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Death As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

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Deep Water: The Story of the Evolution of Our Seas and Oceans

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Diamonds Everywhere: Awe-inspiring astronomy discoveries

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Different Kinds of Minds: A Guide to Your Brain

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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

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Dominion

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Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data Instead of Instinct to Make Better Choices

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Dr Rip's Essential Beach Book: Everything you need to know about surf, sand and rips

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Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles

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Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making

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Earth: The Definitive Visual Guide

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Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles

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Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass

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Emotional Ignorance

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Emperor of All Maladies

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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures

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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures - The Illustrated Edition

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Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It

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Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution *Women's Prize 2024 Longlist*

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Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World

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Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow u..

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Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health

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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

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Faster Cures: Accelerating the Future of Health

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Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Astonishing New Science of the Senses

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 ..

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Fen, Bog and Swamp:  Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

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Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

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Fermat's Last Theorem (Collins Modern Classics)

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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: A Frontline Report on Climate Change

Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concis..

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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

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Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution

Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. 'A masterly investigation of all aspects of flight, human and animal... A beautifully..

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Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations

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Four Ways of Thinking: Statistical, Interactive, Chaotic and Complex

How can we see through the chaos and complexity of our lives? Beyond all the facts and figures, there is just one question at the heart of science- what is the best way to think about the world? ..

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General Relativity: The Theoretical Minimum

The latest volume in The New York Times bestselling physics series explains Einstein's masterpiece- the general theory of relativity He taught us classical mechanics, quantum mechanics and specia..

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General Relativity: The Theoretical Minimum

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Get it Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation

'I don't know anyone who knows more than Ayelet Fishbach about the psychology of goals . . . I love this book and know you will too' - Angela Duckworth, author of Grit A great deal of ink has bee..

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God Delusion

THE GOD DELUSION caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-h..

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God Equation, The: The Quest for a Theory of Everything

The bestselling physicist returns with a thrilling account of the search for the 'God Equation' This is the story of a quest- to find a Theory of Everything. Einstein dedicated his life to seekin..

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Great Breakthroughs in Technology: The Scientific and Industrial Innovations that Changed the World

What incredible innovations have changed the course of history? From rudimentary metalwork to 3-D printing, human ingenuity has set us apart from other animals on earth. Great Breakthroughs in T..

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Great Dead Body Teachers, The

'Since I was a child, I've been interested in dead bodies. When I was eight years old, I dug up the remains of my pet budgie Zazbut. He had been buried for about eight weeks in a patch of grass outsid..

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H is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z

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, Elizabe..

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Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics

The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a dazzling story of rebellion and science In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wi..

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History of the World Through Body Parts, A

From famous craniums to prominent breasts, ancient spleens and bound feet, this book will bring history to life in a whole new way. With their inimitable wit and probing intelligence, authors Kathy an..

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Horizons: A Global History of Science

A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from history In this major retelling of the history of science from 1450 to the present day, James Poskett exp..

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How AI Thinks: How we built it, how it can help us, and how we can control it

Those who understand how AI thinks are about to win big. Leading AI entrepreneur Nigel Toon explains why it's so exciting, and how it can be controlled. We are used to thinking of computers as be..

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How Ai Works: From Sorcery to Science

AI isn't magic. How AI Works demystifies the explosion of artificial intelligence by explaining-without a single mathematical equation-what happened, when it happened, why it happened, how it happened..

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How Biology Works: The Facts Visually Explained

The mysteries of life, from DNA and cells to evolution and ecology, all explained with simple words and clever graphics The simplest, most visual guide to the science of life - ever How do v..

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How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology

A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers. Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transform..

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How the Brain Works: The Facts Visually Explained

Have you ever asked yourself why you can't remember anything from before the age of three, why we experience dej vu, or indeed how a bundle of cells in our heads can produce the remarkable phenomenon..

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How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon

To get us to the future, the Victorians created a new way of ordering and transforming nature, built on grand designs and the mass-mobilisation of the resources of Empire - and revolutionised science ..

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How to Kill an Earworm: And 500+ Other Psychology Facts You Need to Know

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