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Discover and understand the key ideas that underpin the core science of chemistry and learn about the great minds who uncovered them Written in pla...

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Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rain...

If reason is what makes us human, then why do we humans often behave so irrationally? Taking us from desert ants to Aristotle, cognitive psychologi...

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A razor-sharp analysis of how record-breaking exploits in extreme sport are redefining the limits of being human.Right now, more people are risking...

Award-winning Steven Strogatz, one of the foremost popularisers of maths, has written a witty and fascinating account of maths' most compelling ide...

Two pioneers in health - Dr Deepak Chopra and Prof Rudolph E. Tanzi, one of the world's foremost experts on the causes of Alzheimer's - share a bol...

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An exhilarating guide to the astonishing future of quantum computing, from the international bestselling physicistThe runaway success of the microc...

Our phones, computers, and appliances are made of hundreds of internal components, each precisely engineered, but none intended to be seen. Through...

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For many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos share their food. Now he delivers fascinating fresh eviden...

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There are ingredients, and then there are Ingredients. An ingredient is what were used to thinking about in the kitchen things like tomatoes, tofu...

A fully updated new edition of David Attenboroughs bestselling classic. BIRDS. 11,000 species, the most widesprea...

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A deadly secret lurks within our kitchens, medicine cabinets and gardens... Digitalis purpurea. The common foxglove. Vision blurs as blood pressur...

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In A Brief History of Black Holes, award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakth...

From the No.1 bestselling author of Do No Harm, an entrancing and uplifting meditation on the gift of life.A book to treasure and reread Gavin Fran...

An instant bestseller in 1859, few books have had such a revolutionary impact and left such a lasting impression as On the Origin of Species. Possi...