mama's Last Hug delivers a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals.Mama's Last Hug ...Show more
Fish Song by Caitlin Maling
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Category: Science and Nature
Maling's new work is rich and diverse, exploring physical landscapes as well as historical and socio-cultural aspects of place. In her latest, deeply personal, collection Maling travels the coast of Western Australia writing about what the ocean provides--fish, livelihoods, sand and the ever-present sea ...Show more
The Particle at the End of the Universe - The Hunt for the Higgs and the Discovery of a New World by Sean Carroll
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Category: Science and Nature
Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books A Best Science Book of the Year for the Guardian, Financial Times, and New Scientist It was the universe's most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to explain how physics works. It had to be found. But projects ...Show more
The Shallows : How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember by Nicholas Carr
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Category: Science and Nature
In this ground-breaking and compelling book, Nicholas Carr argues that not since Gutenberg invented printing has humanity been exposed to such a mind-altering technology. The Shallows draws on the latest research to show that the Net is literally re-wiring our brains inducing only superficial understand ...Show more
Karl, the Universe and Everything by Karl Kruszelnicki
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Category: Science and Nature
Grab your towel and hitchhike across the galaxy with Australia's most popular scientist Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. Learn about Dr Karl, the universe and everything, and discover how air-conditioning is sexist, how you can kill a spinning hard drive by shouting at it and how space junk is threatening our futu ...Show more
The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation by Stephen W. Porges
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology Ser.
A collection of groundbreaking research by a leading figure in neuroscience. This book compiles, for the first time, Stephen W. Porges's decades of research. A leading expert in developmental psychophysiology and developmental behavioral neuroscience, Porges is the mind behind the groundbreaking Polyvag ...Show more
Blueprint - How DNA Makes Us Who We Are by Robert Plomin
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Category: Science and Nature
A top behavioral geneticist makes the case that DNA inherited from our parents at the moment of conception can predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses. In Blueprint, behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin describes how the DNA revolution has made DNA personal by giving us the power to predict o ...Show more
Diving for Seahorses by Hilde Østby; Ylva Østby
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Category: Science and Nature
What makes us remember? Why do we forget? And what, exactly, is a memory? Diving for Seahorses answers these questions and more, offering an illuminating look at one of our most fascinating faculties: our memory. Sisters Hilde and Ylva Østby - one an acclaimed writer the other a neuropsychologist-skilfu ...Show more
Accessory to War - The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military by Neil deGrasse Tyson; Avis Lang
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Category: Science and Nature
An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-re ...Show more