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Beginning around 3,500 BC with the wheel, and moving through the eras of horsepower, trains and bicycles, Tom Standage puts the rise of the ...
'Engaging, authoritative and very timely. Marco Alvera spells Hydrogen's critical role as an energy store in the clean power transition' - Mike Berners-Lee, author of ...
Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world
We have never had so much information at our ...
A radical retelling of the history of science - The Silk Roads for science
We are told that modern science was invented in Europe, the product ...
In the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon- a clever and engaging look at materials, the innovations they made possible, and how ...
Echoing Sherlock Holmes' famous dictum, John Gribbin tells us: 'Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, is certainly possible, in the ...
From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask. Millions visit xkcd ...
Is there life in the clouds of Venus? How could Indigenous burning practices stave off catastrophic bushfires? What do horseshoe bats, raccoon dogs and pet ...
There is a vast class of properties that science has so far almost entirely neglected. These properties are central to an understanding of physical reality ...
Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal ...
If you could bring back one living being from the whole of the history of time, what would you choose? Comedian and former stem-cell biologist ...
An exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann- the lost genius who invented our world
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The ...
Life is Simple tells the remarkable story of how a thirteenth century monk's search for simplicity led to the emergence of the modern world ...
Hugely readable and entertaining' JIM AL-KHALILI A compulsively readable account of the extraordinary people, battling internal demons and external adversaries, who discovered the laws of ...
The exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer's CEO Dr. Albert Bourla
A riveting ...
