Popular science Books
Skyhorse Publishing Future Minds The Rise of Intelligence from the
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£19.00
Scribe Us Nature Is Never Silent: How Animals and Plants
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Planeta Publishing Astrofísica Para Gente Con Prisa
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Planeta Publishing El Verdadero Creador de Todo: Cómo El Cerebro
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana S.A. de C.V. Las Piedras Falaces de Marrakech Penltimas
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Almuzara SOS Probióticos
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Ediciones Urano Relaciones Eficaces
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EL MUNDO DE LAS MONTAÑAS
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Alianza Editorial El dios de cada uno
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CSIC Participacin y cultura cientfica en contexto
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida When Science Sheds Light on History
Book SynopsisPhilippe Charlier, the ""Indiana Jones of the graveyards"", travels the globe with his forensics team to unravel historic mysteries. Exploring how our ancestors lived and how they died, the forty cases in this book tackle some of history's most enduring questions and illustrate the power of science to reveal the secrets of the past.Trade ReviewCharlier deftly incorporates complex medical terminology with the voice of a storyteller." - Forbes
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Arcturus Publishing Ltd Science 50 Key Ideas Unpacked
Book SynopsisHow did life emerge? What are the smallest elements of matter? How are planets formed?Over the centuries, brilliant men and women have sought to develop theories to answer the most compelling questions about the world around us. Through their amazing insights and conscientious efforts they helped to create the world we know today. In this entertaining introduction, Anne Rooney explores the fascinating world of science through its 50 key ideas.Ranging from evolutionary biology to quantum physics to chaos theory and featuring the ideas of such pivotal scientists as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Marie Curie, this essential guide will bring you up to speed on all of the world''s most important scientific discoveries. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Ideas Unpacked series explores several academic topics through their 50 greatest ideas, giving readers an entertaining and accessible overview of a subjects defining theories and thi
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Orion Publishing Co Identically Different
Book Synopsis*A brand new and updated edition for 2024, including the latest insights on diet and weight management drugs, gene editing, cancer testing, anti-ageing, ultra-processed foods and much more*Professor Tim Spector, number one bestselling author of SPOON FED and FOOD FOR LIFE, reveals the astonishing new science that is changing everything we thought we knew about genes and identity.Since the discovery of DNA, scientists have believed that genes are fixed entities that cannot be changed by environment. Spector''s pioneering epigenetics studies, and the latest genetic research, show that our genes are more like plastic, able to change shape and evolve, and these changes can be passed on to future generations.This dazzling guide to the hidden world of our genes will make you rethink everything from sexuality to religion, cancer to autism, politics to pubic hair, clones to bacteria, and what it is that makes us all so unique and quintessentiall
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Please Find Attached
Book Synopsis''Attachment theory is everywhere, but is everything you''ve heard about it right? Laura Mucha explains it all. Learn how to better understand yourself and your relationships, and how to improve them.'' - Fearne CottonDo you over-analyse relationships? Or do you avoid thinking about them altogether? How do you think your childhood impacts you and your relationships?In Please Find Attached seven people talk candidly about their upbringings, loves and losses. Delving deep into their lives, Laura Mucha explains everything you need to know about attachment theory, the most well-researched relationship science, and how it can make sense of our lives.Please Find Attached explores why you think, feel and behave the way you do with loved ones, and helps you have better relationships as a result.
£17.09
Hodder & Stoughton Why Dont Things Fall Up
Book Synopsis''A great idea, beautifully executed.'' Popular Science''A book of quiet wonder.'' Ian Dunt''I have learnt (and remembered) so much, and so easily. It''s the mango ice cream of science books.'' Hilary McKay''Everything Alom writes is a joy to ponder, his love of science is utterly contagious, the perfect guide through things that might perplex.'' Robin Ince''A joyful exploration of fundamental questions about our world; Shaha proves that science is for everyone!'' Roma Agrawal''Friendly, informative and such fun to read.'' Christopher Edge''Alom Shaha is the science teacher many people will wish they had but didn''t.'' Philip Ball''Here is the teacher you''ll wish you had at school.'' Jim S. Al-Khalili CBE''A gentle and reassuring journey through school science, perfect for polishing up both
£10.44
University of South Carolina Press Introducing Science Through Images: Cases of
Book SynopsisAn examination of how images can serve as communication tools to popularize science in the public eyeAs funding for basic scientific research becomes increasingly difficult to secure, public support becomes essential. Because of its promise for captivating nonexpert publics, the practice of merging art and imagery with science has been gaining traction in the scientific community. While images have been used with greater frequency in recent years, their value is often viewed as largely superficial. To the contrary, Maria E. Gigante posits in Introducing Science through Images, the value of imagery goes far beyond mere aesthetics—visual elements are powerful communication vehicles.The images examined in this volume, drawn from a wide range of historical periods, serve an introductory function—that is, they appear in a position of primacy relative to text and, like the introduction to a speech, have the potential to make audiences attentive and receptive to the forthcoming content. Gigante calls them “portal” images and explicates their utility in science communication, both to popularize and mystify science in the public eye.Gigante analyzes how science has been represented by various types of portal images: frontispieces, portraits of scientists, popular-science magazine covers, and award-winning scientific images from Internet visualization competitions. Using theories of rhetoric and visual communication, she addresses the weak connection between scientific communities and the public and explores how visual elements can best be employed to garner public support for research.
£32.36
Feral House The Real Story of Dinosaurs and Dragons
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£20.39
Shelter Harbor Press Biology: An Illustrated History of Life Science
Book SynopsisHere is the essential guide to biology, an authoritative reference book and timeline that examines how we have uncovered the secrets of life-the most complex process in the Universe. From the workings of molecules to the way entire oceans or continents of lifeforms interact, biology seeks to understand how it is that something can be alive, how it fends off death and how it leaves more life in its wake. We follow the journey through the history of life science to find out why the dolphin got its name (it is the 'womb fish'), how a seven-foot strand of DNA is able to build your body, and what gives a lobster its blue blood. The great names, such as Darwin and Linnaeus, are joined by lesser known discoverers, such as Karl von Frisch who discovered that bees dance, and Jan Baptist van Helmont who found a plant uses air and water to grow. Biology today is still very much a live science, finding a purpose in robot design and helping us to understand non-living complex systems like the Internet. Biology has changed the way we understand ourselves. What will it tell us next? - Contains 100 chronological articles that tell the story of biology from the dawn of history to the present day - Authoritative text, exciting imagery and helpful diagrams accompany each of the steps along the way - Biographies of great life scientists and a chart of the tree of life - A simple guide to biology draws together current understanding to set out the basics of the science - The Imponderables looks at what questions biology still needs to answer. Also contains a 24-page removable foldout concertina neatly housed at the back of the book. This fold-out concertina includes a 12-page Timeline History of Biology and 12 full pages of amazing electron micrographs called Our Hidden World.
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NewSouth Publishing Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a
Book SynopsisIt's humanity's make-or-break-century.In breathtakingly original prose, Elise Bohan argues that we're hurtling towards a superhuman future — or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crises, from global warming to the risks posed by nuclear weapons, novel and bioengineered pathogens and unaligned AI, is up. We'll need more technology to safeguard our future — and we're going to invent (and perhaps even merge with) some of that technology.What does that mean for our 20th century life-scripts? Are the robots coming for our jobs? How will human relationships change when AI knows us inside out? Will we still be having human babies by the century's end? Bohan unflinchingly explores possibilities most of us are afraid to imagine: the impacts of automation on our jobs, livelihoods and dating and mating careers, the stretching out of 'the-circle-of-life' as life-extension technologies mature, the rise of AI friends and lovers, the liberation of women from pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, and the impending global baby-bust – and attendant proliferation of digital minds.Strap in for an exhilarating, and starkly honest, take on the promise and peril of life in the 21st century.
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Atlantic Books Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole
Book SynopsisOne of the world's leading neurologists reveals the extraordinary stories behind some of the brain disorders that he and his staff at the Harvard Medical School endeavour to treat - an updated and revised edition of the Sunday Times bestseller and modern classic of the medical memoir genre.
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Allen & Unwin Bittersweet: The story of sugar
Book SynopsisForty years after first chewing on sugar cane in New Guinea, the home of sugar, the author underwent some complex dental work as a direct result of his sweet tooth. This led him to explore sugar cane's journey from New Guinea to Shakespeare's England. In the days before dentistry, people paid dearly for this sweet new food from exotic places. Queen Elizabeth I became so partial to hippocras, sugared almonds and pastilles that her teeth turned completely black.Bittersweet is full of ripping yarns and acts of bastardry. Through the ages, sugar has offered opportunities of tremendous riches to the unscrupulous few who grew and sold it. But in the days of manual processing, these fortunes were built on the backbreaking labour of slaves.Bittersweet explores the effects that sugar has had on the world. A foodstuff we take for granted and indulge in more than we should has caused wars and geopolitical balances that have shaped the modern world and the power balances we see in the 21st century.' The breadth of the connections Macinnis weaves through his tale continually surprises, all the more because the substance sugar is so deceptively simple that, before this book, we have taken it for granted. He has put his encyclopaedic knowledge to excellent use, placing science and technology naturally in a social context.' - Dr Peter Pockley, Australasian Correspondent for Nature.'Few foods have had such an impact on human history as sugar, from its origins, its influence on the slave trade and its use as a medicine, a luxury, a comfort food and now a cheap filler in the modern processed food supply. Peter Macinnis has traced its path carefully, cleverly crafting the story of all its sweet and sour effects.' - Dr Rosemary Stanton, Nutritionist.Table of ContentsAbout the authorAcknowledgmentsNote on measurements and moneyPrefaceIntroduction1 The beginnings2 The spread of sugar3 Sugar in the New World4 The English and the Sugar Business5 Fighting over sugar6 A science of sugar7 Rum and politics8 The end of slavery in the Americas9 Emancipation's harvest10 The rise of technology11 Labour problems12 Sugar in the twentieth centuryEpilogue: The costs and benefitsGlossaryReferencesIndex
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BenBella Books The Vision Revolution: How the Latest Research
Book SynopsisIn The Vision Revolution, Mark Changizi, prominent neuroscientist and vision expert, addresses four areas of human vision and provides explanations for why we have those particular abilities, complete with a number of full-color illustrations to demonstrate his conclusions and to engage the reader. Written for both the casual reader and the science buff hungry for new information, The Vision Revolution is a resource that dispels commonly believed perceptions about sight and offers answers drawn from the field's most recent research. Changizi focuses on four "why" questions: 1. Why do we see in color? 2. Why do our eyes face forward? 3. Why do we see illusions? 4. Why does reading come so naturally to us? The Vision Revolution explores phenomena such as cyclopses, peeking and many more you hadn't even thought to wonder about. Changizi shows how deeply involved these evolutionary aspects of our vision are in why we see the way we do--and what the future holds for us. The Vision Revolution is a book that finally gives attention to what before has been largely neglected by other works on human vision--a book that looks at the "why."Trade Review"A friendly tone, colorful everyday examples and many helpful figures will draw readers--science buffs or not--down the rabbit hole of cognitive theory and keep them there, dazzled." -- from Publishers Weekly online (starred review), May 11, 2009 "... the novel ideas that Mr. Changizi outlines in The Vision Revolution--together with the evidence he does present--may have a big effect on our understanding of the human brain. Their implication is that the environments we evolved in shaped the design of our visual system according to a set of deep principles. Our challenge now is to see them clearly." --The Wall Street Journal, June 19, 2009 "Throughout the book, Changizi peppers his explanations with quick, fascinating visual exercises that help to drive his points home ... Changizi's theories are appealing and logical, and he backs them with good circumstantial evidence. ... One thing is certain: The Vision Revolution will make you wonder the next time you notice someone blush, catch a ball or finish reading a magazine page." --Scientific American MIND, July 2009 "Changizi focuses on why humans have evolved such visual 'superpowers' as color vision and binocularity. His answers are surprising, overturning theories that have dominated primatology since the 1970s ... Readers, however, need not be well versed in academic debates to enjoy Changizi's lucid explanations. Filled with optical illusions and simple experiments for the reader to perform, this book may be the most fun you'll have learning about human cognition and evolution." --Barnes & Noble Spotlight Review, July 13, 2009 "... most imaginative, creative and entertaining ... This book will no doubt offer a revolutionary view on our daily experience of visual perception." --Shinsuke Shimojo, Professor in Biology/Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology "Changizi has the unique ability to draw the reader into asking the most fundamental questions of 'why' rather than the more mundane ones of 'how'..." --Romi Nijhawan, Reader in Psychology, Sussex University "This is a book that will open your eyes to the amazing feats of visual perception." --Michael A. Webster, Foundation Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno "... [Changizi] fleshes out his findings and provides a fresh take on many key issues in perception." --Robert Deaner, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Grand Valley State University "... a book full of invention and originality. ... If you want to learn how to think outside of the box, then this is a book for you." --Peter Lucas, Professor of Anthropology, George Washington University "... one of the most original accounts of vision ... novel ideas that are sure to radically change your mind about the way vision works." --Stanislas Dehaene, head of the CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory
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BenBella Books Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature
Book SynopsisThe scientific consensus is that our ability to understand human speech has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. After all, there are whole portions of the brain devoted to human speech. We learn to understand speech before we can even walk, and can seamlessly absorb enormous amounts of information simply by hearing it. Surely we evolved this capability over thousands of generations. Or did we? Portions of the human brain are also devoted to reading. Children learn to read at a very young age and can seamlessly absorb information even more quickly through reading than through hearing. We know that we didn't evolve to read because reading is only a few thousand years old. In Harnessed, cognitive scientist Mark Changizi demonstrates that human speech has been very specifically "designed" to harness the sounds of nature, sounds we've evolved over millions of years to readily understand. Long before humans evolved, mammals have learned to interpret the sounds of nature to understand both threats and opportunities. Our speech--regardless of language--is very clearly based on the sounds of nature. Even more fascinating, Changizi shows that music itself is based on natural sounds. Music--seemingly one of the most human of inventions--is literally built on sounds and patterns of sound that have existed since the beginning of time. From Library Journal: "Many scientists believe that the human brain's capacity for language is innate, that the brain is actually "hard-wired" for this higher-level functionality. But theoretical neurobiologist Changizi (director of human cognition, 2AI Labs; The Vision Revolution) brilliantly challenges this view, claiming that language (and music) are neither innate nor instinctual to the brain but evolved culturally to take advantage of what the most ancient aspect of our brain does best: process the sounds of nature ...it will certainly intrigue evolutionary biologists, linguists, and cultural anthropologists and is strongly recommended for libraries that have Changizi's previous book." From Forbes: "In his latest book, Harnessed, neuroscientist Mark Changizi manages to accomplish the extraordinary: he says something compellingly new about evolution...Instead of tackling evolution from the usual position and become mired in the usual arguments, he focuses on one aspect of the larger story so central to who we are, it may very well overshadow all others except the origin of life itself: communication. "Trade Review"...this remarkable book...promises to revolutionize thinking about what separates us from apes." - Daniel Simons, author of The Invisible Gorilla "...builds a compelling case, and his wry style of storytelling makes for an entertaining read." - Discover Magazine ...brilliantly challenges...view...that the human brain's capacity for language [and music] is innate..." - Cynthia Knight, Library Journal ...makes a persuasive case in this fascinating volume." - New Scientist "...simple but striking premise to show how language and music...harness our brains." - The Scientist ...this book might hold the key to one of humanity's longstanding mysteries..." - Stanislas Dehaene, author of Reading in the Brain
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Adventures Unlimited Press Cataclysms of the Earth: The Hab Theory Reloaded
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Estuche La vida La muerte y La conciencia
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