Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by Max Tegmark
Category: Popular Science
Our Mathematical Universe is a journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discover the nature of reality. Our Big Bang, our distant future, parallel worlds, the sub-atomic and intergalactic - none of them are what they seem. But there is a way to understand this immense strangeness - ...Show more
Particle Physics: a Very Short Introduction: A Very Short Introduction by Frank Close
Category: Popular Science | Series: Very Short Introductions
In this compelling introduction to the fundamental particles that make up the universe, Frank Close takes us on a journey into the atom to examine known particles such as quarks, electrons, and the ghostly neutrino. Along the way he provides fascinating insights into how discoveries in particle physics ...Show more
Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human by Barbara Natterson Horowitz
Category: Popular Science
The Vertical Plane by Ken Webster
Category: Popular Science
The Mystery of the Dodleston Messages: A unique supernatural detective story. For a period of two years in the 1980s, Ken Webster found himself in the extraordinary position of corresponding directly with an individual who said they had lived on the site of his own cottage four centuries earlier. The c ...Show more
Hope and Fear: Modern Myths, Conspiracy Theories and Pseudo-History by Ronald H. Fritze
Category: Popular Science
A myth-busting journey through the twilight world of fringe ideas and alternative facts. Is a secret and corrupt Illuminati conspiring to control world affairs and bring about a New World Order? Was Donald Trump a victim of massive voter fraud? Is Elizabeth II a shapeshifting reptilian alien? Who is do ...Show more
Beyond the Hype: The Inside Story on Science's Biggest Media Controversies by Fiona Fox
Category: Popular Science
What happens when science hits the headlines - for all the wrong reasons? Do you remember the ‘Climategate’ email leak? Or the ‘Frankenscience’-style headlines about the perils of GM foods? What about the time the government sacked its own science advisor for chal ...Show more
Yuval Noah Harari Box Set by Yuval Noah Harari
Category: Popular Science
Officially available for the first time, Yuval Noah Harari's ground-breaking collection in a 3-book box set. A beautiful box set with Yuval Harari's three phenomenal global bestselling titles-Includes-SAPIENSHOMO DEUS21 LESSONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY These books are must haves for anyone interested in the ...Show more
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth by Avi Loeb
Category: Popular Science
New York Times Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller Publishers Weekly Bestseller Publishers Marketplace 2020 Buzz Book Amazon Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "Provocative and thrilling ... Loeb asks us to think big and to expect the u ...Show more
The Voices Within : The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves' by Charles Fernyhough
Category: Popular Science | Series: Wellcome
We all hear voices. Ordinary thinking is often a kind of conversation, filling our heads with speech: the voices of reason, of memory, of self-encouragement and rebuke, the inner dialogue that helps us with tough decisions or complicated problems. For others - voice-hearers, trauma-sufferers and prophet ...Show more
The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart by Astra Taylor
Category: Popular Science
These days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn’t working for anyone, even those who appear to have it all. What is going on?In this urgent cultural diagnosis, author and activist Astra Taylor exposes how seemingly disparate crises—rising ...Show more
Woke Capitalism: How Corporate Morality is Sabotaging Democracy by Carl Rhodes
Category: Popular Science
*Shortlisted for The Business Book Awards: International Business Book*Does ‘woke capitalism’ improve capitalism’s image or does it threaten the future of democracy?From Nike’s adoption of Colin Kaepernick, to Gillette’s engagement with the toxic masculinity debate, the 21st century has seen a sharp inc ...Show more
Dylan's Visions of Sin by Christopher Ricks
Category: Popular Science
'I consider myself a poet first and a musician second' 'It ain't the melodies that're important man, it's the words' There is no shortage of books about Bob Dylan. This one, however, is unique in its approach and the virtuosity of its execution. Ricks examines Dylan's songs through the biblical concep ...Show more