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How to Solve a Crime: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Forensics

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How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms

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How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog

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How Vaccines Work: The Science and History Behind Every Question You've Wanted to Ask

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Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

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Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

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I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks

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I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique

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Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity

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Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion

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In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems

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In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist

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Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future Beyond Earth

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Introducing Artificial Intelligence: A Graphic Guide

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Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide

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Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

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Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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Is Maths Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths

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James Lovelock et al. The Earth and I

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Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity

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Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

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Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon: The New Science and Stories of the Brain

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Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe

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Living in Data: A Citizen's Guide to a Better Information Future

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Living With It: 30th Anniversary Edition

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Looking Up: The True Adventures of a Storm-Chasing Weather Nerd

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Machines Behaving Badly: The Morality of AI

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Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future

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Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future

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Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality

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Micro Life: Miracles of the Miniature World Revealed

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Mind Blown

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Moons: The Mysteries and Marvels of our Solar System

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Moral AI: And How We Get There

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Mountains of Fire: The Secret Lives of Volcanoes

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Murder Isn't Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie

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Music of the Primes: Why an Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Matters

The paperback of the critically-acclaimed popular science book by a writer who is fast becoming a celebrity mathematician. Prime numbers are the very atoms of arithmetic. They also embody one of the m..

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My Remarkable Journey

The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first..

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New Science of Heaven: How the new science of plasma physics is shedding light on spiritual experience, A

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New Zealand's Wild Weather

The drama of New Zealand's changeable weather. Are the events we are seeing due to our changing climate? A compelling, informative and highly illustrated series of investigations into the differe..

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Night Owls and Early Birds: Rhythms of Life on a Rotating Planet

Horseshoe crabs and hibernating squirrels. Jet-lagged pilots and space station astronauts. Night owls and early birds. All of life is profoundly shaped by the daily, monthly and yearly cycles of plane..

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Night Sky Almanac 2024: A stargazer's guide

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Numbercrunch: A Mathematician's Toolkit for Making Sense of Your World

In our hyper-modern world we are bombarded with more facts, stats and information than ever before. Often these statistics can seem contradictory and say wildly different things depending on who is sh..

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Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World

Bill Gates' favourite scientist is on a mission to make facts matter Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy? From earth's nations and inhabitan..

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Nuts and Bolts: How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work

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Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)

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On the Origin of Species

These pages include the final edition of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work that introduced the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. First published in 1859, Charles Darwin's On t..

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On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial today as when it was first published. This Penguin Classics edition contains ..

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On the Origin of Species

On the Origin of Species outlines Charles Darwin's world-changing theory that life on Earth had not been brought into being by a creator, but had arisen from a single common ancestor and had evolved o..

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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read. Bookworms and number-lo..

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One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives

It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest after inhaling some biscuit crumbs, he saw a flock of birds fly pas..

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