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2025 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa

The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering Janua..

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2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity

Will technology change what it means to be human You don't have to be a computer scientist to have discerning conversations about artificial intelligence and technology. We all wonder where we'r..

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50 AI Ideas You Really Need to Know

Master the technology reshaping our world today. In a series of 50 accessible essays, Keith Mansfield introduces and explains the essential concepts, ideas and key thinkers behind artifici..

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50 Chemistry Ideas You Really Need to Know

Master the chemistry ideas that shape the world we live in today. In a series of 50 accessible essays, Hayley Birch introduces and explains everything you need to know about the world of ch..

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50 Quantum Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Joanne Baker introduces and explains the fundamental physical concepts and laws that govern the inner workings of our universe. From Schrodinger's cat t..

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A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters

'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer, juggling humour, precision, polemic and poetry to enrich his impossibly telescoped account . . . [making]..

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A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous

Sound shapes our world in invisible but significant ways, and here Caspar Henderson brings his characteristic curiosity, knowledge and sense of wonder to the subject to take us on an exhilarating jour..

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A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

Harvard's acclaimed geologist "charts Earth's history in accessible style" (AP) "A sublime chronicle of our planet." -Booklist, STARRED review How well do you know the ground beneath your fe..

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A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI

Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be. 'I found this book amazing' Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling auth..

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A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI

A Brief History of Intelligence bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be. The entirety of the human brain's 4-billion-year story can..

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A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

From the bestselling authors of Soonish, a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into space settlement Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no ..

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A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage

What is space? What is time? Where did the universe come from? The answers to mankind's most enduring questions may lie in science's greatest enigma: black holes. A black hole is a region of spac..

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A Meteorite Killed My Cow: Stuff That Happens When Space Rocks Hit Earth

Meteorites are generally considered to be bizarre and exotic space junk that you only ever come across in museums. But the reality is very different. Meteorites are generally harmless, with the except..

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A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet and Disease

A radical new vision of human health and illness revealing the hidden but most significant cause of death in the world today Inflammation has traditionally been thought of as the body's response ..

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A Year in Numbers: 365 Astonishing Maths Facts

Did you know: -Only around 100 people have ever lived beyond a million hours (that's about 114 years) -Around 7% of everyone who has ever lived is currently alive -The '12 days of Christmas' son..

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Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World

We may imagine that science is a process of breakthroughs and light bulb moments. But in reality, science goes wrong 99% of the time. Almost every idea a scientist comes up with is quickly ..

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Alien Earths: Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

The world expert explains how we hunt new planets, then search them to find if we're alone in the universe For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for..

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And Finally: A Neurosurgeon's Reflections on Life

From the No.1 bestselling author of Do No Harm, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and what matters in the end. From the No.1 bestselling author of Do No Harm, an entra..

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Around the World in 80 Games: A mathematician unlocks the secrets of the greatest games

'Brilliantly clear and captivating prose' Stephen Fry An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind the games we love and why we love to play them. Where should you move first in Con..

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Around the World in 80 Games: A mathematician unlocks the secrets of the greatest games

'BRILLIANTLY CLEAR AND CAPTIVATING PROSE' STEPHEN FRY A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR 2023 An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind the games we love and why we love to play them...

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Astrobiology: An Introduction

Exploring the potential for extraterrestrial life and the origins of our own planet, this comprehensive introduction to astrobiology is updated with the latest findings. Informed by the discoveri..

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Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima

Baillie-Gifford award-winner Serhii Plokhy's illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear disasters In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power p..

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Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence, the Groundbreaking Meditation Practice

This groundbreaking new book from New York Times bestselling author Daniel J. Siegel introduces readers to his pioneering, science-based meditation practice. Aware provides practical instruction ..

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Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers

Not all statistics are created equal. Take a look behind the scenes and you'll discover that even most official data isn't the solid bedrock we think it is. It's patchy, inconsistent, full of guesswor..

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Basic AI: A Human Guide to Artificial Intelligence

In Basic AI, leading futurist David L. Shrier delves deep into the rapidly advancing world of artificial intelligence, delivering fascinating insights and exploring the impact this powerful technology..

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Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

A radically thought-provoking account of a major shift in how we understand our Earth, not simply as an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather as a planet that came to life, from the heart..

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Being Human: How our biology shaped world history

A unique reframing of human history as shaped by our physical abilities and limitations - by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Origins Being Human is history made flesh. It will change the w..

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Being Human: How our biology shaped world history

A unique reframing of human history as shaped by our physical abilities and limitations - by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Origins Being Human is history made flesh. It will change the w..

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Best American Science And Nature Writing 2022, The

A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor renowned marine biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and series editor Jaime Green. Dr. Ayana Eliz..

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Beyond DNA: How Epigenetics is Transforming our Understanding of Evolution

Uncover how a new approach to epigenetics affects the basis for our understanding of evolutionary biology Beyond DNA is a journey through uncharted territory, advancing new ways of thinking about..

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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement

A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew. 'A wildly ambitious book by a formidably talented young writer.' - ROBERT MACFARLANE '..

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Beyond the Hype: Inside Science's Biggest Media Scandals from Climategate to Covid

Do you remember the 'Climategate' email leak? Or the 'Frankenfoods'- style headlines about the perils of GM foods? What about the time the government sacked its own science advisor for challenging dru..

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Big Ideas, Little Pictures: Explaining the world one sketch at a time

"This is such a cool book. The range of Jono's knowledge is astounding, and so is his ability to digest complex ideas into deceptively simple drawings. You'll learn something on every page-and be ente..

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Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity

The phenomenon of neuroplasticity - the discovery that the brain can change its own structure and function in response to mental experience - is the most important development in our understanding of ..

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Brainscapes: An Atlas of Your Life on Earth

Your brain is a collection of maps. That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brain's surfaces are actual schematic images of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival. S..

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Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

The first book on the AI transformation of education, its implications for parenting, and harnessing its power for good Whether we like it or not, the AI revolution is coming to education. In Bra..

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Breath: New Science of a Lost Art

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbein..

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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

The definitive story of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. 'A luminous, passio..

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BWB Text: Antibiotic Resistance: The End of Modern Medicine?

In ten years' time, will antibiotics still work? Have we let bacteria get the upper hand in the evolutionary arms race?In the 1920s the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin started a golden age of m..

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BWB Text: Towards a Warmer World

2014 was the hottest year since record keeping began back in 1880. July 2015 was recently confirmed as the globe's hottest month ever recorded, both on land and in the oceans. This December a major in..

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Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination

In The Cabaret of Plants, Mabey explores the plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief. Picked from ever..

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Celsius: A Life and Death by Degrees

Sweden's Enlightenment genius and his lessons for a world in crisis. This is the first, full-length English language biography of Swedish astronomer and Earth science pioneer Professor Anders Celsius..

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Cloudspotter's Guide

'The clouds are nature's poetry, and the most egalitarian of her displays, since everyone has an equally fantastic view of them. Clouds are for dreamers, and their contemplation benefits the soul. Yet..

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Cloudspotting For Beginners

An introduction to the wondrous world of clouds, by the internationally bestselling founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society and a prize-winning children's book author and illustrator Have you e..

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Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

From Wharton professor and author of the One Useful Thing Substack, comes an urgent and definitive playbook for working, learning and living in the new age of AI. For fans of Kevin Kelly, Ray Kurzweil..

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Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 'Code Dependent is the intimate investigation of AI that we've been waiting for, and it arrives not a moment too soon.' - Shoshana Zuboff, author ..

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Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI *Women's Prize 2024 Shortlist*

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 'There's nothing like a long plane journey to rediscover the joys of reading an entire book in one sitting and I have just had that pleasure ..

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Collins Stargazer's Bible: Your illustrated companion to the night sky

Combining practical stargazing information and advice, the insights of internationally renowned astronomers and the history, technological advances and art revering the night sky, Collins Stargazer's ..

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Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers

What has counting meant to different cultures and different individuals? In this book, historian and mathematician Benjamin Wardhaugh explores stories from all over the world and from every perio..

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Dance of the Photons: Einstein, Entanglement and Quantum Teleportation

A Nobel Laureate explains quantum entanglement and teleportation and why Einstein was wrong about the nature of reality What is the true nature of reality? To find out, Nobel Laureate Anton Zeili..

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Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome

A groundbreaking tour through the past, present and future of human ecology, from a world expert on the microbiome The microbiome comprises the vast genetic universe of bacteria, yeasts, viruses ..

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