Complete Guide to Fossils & Fossil Collections by Steve Parker
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Category: Science
An illustrated reference to ove 400 plant and animal fossils from around the globe and how to identify them, with over 1000 photographos and artworks.
The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides by Mariano Sigman
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Category: Science
* Where do our thoughts come from?* How can we manipulate our dreams?* What is the role of the unconscious?* How do we make decisions and trust the judgement of both others and ourselves? In this mind-bending international bestseller by Mariano Sigman, one of the world's leading neuroscientists reveals ...Show more
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest by Wade Davis
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Category: Science
From the author of Into The Silence, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. In 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took a leave of absence from Harvard University and disappeared into the Northern Amazon of Colombia. The world's leading authority on the hallucinogens and medicinal plants of the re ...Show more
Do Robots Make Love? by Laurent Alexandre; Jean-Michel Besnier
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Category: Science
Through 12 thought-provoking questions, a philosopher and a scientist explore the real-world ramifications of transhumanism - the tech movement that seeks to improve the human condition through science. Should we enhance the human condition with technology?Does anyone really want to live for a thous ...Show more
Solar System in Minutes by Giles Sparrow
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Category: Science | Series: In Minutes Ser.
The Solar System in Minutes explains the history and features of all the major celestial bodies, including the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, the planets' main moons, the asteroids, comets, dwarf planets, and the Kuiper belt, as well as the birth, evolution, and scie ...Show more
City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest by Sophie Cunningham
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Category: Science
How do we take in the beauty of our planet while processing the losses? What trees can survive in the city? Which animals can survive in the wild? How do any of us-humans, animals, trees-find a forest we can call home? In these moving, thought-provoking essays Sophie Cunningham considers the meaning of ...Show more
Francis Crick Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley
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Category: Science | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley traces the colourful life of the man who discovered the structure of DNA, the building blocks of life. Building on a biographical tradition that can be traced back to Aubrey's 'Brief Lives', Dr Johnson's 'Lives of the Poets' and Lytton Strachey's 'Eminent Victorians', this e ...Show more
The Sacred Balance: Discovering Our Place in Nature by David T. Suzuki
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Category: Science
This special 10th anniversary edition of the David Suzuki classic, re-examines our place in the natural world in light of sweeping environmental changes and recent advances in scientific knowledge.
Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
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Category: Science
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understandi ...Show more
Adam Spencer's Number Games by Adam Spencer
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Category: Science
Who's smarter -- a four-year-old chimp or a four-year-old human? How much does it cost to stop a computer virus? And will you really become a billionaire at 31? The answers to all these questions -- as well as over 100 brainbusting and mind-bending number games, puzzles and quizzes -- are in Adam Spenc ...Show more
Winter World : The Ingenuity of Animal Survival by Bernd Heinrich
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Category: Science | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, and from torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who must alter the environment to accommodate physical limitations, animals are adaptable ...Show more
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
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Category: Science
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness. Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell a bold new ...Show more