How Bad are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything by Mike Berners-Lee
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Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
From a text message to a war, from a Valentine's rose to a flight or even having a child, How Bad are Bananas? gives us the carbon answers we need and provides plenty of revelations. By talking through a hundred or so items, Mike Berners-Lee sets out to give us a carbon instinct for the footprint of lit ...Show more
Why Can't Elephants Jump? And 113 More Science Puzzles Answered by New Scientist
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Category: SCIENCE & NATURE | Reading Level: very good
What's the storage capacity of the human brain in gigabytes? What's the farthest point on land from the sea? Why is frozen milk yellow? And why do flamingos stand on one leg? "Why Can't Elephants Jump?" is the latest (and the fourth) compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the "Last Word" co ...Show more
An Optimist's Tour of the Future by Mark Stevenson
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Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot going for it. His voyage of discovery takes him to Oxford to meet Transhumanists (they intend to live forever), to Boston where he confronts a robot with mood swings, to an underwater cabinet meeting in ...Show more
How to Make a Tornado: The Strange and Wonderful Things That Happen When Scientists Break Free by NEW SCIENTIST
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Category: SCIENCE & NATURE | Series: New Scientist Ser.
This is the newest title in the brilliant and bestselling "New Scientist" series. Science tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light travels, and why stones fall to earth. But scientific endeavor goes far beyond these obvious foundations. There are some fields we don't often hear about bec ...Show more
Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions by Mark O'Hare (ed)
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Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
"Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?" is the third compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of "New Scientist", the world's best-selling science weekly. Following the phenomenal success of "Does Anything Eat Wasps?" (2005) and the even more spectacularly successful "Why Don't Pe ...Show more
Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are by Sebastian Seung
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Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
This is the bold and thrilling quest to finally understand the brain - and along with it our mental afflictions, from depression to autism - by a rising star in neuroscience Sebastian Seung, a dynamic young professor at MIT, is at the forefront of a revolution in neuroscience. He believes that our ident ...Show more
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Taleb Nassim Nich
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Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
In The Black Swan, Taleb explained the existence of high impact rare events beyond the realms of normal expectations. In his new book, Taleb goes much further. He tells us how to live in a world that is unpredictable and chaotic, and how to thrive during moments of disaster. Antifragility is about lovin ...Show more
Frozen Planet by Alastair Fothergill & Vanessa Berlowitz
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Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
"Frozen Planet" is the exciting successor to the ground-breaking "Planet Earth" and "Blue Planet" series, and has been created by the same award-winning team. Most of us will never travel to these great wildernesses and, even for those lucky enough to have gone, this portrait of our polar regions will s ...Show more
Earth Then and Now by Fred Pearce
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Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
"Earth Then and Now" records the dramatic way in which our planet has changed in just the past hundred years. It draws on the combined photographic archives of print, picture, and space agencies to create a powerful collection of images. Each pair of photographs has been selected to tell a compelling st ...Show more
The Atlas of Water: Mapping the World's Most Critical Resource by Maggie Black & Jannet King
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Category: SCIENCE & NATURE | Series: The Earthscan Atlas Series
The planet's finite supply of fresh water is under such pressure that soon it may be the most valuable commodity on earth. The new edition of this crucial and timely atlas shows water distribution worldwide, and reflects the latest thinking and emerging issues. With updated data throughout, the atlas co ...Show more
Why Balloons Rise and Apples Fall: The Laws That Make the World Work by Jeff Stewart
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Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
We all know the world works in mysterious ways! But have you ever itched to know why? Why don't heavier things fall faster? Why do we have more energy when we're sitting upstairs? Is time travel really possible? And what happened to Schrodinger's poor cat? "Why Balloons Rise and Apples Fall" is an acces ...Show more