Category:Popular Science
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The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 288 total.
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- Ad Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet by Dallas Campbell
- Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
- Against All Authority: Anarchism and the Literary Imagination by Jeff Shantz
- Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America by Allen M Hornblum, Judith L Newman and Gregory J Dober
- Alex's Adventures In Numberland by Alex Bellos
- The Aliens are Coming by Ben Miller
- Alpha: Directions by Jens Harder
- Animals by Keith Laidler
- Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins
- The Ascent of Gravity by Marcus Chown
- At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise by Michael Brooks
- At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell
- At the Water's Edge: A Walk in the Wild by John Lister-Kaye
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- The Average Life of the Average Person by Tadg Farrington
B
- Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
- Beyond Infinity: An expedition to the outer limits of the mathematical universe by Eugenia Cheng
- Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed: an introduction to birdsong by Simon Barnes
- Birth of a Theorem by Cedric Villani
- The Black Book of Modern Myths: True Stories of the Unexplained by Alasdair Wickham
- Blue Planet II by James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow
- The Book of Deadly Animals by Gordon Grice
- The Book of Fungi: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species From Around The World by Peter Roberts and Shelley Evans
- The Book Of Universes by John D Barrow
- Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum) by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
- Botanicum Activity Book by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
- Breakfast with Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith
- The British Phonebox by Nigel Linge and Andy Sutton
- Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers by Caroline Alliston
- Build Your Own Website: Create with Code by CoderDojo
- Buyology: How Everything We Believe About Why We Buy Is Wrong by Martin Lindstrom
C
- Cakes, Custard and Category Theory: Easy recipes for understanding complex maths by Eugenia Cheng
- Calculating the Cosmos by Ian Stewart
- The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery by George Johnson
- The Canon by Natalie Angier
- Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham
- The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life by Jack Challoner
- Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography by Edzard Ernst
- Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright
- The Comic Strip History of Space by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner
- Cool Physics by Sarah Hutton
- Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science by John D Barrow
- Count on Me by Miguel Tanco
- The Curious History of Writer's Cramp: Solving an age-old problem by Michael Pritchard
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- Darwin's Armada: Four Voyagers to the Southern Oceans and Their Battle for the Theory of Evolution by Iain McCalman
- Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins by Adrian Desmond and James Moore
- Darwin: A Life in Science by John Gribbin and Michael White
- The Design of Future Things by Donald Norman
- A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love by Richard Dawkins
- Diagnosis: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Medical Mysteries by Lisa Sanders
- Dinosaurium (Welcome to the Museum) by Lily Murray and Chris Wormell
- The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
- Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
- Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? by Mick O'Hare
- Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxbridge Questions by John Farndon
- Dogs Never Lie About Love: Why Your Dog Will Always Love You More Than Anyone Else by Jeffrey Masson
- Don't Swallow Your Gum by Dr Aaron Carroll and Dr Rachel Vreeman
- Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon by P D Smith
- Dot-Dash To Dot.Com by Andrew Wheen
- Driving with Plato: The Meaning of Life's Milestones by Robert Rowland Smith
- Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So Differently by John L Locke
- Dust (Object Lessons) by Michael Marder
E
- Earth in 30 Seconds by Anita Ganeri
- The Edge of the Sky by Roberto Trotta
- Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe by Evalyn Gates
- Emily's Numbers by Joss Langford
- Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence and Emperor Penguins by Gavin Francis
- Encyclopedia Paranoiaca by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf
- The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease by John Rhodes
- Escape from Bubbleworld by Keith Skene
- The Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth
- Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and Beyond by Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty
- Eye Chart (Object Lessons) by William Germano
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- Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers by Stephanie Pain
- A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits by Carol and Dinah Mack
- First Science Encyclopedia by Dorling Kindersley
- The Food We Eat by Joanna Blythman
- Forestry Flavours of the Month: The Changing Face of World Forestry by Alastair Fraser
- Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain by Lucy Jones
- Free Radicals by Michael Brooks
- From 0 to Infinity in 26 Centuries by Chris Waring
- From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean Carroll
- From Sci Fi to Reality: How Dreams Turn Into Innovations
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- Gang Leader For A Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
- Garden Birds and Wildlife by Mike Toms and Paul Sterry
- Geek Wisdom by Stephen H Segal
- The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos by Michael D Lemonick
- Get Coding!: Learn HTML, CSS & JavaScript & build a website, app & game by Young Rewired State
- God Versus Particle Physics: A No-Score Draw by John Davies
- God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science by James Hannam
- The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy by Arabella Kurtz and J M Coetzee
- Gravity, Cracking the Cosmic Code by Nicholas Mee
- The Great Mathematical Problems by Ian Stewart
- Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer
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- The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World by David Malouf
- The Happy Passion: A Personal View of Jacob Bronowski by Anthony James
- Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science by Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien
- The Hidden Landscape by Richard Fortey
- Higgs Force by Nicholas Mee
- How Bar Modeling Makes Word Problems Easy in Singapore Math
- How Do You Make a Baby? by Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)
- How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die by David Crystal
- How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like by Paul Bloom
- How Puzzles Improve Your Brain: The Surprising Science of the Playful Brain by Richard Restak and Scott Kim
- How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser
- How To Fossilise Your Hamster by Mick O'Hare
- How To Make A Tornado by Mick O'Hare
- How to Read Water by Tristan Gooley
- How to Save the World with Salad Dressing by Thomas Byrne and Tom Cassidy
- The Human Body in 30 Seconds by Anna Claybourne
- The Hunt by Alastair Fothergill and Huw Cordey
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- I Contain Multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of life by Ed Yong
- I Drink Therefore I Am by Roger Scruton
- I Used To Know That: General Science by Marianne Taylor
- If Houses Why Not Mouses? by Damian O'Brien
- The Impulse Factor: Why Some Of Us Play It Safe and Others Risk It All by Nick Tasler
- Impulse: Why We Do What We Do Without Knowing Why We Do It by Dr David Lewis
- In Praise of Love by Alain Badiou with Nicholas Truong
- In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R Kandel
- Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell and Know by Alexandra Horowitz
- Inside The Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk
- Inventing the Enemy: Essays on Everything by Umberto Eco
- The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
- Inventions in 30 Seconds by Dr Mike Goldsmith
- Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland
- Island on Fire: The extraordinary story of Laki, the volcano that turned eighteenth-century Europe dark by Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe
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- The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind by Steven Pinker
- Language: The Cultural Tool by Daniel Everett
- The Lazarus Effect by Sam Parnia
- Leonardo's Legacy: How Da Vinci Reinvented the World by Stefan Klein
- Little People, Big Dreams: Marie Curie by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Frau Isa
- Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Adrian Cull
- Living, Thinking, Looking by Siri Hustvedt
- The Lotus Quest by Mark Griffiths
- Love and Lies: And Why You Can't Have One Without the Other by Clancy Martin
- Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D Yalom
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- The Machines of Sex Research: Technology and the Politics of Identity, 1945-1985 by Donna J Drucker
- The Many Faces of Coincidence by Laurence Browne
- Mathematics of Life by Ian Stewart
- Mathletics by John D Barrow
- MediaWiki (Wikipedia and Beyond) by Daniel J Barrett
- Mind Change by Susan Greenfield
- Mind Games: 31 Days to Rediscover Your Brain by Martin Cohen
- The Moon and Madness by Niall McCrae
- The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it by Philip Ball
- Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
- Must-Have: The Hidden Instincts Behind Everything We Buy by Geoffrey Miller
- My Age of Anxiety by Scott Stossel
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- The Naked Ape: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by Desmond Morris
- The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement by Jean M Twenge and W Keith Campbell
- Nelson, Hitler and Diana by Richard D Ryder
- Neuropolis: A Brain Science Survival Guide by Robert Newman
- Never Work With Animals by Gareth Steel
- The Norm Chronicles: Stories and numbers about danger by Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter
- Not Exactly - In Praise Of Vagueness by Kees van Deemter
- Number Freak: A Mathematical Compendium from 1 to 200 by Derrick Niederman
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- Oceans in 30 Seconds by Jen Green and Wesley Robins
- On Balance by Adam Phillips
- On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition by Charles Darwin and David Quammen (Author and Editor)
- Operation Big: The Race to Stop Hitler's A-Bomb by Colin Brown
- Optical Illusions by Gianni Sarcone and Marie Jo Waeber
- An Optimist's Tour of the Future by Mark Stevenson
- Originals: How Non-conformists Change the World by Adam Grant
- Out of the Woods: the armchair guide to trees by Will Cohu
- The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins
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- Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in Space by Mary Roach
- Panicology by Simon Briscoe and Hugh Aldersey-Williams
- Paralysed with Fear by Gareth Williams
- Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things by Steven Connor
- Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich
- Peak: How all of us can achieve extraordinary things by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
- Pieces of Light: the New Science of Memory by Charles Fernyhough
- The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favourite Planet by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- A Practical Guide to Research Methods by Catherine Dawson
- Predators by Steve Backshall
- Prediction: How to See and Shape the Future with Game Theory by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
- Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries by Ian Stewart
- Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures by Ian Stewart
- Professor Stewart’s Incredible Numbers by Ian Stewart
- Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
- Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer