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Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling shows with data that almost everyone judges the state of the world worse than chance would, and names the ten instincts respons... (Automatically generated book description)
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Yuval Noah Harari
Having written the history of humankind, Yuval Noah Harari asks about its future: what happens once famine, plague and war are solved and al... (Automatically generated book description)
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Brian Greene
Brian Greene explains relativity, quantum mechanics and the attempt to unite them in string theory, without formulas but without shrinking t... (Automatically generated book description)
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Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil predicts that technological change will become so fast that prediction itself fails, and puts a year on it. Contentious, influe... (Automatically generated book description)
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Sabine Hossenfelder
Sabine Hossenfelder criticises theoretical physics for using beauty and symmetry as guides for decades, and getting nowhere with it. She int... (Automatically generated book description)
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Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker explains perception, emotion and thought from the standpoint of evolutionary psychology and the idea that the mind consists of... (Automatically generated book description)
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Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark argues that reality is not merely describable by mathematics but is itself a mathematical structure, and derives from that four ... (Automatically generated book description)
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Steven H. Strogatz
Steven Strogatz shows why fireflies flash in time, heart cells beat together and a bridge starts swaying under pedestrians: synchronisation ... (Automatically generated book description)
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Carlo Rovelli
Carlo Rovelli tells how Werner Heisenberg found quantum mechanics on the island of Helgoland in 1925, and what follows for our picture of re... (Automatically generated book description)
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Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner on the American West as landscape and as self-deception: a region without water, sold as a land of unlimited possibility. (Automatically generated book description)
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Wendy Wood
Wendy Wood has researched habits for decades and shows that willpower barely matters: what decides is how easy or hard the surroundings make... (Automatically generated book description)
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Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz looks at the five great mass extinctions and asks what let species come through them, scattering, adapting and remembering, a... (Automatically generated book description)
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Lynn Margulis
Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan tell the first three billion years of life: a world of bacteria, from whose mergers everything later emerged. (Automatically generated book description)
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Max Caspar
The biography of Johannes Kepler by Max Caspar, grown out of decades of work on his papers. Still the authoritative account of his life. (Automatically generated book description)
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Sabine Hossenfelder
Sabine Hossenfelder separates what physics can say about large questions from what it cannot: free will, origins, consciousness. (Automatically generated book description)
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Benjamin Woolley
Benjamin Woolley wrote about virtual reality in 1992, when it barely existed, and asked even then what happens to the idea of reality. (Automatically generated book description)
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Richard Fortey
Richard Fortey tells four billion years of life from the standpoint of a palaeontologist who handled the fossils himself, with dry British h... (Automatically generated book description)
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Michelle Nijhuis
Michelle Nijhuis tells the history of species conservation through individual people and animals, and names what was wrong with the movement... (Automatically generated book description)
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Matthew Syed
Matthew Syed, himself an international table tennis player, disputes that talent is decisive and traces elite performance to practice, envir... (Automatically generated book description)
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Erin Odya
Anatomy and physiology explained from the inside out with no prior knowledge required: bones, muscles, organs, circulation. Erin Odya in the... (Automatically generated book description)
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Leslie Alan Horvitz
Leslie Alan Horvitz tells twelve moments in which the solution came to scientists, and what lay behind each of them. (Automatically generated book description)
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Robert Becker
Robert O. Becker on the electrical currents in living bodies and their role in regeneration, a book mainstream medicine long rejected. (Automatically generated book description)
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Stephen Pincock
Where the universe comes from, how that was worked out, and where physics still fails. Stephen Pincock without equations. (Automatically generated book description)
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Kenneth R. Lang
Kenneth R. Lang through the life cycle of stars, from molecular cloud to the nebula some of them leave behind. Illustrated and without equat... (Automatically generated book description)
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Steve Jones
Genetics from Mendel to the human gene map, drawn by Borin Van Loon and written by Steve Jones. From the Introducing series. (Automatically generated book description)
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David Fischer
A scientific work addressing pesticide risk assessment for pollinators. It covers the biological background of both managed and wild pollina... (Automatically generated book description)
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Scott Richard Shaw
Scott Richard Shaw tells the history of the Earth from the insects point of view, the group that has actually been most successful since the... (Automatically generated book description)
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Manfred Spitzer
Manfred Spitzer on learning from the perspective of brain research, and on what schools ought to take from it. (Automatically generated book description)
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Robert J. Richards
Robert J. Richards and Michael Ruse argue over where Darwins ideas came from: German Romanticism or the Scottish Enlightenment. (Automatically generated book description)
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Sandro Gaycken
Sandro Gaycken and co-authors examine how far state surveillance through digital technologies has already extended. Data retention, online s... (Automatically generated book description)
