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Announcing the Last Word Challenge - Are you smarter than the scientists?13 Jul 2010

Popular science will never be the same again. PROFILE BOOKS, NEW SCIENTIST and award winning digital gamers SIX TO START combine forces to promote Why Can’t Elephants Jump? with a fun, innovative game for social networks.
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Watch the video trailer for The Small Hand by Susan Hill07 May 2010

The chilling tale of a man in the grip of a small, invisible hand … A superlative ghost story by the author of The Woman in Black and The Man in the Picture, to be read by the fire on a cold winter’s night.
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Globalisation Fractures: How major nations’ interests are now in conflict
Charles Dumas
In his previous books, The Bill from the China Shop and China and America: A Time of Reckoning, Charles Dumas was the first to identify the existence and potential impact of the Eurasian Savings Glut – most importantly how it would push US mortgage borrowing to excess, precipitating the global credit crisis. As we now strive to rescue the international financial system, he points to uncomfortable truths about the conflicts ahead.
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Sew Your Own: Man finds happiness and meaning of life – making clothes
John-Paul Flintoff
What happens when a man, dazzled like most of us by hi-tech, happy to have his suits made by robots in New York, sets out to find the meaning of life?
John-Paul Flintoff’s improbable and very funny book charts a journey through call centres and allotments, rat-catching and Savile Row tailors, to some kind of enlightenment. It is also a book about a man who learns how to crochet – in public.
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	Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities Ian Stewart A book of mathematical oddities: games, puzzles, facts, numbers and delightful mathematical nibbles for the curious and adventurous mind. MORE

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Richard Wrangham
In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. At the heart of Catching Fire lies an explosive new idea: The habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human brain to grow, helped structure human society, and created the male-female division of labour. As our ancestors adapted to using fire, humans emerged as “the cooking apes”.
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	Guide to Economic Indicators: Making Sense of Economics The Economist Subscribe to Economist Books online here. MORE

Organisation Culture: Getting It Right Naomi Stanford An organisation’s culture either gives it a competitive advantage or a competitive disadvantage. It is a crucial factor in determining how successful a business is and how much people want to work for an organisation. That is why managers are putting more and more emphasis on getting their organisation’s culture right. MORE

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Complaint: From Minor Moans to Principled Protests
Julian Baggini
‘This book could change the way we live … [a] relaxed, affable, yet startlingly lucid analysis of humanity’s tendency to complain’ - The Independent
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	A Rift in Time: Travels with my Ottoman Uncle Raja Shehadeh From the Orwell Prize winning author of Palestinian Walks comes the poignant and revealing true story of his remarkable great uncle's political struggles. MORE

Diaghilev: A Life Sjeng Scheijen This magnificent new biography of the extraordinary impresario of the arts and creator of the Ballets Russes 100 years ago draws on important new research, notably from Russia. MORE

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Seasons of Life: The biological rhythms that enable living things to thrive and survive
Russell Foster and Leon Kreitzman
The new world of chronobiology is popular science at its most exciting: understanding how the seasons regulate the life of every human, plant and animal on Earth.
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