Chasing the Sun - The New Science of Sunlight and How it Shapes Our Bodies and Minds (Geddes Linda (Features Editor))(Paperback / softback)

Chasing the Sun - The New Science of Sunlight and How it Shapes Our Bodies and Minds (Geddes Linda (Features Editor))(Paperback / softback)

The full story of how our relationship with light shapes our health, productivity and

About Time - From Sun Dials to Quantum Clocks, How the Cosmos Shapes our Lives - And We Shape the Cosmos (Frank Adam)(Paperback / softback)

An exhilarating journey into the science of time, from Stonehenge to the Big Bang and

Subliminal - The New Unconscious and What it Teaches Us (Mlodinow Leonard)(Paperback / softback)

Examines how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world, and how, for instance, we often misperceive everything from our relationships with family, friends and business associates, the reasons for our investment decisions, to our own

The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World - Max Fisher

Reveals how social media is hacking our minds, our societies and the world - and what we can do about it

Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind (Rose Nikolas)(Paperback)

How the new brain sciences are transforming our understanding of what it means to be human The brain sciences are influencing our understanding of human behavior as never before, from neuropsychiatry and neuroeconomics to neurotheology and neuroaesthetics. Many now believe that the brain is what

The Science of Fate: The New Science of Who We Are - And How to Shape Our Best Future (Critchlow Hannah)(Paperback)

So many of us believe that we are free to shape our own destiny. But what if free will doesn't exist? What if our lives are largely predetermined, hardwired in our brains - and our choices over what we eat, who we fall in love with, even what we believe are not real choices at all? Neuroscience is

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Sheldrake Merlin)(Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A 'brilliant [and] entrancing' (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi--the great connectors of the living world--and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most

Science of Fate - The New Science of Who We Are - And How to Shape our Best Future (Critchlow Hannah)(Pevná vazba)

Are we really the masters of our own destiny? Neuroscientist Hannah Critchlow shows how far our future is already hardwired in our brains. Like Sapiens and Thinking Fast and Slow, The Science of Fate revolutionises the way we understand our species and

Hivemind - The New Science of Tribalism in Our Divided World (Cavanagh Sarah Rose)(Paperback / softback)

The provocative exploration of how social media is changing human behaviour and how we can use it to humanity's

Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding (Johnson Mark)(Paperback)

Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful argument that any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory view of mind and thought must ultimately explain

Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 (Parr Joy)(Paperback)

Our bodies are archives of sensory knowledge that shape how we understand the world. If our environment changes at an unsettling pace, how will we make sense of a world that is no longer familiar? One of Canada's premier historians tackles this question by exploring situations in the recent past

Mindwise - How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want (Epley Nicholas)(Paperback / softback)

Reveals our real sixth sense - our ability to understand our own minds and the minds of others Arguably our brain's greatest sense is the ability to understand the minds of others - our sixth sense. This book shows that this capacity for inferring what others are thinking and feeling is, however

Sun (Hawksett David)(Paperback / softback)

Take a journey to the Sun. Find out how it is so important to our planet Earth and the vital part it places in keeping our solar system ordered. And discover all about aurorae and solar winds, and what scientists think are in store for the Sun in around five billion years'

Voices Within - The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves (Fernyhough Charles)(Paperback / softback)

A wide-ranging look at the voices in all our heads, examining how we think and what it means for our lives and sense of self, now in

Natural Causes - Life, Death and the Illusion of Control (Ehrenreich Barbara (Y))(Paperback / softback)

The seminal thinker offers a new understanding of our bodies, our selves and our powerlessness in controlling

The World Before Us : How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins - Higham Tom

'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs 'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' Ian Morris, author of

War: What is it good for? - The role of conflict in civilisation, from primates to robots (Morris Ian)(Paperback / softback)

A bold and controversial rethinking of the role of war in human history and how it will shape our future, sure to provoke debate, from the bestselling author of Why the West Rules - For

Out of Our Minds - What We Think and How We Came to Think It (Fernandez-Armesto Felipe)(Paperback / softback)

An extraordinary journey through the history of human imagination, from the dawn of civilisation to the present

Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative (Armstrong Paul B.)(Paperback)

How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds? In Stories and the Brain, Paul B. Armstrong analyzes the cognitive processes involved in constructing and exchanging stories, exploring their role in the neurobiology of mental functioning.Armstrong argues

Sane New World - Taming the Mind (Wax Ruby)(Paperback / softback)

Comedian, writer and mental health campaigner shows us why and how our minds can send us mad and how we can rewire our thinking, especially through mindfulness, to calm ourselves in a frenetic

The Tao of Detox: The Secrets of Yang-Sheng Dao; A Practical Guide to Preventing and Treating the Toxic Assualt on Our Bodies (Reid Daniel)(Paperback)

A practical guide to preventing and treating the toxic assault on our bodies - Shows how the practices of periodic detox and 'rational retox' can counteract the toxic nature of our modern lifestyles, diets, and environment - Provides ancient Chinese methods and remedies that help the body repair

Winner Effect - The Science of Success and How to Use It (Robertson Ian)(Paperback / softback)

How We Learn - The New Science of Education and the Brain (Dehaene Stanislas)(Paperback / softback)

How Economics Shapes Science (Stephan Paula)(Paperback)

The beauty of science may be pure and eternal, but the practice of science costs money. And scientists, being human, respond to incentives and costs, in money and glory. Choosing a research topic, deciding what papers to write and where to publish them, sticking with a familiar area or going into