New Scientist Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook
Frances HaugenNew ScientistFrances Haugen leaked thousands of pages of Facebook's internal documents. The revelations she uncovered are unforgettable; sadly, her account of the story, The Power of One, is, finds our reviewer @stokel https://t.co/5x5SBmGNzH
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook
Frances HaugenNew ScientistFrances Haugen leaked thousands of pages of Facebook's internal documents. The revelations she uncovered are unforgettable; sadly, her account of the story, The Power of One, is, finds our reviewer @stokel https://t.co/PS2OSyUOey
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pod
Laline PaullNew ScientistWe've chosen the next book for the #NewScientistBookClub! Pod by Laline Paull, is the story of spinner dolphin Ea, who leaves her pod and ventures out into the polluted and dangerous ocean. Sign up if you haven't, and check out our extract from Pod. https://t.co/6T8B41jXsg
Hardcover, 2023
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Age of Guilt: The Super-Ego in the Online World
Mark EdmundsonNew ScientistFreud thought we had a superego, an unconscious power that criticised and punished us. Mark Edmundson's intriguing new book The Age of Guilt explores whether this idea could help explain the excesses of the internet. https://t.co/YpGzxDGEe8
Hardcover, 2023
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
Tom IrelandNew ScientistTom Ireland's compelling and original book The Good Virus makes a strong case for revisiting the idea of fighting bacterial infections with viruses, known as phage therapy. https://t.co/nsJfcDbObr
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Relativity: The Special and General Theory
Albert EinsteinNew ScientistA black hole spinning at a fifth of the speed of light has helped prove a prediction made by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity https://t.co/ZhbuPDJUEp
Paperback, 2016
$7.97$3.98 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
Tom IrelandNew ScientistTom Ireland's compelling and original book The Good Virus makes a strong case for revisiting the idea of fighting bacterial infections with viruses, known as phage therapy. https://t.co/rHRPgFu0kS
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookPod
Laline PaullNew ScientistThe author of the Women’s prize-shortlisted Pod reveals why she decided to write a story that initially felt too daunting – now the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club. https://t.co/RG0694NL0u
Hardcover, 2023
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
Karen BakkerNew ScientistTom Mustill's How to Speak Whale and Karen Bakker's The Sounds of Life explore what we know about the way life on Earth communicates, from whales to coral reefs. They are both must-reads https://t.co/oeeUOlBuhX
Hardcover, 2022
$33.00$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook
Frances HaugenNew ScientistFrances Haugen leaked thousands of pages of Facebook's internal documents. The revelations she uncovered are unforgettable; sadly, her account of the story, The Power of One, is, finds our reviewer @stokel https://t.co/gdF30lf12s
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book