Science
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Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Our Senses
Jackie Higgins
Read more ▸ Pre-order ▸‘Sentient is a tour de force of popular science, leading the reader on a whistle-stop tour...
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A Man on the Moon
Andrew Chaikin
Read more ▸ Order ▸This is the definitive account of the heroic Apollo programme.
When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz...
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The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men
Paolo Zellini
Read more ▸ Order ▸Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality...
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Decoding the World
Po Bronson
Read more ▸ Order ▸A vision of the future where the latest Silicon Valley tech meets cutting-edge genetics.
Decoding the...
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Beasts Before Us
Elsa Panciroli
Read more ▸ Order ▸For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that...
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About Time
David Rooney
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long...
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Escape from Earth
Fraser MacDonald
Read more ▸ Order ▸ESCAPE FROM EARTH is the untold story of the engineers, dreamers and rebels who started...
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Smallpox
D. A., M.D. Henderson
Read more ▸ Order ▸The Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer
With a New...
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A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Andrew H. Knoll
Read more ▸ Order ▸How well do you know the ground beneath your feet?
Odds are, where you’re standing was...
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Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
Steven Johnson
Read more ▸ Order ▸The surprising story of how humans gained what amounts to an extra life, from the...
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Handmade
Anna Ploszajski
Read more ▸ Order ▸From atomic structures to theories about magnetic forces, scientific progress has given us a good...
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The Greywacke
Nick Davidson
Read more ▸ Order ▸Adam Sedgwick was a priest and scholar. Roderick Murchison was a retired soldier. Charles Lapworth...