Mind Wide Open : Why you are what you think by Steven Johnson
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Category: Science
'Forget what you thought you knew about yourself and open your mind wide: You are part reptile, part mammal, part primate. You are a dopamine fiend. You are a walking assembly of patterns and waves, clusters of neurons firing in sync with one another.' In Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson takes us on a j ...Show more
Aspirin by Diarmuid Jeffreys
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Category: Science
The story of the world's most popular drugThroughout the world we pop more than 200 billion of these little white pills every year. Aspirin is effective not only against everyday ailments, such as headaches and fever, but also as a preventative treatment for heart attacks, strokes, and even some types o ...Show more
A World on Fire : A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen by Joe Jackson
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Category: Science
Like Charles Seifes "Zero" and Dava Sobels "Longitude," this passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of science and the human, in this case the rivals who discovered oxygen in the late 1700s. That breakthrough changed the world as radically as those of Newton and Darwin but was ...Show more
The Eye: A Natural History by Simon Ings
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Category: Science
* We spend about one-tenth of our waking hours completely blind * Only one per cent of what we see is in focus at any one time * You don't need eyes to see - blind volunteers have been taught to see through their chests Through a spellbinding mix of scientific research, mathematics, philosophy, history, ...Show more
Skin by Nina G. Jablonski
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Category: Science
We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This dazzling synthetic overview, written with a poetic touch and taking many intriguing side excursions, is a ...Show more
Out of the Energy Labyrinth by David Howell
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Category: Science
The planet is under threat. And that threat comes from energy. So goes the standard argument. But according to David Howell and Carole Nakhle, this reasoning is wrong.
Sleepfaring : A Journey through the Science of Sleep by Jim Horne
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Category: Science
Why do we sleep? How much sleep do we normally need, and what happens if you don't get enough of it? Professor Jim Horne finds the answers to these questions and many more in Sleepfaring, a journey through the science and the secrets of sleep. It's a subject close to the hearts of many of us as our slee ...Show more
The Compassionate Brain : How Empathy Creates Intelligence by Gerald Huther (tr from German Michael H Kohn)
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Category: Science
Here is the ultimate explanation of the brain for everyone who thinks: a guide to how the brain works, how our brains came to operate the way they do, and, most important, how to use your precious gray matter to its full capacity. The brain, according to current research, is not some kind of automatic m ...Show more
The Well Dressed Ape : A Natural History of Myself by Hannah Holmes
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Category: Science
The Well-Dressed Ape is a gleeful naturalist's extensive, profound, and entertaining biological description of a much-vaunted mammal, the human, including a treasure-trove of factoids about every species that shares this planet with us, and fresh answers to age-old human questions: Who are we, animally ...Show more
Lamarck's Evolution - by Ross Honeywill
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Category: Science
Before Charles Darwin, Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck created the first theory of evolution, an idea so powerful it promised to become the great unifying force of science. But for two hundred years his grand idea polarised the scientific world; until on the eve of his bicentenary, science finally caught up an ...Show more