Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek
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Category: Popular Science
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist offers ten insights that illuminate all you need to know about the UniverseOne of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical worldIn Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers t ...Show more
Curves for the Mathematically Curious: An Anthology of the Unpredictable, Historical, Beautiful, and Romantic by Julian Havil
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Category: Popular Science
Ten amazing curves personally selected by one of today's most important math writers Curves for the Mathematically Curious is a thoughtfully curated collection of ten mathematical curves, selected by Julian Havil for their significance, mathematical interest, and beauty. Each chapter gives an accoun ...Show more
How to Fall Slower Than Gravity: And Other Everyday (and Not So Everyday) Uses of Mathematics and Physical Reasoning by Paul J. Nahin
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Category: Popular Science
An engaging collection of intriguing problems that shows you how to think like a mathematical physicist Paul Nahin is a master at explaining odd phenomena through straightforward mathematics. In this collection of twenty-six intriguing problems, he explores how mathematical physicists think. Always ...Show more
Recovery: How we can create a better, brighter future after a crisis by Andrew Wear
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Category: Popular Science
In times of crisis lies opportunity. Recovery shows us how we can build back better after COVID-19.We have recovered from many crises in the past- war, depression, pandemic, natural disaster. Often, we've bounced back to create an even better future. The Spanish Flu was followed by the economic prosperi ...Show more
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind by Kermit Pattison
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Category: Popular Science
"Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as good as the best scientist writers." -New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "Brilliant. ... A work of staggering depth." -Minneapolis Star TribuneA decade in the making, Fossil Men i ...Show more
Hard to Break: Why Our Brains Makes Habits Stick by Russell A. Poldrack
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Category: Popular Science
The neuroscience of why bad habits are so hard to break—and how evidence-based strategies can help us change our behaviour more effectively.We all have habits we’d like to break, but for many of us it can be nearly impossible to do so. There is a good reason for this: the brain is a habit-building machi ...Show more
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
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Category: Popular Science
From the global bestselling author of The Big Short, the gripping story of the maverick scientists who hunted down Covid-19 'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is looming around the corner. Like how when the seasons change you can smell Fall in the air right before the leaves change ...Show more
Worlds in Shadow: Submerged Lands in Science, Memory and Myth by Patrick Nunn
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The traces of much of human history and that which preceded it lie beneath the ocean surface; broken up, dispersed, often buried and always mysterious. This is fertile ground for speculation, even myth-making, but also a topic on which geologists and climatologists have increasingly focused in recent de ...Show more
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe by Professor Brian Cox
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A brilliant exploration of the most exotic objects in the universe by Professor Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw. Lying at the centre of every galaxy are the strangest objects in the Universe: black holes. Of extraordinary density and huge gravitational pull, no matter or even light can escape their ...Show more
On the Origin of Evolution - Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA by John Gribbin; Mary Gribbin
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The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and debated by philosophers the world over for thousands of years. This lively history traces the evolution of the idea of evolution, showing how it h ...Show more
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Bryson
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him.A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got ...Show more
Flights Of Fancy (HB) by Richard Dawkins
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The Wonder of Flight. The Science of Evolution. From both, Richard Dawkins weaves a fascinating and beautifully illustrated account of how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what it would be like to glide ...Show more