Good Data: An Optimist's Guide to Our Digital Future by Sam Gilbert
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Category: Popular Science
Digital technology is now so pervasive that it's very hard to escape its influence, and with that growth comes fear. But whatever the news has told you about data and technology, think again. Data expert and tech insider Sam Gilbert shows that, actually, this data revolution could be the best thing tha ...Show more
Hidden Potential - The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
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Category: Popular Science
"This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would've helped me find a more joyful path to progress." --Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles tennis champion The #1 New York Time ...Show more
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
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Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: near fine
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights. We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who sta ...Show more
Hidden Spring by Mark Solms
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Category: Popular Science
A revolutionary new explanation for sentience from the neuroscientist who discovered how the brain dreams.
Hollywood Wants to Kill You - The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies by Michael Brooks; Rick Edwards
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Category: Popular Science
The hilarious new popular science book from the bestselling authors of the Sunday Times Book of the Year Science(ish). With wit, intelligence and irreverence, Rick Edwards and Dr Michael Brooks explore the science of death and mass destruction through some of our best-loved Hollywood blockbusters. From ...Show more
Hollywood Wants to Kill You - The Science of Death in the Movies by Rick Edwards & Dr. Michael Brooks
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Category: Popular Science
Asteroids, killer sharks, nuclear bombs, viruses, deadly robots, climate change, the apocalypse - why is Hollywood so obsessed with death and the end of the world? And how seriously should we take the dystopian visions of our favourite films? With wit, intelligence and irreverence, Rick Edwards and Dr M ...Show more
How Bad Are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything by Mike Berners-Lee
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Category: Popular Science
Ten years on from first publication, a new edition of this invaluable and entertaining guide that shows just what effect everything has on carbon emissions, from a Google search to a plastic bag, from a flight to a volcano.
How Did It All Begin? by Stephen Hawking
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Brief Answers, Big Quest Ser.
'Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet'How did it all begin?Is there a God?Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries. In How Did It All Begin? the world famous cosmologist and bestsel ...Show more
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Useless Self Help Guide | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try i ...Show more
How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe by Harry Cliff
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Category: Popular Science
'If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.' Carl Sagan We all know what an apple pie is made of: flour and apples and butter. They are made of fats and cholesterol and proteins. They, in turn, are made of molecules of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen and other chemica ...Show more
Human Errors: Pointless Bones, Runaway Nerves and Other Human Defects by Nathan Lents
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Category: Popular Science
We like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are evolution's greatest creation, why are we so badly designed? We have retinas that face backward, the stump of a tail, and way too many bones in our wrists. We must find vitamins and nutrients in our diets that other animals simply ...Show more
Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer
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Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from the creator of the wildly popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell'A truly brilliant introduction to the human body's vast system for fighting infections and other thr ...Show more