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.
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER"Brilliant... riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued."--Beth Macy, author of DopesickAs heard on Fresh Air This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and wh ...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
H is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z by Elizabeth Kolbert
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Category: Environment & Sustainability
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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Category: Environment & Sustainability
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
On the Origin of Species (Concise Edition) by CHARLES DARWIN
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Foundations Ser.
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
Otherlands: A World in the Making by Thomas Halliday
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Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: near fine
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERShortlisted for the Wainright Prize'The best book on the history of life on Earth I have ever read' Tom Holland'Epically cinematic... A book of almost unimaginable riches' Sunday TimesThis is the past as we've never seen it before.Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating jour ...Show more
Physics Ponderables by Tom Jackson
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Ponderables
NEW EDITION includes a recently updated removable 12-page fold-out timeline that traces the history of physics from the very beginning all the way up to 2017.
Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation by David Baker
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The big history of sex from early life to sexbots How did sex begin? How did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence does our genetic ancestry have on our love life today? And what might sex look like in the future? Sex traces where all the facets of human sexuality came from, ...Show more
Tasmanian Tiger: The Tragic Story of the Thylacine by David Owen, David Pemberton
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The tragic story of how ignorance, fear and lack of care led to the disappearance of the famous Tasmanian tiger. This updated edition includes the latest research on whether it could ever be cloned and returned to the wild.