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
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
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
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine by Harry Parker
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Category: Popular Science
Our ever-increasing intimacy with technology is changing our bodies and our brains. What can those at the frontiers tell us about what it means to be in a body now? From the critically-acclaimed author of Anatomy of a Soldier Harry Parker's life changed overnight, when he lost his legs to an IED in Afgh ...Show more
Testosterone: The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us by Carole Hooven
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Category: Popular Science
RECOMMENDED AS ONE OF THE TIMES'' BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2021''With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports and politics, we need a good explanation of the science and its implications, and this one is outstanding.'' STEVEN PINKER, bestselling author of The Blank Slate''There are whole books writt ...Show more
The Age of Uncertainty: How the Greatest Minds in Physics Changed the Way We See the World by Tobias Hurter
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Category: Popular Science
The epic, page-turning history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades of the twentieth century. Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and Albert Einstein didn't only revolutionise physics; they redefined our world and the rea ...Show more
The Invisible Universe: Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye by Matthew Bothwell
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Category: Popular Science
A guide to the 99% of the Universe our eyes can't see from a dazzling new voice in popular science From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic 'prehistory', Bothwell shows us the Universe as we've never seen it before - literally. Since the dawn of our species, p ...Show more
Interstellar - The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future Beyond Earth by Avi Loeb
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Category: Popular Science
'LOEB IS AN ASTRONOMICAL SHERLOCK HOLMES' Washington Post'A JOY IN CONJECTURE AND AN OMNIVOROUS SPIRIT OF INQUIRY. . . CARL SAGAN WOULD HAVE LIKED THIS BOOK' The TimesIn 2017, Avi Loeb, Chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, went public with a theory that shook the scientific community - our solar sys ...Show more
The Book of Humans - The Story of How We Became Us by Adam Rutherford
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Category: Popular Science
'Charming, compelling and packed with information. I learned more about biology from this short book than I did from years of science lessons. A weird and wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN We like to think of ourselves as exceptional beings, but is there really anything special about us that sets us apart ...Show more
The Future Eaters - An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People by Tim Flannery
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Category: Popular Science
This is the story of how human beings have consumed the resources they need for their own future. It examines the original "future eaters" who were the first people to leave the Afro-Asian homeland and travel down the chain of islands to Australasia and became the Aboriginal, Maori and other Polynesian ...Show more
How Humans Took Over the World: Unstoppable Us, Volume 1 (HB) by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: Popular Science
*From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes an incredible new story of the human race, for younger readers.* We humans aren't strong like lions, we don't swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don't have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world? The answer to that is one 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