Everyday Maths for Grown-Ups by Kjartan Poskitt
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Category: Popular Science
Day-to-day life is full of scenarios where your skill with numbers is tested, whether it's dividing up your share of the restaurant bill, or working out whether you've been overcharged at the checkout. So many of us try to avoid these basic sums at all costs, waiting for someone else to step in with the ...Show more
Significant Figures: Lives and Works of Trailblazing Mathematicians by Ian Stewart
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Category: Popular Science
Which mathematician elaborated a crucial concept the night before he died in a duel? Who funded his maths and medical career through gambling and chess? Who learned maths from her wallpaper? Ian Stewart presents the extraordinary lives and amazing discoveries of twenty-five of history's greatest mathema ...Show more
Charles Darwin - Victorian Mythmaker by A N Wilson
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Category: Popular Science
Charles Darwin: the man who discovered evolution? The man who killed off God? Or a flawed man of his age, part genius, part ruthless careerist who would not acknowledge his debts to other thinkers?In this bold new life - the first single volume biography in twenty-five years - A. N. Wilson, the acclaime ...Show more
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What they Teach Us by Frans De Waal
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Category: Popular Science
Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which investigated animal intelligence, Mama's Last Hug delivers a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals.Mama's Last Hug ...Show more
Radioactive! - How Irène Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World by Winifred Conkling
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Category: Popular Science
"A thorough and engaging study of two female scientists worth their weight in radium." --Booklist, starred review In 1934, Irène Curie and her husband won the Nobel Prize for their breakthrough discovery of artificial radioactivity. But when Curie was nominated to the French Academy of Sciences, the a ...Show more
Great Mythconceptions by Karl Kruszelnicki
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Category: Popular Science
Tackling life's myths and absurdities, this book attempts to tease and tempt us by debunking (or not) common urban myths - or mythconceptions.
Stephen Hawking: A Life Well Lived (revised & updated 2019) by Kitty Ferguson
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Category: Popular Science
In 1963 Stephen Hawking was given two years to live. Defying all the odds, he died in March 2018 at age seventy-six as the most celebrated scientist in the world. This carefully researched, and now newly updated, up-to-the-minute biography and tribute gives a rich picture of Hawking's remarkable life - ...Show more
30-Second AI and Robotics by Luis de Miranda
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Category: Popular Science | Series: 30 Second
This comprehensive presentation of the core concepts and historical landmarks in robotics and artificial intelligence is a must-read for those who want to understand the important changes happening now in our everyday lives, in the workplace, and in our minds and bodies. What is deep in "deep learning"? ...Show more
Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution by Charles Darwin
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Category: Popular Science
The father of evolution imbibed history with his controversial book On the Origin of Species. As a young scientist studying natural history, Charles Darwin set out on the HMS Beagle for a five-year voyage that would bring him in contact with animal species, plant species, and rock formations all over th ...Show more
Newton by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Brief Lives
Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five, while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a period of which he wrote: "I was in the prime of age for invention." Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, ...Show more
Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Category: Popular Science
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world's largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by revealing his correspondence with people across the globe who ...Show more
Numb and Number by William Hartston
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Category: Popular Science
'A wise, witty and insightful guide to clear thinking amid a deluge of percentages and probabilities.' Ian StewartLike it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts, opinion polls, risk assessments, inflation figures, weather and climate ...Show more