Matematik & Naturvetenskap

Sapiens är en storslagen berättelse om människans ursprung, nutid och framtid. Historikern Yuval Noah Harari tar oss med från Homo sapiens första steg på jorden, då vi var ett däggdjur bland alla andra, till idag när vi står som världens obestridd...

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Doctor Diamantis Koukouvinos debuterade 2021 med Nyckeln till din hälsa . Med sin bakgrund som läkare i kinesisk medicin och en fördjupning i funktionell medicin har han med sin unika kombination av kunskaper hjälpt tusentals patienter med allt fr...

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Mycket har hunnit hända inom DNA-forskningen sedan Karin Bojs skrev Augustprisvinnaren Min europeiska familj - de senaste 54 000 åren (2015) och uppföljaren Svenskarna och deras fäder - de senaste 11 000 åren (2016). Bland annat börjar forskare ku...

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Brought to you by Penguin.THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLERWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human.Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of...

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Nominerad till Augustpriset. Gryning över Kalahari är den fantastiska berättelsen om hur en liten grupp Homo sapiens, kanske 10-20000 individer som levde i Afrika för 150000 år sedan, spred sig över hela jordklotet. Och förändrade det för all fram...

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Vinnare av Augustpriset 2015 och utnämnd till "Årets bok om svensk historia 2015" av Nättidningen Svensk Historia Vetenskapsjournalisten Karin Bojs bestämde sig för att släktforska på djupet och låta DNA-trådarna knyta ihop henne själv med forntid...

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Brought to you by Penguin.There's never been a better time to set new habits. This book will change your life.______________________________Why do we do develop habits? And how can we change them?We can always change. In The Power of Habit, award-...

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Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI. Artificial intelligence entrepreneur Max Bennett chronicles the fi...

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Brought to you by Penguin. The audiobook edition of Behave by Robert Sapolsky, read by Michael Goldstrom.The New York Times best seller Winner of the 2017 LA Times Book PrizeWhy do human beings behave as they do? We are capable of savage acts of v...

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Brought to you by Penguin.Why do women live longer than men? Why do women have menopause? Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer's? Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly their scores plummet...

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Brought to you by Penguin. For as long as we''ve studied the mind, we''ve believed that information flowing from our senses determines what our mind perceives. But as our understanding of neuroscience and psychology has advanced in the last few de...

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Brought to you by Penguin. Why do so many diets lead to more weight gain?Do more active people have faster metabolisms?Is exercise essential for weight loss?Over the past twenty years, evolutionary biologist Herman Pontzer has conducted ground-bre...

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Stephen Hawking''s worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author''s engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another: the nature of space and time, the ...

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Världsresenären Lasse Berg är tillbaka med uppföljaren till sin prisbelönade och omtalade bok Gryning över Kalahari, hur människan blev människa. Vad kan berättelsen om Kain och Abel lära oss om människans djupa historia? Varför kan en dagistillva...

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THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ''Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable'' New York Times At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade?s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kala...

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Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau"s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his fr...

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2020-talet måste bli handlingens och den realistiska klimatoptimismens årtionde! Detta är boken för dig som tar klimatproblemen på allvar och vill ha en snabb uppdatering om läget, utmaningarna och vad forskarna säger. Men som också längtar efter ...

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Förr i tiden var skogarna en stor del av människors liv. Man möttes i skogen, berättade historier om den, fick mat och material från den. Stora och små skogar finns fortfarande nära oss. Den här boken är en promenad i naturen tillsammans med förfa...

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An intimate portrait of an everyday genius.Alexander Master?s landlord, Simon, lives in the basement of their Cambridge house. Between teetering towers of outdated maps and slagheaps of plastic bags, Simon eats endless meals of tinned kippers and ...

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Sunday Times Bestseller'Passionate and well-researched' Tatler'A must-read' IndependentA social history of Labradors, and how they have become the world's most beloved dogs, by writer, presenter and long-time dog lover Ben Fogle.Labradors are the ...

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Obesity, autism, mental health problems, IBS, allergies, auto-immunity, cancer. Does the answer to the modern epidemic of 'Western' diseases lie in our gut?You are 10% human. For every one of your cells, there are nine impostors hitching a ride. Y...

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From one of our greatest science writers, this biography of a beech-and-bluebell wood through diverse moods and changing seasons combines stunning natural history with the ancient history of the countryside to tell the full story of the British la...

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'When I am disturbed, even angry, gardening has been a therapy. When I don't want to talk I turn to Plot 29, or to a wilder piece of land by a northern sea. There, among seeds and trees, my breathing slows; my heart rate too. My anxieties slip awa...

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How could a relatively simple chemical code give rise to the complexity of a human being? How could our human genome have evolved? And how does it actually work?Over the past 50 years we have deciphered the inner workings of the human genome. From...

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Winner of The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction in 2011 and the Authors' Foundation Roger Deakin Award in 2011A stunning debut in the tradition of Robert Macfarlane and Helen MacdonaldOf all the birds of the British Isles, ...

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AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself.G...

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From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story.Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psycho...

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AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR'A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves' The Economist#1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with a captivating, little-known true ...

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WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2018WINNER OF THE JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING 2017The full story of seabirds from one of the greatest nature writers. The book looks at the pattern of their lives, their habitats, the threats they face and the...

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Top ten Sunday Times Bestseller?Engaging, ambitious and creative? GuardianWhere are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future?Human Universe tackles some of the greatest questions that humans have asked to try and understan...

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