Science: general issues

DAILY MAIL, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017Winner of the 2018 PEN/E.

'The physicist transforming how we see the universe' Financial Times'An utter joy' Adam RutherfordDo space and time truly exist?

'A clear and engaging explanation of one of the hottest fields in science' Steven Pinker'A hugely important book' Matt Ridley, The TimesOne of the world's top behavioural geneticists argues that we need a radical rethink about what makes us who we areThe blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA that differs between people.

'This brilliantly subversive and witty book lays bare the techniques of manipulation and disinformation that keep the rich and powerful rich and powerful.

It is accepted wisdom today that human beings have irrevocably damaged the natural world.

'Required reading .

THE PHENOMENAL BESTSELLER'Honestly I cannot recommend it too strongly.

As a new wave of interplanetary exploration unfolds, a talented young planetary scientist charts our centuries-old obsession with Mars.

A dazzling tour of evolution in action that sheds light on one of the greatest debates in scienceThe natural world is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times.

Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it.

A spell-binding quest for the one algorithm capable of deriving all knowledge from data, including a cure for cancerSociety is changing, one learning algorithm at a time, from search engines to online dating, personalized medicine to predicting the stock market.

Follow Robert Macfarlane to the furthest corners of the globe.

'Utterly extraordinary .

In 59 Seconds, psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman presents a fresh approach to change that helps people achieve their aims and ambitions in minutes, not months.

In the winter of 1950, Margaret Sanger, then seventy-one, and who had campaigned for women's right to control their own fertility for five decades, arrived at a Park Avenue apartment building.

In this overview of secularism and its history, Kennedy traces, through a series of intellectual biographies of leading European thinkers such as Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Dostoyevsky, and Solzhenitsyn, just how the Western world changed from religious to secular.

Arun Bala challenges Eurocentric conceptions of history by showing how Chinese, Indian, Arabic, and ancient Egyptian ideas in philosophy, mathematics, cosmology and physics played an indispensable role in making possible the birth of modern science.

The Total Hip Replacement was invented by British surgeons after World War Two.

In this controversial book, the authors show how the Roman-Jewish wars were precipitated partly by Jewish demographic and religious expansion and by conflict with the Greeks and their culture.

Sexual Inversion was the first English medical textbook about homosexuality.

The Mass Image situates the creation of the first photographically illustrated magazines within the social relations of the emerging popular culture of late Victorian London.

This book is the first comprehensive study of French medicine in nineteenth-century Algeria.

This is the first study to explore the relationship between Christianity, Judaism and Islam in the Early Modern period.

Sir Arthur Clarke Award Winner Many environmentalists think going into space detracts from solving problems on Earth.

Each year thousands of people die from bacteria resistant to antibiotics.

This work considers how Frenchwomen participated in Christian religious practice during the sixteenth century, with their words and their actions.

The latest advances in science were fully exploited in the Second World War.

An exploration of the philosophical foundation of modern medicine which explains why such a medicine possesses the characteristics it does and where precisely its strengths as well as its weaknesses lie.

This book charts the social and cultural history of the scientific technique known as 'tissue culture'.

The first account of the emergence and demise of preventive health care for workers.

This collection looks at the growing rapprochement between contemporary theory and early modern English literary-cultural studies.

With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological perspective as well as discussions of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness.

A unique exploration of the changing ideas about the place of voluntarism and health care within society in Britain since the 1960s.

Are any nonhuman animals conscious?

Prominent researchers from philosophy and the social studies of science present a collection of articles that together constitute a systematic and comprehensive investigation of how to understand the relation between the social sciences and democracy.

This ambitious book considers social scientific topics such as identity, community, sexual difference, self, and ecology from a microbial perspective.

This book explores the impact of biblical reading practices on scientific thought in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries.

Looking at literary discourse, including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, diaries, and drama, this collection offers remarkable and fascinating examples of women writers who integrated scientific material in their literary narratives.

'The world's most famous and outspoken gynaecologist' (The Guardian) fights myths and fearmongering with real science, inclusive facts, and shame-free advice on the topic that impacts more than 1.

The early modern period was rife with attempts to re-imagine the world and the human place within it.

Scientific and historical studies in the Nineteenth-century challenged Christian believers to restate their faith in ways which took account of new knowledge.

Ask anyone who has owned a pet and they'll assure you that, yes, animals have personalities.

As television emerged as a major cultural and economic force, many imagined that the medium would enhance civic education for topics like science.

In Studying Human Behavior, Helen E.

In this concise introduction to the history of cartography, Norman J.

John Modern offers a powerful and original critique of neurology's pivotal role in religious history.

At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J.

The first comprehensive philosophical and historical account of the experimental foundations of Niels Bohr's practice of physics.

Few scenes capture the American experience so eloquently as that of a lonely train chugging across the vastness of the Great Plains, or snaking through tortuous high mountain passes.

Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) was an internationally renowned botanist, a close friend and early supporter of Charles Darwin, and one of the first-and most successful-British men of science to become a full-time professional.