Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics by Jim Al-Khalili
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Category: Science and Nature
A fun and fascinating look at great scientific paradoxes. Throughout history, scientists have come up with theories and ideas that just don't seem to make sense. These we call paradoxes. The paradoxes Al-Khalili offers are drawn chiefly from physics and astronomy and represent those that have stumped so ...Show more
The Upright Thinkers by Leonard Mlodinow
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Category: Science and Nature
From the bestselling author of The Drunkard's Walk and Subliminal, this is the inspiring and illuminating story of how we have come to understand the world, from the invention of the very first tools to the mind-bending theories of quantum physics. Leonard Mlodinow guides us through the critical eras an ...Show more
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
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Category: Science and Nature
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilizat ...Show more
What Makes Olga Run?: The Mystery of the 90-Something Track Star and What She Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Happier Lives by Bruce Grierson
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Category: Science and Nature
Part science book, part journey into the untapped potential of the human spirit, this is the remarkable story of a 94-year-old track and field champion (not retired). Olga Kotelko is most certainly a genetic outlier, one of those rare, blessed people whose bodies resist the degradations of age. More rem ...Show more
Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo: A Surgeon Cuts Through the Evidence by Ian Harris
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Category: Science and Nature
For many complaints and conditions, the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated. That these claims come from an experienced, pract ...Show more
More Than Honey: The Survival of Bees and the Future of Our World by Markus Imhoof
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Category: Science and Nature
"If 70 percent of all cattle or 30 percent of all chickens were to die annually, states of emergency would be declared everywhere. The death of bees is at least that dramatic and with even more far-reaching consequences." More Than Honey, the book based on the award-winning documentary of the same name, ...Show more
The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics by Roger Penrose
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: Oxford Landmark Science Ser.
For many decades, the proponents of artificial intelligence' have maintained that computers will soon be able to do everything that a human can do. In his bestselling work of popular science, Sir Roger Penrose takes us on a fascinating tour through the basic principles of physics, cosmology, mathematics ...Show more
The Brain Warrior's Way: Ignite Your Energy And Focus, Attack Illness And Aging, Transform Pain Into Purpose by Daniel G. Amen
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Category: Science and Nature
Optimise your brain and fight Alzheimer's, depression, obesity, and a host of other illnesses with this prescription from two New York Times bestselling authors, now in paperback. The Brain Warrior's Way is a scientific program designed by Daniel and Tana Amen to help you master your brain and body for ...Show more
Unthinkable by Helen Thomson
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Category: Science and Nature
Imagine... getting lost in a one-room flat; seeing auras; never forgetting a moment; a permanent orchestra in your head; turning into a tiger; life as an out-of-body experience; feeling other people's pain; being convinced you are dead; becoming a different person overnight. Our brains are far stranger ...Show more
Defiant Earth: The fate of humans in the anthropocene by Clive Hamilton
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Category: Science and Nature
Forget everything you know. Nature is no longer nature. Humans are no longer humans. We have entered a new era - the Anthropocene. Everything has changed. Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth, bringing on a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. The stable ...Show more
The Genetics of Health: Understand Your Genes for Better Health by Sharad P. Paul
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Category: Science and Nature
Take charge of your health by understanding the connection between our evolutionary past and our future wellbeing with this practical guide to personalised health and nutrition - from distinguished physician Dr. Sharad PaulRecognised as one of the best in his field, surgeon, academic, and philanthropist ...Show more
No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine by Professor Steve Jones
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Category: Science and Nature
Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an upheaval both of understanding and of politics. Many had an astonishing breadth of talents. The Minister ...Show more