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Investigating how your senses work, how you move, and how you think and feel, Neuroscience for Dummies, 2nd Edition is your straightforward guide to the most complicated structure known in the universe: the brain....

One grey dismal day, Janine Marsh was on a trip to northern France to pick up some cheap wine. She returned to England a few hours later having put in an offer on a rundown old barn in the rural Seven Valleys area of Pas de Calais....

Once, we humans could only observe evolution. Suddenly, we had conquered it. And yet, in Life as We Made It, evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro argues that - despite how amazing our new technologies are - our ability to alter the course of evolution isn’t new....

This Very Short Introduction discusses the key concepts of biochemistry, as well as the historical figures in the field, the molecules they studied, and the interaction between biochemistry, biotechnology, and synthetic biology....

This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time....

Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention....

A trailblazing philosopher's exploration of the latest brain science - and its ethical and practical implications....

A brilliant research mathematician reveals math to be a creative art form on par with painting, poetry, and sculpture, and rejects the standard anxiety-producing teaching methods used in most schools today....

While politicians, entrepreneurs, and even school children could tell you that sustainability is an important and nearly universal value, many of them, and many of us, may struggle to define the term, let alone trace its history....

A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science....

Neuromarketing pioneer Dr. David Lewis goes behind the scenes of the "persuasion industry" to reveal the tools, techniques, technologies and psychologies seeking to make us all buy more....

It has never been easier for organizations to gather, store, and process data. Use of data science is driven by the rise of big data and social media, the development of high-performance computing, and more....

James Smithson is best known as the founder of the Smithsonian Institution, but few people know his full and fascinating story. He was a widely respected chemist and mineralogist and a member of the Royal Society, but in 1865, his letters....

Nikola Tesla, a Serbian immigrant, invented the radio, the induction motor, the neon lamp, and the remote control. Tesla's personal life was magnificently bizarre. This clear, authoritative, and highly enjoyable biography takes account of all phases of this remarkable life....

This groundbreaking book explores the recent revolution in psychotherapy that has brought an understanding of the social nature of people's brains to a therapeutic context....

How does the brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious?....

Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades....

Games are everywhere: Drivers maneuvering in heavy traffic are playing a driving game. Bargain hunters bidding on eBay are playing an auctioning game. The supermarket's price for corn flakes is decided by playing an economic game....

What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization - in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics - that have transformed the way we live....

A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire....