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New Scientist Books
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Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.60 — 854 ratings — published
How to Fossilise Your Hamster: And Other Amazing Experiments for The Armchair Scientist (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.50 — 410 ratings — published 2007
Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,986 ratings — published 2006
Does Anything Eat Wasps? And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,644 ratings — published 2000
Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers & Other Odd Events on the Way to Scientific Discovery (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.70 — 147 ratings — published 2011
The Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.84 — 22,468 ratings — published 2023
Your Conscious Mind: Unravelling the greatest mystery of the human brain (New Scientist Instant Expert)
by (shelved 2 times as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.94 — 195 ratings — published
New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything
by (shelved 2 times as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,039 ratings — published
The Quantum World: The disturbing theory at the heart of reality (New Scientist Instant Expert)
by (shelved 2 times as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.02 — 291 ratings — published
How Your Brain Works: Inside the most complicated object in the known universe (New Scientist Instant Expert)
by (shelved 2 times as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.91 — 348 ratings — published 2017
This is Planet Earth: Your ultimate guide to the world we call home (Instant Expert)
by (shelved 2 times as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.13 — 84 ratings — published
The End of Money: The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution (New Scientist Instant Expert)
by (shelved 2 times as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.79 — 280 ratings — published
Nothing: From Absolute Zero to Cosmic Oblivion - Amazing Insights into Nothingness (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,016 ratings — published 2013
Will We Ever Speak Dolphin? And 130 Other Science Questions Answered (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.67 — 199 ratings — published 2012
How Long is Now?: And 191 Other Questions You Never Thought to Ask (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.45 — 503 ratings — published 2016
How to Make a Tornado: The Strange and Wonderful Things That Happen When Scientists Break Free (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.41 — 171 ratings — published 2009
Why are Orangutans Orange?: Science Puzzles in Pictures - With Fascinating Answers (Wellcome)
by (shelved 2 times as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.53 — 175 ratings — published 2011
How Big is Big and How Small is Small: The Sizes of Everything and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.21 — 19 ratings — published 2013
New Scientist – February 13, 2021 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Domination (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.82 — 51 ratings — published 2025
How the World Flows: Microfluidics from Raindrops to Covid Tests (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published
Adaptable: How Your Unique Body Really Works and Why Our Biology Unites Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.09 — 108 ratings — published
New Scientist: Issue 3330 - 17 April 2021 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
New Scientist: Issue 3337 - 5 June 2021 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
New Scientist 24 April 2021
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Dissolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,172 ratings — published 2025
Rise of the Zombie Bugs: The Surprising Science of Parasitic Mind-Control (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.07 — 41 ratings — published 2025
Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.78 — 55 ratings — published
The Emperor's New Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,575 ratings — published 1989
Shroud (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,136 ratings — published 2025
Death of the Author (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,565 ratings — published 2025
Defy: The Power of No in a World That Demands Yes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.06 — 653 ratings — published 2025
Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.71 — 747 ratings — published
Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.87 — 175 ratings — published 2025
Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.15 — 68 ratings — published
Service Model (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.03 — 16,084 ratings — published 2024
Lake of Darkness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.63 — 523 ratings — published 2024
How to Kill an Asteroid: The Real Science of Planetary Defense (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.98 — 133 ratings — published
Fifty Minerals that Changed the Course of History (Fifty Things That Changed the Course of History)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.44 — 100 ratings — published
Eureka!: Mindblowing Science Every Day of the Year (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.76 — 50 ratings — published
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.13 — 65,770 ratings — published 1992
Abominable Science! Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.80 — 588 ratings — published 2012
Flavorama: A Guide to Unlocking the Art and Science of Flavor (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.27 — 127 ratings — published
The Double Helix (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.84 — 19,855 ratings — published 1968
Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.00 — 28,659 ratings — published 2022
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.05 — 57,781 ratings — published 2019
Annie Bot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.83 — 62,717 ratings — published 2024
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 4.28 — 79,180 ratings — published 1988
The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.71 — 241 ratings — published 2024
Cats vs Dogs: Misbehaving mammals, intellectual insects, flatulent fish and the great pet showdown (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as new-scientist)
avg rating 3.64 — 11 ratings — published
“The problem with ID, of course, is that it leaves open the possibility that the intelligence behind nature may have a moral interest in us, having communicated already with humanity in the past, and might try to boss you around in your private affairs.
With hypothetical advanced aliens residing at a safely distant address in the hypothetical multiverse, that is - to the relief of folks like Gribbin, Dawkins and the New Scientist - manifestly not the case.”
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With hypothetical advanced aliens residing at a safely distant address in the hypothetical multiverse, that is - to the relief of folks like Gribbin, Dawkins and the New Scientist - manifestly not the case.”
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“Humans have set off from their homes in search of a new life somewhere remote and possibly dangerous many times. Getting on a boat to the New World often meant you would never see your home or family again. What's different about Mars is that there is nothing to do except try not to die.”
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