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We feel therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self. They are essential to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, ex...

This is not a book of facts; its a book of facts. Should you finish it believing we became the planets dominant species because predators found us ...

A new look at the first few seconds after the Big Bangand how research into these moments continues to revolutionize our understanding of our unive...

Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyAre doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate ...

The search for life on Marsand the moral issues confronting us as we prepare to send humans thereDoes life exist on Mars? The question has captivat...

The classic case for why government must support sciencewith a new essay by physicist and former congressman Rush Holt on what democracy needs from...

In Close Encounters with Humankind, paleoanthropologist Sang-Hee Lee explores some of our biggest evolutionary questions from unexpected new angles...

Freedom to chart ones strategic destiny comes only to those who are game-aware enough to rise above the game and determined enough to change the ga...

The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was n...

This book opens the audiences eyes to the extraordinary scientific secrets hiding in everyday objects.  Helping readers increase chemistry knowledg...

Traveling with the Atom is a historical travel guide to the development of one of the most significant and enduring ideas in the history of humanki...

A biography of tuberculosis, an ancient disease - but still a present danger. Tuberculosis has twisted through the millennia hand-in-hand with hum...

A deeply reported look at the rise of home genetic testing and the seismic shock it has had on individual lives   You swab your cheek or spit in a ...

How can new insights into evolution help us solve problems in life, art, business and science? A wonderful, mind-expanding book. Prepare to be sur...

One bright February afternoon on a beach in Cornwall, Gavin Pretor-Pinney took a break from cloudspotting and started watching the waves rolling in...

Why can't we tickle ourselves? Which properties give you the best chance of winning Monopoly? What would happen if you fell into a black hole? Is i...

Quickwhat do you worry about most? Dying in a plane crash? Invisible chemicals in your environment? Catching a disease from a public restroom? In a...

The space race was perhaps the greatest technological contest of the 20th century. It was a thrilling era of innovation, discovery and exploration,...

Mars is a small world with a big reputation. This mysterious planet - with volcanoes that dwarf Mount Everest, a canyon system that would stretch f...

Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists. But if we leave those behind and start from ...

This book follows the historical trail by which humanity has determined the shape and internal structure of the Earth. It is a story that bears on ...

From the bestselling author of Suspicious Minds There was a time when the news came once a day, in the morning newspaper. A time when the only way...

**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**'A brilliant book' - DagbladetWhy does the brain work the way it does? Can eating certain foods improve your memory...