The Queen of Spades and Other Stories is a translation into English of the main prose works of 19th Century Russsian writer Alexander PushkinContinued..
Some people can get pretty obsessive about their hobbies, but there can be few who compare with the three birdwatchers described by Mark Obmascik in The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl ObsessionContinued..
Many scientists are trying to find underlying rules which govern the behaviour of the complex systems we find around us. In Complexity : a guided tourMelanie Mitchell gives an overview of the field.
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Serendipities: Language and Lunacy is a collection of essays by Umberto Eco, on topics related to the history of languages, mostly relating to those situations where things didn't quite work out.
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In The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World Iain McGilchrist puts forward the hypothesis that many of the problems of our society are due to 'left-hemisphere' thinking, which has supplanted the more balanced view of the right hemisphere.
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There's been some loud opposition to evolutionary ideas, and this may make people think that evolutionary theory is riddled with holes. In Why Evolution is TrueJerry A Coyne argues that this is far from the case, showing strong the evidence for evolution actually is.
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