21 Lessons for the 21st Century: 'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian by Yuval Noah Harari
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Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What ...Show more
When the Grid Fails - Easy Action Steps When Facing Urban and Natural Disasters by Ky Furneaux
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Prepare your home and family for any catastrophe and know what to do when disaster strikes with When the Grid Fails. Guide your family through life-threatening situations when they hit home with this survival guide. Learn techniques and strategies for fortifying your home against any crisis. From a ...Show more
Biomimetics: How Lessons from Nature can Transform Technology by Brian Clegg
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An exploration of the transformative ways in which nature has inspired the technological advancement of humankind.
The Hidden Life of Trees - What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
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Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their chi ...Show more
Size - How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil
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From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of our world: size, whose laws, limits, and peculiarities offer the key to understanding health, wealth, and even happiness"No one writes about the great issues of ou ...Show more
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
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'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.' Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ab ...Show more
The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them by Peter Wohlleben
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The follow-up to the international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, offering compelling insights into the lungs of our planet and the fragility of our intertwined futures. Trees can survive without humans, but we can't live without trees. Even if human-caused climate change devastates our plant, tr ...Show more
Biology Essentials for Dummies by Rene Fester Kratz; Donna Rae Siegfried
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Biology Essentials For Dummies (9781119589587) was previously published as Biology Essentials For Dummies (9781118072677). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product. Just the core concep ...Show more
Chemistry Essentials for Dummies by John T. Moore
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Category: Popular Science | Series: For Dummies
Chemistry Essentials For Dummies (9781119591146) was previously published as Chemistry Essentials For Dummies (9780470618363). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product. Whether studying ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
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THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more
The Science Museum 100 Maths Ideas in 100 Words by DK
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Maths: 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, satisfying your mathematical curiosity and helping you to understand the biggest concepts in maths in concise, 100-word summaries.This book introduces 100 key areas of maths such as geometry, algebra, probability and pure maths ...Show more
The Rare Metals War The dark side of clean energy and digital technologies by Guillaume Pitron
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The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth's most precious metals - but they are running out. And what will happen when they do? The green-tech revolution has been lauded as the silver bullet to a new world. One that is at last free of oil, pollutio ...Show more