Natural sciences, general
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The Body : A Guide for Occupants
Bryson, BillTransworld 2019#1 Bestseller in both hardback and paperback: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE _______'A directory of wonders.' - The Guardian 'Jaw-dro...
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The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu : The Quest for this Storied City and the Race to Save Its Treasures
English, CharlieHarperCollins Publishers 2017'An exemplary work of investigative journalism that is also a wonderfully colourful book of history and travel' Observer, Books of the Year 'A piece of postmodern historiography of...
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Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Kimmerer, Robin WallMilkweed Editions 2013As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that...
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The Brain : The Story of You
Eagleman, DavidCanongate Books 2015'This is the story of how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life.' Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman on a whistle-stop tour of the inner cosmos....
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A Brief History of Time : From Big Bang To Black Holes
Hawking, StephenTransworld 2009Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? These are just some of the questions considered in the internationall...
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The Case for Space : How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility
Zubrin, RobertGlobe Pequot 2019A noted space expert explains the current revolution in spaceflight, where it leads, and why we need it. A new space race has begun. But the rivals in this case are not superpowers...
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Charles Darwin
Allen, GrantDuke Classics 2014After a career in the academy, Canadian-born Grant Allen struck out on his own to make his name as a writer. His early focus was on scientific topics, though he later expanded into...
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Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider : How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels
Heard, Stephen B.Yale University Press 2020An engaging history of the surprising, poignant, and occasionally scandalous stories behind scientific names and their cultural significance Ever since Carl Linnaeus's binomial sy...
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Chase Darkness with Me : How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders
Jensen, BillySourcebooks 2019***With an exclusive behind-the-scenes conversation between Billy Jensen and retired detective Paul Holes on the Golden State Killer, their favorite cold cases, and more***Have you...
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A Closer Look at the Animal Kingdom
Britannica Educational PublishingBritannica Educational Publishing 2011 1. editionDistinguished by their highly developed mental faculties and their capacity for reason, humans are often said to reign sovereign in the animal kingdom. With their complex interacti...
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The Code Breaker : Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Isaacson, WalterSimon & Schuster 2021A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a "compelling" (The Washington...
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Cosmos
Sagan, CarlRandom House Publishing Group 2011RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOX Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world in...
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Creative Evolution
Bergson, HenriDuke Classics 2021French philosopher Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution was published in 1907 and translated into English in 1911. Very popular at the time, it gives an alternate mechanism for evolu...
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Curiosities of the Sky
Serviss, Garrett P.Duke Classics 2012Long before figures like Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson simplified astronomy for popular consumption, Garrett P. Serviss was traveling the United States with an early version o...
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The Dawn of Everything : A New History of Humanity
Graeber, David; Wengrow, DavidFarrar, Straus and Giroux 2021INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of ag...
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Death by Shakespeare : Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts
Harkup, KathrynBloomsbury Publishing 2020A deep dive into the science behind the creative ways Shakespeare killed off his characters. William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audi...
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The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark
Sagan, CarlRandom House Publishing Group 2011A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace “A glorious book . . . A spirited d...
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Den lodande människan : havet, djupet och nyfikenheten
Svensson, PatrikAlbert Bonniers Förlag 2022Hur lärde sig människan att hitta på havet? Var Magellan verkligen den förste världsomseglaren? Hur bidrog kaskelotvalen till upplysningen? På vilket sätt förändrade den skotske ba...
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Det stora lilla livet
Rosenlund, MarcusSchildts & Söderströms 2022I Det stora lilla livet fortsätter Marcus Rosenlund på samma spår som i succén Väder som förändrade världen (2018). Här handlar det om hur pyttesmå livsformer kan ha en enorm inver...
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Diary of a Young Naturalist : WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2020
McAnulty, DaraEbury Publishing 2020WINNER OF BOOK OF THE YEAR, NARRATIVE NON-FICTION BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2021 Rediscover the natural world with the multi-award winning phenomenon and youngest ever major literary pri...