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A Journey Through The Universe: A traveler's guide from the centre of the sun to the edge of the unknown by New Scientist
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Category: Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert Ser.
There's a whole universe out there... Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep going. Where do you end up, and what do you see along the way? The answer is: mostly nothing. Space is astonishingly, ...Show more
A Journey Through the Universe - A Traveler's Guide from the Center of the Sun to the Edge of the Unknown by New Scientist
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Category: Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert Ser.
There's a whole universe out there ... and this book is your journey into space.Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep going. Where do you end up, and what do you see along the way?The answer is: ...Show more
How Numbers Work: Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics by New Scientist
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Category: Science | Series: Instant Expert Ser.
Discover the incredible connection between numbers and reality itself!Think of a number between one and ten...No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity. Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are a lot to choose from - an infinite number in fact. Throw in decimal fractio ...Show more
How Numbers Work: Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics by New Scientist Staff
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Category: Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert Ser.
Think of a number between one and ten. No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity. Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are a lot to choose from - an infinite number in fact. Throw in decimal fractions and infinity suddenly gets an awful lot bigger (is that even possibl ...Show more
How to Be Human - The Ultimate Guide to Your Amazing Existence by New Scientist Staff
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Category: Science
If you thought you knew who you were, THINK AGAIN. Did you know that half your DNA isn't human? That somebody, somewhere has exactly the same face? Or that most of your memories are fiction? What about the fact that you are as hairy as a chimpanzee, various parts of your body don't belong to yo ...Show more
Human Origins by New Scientist
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Category: Science | Series: Instant Expert Ser.
Where did we come from? Where are we going?Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we have spread around the globe, taken control of Earth's biological and mineral resources, transformed the env ...Show more
New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything by New Scientist, Stephen Hawking, Graham Lawton
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Category: Science | Series: Intro by Stephen Hawking
Introduction by Professor Stephen Hawking. When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the galaxies he could see through it were flying away from one another. If these galaxies had always been travelling, he reasoned, then they must, at some point ...Show more
The Brain: Everything You Need to Know by New Scientist
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Category: Science
Congratulations! You're the proud owner of the most complex information processing device in the known universe. The human brain comes equipped with all sorts of useful design features, but also many bugs and weaknesses. Problem is you don't get an owner's manual. You have to just plug and play. As a r ...Show more
The Brain: Everything You Need to Know by New Scientist
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Category: Science
Congratulations! You're the proud owner of the most complex information processing device in the known universe. The human brain comes equipped with all sorts of useful design features, but also many bugs and weaknesses. Problem is you don't get an owner's manual. You have to just plug and play. As a r ...Show more
This Book Could Fix Your Life - The Science of Self Help by New Scientist New Scientist; Helen Thomson
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Category: Self Development
We all want to be happier, more successful and less stressed, but what really works?From improving creativity to building confidence, self-care to self-esteem, forming better habits and feeling happier, Fix Your Life debunks the fads and explores the real science of self-help.Can you learn to make bette ...Show more
This Book Could Save Your Life - The Science of Living Longer Better by New Scientist; Graham Lawton
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Category: Health | Reading Level: very good
You are what you eat. Food and diet have an enormous influence on your health and well-being, but eating the right amount of the right things - and not too much of the wrong things - isn't easy. But, as in most walks of life, knowledge is power. This book will empower you to eat healthily, lose weight, ...Show more
This is Planet Earth: Your ultimate guide to the world we call home by New Scientist
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Category: Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert Ser.
The Earth as you've never seen it before.The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang and long-dead stars, at first it was nothing special, but somehow ...Show more