Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M Sapolsky
6.74 USD
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Category: Science
'Awe-inspiring ... the best scientific book written for non-specialists that I have ever read. You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of, and you will be inspired' Henry Marsh, author of Do No HarmA ground-breaking synthesis of the entire science of human behaviour by ...Show more
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
6.13 USD
19.75 (68% off)
Category: Science | Reading Level: good
Ben Goldacre's wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations. Since 2003 Dr Ben Goldacre has been exposing dodgy medical data in his popular Guardian column. In this e ...Show more
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease by Daniel Lieberman
6.01 USD
15.39 (60% off)
Category: Science
In The Story of the Human Body, Daniel Lieberman, Professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard, shows how we need to change our world to fit our hunter-gatherer bodies. This ground-breaking book of popular science explores how the way we use our bodies is all wrong. From an evolutionary perspectiv ...Show more
Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World by Stephen Oppenheimer
9.10 USD
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Category: Science
In a brilliant synthesis of genetic, archaeological, linguistic and climatic data, Oppenheimer challenges current thinking with his claim that there was only one successful migration out of Africa. In 1988, "Newsweek" headlined the startling discovery that everyone alive on the earth today can trace the ...Show more
The Brain That Changes Itself : Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge
6.74 USD
15.39 (56% off)
Category: Science
Meet the ninety year old doctor, who, with the aid of a few simple exercises, is still practising medicine. His is just one of the incredible stories brain expert Norman Doidge tells as he reveals our brain's remarkable ability to repair itself through the power of positive thought. In "The Brain That C ...Show more
A Day in the Life of the Brain - The Neuroscience of Consciousness from Dawn till Dusk by Susan Greenfield
6.13 USD
13.99 (56% off)
Category: Science | Reading Level: good
A Sunday Times and Financial Times Book of the Year What happens in our brains when we wake up, savour a meal or a glass of wine, walk the dog, stare at a screen, daydream or sleep? World-renowned neuroscientist Susan Greenfield draws on her own pioneering research to illuminate the mystery of conscious ...Show more
What We Cannot Know: From Consciousness to the Cosmos, the Cutting Edge of Science Explained by Marcus du Sautoy
6.13 USD
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Category: Science
'Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting' Bill Bryson Britain's most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot know. Is the universe infinite? Do we know what happened before the Big Bang? Where is human conscious ...Show more
The Essential Einstein : His greatest works by Albert Einstein
9.19 USD
20.99 (56% off)
Category: Science
Albert Einstein changed the way physicists view the universe - and transformed the way we all see the world. Just over one hundred years ago, his Theory of Relativity stunned scientists, but today it is integral to modern thought as the most important scientific discovery of the twentieth century. In th ...Show more
Life 3.0 - Being human in the age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
6.13 USD
15.39 (60% off)
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
In this authoritative and eye-opening book, Max Tegmark describes and illuminates the recent, path-breaking advances in Artificial Intelligence and how it is poised to overtake human intelligence. How will AI affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has ...Show more
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
5.51 USD
13.99 (60% off)
Category: Science
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understandi ...Show more
The Other Side of Happiness by Brock Bastian
6.13 USD
13.99 (56% off)
Category: Science
In Western culture, we have become addicted to positivity. We try to eradicate pain through medication and by insulating ourselves and our children from risk, even though we are the safest generation that ever lived. Yet in his research renowned social psychologist Brock Bastian has found that hardship ...Show more
Blueprint - How DNA Makes Us Who We Are by Robert Plomin
6.13 USD
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Category: Science
A top behavioral geneticist makes the case that DNA inherited from our parents at the moment of conception can predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses. In Blueprint, behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin describes how the DNA revolution has made DNA personal by giving us the power to predict o ...Show more