An Optimist's Tour of the Future
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Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot...
Religion and Modern Society: Citizenship, Secularization and the State
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Religion is now high on the public agenda, with recent events focusing the world's attention on...
Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
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A cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are...
Before Time Began: The Big Bang and the Emerging Universe
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What is the origin of the universe? What was there before the universe appeared? We are currently...
Cultivating Commerce: Cultures of Botany in Britain and France, 1760-1815
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Sarah Easterby-Smith rewrites the histories of botany and horticulture from the perspectives of...
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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THE PHENOMENAL BESTSELLER 'There's a book I've been carrying around like a small Bible, Seven Brief...
Here Comes Trouble
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'1984 crossed with ADRIAN MOLE' Daily Mail 'SCOOP meets BORAT' TLS 'Scarily prophetic about news,...
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Preserves, Pickles and Cures: Recipes for the Modern Kitchen Larder
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Many of us remember jams and chutneys made by grandmothers and great aunts who also seemed to know...
Modern Prometheus: Editing the Human Genome with CRISPR-CAS9
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Would you change your genes if you could? As we confront the 'industrial revolution of the genome',...
Beatniks and Beehives: The Swinging Sixties
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The Sixties put an end to drab post-war austerity in a psychedelic explosion of colour, fashion,...