Love Factually by Laura Mucha
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Category: Science and Nature
As featured on Sunday Brunch and Woman's Hour'Laura Mucha has found the proof that love actually is all around.' Richard CurtisPoets, philosophers and artists have been trying to explain romantic love for centuries, but it remains one of the most complex and intimidating terrains to navigate. Most peopl ...Show more
The Planets by Professor Brian Cox
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Category: Science and Nature
'So staggering you go "whoa " every few seconds' Guardian 'Really impressive' Eamonn Holmes, ITV This Morning A companion book to the critically acclaimed BBC series. The bestselling authors of Wonders of the Universe are back with another blockbuster, a groundbreaking exploration of our Solar System ...Show more
The Idea of the Brain: A History by Matthew Cobb
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Category: Science and Nature
We've been trying to make sense of the link between our minds and our bodies since the very dawn of civilisation. Now the pace is hotting up. Join the biologist and historian Matthew Cobb (Life's Greatest Secret) to explore the weird theories, blasphemous experiments and terrifying operating theatres t ...Show more
Cosmological Koans - A Journey to the Heart of Physics by Anthony Aguirre
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Category: Science and Nature
Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Using pleasingly paradoxical vignettes, known as Koans, that follow the ancient Zen tradition and have a flair for explaining complex science, physicist Anthony Aguirre tackles cosmic questions from the meaning of quan ...Show more
Proving Ground - The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer by Kathy Kleiman
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Category: Science and Nature
"Fans of Dava Sobel's The Glass Universe and Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures are in for a treat" (Publishers Weeky) with this untold, World War II-era story of the six American women who programmed the world's first modern computer.After the end of World War II, the race for technological supremac ...Show more
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama
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Category: Science and Nature
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity o ...Show more
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters by Andrew H. Knoll
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Category: Science and Nature
Harvard's acclaimed geologist "charts Earth's history in accessible style" (AP) "A sublime chronicle of our planet." -Booklist, STARRED review How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where you're standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of i ...Show more
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
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Category: Science and Nature
A stunning account of this century's most intense urban fire, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind In May 2016, Fort McMurray, Alberta, the hub of Canada's oil industry, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster turned entire neigh ...Show more
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
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Category: Science and Nature
What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our image of the world has changed throughout centuries. From Aristotle to Albe ...Show more
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
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Category: Science and Nature
For the first time ever, an international coalition of leading researchers, scientists and policymakers has come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. All of the techniques described here - some well-known, some you may have never heard of - are economically viable, ...Show more
As Far As the Eye Can See - A History of Seeing by S. Denham Wade
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Category: Science and Nature
From the mastery of fire a million years ago, humans repeatedly invented new ways to see their surroundings, each other and themselves. Artificial light, early art, mirrors, writing, lenses, printing, photography, film, television, the smart phone. These tools shaped Western culture and made us who we a ...Show more
On Natural Selection: Popular Penguins by Charles Darwin
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves--and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and destroyed them. Now, Penguin brings you th ...Show more