A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos by Dava Sobel
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Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: very good
During the 1530s, rumours of a potentially revolutionary theory of how the heavens worked emanating from a small city in Poland began to spread throughout Europe. The architect of this theory was a Polish cleric named Nicolaus Copernicus. In around 1514 Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial ...Show more
Born in Africa: The Quest for the Origins of Human Life by Martin Meredith
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind and the dawn of civilisation. Through a century of archaeological investigation, scientists have transformed our understanding of the beginnings of human life, although vital clues still remain hidden. I ...Show more
The Magic of Reality - How We Know What's Really True by Richard Dawkins; Dave McKean (Illustrator)
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Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: very good
Richard Dawkins, the world's most famous evolutionary biologist, presents a gorgeously lucid, science book examining some of the nature's most fundamental questions both from a mythical and scientific perspective. Science is our most precise and powerful tool for making sense of the world. Before we dev ...Show more
Seeing Further - The Story of Science and the Royal Society by Bill Bryson (ed.)
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Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: very good
Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, and with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, David Attenborough, Martin Rees and Richard Fortey amongst others, this is a remarkable volume celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society. Since its inception in 1660, the Royal Society has pi ...Show more
How Pleasure Works : The new science of why we like what we like by Paul Bloom
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
In "How Pleasure Works", the internationally acclaimed psychologist Paul Bloom explores one of the most fascinating and fundamental engines of human behaviour. We are natural-born essentialists o when it comes to pleasure, nothing is ever merely skin-deep. We are attracted, whether we know it or not, to ...Show more