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Yet researchers have given hallucinogenic drugs to blind people (seriously), tried to weigh the soul as it departs the body and planned to blast a new Panama Canal with atomic weapons. Real scientific breakthroughs sometimes come out of the most surprising and unpromising work. How to Make a Tornado is about the margins of science - not the research down tried-and-tested routes, but some of its zanier and more brilliant by-ways. Investigating everything from what it's like to die, to exploding trousers and recycled urine, this book is a reminder that science is intensely creative and often very amusing - and when their minds run free, scientists can fire the imagination like nobody else. [Troublesome Words]( [Troublesome Words]( Save 76% ($39.70) $12.61 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $52.31 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. What is the difference between mean and median, blatant and flagrant, flout and flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do you know? Are you sure? With "Troublesome Words", journalist and bestselling travel-writer Bill Bryson gives us a clear, concise and entertaining guide to the problems of English usage and spelling that has been an indispensable companion to those who work with the written word for over twenty years. So if you want to discover whether you should care about split infinitives, are cursed with an uncontrollable outbreak of commas or were wondering if that newsreader was right to say 'an historic day', this superb book is the place to find out. [The I Used to Know That Activity Book: Stuff You Forgot from School]( [The I Used to Know That Activity Book: Stuff You Forgot from School]( Save 38% ($9.91) $15.99 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $25.90 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. Dust off those cerebral filing cabinets and remind yourself of all those facts you really should know! From pi and Pythagoras to presidents and popes, prime ministers to prime numbers, literature to litmus tests, there is so much information from our school days that we have forgotten, or only half-remember. The I Used to Know That Activity Book is an enjoyable and interactive way of reminding ourselves of all those facts that we'd like to remember and re-learn, or those we missed the first time round. This useful book contains questions across all subjects, perfect to dip into and try your hand at whenever the mood takes you. There is space to fill in the answers and, if you are a bit rusty, all solutions can be found at the back of the book. An enjoyable, informative and lighthearted activity book for all adults who want to jog their memory and get their brain back into gear. [How Long is Now?: Fascinating Answers to 191 Mind-Boggling Questions]( [How Long is Now?: Fascinating Answers to 191 Mind-Boggling Questions]( Save 57% ($14.72) $11.18 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $25.90 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. How long is 'now'? The short answer is 'somewhere between 2 and 3 seconds'. The long answer involves an incredible journey through neuroscience, our subconscious and the time-bending power of meditation. Living in the present may never feel the same. Ready for some more? Okay. Why isn't Pluto a planet? Why are dogs' noses wet? Why do hens cluck more loudly after laying an egg? What happens when one black hole swallows another? Do our fingerprints change as we get older? How young can you die of old age? And what is at the very edge of the Universe? Life is full of mind-bending questions. And, as books like What If? and Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? have shown, the route to find each answer can take us on the weirdest and most wonderful journeys. How Long is Now? is a fascinating new collection of questions you never thought to ask, along with answers that will change the way you see everything. 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Don't miss out. Why do birds sing at dawn? What's the slowest a plane can fly without stalling and falling out of the sky? And how long can you keep a tiger cub as a pet? Will We Ever Speak Dolphin? has the answers to these questions and many more. By 2012, over two million copies of the New Scientist 'Last Word' series had been sold. [Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It]( [Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It]( Save 43% ($13.00) $16.99 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $29.99 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. The ultimate rapid language-learning guide! For those who ve despaired of ever learning a foreign language, here, finally, is a book that will make the words stick. At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn t learn them in school -- who does? -- rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources. In Fluent Forever Wyner reveals what he s discovered. The greatest challenge to learning a foreign language is the challenge of memory; there are just too many words and too many rules. For every new word we learn, we seem to forget two old ones, and as a result, fluency can seem out of reach. Fluent Forever tackles this challenge head-on. With empathy for the language-challenged and abundant humor, Wyner deconstructs the learning process, revealing how to build a foreign language in your mind from the ground up. Starting with pronunciation, you ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds intofamiliarsounds. You'll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, usingtricks from opera singers and actors.Next, you'llbegin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery, rather than translations, which will enable you tothinkin a foreign language. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you'll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month inminutesevery day. Soon, you'll gain the ability to learn grammar and more difficult abstract words--without the tedious drills and exercises of language classes and grammar books. [What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions]( [What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions]( Save 46% ($10.79) $12.46 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $23.25 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask. Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you hit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British Empire? When will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than living? How many humans would a T Rex rampaging through New York need to eat a day? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations and consults nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion. [Meditation: A Beginner's Guide to Start Meditating Now]( [Meditation: A Beginner's Guide to Start Meditating Now]( Save 44% ($10.68) $13.43 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $24.11 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. Scientific studies show that meditation can reliably increase your mental clarity, reduce fatigue, and improve physical health. And the best part? It's not as hard as you may think to start meditating. With Meditation: A Beginner's Guide to Start Meditating Now, expert teacher Shinzen Young brings newcomers a clear, easy-to-follow programme to help listeners get their start in this transformative practice. Starting with a brief overview of the proven physical and emotional health benefits of meditation, Shinzen provides precise guidance in specific practices that can be used by anyone-no matter what their background or belief system-to radically improve how they think, feel, work, and connect with others. [Psychology Squared: 100 Concepts You Should Know]( [Psychology Squared: 100 Concepts You Should Know]( Save 40% ($9.26) $13.99 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $23.25 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. Psychology is one of the most important applied sciences, investigating everything from the way we interact with each other to the means by which we perceive and interpret the world around us. This is vital to self-understanding, but to the outsider psychological concepts can all too often seem like a blur of jargon and buzzwords. Ever wondered how your thought process works? Why you act the way you do? How you learn and remember? Psychology Squared is the key to a better understanding of the way your mind works. Psychology Squared is an accessible introduction to the evidence, theories and hypotheses that inform the modern science of the human mind. With 100 topics divided into 10 chapters, it guides the reader from basic concepts, through the current thinking about areas such as cognition, problem solving and emotion, to the latest ideas about psychological problems and interventions. Psychology Squared is the ideal primer or refresher for those who want to get to grips with exactly what makes us tick-previously complex topics are made much more engaging and comprehendible with infographics and accessible text. [I Used to Know That: History]( [I Used to Know That: History]( Save 57% ($12.46) $9.45 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $21.91 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. If your response to a mention of the Wars of the Roses, the Sumerians or the Reformation is, 'Hmm, I've heard of that - what was that again?', then this is the book for you. This entertaining yet informative book travels back through time to fill in those embarrassing gaps in your knowledge, from the invasions of Britain, the Renaissance and the Cold War, to the American, French and Russian Revolutions, the World Wars ...and everything else you have forgotten from your school history lessons. In I Used to Know That: History, information is broken down into manageable, bite-sized chunks, refreshing your memory of all those things you once knew but have forgotten, and filling you in on the bits that the school syllabus didn't include. From building the pyramids in Egypt to the fall of the Berlin Wall, everything you used to know - and much that you didn't - is here. [New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything: From the Big Bang to Belly-Button Fluff]( [New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything: From the Big Bang to Belly-Button Fluff]( Save 22% ($10.01) $34.99 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $45.00 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. From what actually happened in the Big Bang to the accidental discovery of post-it notes, science is packed with surprising discoveries. Did you know, for instance, that if you were to get too close to a black hole it would suck you up like a noodle (it's called spaghettification), why your keyboard is laid out in QWERTY (it's not to make it easier to type) or whether the invention of the wheel was less important to civilisation than the bag (think about it). New Scientist does. And now they and illustrator Jennifer Daniel want to take you on a whistlestop journey from the start of our universe (through the history of stars, galaxies, meteorites, the Moon and dark energy) to our planet (through oceans and weather to oil) and life (through dinosaurs to emotions and sex) to civilisation (from cities to alcohol and cooking), knowledge (from alphabets to alchemy) ending up with technology (computers to rocket science). Witty essays explore the concepts alongside enlightening infographics that zoom from how many people have ever lived to showing you how a left-wing brain differs from a right-wing one. 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Elsewhere: $25.32 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens. We all had the basic rules of punctuation drilled into us at school, but punctuation pedants have good reason to suspect they never sank in. 'Its Summer!' screams a sign that sets our teeth on edge. 'Pansy's ready', we learn to our considerable interest ('Is she?') as we browse among the bedding plants. It is not only the rules of punctuation that have come under attack but also a sense of why they matter. In this runaway bestseller, Lynne Truss takes the fight to emoticons and greengrocers' apostrophes with a war cry of 'Sticklers unite!' 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[I Used to Know That: Stuff You Forgot from School]( [I Used to Know That: Stuff You Forgot from School]( Save 52% ($12.95) $11.99 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $24.94 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. Nostalgic, informative and entertaining, it is an ideal and accessible buy for adults wanting to brush up on their lost knowledge. If you've forgotten the capital city of Chile; the basics of osmosis; how to solve a quadratic equation; who wrote the famous poem about daffodils; and, the use of a conjunction or the number of continents in the world, "I Used to Know That" is guaranteed to provide all the answers. [Chance: The Science and Secrets of Luck, Randomness and Probability]( [Chance: The Science and Secrets of Luck, Randomness and Probability]( Save 39% ($9.11) $13.99 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $23.10 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. For you to be here today reading this requires a mind-boggling series of lucky breaks, starting with the Big Bang and ending in your own conception. So it's not surprising that we persist in thinking that we're in with a chance, whether we're playing the lottery or working out the likelihood of extra-terrestrial life. In Chance, a (not entirely) random selection of the New Scientist's sharpest minds provide fascinating insights into luck, randomness, risk and probability. From the secrets of coincidence to placing the perfect bet, the science of random number generation to the surprisingly haphazard decisions of criminal juries, it explores these and many other tantalising questions. Following on from the bestselling Nothing and Question Everything, this book will open your eyes to the weird and wonderful world of chance - and help you see when some things, in fact, aren't random at all. [I Used to Know That: Geography]( [I Used to Know That: Geography]( Save 48% ($10.11) $10.99 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $21.10 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. Have you forgotten all you ever learned about climate change? What do you really know about GM foods? Can you remember everything you learned at school about earthquakes? This useful guide reminds you of everything you once learned - or should have learned - about the earth, its resources and atmosphere, and human activity and its effects. Discover the physical world of rivers, glaciers and coasts; the human world of population changes and migration; agriculture, including farming, GM foods and the green revolution; and industry, from tourism to ports and old industry. I Used To Know That: Geography is an accessible yet fun way to revisit all the stuff you have forgotten from your school days but really should remember. 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The clever dogs, the cute dogs, the bizarre dogs and the devoted, hard-working dogs are all put under scrutiny, giving us even more reasons to utterly adore our canine companions. Drawing on the vast body of knowledge belonging to the world's most famous dogs and cats home, DOGOPEDIA is the ideal present for every dog lover. [I Used to Know That: General Science]( [I Used to Know That: General Science]( Save 48% ($10.11) $10.99 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $21.10 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. For those whose memories of learning science at school consist of burning magnesium and playing with iron filings and a magnet, and whose brains shut down as soon as things start to sound 'too technical', I Used to Know That: General Science is here to remind you of everything you've forgotten or should have learned. You may not be studying for an exam any more, but an understanding of basic scientific principles is essential in everyday life, from choosing which vitamins to take to deciding on the best way of heating your home. Written to O Level standard, this accessible and informative guide will fill in any embarrassing gaps in your knowledge, providing you with a solid understanding of biology, chemistry and physics. For those who enjoyed science at school, this is a welcome trip down memory lane. For those who didn't, this book will show you what you've been missing. [Do Ants Have Arseholes?: And 101 Other Bloody Ridiculous Questions]( [Do Ants Have Arseholes?: And 101 Other Bloody Ridiculous Questions]( Save 46% ($11.07) $12.99 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $24.06 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. How easy is it to fall off a log? Where is the middle of nowhere? Do we really have no bananas? The readers of OLD GIT magazine are a batty, befuddled, potty-mouthed bunch, who seem to spend a significant chunk of their spare time corresponding with the publication's popular letters page. DO ANTS HAVE ARSEHOLES? is a very funny, very silly collection of questions and answers taken from this column, none of which has any basis whatsoever in fact. A must for all those who relish a heady mixture of shaggy-dog stories, toilet humour and utter lack of insight. [A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bryson)]( [A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bryson)]( Save 33% ($8.26) $16.99 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $25.25 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before. [I Used to Know That: Maths]( [I Used to Know That: Maths]( Save 47% ($9.85) $11.25 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! Elsewhere: $21.10 Hurry, stock of some items is limited at these prices. Don't miss out. If memories of learning algebra bring you out in a cold sweat and thoughts of quadratic equations cause you feelings of fear and dread, I Used to Know That: Maths can help. A light-hearted and informative reminder of the things that we learnt in school but have since become relegated to the backs of our minds, this book will help you to brush up on your mental arithmetic, including percentages, averages and recurring decimals or work on your trigonometry skills, from Pythagoras' theorem to triangle areas and angles. A practical guide to turn to when an answer is eluding you, from helping a child with homework to calculating change or understanding statistics. I Used to Know That: Maths is a fun and accessible way to re-visit all those useful tips and maths tricks that you have forgotten from your school days. 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Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. War is obsolete. You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict. Famine is disappearing. You are at more risk of obesity than starvation. Death is just a technical problem. Equality is out - but immortality is in. What does our future hold? Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling phenomenon Sapiens envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century - from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? [Nothing: From Absolute Zero to Cosmic Oblivion -- Amazing Insights into Nothingness]( [Nothing: From Absolute Zero to Cosmic Oblivion -- Amazing Insights into Nothingness]( Save 44% ($10.11) $12.99 [Buy Now]( + Free Shipping! 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THE PHENOMENAL BESTSELLER 'There's a book I've been carrying around like a small Bible, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics' - Benedict Cumberbatch Everything you need to know about modern physics, the universe and our place in the world in seven enlightening lessons 'Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world. And it's breathtaking' These seven short lessons guide us, with simplicity and clarity, through the scientific revolution that shook physics in the twentieth century and still continues to shake us today. In this mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Carlo Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind. Not since Richard Feynman's celebrated Six Easy Pieces has physics been so vividly, intelligently and entertainingly revealed. 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The brain has long been a source of fascination. In 1819, the radical thinker and surgeon William Lawrence put it like this: "It is strongly suspected that a Newton or Shakespeare excels other mortals only...by having an extra inch of brain in the right place." Today, many such suspicions are certainties. We understand the structures of the brain, minor and major, and their roles in making us who we are. We can record electrical signals from individual brain cells or networks of them. Imaging technology lets us see both snapshots of the brain and also videos of it in action. We can follow connections within the brain and watch them reform after an injury. How Your Brain Works explores what's going on inside your head, and what makes you, you. It looks at techniques for controlling the brain using electric and magnetic fields, as well as investigating the latest technologies that allow you to control the outside world using your mind alone. 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Well, the readers of New Scientist's wildly popular, long-running column "The Last Word" thought of these questions, too, and weren't afraid to ask them. Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? is a brilliant collection of questions and answers for everyone who enjoyed the international, runaway bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps? Guaranteed to amaze, inform, and delight with topics such as the human body, plants and animals, weird weather, and our wacky world, it'll stump you, enlighten you, entertain and amuse you. This email has been sent by Fishpond Ltd. Please add us to your address book or safe list so our emails don't get deleted as SPAM - we'd like to keep you informed of other special offers. Note that we will never pass your email address onto anyone else. See our [Privacy Policy]( for more details. You have received this email because you have registered at [Fishpond.com.au](. 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