How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe
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Category: Science | Series: Useless Self Help Guide
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try i ...Show more
We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Category: Science
From the bestselling author of Eating Animals and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - a brilliant, fresh take on climate change and what we can do about it. Climate crisis is the single biggest threat to human survival. And it is happening right now. We all understand that time is running out - but do ...Show more
Scientists Who Changed History by .
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Category: Science
Explore the lives and achievements of more than 85 of the world's most inspirational and influential scientists with this innovative and boldly graphic biography-led book. The second title in DK's new illustrated biography series, Scientists profiles trailblazing individuals from Greek mathematicians, s ...Show more
Brainscapes: An Atlas of Your Life on Earth by Rebecca Schwarzlose
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Category: Science
A trailblazing journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action all depend on 'maps' etched into your gray matter - and how technology can use these maps to read your mind. Your brain is a collection of maps. That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brain's surfaces are actual schem ...Show more
Running Smart: How Science Can Improve Your Endurance and Performance by Mariska van Sprundel
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Category: Science
A science writer and recreational runner explores the science behind popularly held beliefs about shoes, injuries, nutrition, runner's high, and more. Conventional wisdom about running is passed down like folklore (and sometimes contradicts itself): the right kind of shoe prevents injury--or running ...Show more
Regenesis: How to Feed the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot
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Category: Science
Campaigners, chefs and food writers rail against 'intensive farming'. But the problem isn't the adjective. It's the noun. Around the world, farming has been wiping out vast habitats, depleting freshwater, polluting oceans, and accelerating global heating, while leaving millions undernourished and unfed ...Show more
A History of the Universe in 21 Stars - (and Three Imposters) by Giles Sparrow
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Category: Science
Expert science writer Giles Sparrow guides you through 21 stars you can see in the night sky and what they can teach us about our universe. On a clear evening, if you look up you can see thousands of stars shining in the dark sky, each with a story of their own. Taking 21 stars (and three imposters, th ...Show more
Books do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science by Richard Dawkins
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Category: Science
At a time when science can seem complex and remote, it has a greater impact on our lives, and to the future of our planet, than ever before. It really matters that its discoveries and truths should be clearly and widely communicated. That its enemies, from the malicious to the muddled, the self-deluding ...Show more
Is It Really Green? - Everyday Eco Dilemmas Answered by Georgina Wilson-Powell
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Category: Science
Find clarity on everyday green-living dilemmas to maximize your sustainability Are paper bags always more environmentally friendly than plastic? How much better for the planet are electric cars? What saves more water - using the dishwasher or washing up by hand? We all want to do the right thing for the ...Show more
Cradle to Cradle: (Patterns of Life) by Michael Braungart; William McDonough
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Category: Science | Series: Patterns of Life Ser.
Michael Braungart and William McDonough propose a plan for our planet in this stunning new edition of their radical ecological manifesto. This book proposes a new vision for modern industry. Instead of our current wasteful and polluting methods of manufacturing, we could be taking nature as a model for ...Show more
The Planets by Professor Brian Cox
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Category: Science
'So staggering you go "whoa " every few seconds' Guardian 'Really impressive' Eamonn Holmes, ITV This Morning A companion book to the critically acclaimed BBC series. The bestselling authors of Wonders of the Universe are back with another blockbuster, a groundbreaking exploration of our Solar System ...Show more
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Science
Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days doing what he loved: playing the piano, swimming, enjoying smoked salmon - and writing. As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life his final thou ...Show more