New Scientist: 24 books
Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?
And 130 other science questions answered
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
The phenomenal New Scientist series! Over 2,500,000 copies sold!
Ever wondered . . .
- What is earwax for?
- When is the moon blue?
- Why are there only two sexes?
- Do doctors live longer?
Informative, hilarious, sometimes unsettling and always unexpected, the questions and answers...
by New Scientist, Graham Lawton
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
From what actually happened in the Big Bang to the accidental discovery of post-it notes, the history of science is packed with surprising discoveries.
Did you know, for instance, that if you were to get too close to a black hole it would suck you up like a noodle (it's called spaghettification),...
Where the Universe Came From
How Einsteins relativity unlocks the past, present and future of the cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
How did it all begin? Where is it all going?
WHY GENERAL RELATIVITY LEAVES UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH THE COSMOS
A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. He overturned...
Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?
And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? is the third compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly. Following the phenomenal success of Does Anything Eat Wasps? (2005) and the even more spectacularly successful Why Don't Penguins'...
Know It All
132 Head-Scratching Questions About the Science All Around Us
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
A joy for science lovers, Know It All is your ticket to a grand meeting of curious minds!
New Scientist magazine’s beloved “Last Word” column is a rare forum for “un-Google-able” queries: Readers write in, and readers respond! Know It All collects 132 of the column’s very best Q&As....
The Brain
A User's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Join New Scientist on a mind-expanding rollercoaster ride through intelligence, creativity, your unconscious and beyond.
Congratulations! You're the proud owner of the most complex information processing device in the known universe. The human brain comes equipped with all sorts of useful design...
The End of Money
The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The End of Money is an essential introduction to cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution. On this journey you'll discover how this staggering new technology has the potential to enable an ultra-libertarian society beyond government control.
Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement....
The Quantum World
The Disturbing Theory at the Heart of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Just how real is reality, anyway?
Forget everything you thought you knew about reality.
The world is a seriously bizarre place. Things can exist in two places at once and travel backwards and forwards in time. Waves and particles are one and the same, and objects change their behavior...
How Evolution Explains Everything About Life
From Darwins brilliant idea to todays epic theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
How did we get here? It's the journey of a lifetime.
All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of evolution on the first simple life form and its descendants.
We...
by New Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
You don't need a spaceship to travel to the extremes of science. You just need this book.
What's the nature of reality? Does the universe ever end? What is time and does it even exist? These are the biggest imagination-stretching, brain-staggering questions in the universe - and here are their...
How Your Brain Works
Inside the most complicated object in the universe
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
How Your Brain Works explores the amazing world inside your head.
Ever wondered what's going on inside your head?
The brain has long been a source of fascination. In 1819, the radical thinker and surgeon William Lawrence put it like this: "It is strongly suspected that a Newton...
The Universe Next Door
A Journey through 55 Alternative Realities, Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Could there be a doorway to the multiverse in our backyard?
It's lucky you're here. But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just one of many possible worlds. In others, dinosaurs still rule the...
Machines that Think
Everything you need to know about the coming age of artificial intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
How did artificial intelligence become the most powerful technology on the planet?
Sometime in the future the intelligence of machines will exceed that of human brain power. So are we on the edge of an AI-pocalypse, with superintelligent devices superseding humanity, as predicted by Stephen...
Your Conscious Mind
Unravelling the greatest mystery of the human brain
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
What is consciousness? Is it real or just an illusion? And how does it work?
What is this strange mental world that seems so essential to being human? The conscious mind brings together sensations, perceptions, thoughts and memories to generate the seamless movie of a person's life. It makes...
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