Darwin and the Art of Botany: Observations on the Curious World of Plants by BOBBI ANGELL
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Uncover Darwin's most important writings about plants with this important collection featuring expert interpretations and rare illustrations. Charles Darwin is best known for his work on the evolution of animals, but in fact a large part of his contribution to the natural sciences is focused on plants. ...Show more
Deep Water: The Story of the Evolution of Our Seas and Oceans by Riley Black
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The life story of the deep sea and its ancient creatures. Deep Water explains how this unique and largely unexplored habitat came into being, what lives there and why, how it has evolved and what the future will bring in this dark and mysterious environment.
Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon
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DROPOUT. PACIFIST. PHYSICIST. CASANOVA. REFUGEE. REBEL. GENIUS.THINK YOU KNOW EINSTEIN? THINK AGAIN. His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much as a man, symbolic of things larger than himself: of scientific progress, of the human mind, even o ...Show more
Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions by Sabine Hossenfelder
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do we have free will? Is the universe compatible with God? Do we live in a computer simulation? Does the universe think? Physicists are great at complicated research, but they are less good at telling us why it matters. In this entertaining and groundbreaking book, theoretica ...Show more
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made - The Astonishing New Science of the Senses by Maureen Seaberg
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The Next Big Idea Club, August 2023 Must-Read Book In 2016, scientists proved that humans could see light at the level of a single photon. We are living in historic times when humans may look at the very fabric of the universe in a laboratory setting. Around the world, other recent discoveries about th ...Show more
Green Murder (PB) by Ian Plimer
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It has never been shown that human emissions of the gas of life drive global warming. Large bodies of science that don’t fit the narrative have been ignored by IPCC, COP and self-interested scientists paid by taxpayers. A huge subsidised industry of intermittent unreliable wind and solar electricity has ...Show more
H is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z by Elizabeth Kolbert
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Climate change resists narrative and yet we must see clearly what's happening in our world. Millions of lives are at stake, and upwards of a million species. We must act. In H Is for Hope, Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the history, and future, of climate change from A, for Svante Arrhenius, who created ...Show more
How the Mind Changed A Human History of Our Evolving Brain by Joseph Jebelli
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The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving.We've come a long way. The earliest human had a brain as small as a child's fist; ours are four times bigger, with spectacular abilities and potential we are only just beginning to understand.This is How the Mind Changed, a ...Show more
How to Give Up Plastic by Will McCallum
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As read by James Corden, Fearne Cotton, Jim Chapman and Dougie Poytner. 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David Attenborough Around 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic ...Show more
How to Predict Everything - The Formula Transforming What We Know about Life and the Universe by William Poundstone
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There's a useful calculation being used by Wall Street, Silicon Valley and maths professors all over the world, and it predicts that the human race has only 760 years left to live. Using its formula, we can look at the world around us with new eyes. What is the chance that there are multiple universes? ...Show more
Mathematics Ponderables by Tom Jackson
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Legend has it that the first magic square, where all lines and diagonals add up to the same figure, was revealed more than 2,000 years ago when a river turtle appeared to have ancient Chinese numerals inscribed on sections of its shell. Patterns are everywhere in nature, and counting, measuring, and cal ...Show more
On the Origin of Species (Concise Edition) by CHARLES DARWIN
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Darwin's masterpiece helped shaped the cultural landscape of the world today. Now in a digestible, pocket format for the modern reader. Initially received with muted applause, Darwin's The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was soon recognised as the breakthrough scientific advance that exp ...Show more