Unwell - What Makes a Disease a Disease by Mike McRae
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Category: Popular Science
Nostalgia used to be a killer nervous condition. Emotional women were once treated with a good orgasm, left-handed folk were beaten to be turned 'right', and rotten teeth pulled to cure the mentally unwell. Just who made these diseases 'diseases' anyway? And what makes us think we understand any better ...Show more
Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating by Jeff Sparrow
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Category: Popular Science
A polemic about global warming and the environmental crisis that argues that ordinary people have consistently opposed the destruction of nature and so provide an untapped constituency for climate action. Crimes Against Nature uses fresh material to offer a very different take on the most important issu ...Show more
Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions by Akshat Rathi
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Category: Popular Science
What if the solution to the climate crisis is . . . capitalism? Our age will be defined by the climate emergency. But contrary to the doomist narrative that's taken hold, the world has already begun deploying the solutions needed to deal with it. On a journey across five continents, Climate Capitalism ...Show more
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
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Category: Popular Science
*Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year* In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future. See the ...Show more
Wild Mushrooming: A Guide for Foragers by Alison Pouliot, Tom May
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Category: Popular Science
Fungi are diverse, delicious and sometimes deadly. With interest in foraging for wild food on the rise, learning to accurately identify fungi reduces both poisoning risk to humans and harm to the environment. This extensively illustrated guide takes a 'slow mushrooming' approach – providing the informat ...Show more
Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived by Tim Flannery, Emma Flannery
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Category: Popular Science
Big Meg charts the evolution of megalodon, its super-predator status for about fifteen million years and its decline and extinction. It delves into the fossil record to answer questions about its behaviour and role in shaping marine ecosystems as well as its impact on the human psyche. It contains stori ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking by Stephen Hawking
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Category: Popular Science
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind'- DAILY TELEGRAPH. 'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty'- GUARDIAN. The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final t ...Show more
Unexplained Deaths - The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb
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Category: Popular Science
For most of human history, sudden and unexpected deaths of a suspicious nature, when they were investigated at all, were examined by lay persons without any formal training. People often got away with murder. That is, until Frances Glessner Lee.Frances Glessner Lee (1878-1962), born a socialite to a wea ...Show more
The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World by Suzie Sheehy
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Category: Popular Science
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world.How did a piece a gold foil completely change our understanding of atoms? What part did a hot air balloon play in the discovery of cosmic rays?How did the experiments in the run-up to the Large ...Show more
Little Species, Big Mystery: The Story of Homo Floresiensis by Debbie Argue
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Category: Popular Science
A thrilling tale of discovery and the history of Homo floresiensisThere is only one kind of human on earth today- us. But we are only one of a number of human species - primates of the Hominini tribe - that have existed on our planet across the millennia. In 2004 the world was astounded by the discovery ...Show more
Brain Rules for Work: The Science of Thinking Smarter in the Office and at Home by John Medina
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Brain Rules Ser.
Bestselling author Dr John Medina turns his expertise to the professional world, guiding the reader through what brain science and evolutionary biology have to say about topics ranging from office space and work-life balance to power dynamics and work interactions.Bestselling author Dr John Medina turns ...Show more
Universal Guide to the Night Sky by Lisa Harvey-Smith
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Universal Guide Ser.
Wherever you are in this world - whether that be in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere, in the city or a remote region - this book guides you through the remarkable features of planet Earth's starry sky. Receive a personal tour through the wonders of the universe from astrophysicist Lisa Harvey-Smith. ...Show more