The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine by Brendan Borrell
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Category: Science & Philosophy
An enthralling real-life thriller that tells the full inside story of the high-stakes race for a lifesaving vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemicThe global race to find a coronavirus vaccine is the defining story of our times. In The First Shots, award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell brings this high- ...Show more
Bird Builds a Nest: A Science Story Book about Forces by Martin Jenkins
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Category: Science & Philosophy | Series: Science Storybooks
Bird is building her nest. She pushes and pulls twigs into place until she's made a cosy cup, ready and waiting ... can you guess what for?
Adventures in Climate Science: Scientists' tales from the frontiers of climate change Foreword by Karl Kruszelnicki by Bruere, Wendy, Kruszelnicki, Karl
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Category: Science & Philosophy
These tales of adventure and research in remote and remarkable corners of the earth investigate a multitude of ways the world is changing and explain the science behind exactly what a couple of degrees of warming mean. Addressed are glacier melt, rising seas, extreme weather, ocean currents, changing ec ...Show more
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane
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Category: Science & Philosophy
'I can't think of a better way to learn about artificial intelligence, and I've never had so much fun along the way' Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Option B AI is everywhere. It powers the autocorrect function of your iPhone, helps Google Translate understand the complex ...Show more
The Power of Bad: And How to Overcome It by John Tierney; Roy F. Baumeister
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Category: Science & Philosophy
Why does a bad impression last longer than a good one? Why does losing money affect us more than gaining it? What makes phobias so hard to shake? The answer is the negativity bias - or in other words, the power of bad. As John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister show, we are wired to react to bad events more ...Show more
Books do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science by Richard Dawkins
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Category: Science & Philosophy
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
Our House Is on Fire - Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis by Malena Ernman; Greta Thunberg; Beata Ernman; Svante Thunberg
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Category: Science & Philosophy
The profoundly moving story of how love, courage and determination brought Greta Thunberg's family back from the brink 'Urgent, lucid, courageous ... a must-read message of hope ... It is a glimpse of a saner world' David Mitchell, Guardian This is the story of a happy family whose life suddenly fell ap ...Show more
10 Short Lessons in Time Travel by Brian Clegg
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Category: Science & Philosophy | Series: Pocket Einstein Ser.
'10 Short Lessons in Time Travel lucidly sums up the essential parts of this fascinating subject.' John Gribbin________________________In Ten Short Lessons in Time Travel, Brian Clegg takes us on a fascinating and up-to-date tour of the workings of the universe that suggest the possibility of journeying ...Show more
Vaxxers: The Inside Story of the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine and the Race Against the Virus by Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green
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Category: Science & Philosophy
Our future hangs on the success of the Oxford vaccine.This is the story of its creation, its makers and how science will ultimately beat the virus.On 1 January 2020, Sarah Gilbert, Professor of Vaccinology at Oxford University, read an article about four people in China with a strange pneumonia. Within ...Show more
Wild Weather - The Myths, Science and Wonder of Weather by Alison Davies
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Category: Science & Philosophy
Wild Weather is a fun, easy-to-read guide to understanding the wonders of weather - from why it rains to cloud formations, from extreme weather events to the benefits of sunlight. Wild Weather is a beautifully illustrated book that explores the science of weather events and how they happen, but also ...Show more
Beyond Coincidence by Martin Plimmer; Brian King
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Category: Science & Philosophy
Laura Buxton, aged ten, releases a balloon from her garden. It lands 140 miles away in the garden of another Laura Buxton, aged ten. Coincidence? Or something beyond coincidence? Is someone playing snap with our lives? Could it be the hand of God? Or are we, as some scientists have suggested, being gran ...Show more
30-Second AI and Robotics by Luis de Miranda
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Category: Science & Philosophy | 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