Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives by Jim B. Tucker
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Category: Popular Science
Children who remember a previous life usually begin talking about it, quite spontaneously, at the age of two or three. This remarkable book builds on the ground-breaking investigations into reincarnation carried out by Professor Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia. For the past 40 years, doctors ...Show more
The Sleeping Beauties: and other stories of the social life of illness by Suzanne O'Sullivan
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Category: Popular Science
'In my view the best science writer around - a true descendant of Oliver Sacks.' Sathnam Sanghera, author of The Boy with the TopknotIn Sweden, refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In upstate New York, high school students develop contagious seizures. In the US Embassy in Cuba, e ...Show more
Latitude: The Astonishing Adventure that Shaped the World by Nick Crane
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Category: Popular Science
By knowing the shape of our earth we can create maps, survive the oceans, follow rivers, navigate the skies, and travel across the globe. This is the story of our world, of how we discovered what no one thought possible - the shape of the earth. A thrilling and page-turning account of the first major e ...Show more
A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin's Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution by Jeremy Desilva (Editor) Janet Browne (Foreward)
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Category: Popular Science
Leading scholars take stock of Darwin's ideas about human evolution in the light of modern science In 1871, Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man, a companion to Origin of Species in which he attempted to explain human evolution, a topic he called 'the highest and most interesting problem for the ...Show more
Books do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science by Richard Dawkins
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Category: Popular Science
At a time when science can seem complex and remote, it has a greater impact on our lives, and to the future of our planet, than ever before. It really matters that its discoveries and truths should be clearly and widely communicated. That its enemies, from the malicious to the muddled, the self-deluding ...Show more
Superheavy - Making and Breaking the Periodic Table by Kit Chapman
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Category: Popular Science
Shortlisted for the 2020 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books Creating an element is no easy feat. It's the equivalent of firing six trillion bullets a second at a needle in a haystack, hoping the bullet and needle somehow fuse together, then catching it in less than a thousand ...Show more
Honeybee Democracy by Thomas D. Seeley
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Category: Popular Science
Honeybees make decisions collectively - and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. In fact, as world-renowned animal ...Show more
Flesh Made New: The Unnatural History and Broken Promises of Stem Cell Research by Carl Power; John Rasko
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Category: Popular Science
The dazzling promise of stem-cell treatment: does it work and will it save us? Two experts look at the hype For decades, we've been anticipating the dawn of regenerative medicine. Again and again, we've been promised that stem cells will soon cure just about every ill imaginable. If not tomorrow, then t ...Show more
Meltdown - Stories of Nuclear Disaster and the Human Cost of Going Critical by Joel Levy
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Category: Popular Science
Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in secrecy. Combining human tragedy with intriguing science, each account reveals new aspects of humanity's complex relationship with nuclear power and the ongoing s ...Show more
A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
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Category: Popular Science
"Stephen Hawking s worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author s engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another- the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, the history and future of the uni ...Show more
Extraterrestrial - The Search for Intelligent Life Beyond Earth by Avi Loeb
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Category: Popular Science
"Provocative and thrilling ... Loeb asks us to think big and to expect the unexpected."--Alan Lightman, New York Times bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams and Searching for Stars on an Island in MaineHarvard's top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visite ...Show more
Einstein's Fridge: The Science of FIre, Ice and the Universe by Paul Sen
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Category: Popular Science
A compulsively readable account of the extraordinary people, battling internal demons and external adversaries, who discovered the laws of thermodynamics and the science of heat, and brought about a scientific revolution. Einstein's Fridge tells the story of how scientists uncovered the least known and ...Show more