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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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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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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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Who we are and where we come from illuminated by population genetics. A fascinating study.

Human Peoples: On the Genetic Traces of Human Evolution, Migration and ...

Lluis Quintana-Murci

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A good illustrated introduction to astronomy: for young geeks and nerdy teenagers.

Collins Stargazer’s Bible

Ian Ridpath

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A fine biography of Marie Sklodowska Curie - still the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different fields of science. She also trained other women in her laboratory, including her daug... read more

The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Wom ...

Dava Sobel

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Hand-drawn and hand-coloured geological charts of the moon, produced in the 1960s-1970s during the American Apollo project, with careful interpretation and notes. Very large format, this mak... read more

Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps + Matter ...

Dava Sobel

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By Britain's master statistician, with a Cambridge chair, a knighthood and an OBE.

The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Lu ...

David Spiegelhalter

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The Kepler space telescope was put into orbit in 2009: its data stream has helped us identify a bewildering variety and number of celestial bodies. By a long-time member of the NASA Kepler t... read more

Hidden in the Heavens: How the Kepler Mission’s Quest for New Pl ...

Jason Steffen

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The thirteenth collection of these mind-boggling and -bending images; produced by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.

Astronomy Photographer of the Year

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When you're bored of training your telescope on your neighbours. Delightful trio of authors' surnames conjure an exploratory space vehicle with excellent tyres on the way to a distant moon..... read more

Night Sky Almanac 2025: A stargazer’s guide

Radmila Topalovic

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It is often supposed that Lovelock was a sort of hippie, but he worked for NASA in the 1960s, then MI5 and MI6; then Shell, whom he warned about the danger to the environment of fossil fuels... read more

The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets and Gaia Theory ...

Jonathan Watts

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We did a podcast with the brilliant Clare for his previous book, Heavy Light. Here, he moves further from his own experience to look at how the system could work better. He is a joy to read.

Your Journey, Your Way: How to Make the Mental Health System Work For ...

Horatio Clare

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Argues that AI will free us from our biological constraints - and this is a cause for optimism.

The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

Ray Kurzweil

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An exceptional examination of the ways to fight global warming, by a professor of earth science at Stanford University, sharp enough to dispel the paralysis of climate apathy.

Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere ...

Rob Jackson

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CdR has explored the edges of gravity as a theoretical physicist, diver, pilot and would-be astronaut.

The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity ...

Claudia de Rham

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VM was the author of The Map of Knowledge, a compelling account of the survival of the ancient classics in the Muslim world, and their re-emergence in the West. Now she turns her attention t... read more

Inside the Stargazer’s Palace: The Transformation of Science in ...

Violet Moller

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Climate change is inside us as well as around us....

The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Minds, Brains ...

Clayton Aldern

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A history of how the threat of climate change has been used to explain the world since antiquity

The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea

David N. Livingstone

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How the rocks beneath the surface define the shapes of our landscapes.

The Stones of Britain: A Geological History

Jon Cannon

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Your Baby and Child: From Birth to Age Five

Penelope Leach

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The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World ...

Suzie Sheehy

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The Noonday Demon

Andrew Solomon

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The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Fr ...

Norman Doidge

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Noise

Daniel Kahneman

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