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Rowan Hooper is a senior editor at New Scientist magazine. Journalist @newscientist and host of @NewScientistPod. Former Tokyoite. Books: SUPERHUMAN (2018) and HOW TO SPEND A TRILLION DOLLARS (2021). すごい!

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Book Cover for: The Book of the Most Precious Substance, Sara Gran

The Book of the Most Precious Substance

Sara Gran
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2/5 The Book of the Most Precious Substance, by Sara Gran. About the search for magic book with lots of travel, food and sex https://t.co/M9G8uFrvgA

Paperback, 2022

$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Andreas Malm

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Andreas Malm
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@mcelhearn Yeah... though as @sciencebase points out, other movements have had to go to more extreme forms of protest (this is basically Andreas Malm's point in How To Blow Up A Pipeline)

Paperback, 2021

$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: 150 Years of Vernadsky: The Noösphere, Vladimir I. Vernadsky

150 Years of Vernadsky: The Noösphere

Vladimir I. Vernadsky
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But Herbert was probably aware of the work of Soviet biologist Vladimir Vernadsky whose book The Biosphere (written in 1926!) argued that life is the geological force that shapes the Earth. Vernadsky is a Russian legend but less known in the west 3/ https://t.co/36nxz4l7Al

Paperback, 2014

$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Life After Life

Kate Atkinson
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Episode 100 of our award-winning podcast covers everything from @bjork to Starship (by SpaceX) and Life After Life (by Kate Atkinson) to covid, COP27 and Stonehenge, phew! 🎧:https://www.newscientist.com/podcasts/100-new-scientist-journalists-pick-out-their-scientific-and-cultural-highlights-for-2022/

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Book Cover for: The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Amitav Ghosh

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

Amitav Ghosh
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@GhoshAmitav Hi Amitav, I'd love to send you a copy of my book - The Great Derangement was a big influence. https://t.co/7FuzkP2LSB

Paperback, 2017

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Flesh, David Szalay

Flesh

David Szalay
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Super-taut novel about a man’s life over 50-odd years. Compulsively readable - wolfed down in 2 sittings.

Hardcover, 2025

$28.99Member price:$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner), Hernan Diaz

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Hernan Diaz
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Adding this on the last day of the year: TRUST, by Hernan Diaz. The roaring twenties and capitalism told through a Rashomon-like device of 4 different stories 8/8! https://t.co/5rarrK5WN2

Paperback, 2023

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Briefly Very Beautiful, Roz Dineen

Briefly Very Beautiful

Roz Dineen
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Oof, WHAT A BOOK. @rozdineen’s BRIEFLY VERY BEAUTIFUL. “Cli-fi” doesn’t do this justice, it’s an absolute wonder.

Hardcover, 2024

$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, James Lovelock

Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth

James Lovelock
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Here's the 1975 issue of @NewScientist where James Lovelock introduced the concept of #Gaia https://t.co/DoG7uNggrV

Paperback, 2016

$22.99Member price:$22.99 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Dune, Frank Herbert

Dune

Frank Herbert
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Just saw #Dune with ecosystem scientist @ymalhi. Epic! Coming to the podcast soon: how the Arrakis planetary system works and how Frank Herbert was so ahead of his time in his ecological thinking 😍 https://t.co/bn55DjGXsA

Paperback, 2005

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book