Ten Drugs - How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine by Thomas Hager
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Category: Science
Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials. Piece together these stories, as Thomas Hager does in this re ...Show more
From Arsenic to Zirconium - Poems and Surprising Facts about the Elements by Peter Davern
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Category: Science
93 short poems that teach the lay reader about the elements of the periodic table. An entertaining and informative collection for a general audience by a professor of chemical sciences. The Periodic Table of Poems is a unique collection of 93 short poems that explores the properties and nuances of each ...Show more
Entangled Life - How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
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Category: Science
'A dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing book. Sentence after sentence stopped me short. I ended it wonderstruck at the fungal world. A remarkable work by a remarkable writer' - ROBERT MACFARLANE, author of Underland. There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works.. ...Show more
Breath - The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
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Category: Science
300,000 years ago, Homo sapienshad bigger skulls. Cooked food meant our heads shrunk; alongside a growing brain, our airways got narrower. Urbanisation then led us to breathe less deeply and less healthily. And so today more than 90% of us breathe incorrectly. So we might have been breathing all our lif ...Show more
Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature by Patrick Barkham
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Category: Science
From climbing trees and making dens, to building sandcastles and pond-dipping, many of the activities we associate with a happy childhood take place outdoors. And yet, the reality for many contemporary children is very different. The studies tell us that we are raising a generation who are so alienated ...Show more
Symphony in C - Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything by Robert Hazen
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Category: Science
An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It is the building block of every cell that makes up every living thing. It is the essential component of the food we eat, the fuel we burn, the wood we use and the air we breathe. It is worth billion ...Show more
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in a Globalised World in Crisis by Paolo Giordano
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Category: Science
'Sublimely elegant, provocatively simple, deeply troubling. In one short hour, in the midst of this difficult moment, Giordano reinforced my sense of hope in humanity, in the one and the many' Philippe Sands, author of East West Street The Covid-19 pandemic is the most significant health emergency of ou ...Show more
Meteorite: How Stones from Outer Space Made Our World by Tim Gregory
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Category: Science
'Drawing on his deep technical education and boundless curiosity, Tim Gregory brings a childlike wonder of discovery to everything he sees. He shows an uncanny ability to swiftly understand, to clearly explain, and to be joyful in the process. His scientific delight is contagious' Chris Hadfield Every ...Show more
Cosmological Koans - A Journey to the Heart of Physics by Anthony Aguirre
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Category: Science
Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Using pleasingly paradoxical vignettes, known as Koans, that follow the ancient Zen tradition and have a flair for explaining complex science, physicist Anthony Aguirre tackles cosmic questions from the meaning of quan ...Show more
A Short History of the World According to Sheep by Sally Coulthard
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Category: Science
'This book deserves a place in your bookcase next to Harari's Sapiens. It's every bit as fascinating and is surely destined to be just as successful' - Julian Norton. An addictively free-ranging survey of the massive impact that the domesticated ungulates of the genus Ovis have had on human history. Fro ...Show more
Between Light and Storm by Esther Woolfson
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Category: Science
A landmark new book about the fraught relationship between humans and animals that takes us from Genesis to climate change. Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions of the soul and co ...Show more
The Human Age - How Humankind Created a New Geological Epoch by Gisli Palsson
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Category: Science
The Human Ageis an intrepid exploration of the new geological epoch in which we now find ourselves: the Anthropocene. Defined as the Age of Man, this is the epoch in which human beings have become the driving forces that mould, transform and destroy Earth. Where natural occurrences once controlled clima ...Show more