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Trip Advisor: Notes from over 25 years of Psychedelic Voyages ...

Ryan McGinness

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How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking ...

Viv Groskop

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£11.99

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There are places in the world where rules are less important than kind ...

Carlo Rovelli

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The Life You Want

Adam Phillips

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£20.00

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A World Appears

Michael Pollan

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Psychoanalysis of fire

Gaston Bachelard

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A substantial biography of one of the scientists who first deciphered DNA.

Crick: A Mind in Motion

Matthew Cobb

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The relationship between landscape and land use explored with subtlety and enthusiasm by the late architectural historian, Cannon by name and also Canon Historian for Bristol Cathedral. A wi... read more

The Stones of Britain: A History of Britain Through Its Geology ...

Jon Cannon

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The quantum technology revolution promises a barely believable reality - one in which even teleportation and telepathy are on the cards. Yet scientists continue to be divided over how to mak... read more

Quantum 2.0

Paul Davies

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100 objects to celebrate its 350th birthday. Well illustrated.

Royal Observatory Greenwich: A History in Objects

Louise Devoy

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£35.00

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A compelling account of what we know about black holes, including how our pursuit of knowledge of the void led us towards the invention of Wifi, the calibration of GPS and critical evidence... read more

Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth ...

Jonas Enander

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...is far from lost! Case studies in relationships, by the author of The Examined Life.

Love’s Labour

Stephen Grosz

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The gathered reportage of one of our greatest science writers, profiling the radical steps being taken by those on the frontlines of catastrophic climate change.

Life on a Little-Known Planet

Elizabeth Kolbert

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The cognitive scientist explores the centrality of 'common knowledge' to all human interactions, from awkward first dates to the toppling of regimes. Highly illuminating.

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…

Steven Pinker

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Radical thought experiments that could upend quantum physics and our understanding of the universe.

Portals to a New Reality: Five Experiments to Unlock the Future of Phy ...

Vlatko Vedral

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Fine copy in a fine dustjacket, with bookseller's label fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).

William Kent, Landscape Garden Designer: An Assessment and catalogue o ...

John Dixton Hunt

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We missed this brilliant exposition from our Christmas 2024 catalogue. (It's still available in hardback too.)

Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the race that is changing the world ...

Parmy Olson

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A lyrical memoir of deafness. He's won both the Ted Hughes Award and Rathbone's Folio Prize for his poetry.

The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound

Raymond Antrobus

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The story of the pursuit of nuclear power, charting the lives and struggles of the scientists who dedicated their careers to advancing our knowledge, with unforeseen consequences.

Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age: 1895-1965 ...

F. E. Close

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A provocative, personal series of essays looking at the encroachment of technology - AI, Twitter, Google et al - on our autonomy, independence and privacy. But it's SO convenient...

Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age

Vauhini Vara

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The appeal of simplistic answers and their concomitant narrow conformity: Zmigrod's analysis makes for compelling reading in our polarized times.

The Ideological Brain: A Radical Science of Susceptible Minds ...

Leor Zmigrod

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A call to action by the author of Humankind. Bergman re-evaluates how we think of happiness and success, swimming against the stream of self-help books to argue that a meaningful life is act... read more

Moral Ambition

Rutger Bregman

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Ochre, tin, iron, radium, gold: Marsden travels from Cornwall to Georgia and back, tracing the often revolutionary use of minerals, dipping into alchemy, science and ecology and fraternising... read more

Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and Wonder ...

Philip Marsden

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Freud is the primary focus here, but we also encounter Klimt, Schiele, Herzl, Empress Sisi and many others in this fine account of the new understanding of the mind that arose from Vienna at... read more

Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind ...

Frank Tallis

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Hugely entertaining historical excursion into eternity - and into the pockets of a curious bunch of collectors and astronomers.

The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time ...

Helen Gordon

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A neurologist looks at role of the imagination (and as we know not everyone has one). The elephant absent from the room comes to mind.

The Shape of Things Unseen: A New Science of Imagination ...

Adam Zeman

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A collection of night exposures - cyanotypes created with moonlight - that record the moon's billion-year gaze: the artist has used pages from texts referencing the moon and night sky writte... read more

Ala Ebtekar: Thirty-Six Views of the Moon

Ala Ebtekar

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The interior decoration of the bowerbird, the strutting scuffles of black grouse: the intricacies of sexual selection.

Birds, Sex and Beauty: The extraordinary implications of Charles Darwi ...

Matt Ridley

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Phillips dances from end to end of the see-saw of renunciation: he's always a joy to read.

On Giving Up

Adam Phillips

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It is a stretch to say that this brilliant mathematician was Einstein's tutor, and a diminution of her very significant contribution to algebra and physics. Born in 1882, she was discriminat... read more

Einstein’s Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of ...

Lee Phillips

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A remarkable, original take on the history of medicine which shows how domestic (female) medical skill was displaced by a new confidence in doctors during the Enlightenment - and not always ... read more

The Apothecary’s Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It ...

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

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Argues that the wood-coal-oil-green energy transition is illusory: we use more wood and coal than ever, and remain dependent on oil. The idea of 'transition' has been deployed by energy comp... read more

More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy ...

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

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Further investigations into the development of intelligence on earth, following his Other Minds (2018) and Metazoa (2020). Moving away from octopuses, he examines how life has been altered b... read more

Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural Wor ...

Peter Godfrey-Smith

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Sea-grass meadows and forests of swaying kelp; ethical and sustainable fishing - there is hope for our seas as well as the existential threat to them from deep-sea mining. In the running for... read more

What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean ...

Helen Scales

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Each one of us is an archive of our most distant ancestors and the worlds that they inhabited: an elegant and far-reaching exposition of our evolutionary history.

The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

Richard Dawkins

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A compendium of images on earth, air, fire, water and aether; in which the old is often juxtaposed with the very new.

Elements: Chaos, order and the five elemental forces ...

Stephen Ellcock

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