Naturvetenskap & teknik

Brought to you by PenguinWill we ever truly understand our cosmic home? This is the story of the technologies that allow us to look up, to learn and to discover our place in the cosmos.We are part of an incredible chain of events stretching 13.8 b...

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Brought to you by Penguin. Our modern-day cities might seem to represent our separation from the natural world. In fact, as Ben Wilson reveals in this captivating re-examination of urban landscapes around the world, nature has always been at the h...

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Brought to you by Penguin.A user's guide to the future: from the algorithms in DNA to why time is like a cocktail glass, interstellar migrations, transhumanism, the fate of the galaxy, and the last black hole...Every second of our lives - whether ...

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Brought to you by Penguin. FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 HIGHLIGHT All of the Earth''s ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine. In a book that will recalibrate our view of this defining feature of our p...

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Award-winning wildlife presenter Brett Westwood explores our relationship with mammals, and their impact on human culture and societyFor as long as humans have existed, animals have got under our skin, enthralling us with their wildness, enriching...

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Award-winning wildlife presenter Brett Westwood explores our relationship with fish and invertebrates, and their impact on human culture and societyThroughout the ages, human beings have had a profound fascination with the natural world. It has in...

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Award-winning wildlife presenter Brett Westwood explores our relationship with birds and reptiles, and their impact on human culture and societyEver since the first prehistoric artist etched animal paintings onto a cave wall, humans have been insp...

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Brought to you by Penguin. Summer 1939. War is coming. The British believe that, through ingenuity and scientific prowess, they alone have a war-winning weapon: radar. They are wrong. The Germans have it too. They believe that their unique maritim...

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Brought to you by Penguin. "e;I grab the motionless lamb, which is frighteningly slippery, and scramble on my feet, swinging its little body around to help it breathe. I see its chest move, then it sneezes and starts breathing. It's stunned by...

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Brought to you by Penguin.How much light is too much light? The Darkness Manifesto urges us to cherish natural darkness for the sake of the environment, our own wellbeing, and all life on earth.The world's flora and fauna have evolved to operate i...

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Brought to you by Penguin. Part memoir, part manifesto, Chamorro climate activist Julian Aguon's No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a coming-of-age story and a call for justice-for everyone, but in particular, for Indigenous peoples.Aguon be...

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Brought to you by Penguin. An exploration of the art of running, and a quest to ensure you can continue for a lifetime Never before have so many people run so many miles, or set themselves such ambitious targets, in pursuit of self-fulfillment: ma...

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In these ten absorbing series, award-winning authors Naomi Alderman and Philip Ball and guest presenters Tracey Logan, Kevin Fong, Simon Schaffer and Lindsey Fitzharris take a look at the many amazing events and characters from science's long hist...

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 25 scientific pioneers who have shaped the development of science over 500 years ''Exemplifies what Radio 4 is all about, and what makes it world class'' The Guardian One of the bedrocks of Radio 4, In Our Time has ...

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Brought to you by Penguin.Language and talking is part of what makes us human. It forms the basis of all our lives.Every day we speak to ourselves and to each other, about ourselves and about others. Whether ruminating on a past event alone or gos...

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Brought to you by Penguin.A radical argument that we are living on the wrong clock, one that tells us time is money, and that embracing a new concept of time can open us up to bold, hopeful possibilities from the New York Times bestselling author ...

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Brought to you by Penguin. **A Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, Sept 2023** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023** AI. SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY. QUANTUM COMPUTING. Everything is about to change. This is the only book you nee...

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Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of physics through its most important ideas and hypotheses'In Our Time is in a class of its own' New York TimesEclectic, erudite and entertaining, In Our Time is one of Radio 4's most successful programm...

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cosmos, from the origins of the universe to dark matter and dark energy'Consistently superb' John BanvilleIn Our Time is a linchpin of the Radio 4 schedule, attracting over 2 million listeners a week since its l...

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Brought to you by Penguin. Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world ? overturning the literal reading of the Bible, liberating science from the ...

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Brought to you by Penguin. Stephen Hawking''s closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar''s final thoughts on the cosmos. One of the biggest questions Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could...

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Brought to you by Penguin.Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville (walking correspondent of The Times and author of Coast, The January Man and Ships of Heaven) sets out to interrogate the land beneath our...

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Brought to you by Penguin. ''One of those very special books that makes you put everything on hold so you can get back to it'' RACHEL JOYCE ''Beautiful, moving and genuinely unputdownable'' JOANNA CANNON ''Extraordinary . . . Elmhirst is a terrifi...

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Brought to you by Penguin.Have you ever wondered what your dog is really thinking?Our dogs mean the world to us and as owners we do our best to make sure they feel happy and loved, whilst also keeping them in line when needed. But wouldn't it be s...

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Brought to you by Penguin. Rocks and mountains have withstood aeons of life on our planet - gradually eroding, dissolving, recycling, shifting, solidifying, and weathering. We might spend a little less time on earth, but humans are also weathering...

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Brought to you by Penguin. The BBC presenter of ''Sky at Night'', and Gresham Professor of Astronomy, Chris Lintott, takes us on an astonishing tour of bizarre accidents, big characters, and human error to tell the story of some of the most import...

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RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOXCosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own ident...

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"e;FASCINATING . . . MEMORABLE . . . REVEALING . . . PERHAPS THE BEST OF CARL SAGAN'S BOOKS."e; --The Washington Post Book World (front page review)In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the...

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A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populaceA glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is...

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Carl Sagan's prophetic vision of the tragic resurgence of fundamentalism and the hope-filled potential of the next great development in human spiritualityThe late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the ...

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