Outbreaks and Epidemics by Meera Senthilingam
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Category: Pop Science | Series: Hot Science Ser.
The latest title in Icon's Hot Science series, exploring the cutting edge of science and technology. For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out communities, or even entire populations. Yet for all our advanced scientific knowledge, o ...Show more
A Human's Guide to the Future by Dr Jordan Nguyen
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Category: Pop Science
TECHNOLOGY IS EVOLVING AT THE FASTEST RATE WE'VE EVER SEEN, BUT IT MAY BE THE SLOWEST RATE WE'LL EVER SEE AGAIN! What does this mean for the future of the human race? Do we resist these changes or embrace them?Australian biomedical engineer, inventor and visionary Dr Jordan Nguyen has lived a life of cu ...Show more
Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist by Bill McKibben
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Category: Pop Science
Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planetBill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that's where he found himself in the summer of 2011 after leading t ...Show more
Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding by George Monbiot
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Category: Pop Science
In Feral, George Monbiot, one of the world's most celebrated radical thinkers, and the author of Captive State, Heat, The Age of Consent and Amazon Watershed, follows his own hunger for new environmental experiences, in a riveting tale of possibility and travel with wildlife and wild people 'The suburbs ...Show more
The Lazarus Effect: The Science That is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death by Sam Parnia
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Category: Pop Science
How many minutes can you now survive after cardiac arrest? What do new medical techniques teach us about consciousness? How will these change our views of who we are? In 2012, two football stars collapsed while playing. Both were technically dead yet, while Fabrice Muamba received hypothermia treatment ...Show more
Seedtime: On the History, Husbandry, Politics and Promise of Seeds by Scott Chaskey
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Category: Pop Science
Scott Chaskey--working farmer, poet, and spiritual father of the community farming movement--considers "the web of biodiversity and resilience at the heart of our cultural inheritance" by masterfully weaving history, politics, botany, literature, mythology, and memoir into a beautiful and instructive bo ...Show more
Einstein's Masterwork: 1915 and the General Theory of Relativity by John Gribbin
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Category: Pop Science
In 1915, Albert Einstein presented his masterwork to the Prussian Academy of Sciences - a theory of gravity, matter, space and time: the General Theory of Relativity. Einstein himself said it was 'the most valuable theory of my life', and 'of incomparable beauty'. It describes the evolution of the Unive ...Show more
The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table by Sam Kean
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Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
Fascinating and hilarious true stories from the Periodic Table - Longlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2011 Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputatio ...Show more
What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength by Scott Carney
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Category: Pop Science
What Doesn't Kill Us, a New York Times bestseller, traces our evolutionary journey back to a time when survival depended on how well we adapted to the environment around us.Our ancestors crossed deserts, mountains, and oceans without even a whisper of what anyone today might consider modern technology. ...Show more
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
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Category: Pop Science
Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained-the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that ...Show more
Charles Darwin - Victorian Mythmaker by A N Wilson
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Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
Charles Darwin: the man who discovered evolution? The man who killed off God? Or a flawed man of his age, part genius, part ruthless careerist who would not acknowledge his debts to other thinkers?In this bold new life - the first single volume biography in twenty-five years - A. N. Wilson, the acclaime ...Show more
How to be Human : New Scientist by New Scientist Staff
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Category: Pop Science
If you thought you knew who you were, THINK AGAIN. Did you know that half your DNA isn't human? That somebody, somewhere has exactly the same face? Or that most of your memories are fiction? What about the fact that you are as hairy as a chimpanzee, various parts of your body don't belong to you, or t ...Show more