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  Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

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  James Nestor

   

  • THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
  • SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE
  • A New York Times Bestseller
  • A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020
  • An Amazon Best Science Book of 2020
  • 2020 ASJA Award-Winner in the General Nonfiction Category
  • A Goodreads Award Finalist for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year
  • Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR

   

  ‘Who would have thought something as simple as changing the way we breathe could be so revolutionary for our health, from snoring to allergies to immunity? A fascinating book, full of dazzling revelations’ –Dr. Rangan Chatterjee

   

  ‘In the past few years, there have been several potentially life-changing books, from Matthew Walker’s Why We Sleep and Shane O’Mara’s In Praise of Walking, to Norman Doidge’s The Brain’s Way of Healing. Breath deserves a place alongside such volumes. Read it, and I guarantee you will want to change the way you breathe’ — Evening Standard

   

  A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe – and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time. I already feel calmer and healthier just in the last few days, from making a few simple changes in my breathing, based on what I’ve read. Our breath is a beautiful, healing, mysterious gift, and so is this book — Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

   

  ‘If you want to read a book about the power of the breath, this is it!’ — Patrick McKeown, author of The Oxygen Advantage

   

  ‘A transformative book that changes how you think about your body and mind’ — Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein

   

  ‘I don’t say this often, but when I do I mean it: this book changed my life. Breath is part scientific quest, part historical insight, part Hero’s Journey, full of groundbreaking ideas, and a rollicking good read. I had no idea that the simple and intuitive act of inhaling and exhaling has taken such an evolutionary hit. As a result, I figured out why I sleep so badly and why my breathing feels so often out-of-sync. With a few simple tweaks, I fixed my breathing and fixed myself. A transformational book’ — Caroline Paul, author of The Gutsy Girl

   

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  The Accidental Scientist

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  Have you wondered how the greatest discoveries of today actually came about? In the accidental scientist, author Graeme Donald takes you through some of the most crucial breakthroughs the world has ever known. From Penicillin to DNA fingerprinting and Cell phone to botox, the author explores the role of chance and error in scientific, medical and commercial spheres. Written in a tongue-in-cheek style, this book gives you the fascinating stories behind the science that we are so familiar with today. This book is a delightful page-turner on the world’s most intriguing technologies.

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  Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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  Jared Diamond

   

  • New York Times Bestseller
  • Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1998)
  • Royal Society Science Book Prize for General Prize (1998)
  • California Book Award for Nonfiction (Gold) (1997)
  • Puddly Award for History (2001)
  • Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science (1997)

   

  ‘A book of big questions, and big answers‘ Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens

   

  “Artful, informative, and delightful…. There is nothing like a radically new angle of vision for bringing out unsuspected dimensions of a subject, and that is what Jared Diamond has done.” ― William H. McNeil, New York Review of Books

   

  “An ambitious, highly important book.” ― James Shreeve, New York Times Book Review

   

  “A book of remarkable scope, a history of the world in less than 500 pages which succeeds admirably, where so many others have failed, in analyzing some of the basic workings of culture process…. One of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years.” ― Colin Renfrew, Nature

   

  “The scope and the explanatory power of this book are astounding.”
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  “No scientist brings more experience from the laboratory and field, none thinks more deeply about social issues or addresses them with greater clarity, than Jared Diamond as illustrated by Guns, Germs, and Steel. In this remarkably readable book he shows how history and biology can enrich one another to produce a deeper understanding of the human condition.” ― Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University

   

  “Serious, groundbreaking biological studies of human history only seem to come along once every generation or so. . . . Now [Guns, Germs, and Steel] must be added to their select number. . . . Diamond meshes technological mastery with historical sweep, anecdotal delight with broad conceptual vision, and command of sources with creative leaps. No finer work of its kind has been published this year, or for many past.” ― Martin Sieff, Washington Times

   

  “[Diamond] is broadly erudite, writes in a style that pleasantly expresses scientific concepts in vernacular American English, and deals almost exclusively in questions that should interest everyone concerned about how humanity has developed. . . . [He] has done us all a great favor by supplying a rock-solid alternative to the racist answer. . . . A wonderfully interesting book.” ― Alfred W. Crosby, Los Angeles Times

   

  “An epochal work. Diamond has written a summary of human history that can be accounted, for the time being, as Darwinian in its authority.” ― Thomas M. Disch, The New Leader

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  The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

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  Brian Greene

   

  Brian Greene’s book The Hidden Reality is a tour de force of one of the most controversial areas of modern science – the possibility that there are multiple universes… Greene’s ability as a populariser has matured with each new publication and this latest offering is his best yet — Alastair Gunn ― Sky at Night

   

  Exciting and rewarding … captures and engages the imagination … Greene has a gift for elucidating big ideas ― New York Times

   

  If extraterrestrials landed tomorrow and demanded to know what the human mind is capable of accomplishing, we could do worse than to hand them a copy of this book ― New York Times Book Review

   

  The book serves well as an introduction to the multiverse and will open up many people’s eyes — John Gribbin

   

  Every chapter opens level after level of previously unimaginable, mind-expanding realities — Oliver Sacks

   

  The bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos tackles perhaps the most mind-bending question in modern physics and cosmology: Is our universe the only universe?

   

  There was a time when “universe” meant all there is. Everything. Yet, a number of theories are converging on the possibility that our universe may be but one among many parallel universes populating a vast multiverse. Here, Briane Greene, one of our foremost physicists and science writers, takes us on a breathtaking journey to a multiverse comprising an endless series of big bangs, a multiverse with duplicates of every one of us, a multiverse populated by vast sheets of spacetime, a multiverse in which all we consider real are holographic illusions, and even a multiverse made purely of math–and reveals the reality hidden within each.

   

  Using his trademark wit and precision, Greene presents a thrilling survey of cutting-edge physics and confronts the inevitable question: How can fundamental science progress if great swaths of reality lie beyond our reach? The Hidden Reality is a remarkable adventure through a world more vast and strange than anything we could have imagined.

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  An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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  The Sunday Times Bestseller

   

  ‘Wonderful, mind-broadening… a journey to alternative realities as extraordinary as any you’ll find in science fiction’ — The Times, Book of the Week

   

  ‘Magnificent – an unbelievably immersive and mind-blowing account of how other animals experience our world‘ — Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees and The Inner Life of Animals

   

  ‘A delightful sensory experience: to see the world through the touch-vision of a scallop, to taste through the feet of a mosquito and hear through the feet of an elephant’ — Gaia Vince, author of Transcendence

   

  ‘A stunning achievement – steeped in science but suffused with magic’ — Siddhartha Mukherjee, author The Emperor of All Maladies

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  Living Planet: A new, fully updated edition of David Attenborough’s seminal portrait of life on Earth

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  David Attenborough’s “The Living Planet” is a fully updated narrative edition of his seminal biography exploring the intricate lives of plant and animal species thriving or surviving within every extreme climate and habitat on Earth. Attenborough’s curiosity and enthusiasm illuminate the extraordinary adaptations of these species, from fish that walk to flightless birds that graze like deer. The book showcases their interdependence and ingenuity in contriving a living within their habitats. The updated edition includes the most recent discoveries of ecology and biology, a full-color 64-page photography section, and addresses the urgent issues facing our living planet, such as climate change, pollution, and mass extinction of species.

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  Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

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  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2018)
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  ‘Bristles with pure, crystalline intelligence, deep knowledge and human sympathy’ –Richard Dawkins

   

  My new favourite book of all time — Bill Gates

   

  Pinker is right. Not just a bit right, but completely, utterly, incontrovertibly right … for most people, life is better, even if they don’t realise it — Dominic Sandbrook ― Daily Mail

   

  Brimming with surprising data and entertaining anecdotes … a genuinely enlightening book — Jan-Werner Müller ― Financial Times

   

  In Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker extols the amazing achievements of modernity, and demonstrates that humankind has never been so peaceful, healthy and prosperous. There is of course much to argue about, but that’s what makes this book so interesting. — Yuval Noah Harari

   

  Pinker is a paragon of exactly the kind of intellectual honesty and courage we need — David Brooks ― The New York Times

   

  In his new book, Enlightenment Now, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker makes a more convincing case for the sciences benefiting the arts ― New Scientist

   

  A characteristically fluent, decisive and data-rich demonstration of why, given the chance to live at any point in human history, only a stone-cold idiot would choose any time other than the present — Sam Leith ― Spectator

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  Heart: A History

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  • A PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK
  • A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year
  • A Science Friday Best Science Book of 2018
  • A Los Angeles Public Library Best Nonfiction Book of 2018
  • Shortlisted for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize

   

  “The cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar has become a Dante of modern medicine, with his earlier memoirs, “Intern” (2008) and “Doctored” (2014), casting the progress from training to career as a path studded with suffering, indignity and ethical hazard. His latest book, “Heart: A History,” is something of a “Paradiso,” pointing to the field’s brightest and noblest stars while recognizing just how much darkness is still left in the firmament . . . Poignant and chattily erudite.” ―Laura Kolbe, The Wall Street Journal

   

  “Sandeep Jauhar, a New York cardiologist and the author of two medical memoirs, has written a book of unusual depth and richness about a subject that concerns us all . . . Heart: A History is elegantly conceived and still more elegantly executed, with a narrative that flits effortlessly between medieval Persia and contemporary America, medical scholarship and personal anecdote . . . Jauhar writes with a vital, pulsating energy.” ―Thomas Morris, The Times Literary Supplement

   

  “[Sandeep Jauhar’s] gripping new book, Heart a History, had me nearly as enthralled with this pulsating body part as [Jauhar] seems to be. The tone―a physician excited about his specialty―takes a sharp turn from his first two memoirs . . . Jauhar hooks the reader of Heart from the first few pages.” ―Randi Hutter Epstein, The New York Times Book Review

   

  “This is both a history of surgical interventions to heal the heart, and a personal meditation on illness, family, loss, and living. [Jauhar], who has lost several family members to heart disease, takes time to examine both the work of doctors trying to fix hearts and the lives of people living with heart disease, for a book that is touching and ultimately, hopeful.” ―Los Angeles Public Library, “Best of 2018”

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  Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity

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  Carlo Rovelli

   

  “The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they’re calling the next Stephen Hawking.” —The Times Magazine

   

  “Some physicists, mind you, not many of them, are physicist-poets. They see the world or, more adequately, physical reality, as a lyrical narrative written in some hidden code that the human mind can decipher. Carlo Rovelli, the Italian physicist and author, is one of them…Rovelli’s book is a gem. It’s a pleasure to read, full of wonderful analogies and imagery and, last but not least, a celebration of the human spirit.”—NPR Cosmos & Culture

   

   

  “With its warm, enthusiastic language and tone, [Seven Brief Lessons on Physics] is also deeply humanistic in approach, using words like elegant and beauty about a subject…that can seem impenetrably dense and abstract…Reality Is Not What It Seems takes much the same approach.”—New York Magazine

   

   

  “Rovelli writes beautiful prose while walking the reader through the history and concept of ‘reality’ and what it all means for the yet to be discovered universe and thus our own lives.”—Pasadena Star-News

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  Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

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  In Our Mathematical Universe, physicist Max Tegmark takes us on an astonishing journey through cosmology, exploring the mysteries of the universe and the nature of reality. From the Big Bang to parallel worlds, from sub-atomic to intergalactic scales, Tegmark reveals how mathematics provides answers to our deepest questions about the world. With clarity and elegance, he proposes the fascinating idea that our physical world is not only described by mathematics, but it is mathematics. With accolades from The New York Times and Financial Times, Tegmark’s work is a thought-provoking and mind-boggling exploration of the mysteries of existence.

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