Amazon.co.uk Review With their inextricable links to history, mystery and war, codes and ciphers offer a rich seam of material for any author. The relative dearth of non-technical books on the subject may be a reflection of its pretty technical foundations, which compel ha...
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Amazon.co.uk Review Steve Jones describes Darwin's The Origin of Species as "the only bestseller to change man's conception of himself ... without doubt, the book of the millennium." That book's sensational central proposition, that speciation arose from descent with modification through the mechanism of natural selection, ...
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Amazon.co.uk Review Science writer Matt Ridley's Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters is an elegant reflection on the significance of being able, for the first time in history, to read our own genes. The book is loosely organised around the stories of one gene ...
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Amazon.co.uk Review Just six numbers govern the shape, size and texture of our universe. If their values were only fractionally different, we would not exist nor, in many cases, would matter have had a chance to form. If the numbers that govern our universe were elegant--1, s...
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Amazon.co.uk Review Steven Pinker has a very good ear; you know it instantly from his prose: elegant, accessible and very witty indeed. In ...
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Amazon.co.uk Review Life is a long weird trip, and in The Origins of Life John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry blast you through its three-and-a-half-billion-year history at breathtaking pace. Life, we learn, is information, transmitted in ever-more intricate ways across the generations. Self- replicating chemicals walled themselves into cells, organised ...
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Amazon.co.uk Review Habits, skills, songs, stories, ideas: humans are marvellously equipped to keep themselves and each other ceaselessly busy--and it's as well. For no matter how hard we try, we humans just can't stop thinking. So, says Susan Blackmore, what if consciousne...
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Amazon.co.uk Review When Lunik powered its way out of the earth's atmosphere in 1959 it set in motion the exploration of space. It also rekindled the age-old question of whether we're alone in the universe. BBC television producers David McNab and James Younger's ...
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Amazon.co.uk Review There is no shortage of books on dinosaurs and it has become increasingly difficult to produce anything novel without departing too much from the scientific evidence. ...
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