The Curious World of Science: A visual miscelllany of stories, theories, discoveries & curiosities by Simon Flynn
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Category: Popular Science
To some, science is simply a means to an end; to others it is an almost spiritual meditation on theories and formulae. The Curious World of Science embraces both views and much more besides. Focusing onthe human endeavours at the heart of science, it presents a miscellany of essentialclassifications, in ...Show more
Lost Animals - The Story of Extinct, Endangered and Rediscovered Species by John Whitfield
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Category: Popular Science
Documenting the species that have emerged, disappeared and been reborn over the millennia since the Cambrian Explosion, Lost Animals is the story of life on Earth.
Moon: AHistory for the Future by Oliver Morton; The Economist
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Economist Bks.
An intimate portrait of the Earth's closest neighbor--the Moon--that explores the history and future of humankind's relationship with it Every generation has looked towards the heavens and wondered at the beauty of the Moon. Fifty years ago, a few Americans became the first to do the reverse--and sh ...Show more
Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History by Jeremy Brown
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Category: Popular Science
Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor, explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history of the flu, from the origins and lessons of the Great Flu that killed millions to vexing questions like: are we prepared for the next epidemic, should you get a flu shot, and are we close to finding a cure?
BANG!! The Complete History of the Universe by Patrick Moore; Brian May; Chris Lintott
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Category: Popular Science
In 2006, rock legend and experienced amateur astronomer Brian May joined the legendary expert Sir Patrick Moore and astrophysicist Professor Chris Lintott to tell the story of the universe from the moment time and space came into existence at the Big Bang, through to the infinite future and the ultimate ...Show more
The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy - What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens - and Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum
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Category: Popular Science
We are unprepared for the greatest discovery of modern science. Scientists are confident that there is alien life across the universe yet we have not moved beyond our perception of 'aliens' as Hollywood stereotypes. The time has come to abandon our fixation on alien monsters and place our expectations o ...Show more
Cheating Death - The New Science of Living Longer and Better by Rand McClain
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Category: Popular Science
For the first time outside his private clinic, medical practitioner and pioneer Dr. Rand McClain shares what you can start doing today to increase longevity and better your health--at home or at your doctor's office. In this golden age of medical discovery, cutting-edge treatments are emerging that inc ...Show more
Beneath the Night: How the stars have shaped the history of humankind by Stuart Clark
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Category: Popular Science
From Stone Age to space age, people have looked up at the stars and been inspired by their beauty, their patterns, and their majesty.Beneath the Night is a history of humanity, told through our relationship with the night sky. From prehistoric cave art and Ancient Egyptian zodiacs to the modern era of s ...Show more
Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion, the Mystery of Consciousness by Kate Cole-Adams
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Category: Popular Science
Winner, 2017 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award You know how it is when you go under. The jab, the countdown, the----and then you wake.This book is about what happens in between. Until a hundred and seventy years ago many people chose death over the ordeal of surgery. Now hundreds of thousands u ...Show more
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities by Michael Shellenberger
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Category: Popular Science
National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America's faltering cities. Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse. Michael Shellenberger has liv ...Show more
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe by Johnjoe McFadden
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Category: Popular Science
Life is Simple tells the remarkable story of how a thirteenth century monk's search for simplicity led to the emergence of the modern world. We begin in the turbulent times of the medieval friar, William of Occam, who first articulated the principle that the best answer to any problem is the simplest. ...Show more
The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life by Paul Davies
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Category: Popular Science
When Darwin set out to explain the origin of species, he made no attempt to answer the deeper question: what is life? For generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental question. Life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that no ...Show more