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Burning Question
By Mike Berners-Lee
Paperback
Published 15-Apr-2013
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If previous efforts have failed, what would it take to flatten off the curve? And what happens if we fail to do so? This book reveals climate change as an intriguing intellectual, social and political puzzle that will enthral readers of popular science, economics and psychology alike.
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Time Reborn
By Lee Smolin
Hardback
Published 23-Apr-2013
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Nothing seems more real than time passing. We experience life itself as a succession of moments. We identify certain truths as 'eternal' constants, from moral principles to the laws of mathematics and nature: these are laws that exist not inside time, but outside it. This title explains how true nature of time impacts on us, and our universe.
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Stuff Matters
By Mark Miodownik
Hardback
Published 06-Jun-2013
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Reveals the miracles of engineering and ingenuity that permeates every aspect of our lives. In this book, the author delves into the molecules and history of metal, paper, concrete and chocolate. It introduces materials that can heal themselves, implants that become living bone, the explosive that made the movie business, and more.
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Numbers Game
By Chris Anderson
Hardback
Published 30-May-2013
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Football has always been a numbers game: 4-4-2, the big number 9 and 3 points for a win. This book shows you why stopping a goal is more valuable than scoring one, why corners should be taken short, and why it is better to improve your worst player than to buy a superstar.
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Norm Chronicles
By Michael Blastland
Hardback
Published 30-May-2013
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Features Norm and his friends careful Prudence and reckless Kelvin, who turn to statistics to help him in life's endless series of choices - should I fly or take the train? Have a baby? Another drink? Or another sausage? This book tells the real story behind the statistics on risk, chance and choice.
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Farewell to Reality
By Jim Baggott
Paperback
Published 16-May-2013
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What evidence do we have for super-symmetric squarks', or superstrings vibrating in an 11-dimensional space-time? How do we know that we live in a multiverse? How can we tell that the universe is a hologram projected from information encoded on its boundary? Doesn't this sound like a fairy story? This title deals with these qestions.
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Anatomy of Violence
By Adrian Raine
Hardback
Published 30-Apr-2013
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What are the causes of violence? Can it be treated? And might it one day be stopped? Are some criminals born, not made? What causes violence and how can we treat it? In this title, the author explains what it reveals about the brains of murderers, psychopaths and serial killers.
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Identically Different
By Tim Spector
Paperback
Published 06-Jun-2013
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Permanent Present Tense
By Suzanne Corkin
Hardback
Published 15-May-2013
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In 1953, at the age of twenty-seven, Molaison underwent an experimental psychosurgical procedure intended to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. This title tells the story of the amnesiac Henry Gustave Molaison - known only as H M until his death in 2008 - and what he taught medical science, neuroscience and the world.
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Geek Manifesto
By Mark Henderson
Paperback
Published 03-Jan-2013
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Whether we want to improve education or cut crime, to enhance public health or to generate clean energy, we need the experimental methods of science - the best tool humanity has yet developed for working out what works. This book explains why and how we need to entrench scientific thinking deeply into every aspect of our society.
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