This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
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Category: Pop Science
The instant New York Times bestseller A Washington Post Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of the Year "Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in new ways."--New York Times Book Review. ...Show more
The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi: Exploring the microscopic world around us by Keith Seifert
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Category: Pop Science
An enthralling look at our relationship with fungi, from an author who has spent more than forty years studying them on five continents.Fungi are essential to all life on Earth and yet fungal diseases lead to over one million deaths each year. How can we strike a better balance with our microbial cousin ...Show more
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change by Charles Duhigg
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Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: near fine
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal - Financial Times In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporterCharles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of sc ...Show more
The Brain that Changes Itself: stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science by Norman Doidge
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Category: Pop Science | Series: The Neuroplasticity Chronicles | Reading Level: very good
An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age. Psychiatrist and researcher Norman Doidge, MD, travelled around th ...Show more
The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
Drawing on first-hand testimony, previously unpublished documentation and broad sweeps through material released under the Freedom of Information Act, Christopher Hitchens mounts a devastating indictment of a man whose ambition and ruthlessness, he alleges, have directly resulted in both individual murd ...Show more
Woo's Wonderful World of Maths by Eddie Woo
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Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: 4 Science
Why is a rainbow curved? Why aren't left-handers extinct? How is a sunflower like a synchronised swimmer? Why is 'e' a magic number?The answer to these questions is contained within one simple word: MATHS. Because maths is all about patterns, and our universe is extraordinarily patterned.With enthusiasm ...Show more
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
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Category: Pop Science | Series: Berlin Family Lectures | Reading Level: very good
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literatur ...Show more
The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine
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Category: Pop Science
In this groundbreaking book, Dr Louann Brizendine describes the uniquely flexible structure of the female brain and its constant, dynamic state of change - the key difference that separates it from that of the male - and reveals how women think, what they value, how they communicate, and whom they'll lo ...Show more
Mother Tongue - The English Language by Bill Bryson
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Category: Pop Science | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson--the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent--brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), t ...Show more
QI: the Third Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd
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Category: Pop Science | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
The Third Book of General Ignorance gathers together 180 questions, both new and previously featured on the BBC TV programme's popular 'General Ignorance' round, and show why, when it comes to general knowledge, none of us knows anything at all. Who invented the sandwich? What was the best thing before ...Show more
The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction by Nate Silver
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Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
Every time we choose a route to work, decide whether to go on a second date, or set aside money for a rainy day, we are making a prediction about the future. Yet from the financial crisis to ecological disasters, we routinely fail to foresee hugely significant events, often at great cost to society. In ...Show more
Underground Lovers: Encounters with fungi by Alison Pouliot
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Category: Pop Science
'Mists waft gently around me and slowly drizzle water through the fronds of tree ferns. Lichens wrap around twisted blackwood limbs like ornate scarves. In the gloom of the forest floor, fallen branches are sheathed with fungal stripes of yellow and purple. But beneath the colourful surface, the fallen ...Show more