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From the Nasa astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station – what it’s like out there and what it’s like now, back here. Enter Scott Kelly's fascinating world and dare to think of your own a little differently.As soon as you realize you aren’t going to die, space is the most fun you’ll ever have...The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder ... Read more

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE'The best book I read last year by a mile. . . so beautifully written that anyone would be hooked' Laura Hackett, Sunday Times, Best Summer Books'Wonderfully funny and poignant. . . a tale of family secrets and political awakening amid a crumbling regime' Luke Harding, Observer'We never lose our inner freed...
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Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession

by Arthur I. Miller ...

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Here is a multidimensional playland of ideas from the world's most eccentric Nobel-Prize winning scientist. Kary Mullis is legendary for his invention of PCR, which redefined the world of DNA, genetics, and forensic science. He is also a surfer, a veteran of Berkeley in the sixties, and perhaps the only Nobel laureate to describe a possible encounter with aliens. A scientist of boundless curiosity ... Read more

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A preeminent geneticist, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine, hunts the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes to answer the biggest question of them all: how did our ancestors become human?Neanderthal Man tells the riveting personal and scientific story of the quest to use ancient DNA to unlock the secrets of human evolution. Beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early ... Read more

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La invención de la naturaleza

El Nuevo Mundo de Alexander von Humboldt

by Andrea Wulf ...

La espléndida biografía de Alexander von Humboldt, el héroe perdido de la ciencia y padre de la ecología.La invención de la naturaleza revela la extraordinaria vida del visionario naturalista alemán Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) y cómo creó una nueva forma de entender la naturaleza.Humboldt fue un intrépido explorador y el científico más famoso de su época. Su agitada vida estuvo repleta de ... Read more

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The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs

by Nancy Thorndike Greenspan ...

"Nancy Greenspan dives into the mysteries of the Klaus Fuchs espionage case and emerges with a classic Cold War biography of intrigue and torn loyalties. Atomic Spy is a mesmerizing morality tale, told with fresh sources and empathy." --Kai Bird, author of The Good Spy and coauthor of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer"Enthralling and riveting."--The New York ... Read more

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Brief Answers to the Big Questions

A la recherche du temps perdu (Edition enrichie)

The Innocent Man

This is Going to Hurt

Alan Turing: The Enigma

This Explains Everything

If This Is A Man/The Truce

Mindhunter

Einstein

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

The Real Anthony Fauci

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

In-Between Days

The Secret to Success

Από τα Ψηλαλώνια στο Φεγγάρι

Endurance

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Elon Musk

Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

Neanderthal Man

La invención de la naturaleza

Atomic Spy