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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMapping The Mind
Rita Carter · 224 pages
This book shows how the latest scans, which reveal thoughts, memories - even our moods - as clearly as an X-ray reveals our bones, can be used to help explain aspects of our behaviour, and how behavioural eccentricities can be traced to abnormalities in an individual brain. Dyslexia, for example, may be caused by a short-circuit in the messages converting sound to visual cues ; addiction, eating d
Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
Theodore Gray · 240 pages
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
Randall Munroe · 64 pages
The creator of the webcomic "xkcd" uses line drawings and just ten hundred common words to provide simple explanations for how things work, including microwaves, bridges, tectonic plates, the solar system, the periodic table, helicopters, and other essential concepts.
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
Richard Dawkins · 272 pages
What are things made of? What is the sun? Why is there night and day, winter and summer? Why do bad things happen? Are we alone? Throughout history people all over the world have invented stories to answer profound questions such as these. Have you heard the tale of how the sun hatched out of an emu's egg? Or what about the great catfish that carries the world on its back? Has anyone ever t
The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science
Matt LaMothe, Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski · 160 pages
A science book like no other, The Where, the Why, and the How turns loose 75 of today's hottest artists onto life's vast questions, from how we got here to where we are going.
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
Kelly Weinersmith · 448 pages
The Grand Design
Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow · 200 pages
When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent grand design of our universe evidence for a benevolent creator who set things in motion? Or does science offer another explanation? In The Grand Design, the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe is presented, in language marked by both brilliance and simplicity. The G
Chemical Chaos
Nick Arnold · 160 pages
**Science with the squishy bits left in!** *Chemical Chaos* could make your brain explode! Are you burning to find out: why glass eyes aren't really made of glass? what would make the worst stink bomb ever? how to make your own toothpaste? If you think you can stomach the *sick* side of Science, then read on as chaotic chemistry is put to the test. Find out about some extraordinary experiment
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Mary Roach · 288 pages
"'Grunt' tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries-- panic, exhaustion, heat, noise-- and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them"--
13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
Michael Brooks · 256 pages
The Planets
Dava Sobel · 288 pages
The sun's family of planets become a familiar place in this personal account of the lives of other worlds. With her gift for weaving difficult scientific concepts into a compelling story, Sobel explores the planets' origins and oddities through the lens of popular culture, from astrology, mythology, and science fiction to art, music, poetry, biography, and history.--From publisher description.
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
Nick Lane · 344 pages
Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
Olivia Judson · 320 pages
Do your genitals explode? Are you 200,000 times smaller than your mate? Do you drug your lover with a potion that keeps her faithful? You may not get up to such tricks, but some creatures do: sex is one of the most powerful forces in nature, and generates an astounding diversity of forms and behaviors. But why? Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation explores the science of sex, considering eve
Coming of Age in the Milky Way
Timothy Ferris · 495 pages
From the second-century celestial models of Ptolemy to modern-day research institutes and quantum theory, this classic book offers a breathtaking tour of astronomy and the brilliant, eccentric personalities who have shaped it. From the first time mankind had an inkling of the vast space that surrounds us, those who study the universe have had to struggle against political and religious preconcepti
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
Johnjoe McFadden, Jim Al-Khalili · 368 pages
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
V.S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee · 352 pages
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
Oliver Sacks · 331 pages
Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands. An Anthropologist on Mars offers portraits of seven such travellers - including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic pro
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
Sean Carroll · 341 pages
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World is a non-fiction book by American theoretical physicist Sean M. Carroll. The book was initially released on November 13, 2012 by Dutton.
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking · 209 pages
Stephen Hawking's ‘A Brief History of Time* has become an international publishing phenomenon. Translated into thirty languages, it has sold over ten million copies worldwide and lives on as a science book that continues to captivate and inspire new readers each year. When it was first published in 1988 the ideas discussed in it were at the cutting edge of what was then known about the universe. I
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
Lawrence M. Krauss · 202 pages
"Internationally known theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss offers provocative, revelatory answers to the most basic philosophical questions: Where did our universe come from? Why is there something rather than nothing? And how is it all going to end? Why is there something rather than nothing?" is asked of anyone who says there is no God. Yet this is not so much a philosop
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
John Brockman · 415 pages
This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant but accessible ideas to expand every mind. What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world's most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics, physics, sociology, and more. Surprising and enli
Origins: 14 Bllion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith · 336 pages
"Drawing on the current cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins explains the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the universe while capturing the importance of such extraordinary events as the first image of a galaxy being born and the exploration of Martian frontiers by Spirit Rover. Distilling complex science into clear and lively prose, coauthors N
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Stephen Jay Gould · 350 pages