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The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true
by Richard Dawkins & illustrated by Dave McKeanPublished: 03/10/2011
A stunning collaboration between a world-famous scientist and outstanding illustrator
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The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true
by Richard DawkinsPublished: 01/08/2012
A stunning collaboration between a world-famous scientist and outstanding illustrator
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Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human
by Barbara Natterson Horowitz and Kathryn BowersPublished: 01/08/2012
Dr House meets Dr Doolitte in this ‘big ideas book’ that reminds us of the real biological connection between human and animals
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Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
by Professor Jim Al-KhaliliPublished: 01/06/2012
A fun and fascinating look at great scientific paradoxes
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The Tell-Tale Brain: Unlocking the Mystery of Human Nature
by V. S. RamachandranPublished: 01/06/2012
A groundbreaking book about what we learn about human nature when the brain goes wrong, by the world's most exciting brain scientist.
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Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution
by John GribbinPublished: 01/06/2012
A fascinating and colourful biography of the father of quantum mechanics, by the bestselling author of the science classic, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat.
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Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People
by Philip BallPublished: 01/05/2012
A fascinating exploration of the cultural history of the creation of artificial people – what it tells us about our views on life, humanity, creativity and technology, and the soul.
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100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know About Sport
by John BarrowPublished: 01/05/2012
From the author of 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know, a companion volume perfectly timed for the Olympic Games
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The Sky at Night: Answers to Questions from Across the Universe
by Patrick Moore and Chris NorthPublished: 15/04/2012
The 55th anniversary compendium to the BBC's classic astronomy series, by Britain's best-loved astronomer
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The Book of Universes
by John D. BarrowPublished: 01/04/2012
A book about universes - expanding, contracting, oscillating, time-travelling - from the bestselling author of 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know.
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War of the Worldviews: Science vs Spirituality
by Deepak Chopra & Leonard MlodinowPublished: 03/10/2011
Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow enter the territory of Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins, with a remarkable new book
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Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
by Roger PenrosePublished: 01/10/2011
In his first book since the bestselling The Road to Reality, one of our most distinguished scientists offers a radical new theory of the origin, and ultimate end, of the Universe.
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The Grand Design
by Stephen Hawking with Leonard MlodinowPublished: 01/09/2011
New answers to the ultimate questions of life from the world's most famous living scientist.
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How Pleasure Works: Why we like what we like
by Paul BloomPublished: 01/08/2011
The internationally acclaimed psychologist Paul Bloom explores one of the most fascinating and fundamental engines of human behaviour - the new science of why we like what we like
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The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking our Way out of Extinction
by Rebecca D CostaPublished: 01/08/2011
A groundbreaking and game-changing ‘Big Ideas’ book in the tradition of Thomas Friedman and Jared Diamond.
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Bad Ideas?: An arresting history of our inventions
by Robert WinstonPublished: 02/05/2011
From the axe to the internet - the hidden dangers of man's impulse to invent
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Massive: The Hunt for the God Particle
by Ian SamplePublished: 01/04/2011
Brilliant and captivating, this is the biggest science story of our time
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The Secret Life of Stuff: A Manual for a New Material World
by Julie HillPublished: 15/03/2011
Like The Omnivore's Dilemma, this inventory of how we consume stuff is a wake-up call - shocking but inspiring.
