Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama
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Category: Science
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity o ...Show more
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature by Sarah Hart
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Category: Science
"An exuberant enthusiasm for mathematics (and life in general) shines through Dr. Hart." --The New York Times "An absolute joy to read!" --Steven Levitt, New York Times bestselling author of Freakonomics For fans of Seven Brief Lessons in Physics, an exploration of the many ways mathematics can tran ...Show more
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution by Richard Dawkins
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Category: Science
The Wonder of Flight. The Science of Evolution. From both, Richard Dawkins weaves a fascinating and beautifully illustrated account of how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. Do you sometimes dream you can fly like a bird? Gliding effortlessly above the ...Show more
When the Heavens Went on Sale - The misfits and geniuses racing to put space within reach by Ashlee Vance
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Category: Science
Acid-dropping NASA renegades and the new the space race no one knows is coming. When the Heavens Went on Sale is a fast-paced, exclusive, behind-the-scenes narrative about the race for space that's happening under our noses and over our heads. While the billionaire battles of Bezos vs Branson vs Musk do ...Show more
Numbercrunch by Oliver Johnson
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Category: Science
This is a mathematician's toolkit for cutting through wall-to-wall informationoverload and making sense of our modern 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 d ...Show more
Coders - Who They Are, What They Think and How They Are Changing Our World by Clive Thompson
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Category: Science
'Masterful . . . [Thompson] illuminates both the fascinating coders and the bewildering technological forces that are transforming the world in which we live.' David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Uber's cars flocking the streets. Revolution on Twitter and r ...Show more
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe by Brian Greene
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Category: Science
Instant New York Times Best-seller "A splendid and invigorating read." --Maria Popova, Brain Pickings From the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes a captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose. Until the End of Time is Brian Green ...Show more
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack
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Category: Science
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY * THE WASHINGTON POST * THE ECONOMIST * NEW SCIENTIST * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * THE GUARDIAN "A thrilling tour of potential cosmic doomsdays....Mack's infectious enthusiasm for communicating the finer points of cosmological doom elevate ...Show more
A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong by Dr Becky Smethurst
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Category: Science
In A Brief History of Black Holes, the award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics.Right now, you are orbiting a black hole.The Earth orbits the Sun, and the Sun orbits the centre of the Milky Way: a ...Show more
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
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Category: Science
Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems - and how we can solve them We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that w ...Show more
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as told to Ralph Leighton by Richard P. Feynman
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Category: Science
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustoble combinations made possi ...Show more
Ways of Being - Animals, Plants, Machines - The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
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Category: Science
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant, animal, human, artificial--and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something uni ...Show more