An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
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Category: REM Science
Here are seven detailed and fascinating portraits of neurological patients, 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 ...Show more
The Brain's Way of Healing - Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity by Norman Doidge
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Category: REM Science | Series: The Neuroplasticity Chronicles | Reading Level: very good
Based on astonishing case studies, this is a brilliant and beautifully written follow-up to Dr Doidge’s record-breaking bestseller The Brain That Changes Itself. In his first book, Norman Doidge described the most important development in our understanding of the brain in four hundred years: the discove ...Show more
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life by Richard Dawkins
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Category: REM Science | Reading Level: near fine
A fully updated edition of one of the most original accounts of evolution ever written, featuring new fractal diagrams, six new 'tales' and the latest scientific developments. THE ANCESTOR'S TALE is a dazzling, four-billion-year pilgrimage to the origins of life: Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong take us on ...Show more
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
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Category: REM Science
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, "The Innovators" is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. What were the ...Show more
Finding Zero A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers by Amir D. Aczel
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Category: REM Science
The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery. "Finding Ze ...Show more
Swearing is Good for You The Amazing Science of Bad Language by Emma Byrne
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Category: REM Science
Swearing, it turns out, is an incredibly useful part of our linguistic repertoire. Not only has some form of swearing existed since the earliest humans began to communicate, but it has been shown to reduce physical pain, help stroke victims recover their language, and encourage people to work together a ...Show more
How To Build A Universe (The Infinite Monkey Cage) by Prof. Brian Cox; Robin Ince; Alexandra Feachem
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Category: REM Science | Series: The Infinite Monkey Cage
The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms. Professor Brian Cox ...Show more
Mars: A New View of the Red Planet by Giles Sparrow
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Category: REM Science
Mars has always fascinated humanity and the findings of the past decade have revolutionized ideas about our nearest neighbour - revealing its watery past and geological similarity to Earth. This giant volume, filled with the latest and most magnificent images to be sent back from Curiosity, will walk yo ...Show more
A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life by Bill Mesler
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Category: REM Science
How did life begin? It is perhaps the most important question science has ever asked. Over the centuries, the search for an answer has been entwined with some of science’s most revolutionary advances including van Leeuwenhoek’s microscope, Darwin’s theory of evolution, and Crick and Watson’s unveiling ...Show more
CHARLES DARWIN VICTORIAN MYTHMAKER by WILSON A N
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Category: REM Science
With the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin, hailed as the man who discovered evolution, was propelled into the pantheon of great scientific thinkers, alongside Galileo, Copernicus, and Newton. Eminent writer A. N. Wilson challenges this long-held assumption. Contextualizing Darwin ...Show more
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley
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Category: REM Science
The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating, brilliant argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world.The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the ...Show more
Our Universe - An Astronomer's Guide by Jo Dunkley
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Category: REM Science | Series: Pelican Bks.
For many years now, we have known the story of the Solar System, and the Earth's place in it. We have mapped out the stars in the night sky, and have known that we live in a disk of stars that makes up the Milky Way galaxy. But, in the past few decades, huge steps have been taken in the field of astrono ...Show more