Science
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Sapiens’ showed us where we came from.
‘Homo Deus’ looked to the future.
’21 Lessons for the...
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The Ends of the World
Peter Brannen
Read more ▸ Order ▸Five times our world has stood on the brink of Armageddon. It’s been scorched, frozen,...
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Musicophilia
Oliver Sacks
Read more ▸ Order ▸With his trademark compassion and erudition, Dr Oliver Sacks examines the power of music through...
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The Graphene Revolution
Brian Clegg
Read more ▸ Order ▸In 2003, Russian physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov found a way to produce graphene...
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
Steve Brusatte
Read more ▸ Order ▸Staff Pick
You can never be too old for a book about dinosaurs, but here is a...
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The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
Read more ▸ Order ▸The bestselling author of ‘Seven Brief Lessons on Physics’ takes us on an enchanting, consoling...
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Gravitational Waves
Brian Clegg
Read more ▸ Order ▸On 14 September 2015, after 50 years of searching, gravitational waves were detected for the...
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The Neanderthals Rediscovered
Dimitra Papagianni & Michael A. Morse
Read more ▸ Order ▸Staff Pick
They may be long dead but the Neanderthals were, for a long time, the...
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Big Data
Brian Clegg
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A brief and vivid explanation of a topic that is increasingly underpinning our lives...
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Reality is Not What it Seems
Carlo Rovelli
Read more ▸ Order ▸Do space and time truly exist? What is reality made of? Can we understand its...
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Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
Read more ▸ Order ▸Staff Pick
Harari is wise not to make any accurate predictions for the future. ‘Homo Deus’...
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli
Read more ▸ Order ▸Everything you need to know about modern physics, the universe and our place in the...
