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The Sunday Times Bestseller - Ten Colossal Construction Projects That Will Change Our World

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Discover the incredible, fact-packed new book shining a light on the world’s biggest engineering challenges, and what they tell us about our future.THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW SCIENTIST BEST NEW POPULAR SCIENCE BOOK OF 2026‘A ceaselessly uplifting and positive book.’ – Mark Cooper-Jones, author of This Way Up by the Map Men‘Reveals the feats shaping the 21st century.’ – Chris Broad, bes... ... Read more

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Discover the incredible, fact-packed new book shining a light on the world’s biggest engineering challenges, and what they tell us about our future.THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW SCIENTIST BEST NEW POPULAR SCIENCE BOOK OF 2026‘A ceaselessly uplifting and positive book.’ – Mark Cooper-Jones, author of This Way Up by the Map Men‘Reveals the feats shaping the 21st century.’ – Chris Broad, bes...
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Brought to you by Penguin.Construction is the most important industry in the world. The homes we wake up to, the schools we raise our children in, the transport infrastructure we all use, the hospitals we rely on – all of it was built and enabled by construction.In Mega Builds, YouTube sensation Fred Mills charts the story of how ten colossal megaprojects are reshaping our modern world. Fred gives ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.Construction is the most important industry in the world. The homes we wake up to, the schools we raise our children in, the transport infrastructure we all use, the hospitals we rely on – all of it was built and enabled by construction.In Mega Builds, YouTube sensation Fred Mills charts the story of how ten colossal megaprojects are reshaping our modern world. Fred gives
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How To

Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**“How To will make you laugh as you learn…With How To, you can't help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of humanity's effort to comprehend it. If you want some lightweight edification, you won't go wrong with How To.” —CNET“[How To] has science and jokes in it, so 10/10 can recommend.” —Simone Giertz... ... Read more

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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**“How To will make you laugh as you learn…With How To, you can't help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of humanity's effort to comprehend it. If you want some lightweight edification, you won't go wrong with How To.” —CNET“[How To] has science and jokes in it, so 10/10 can recommend.” —Simone Giertz...
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Building Towards TomorrowSense of wonder is the lifeblood of science fiction. When we encounter something on a truly staggering scale – metal spheres wrapped around stars, planets rebuilt and repurposed, landscapes re-engineered, starships bigger than worlds – the only response we have is reverence, admiration, and possibly fear at something that is grand, sublime, and extremely powerful.Bridging
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**WINNER OF THE SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGFrom the National Business Book Award winner and GG finalist, a very different book about facing the climate crisis, and what awaits us on the other side.**Chris Turner has reported from the places where the sustainable future first emerged—from green islands in Denmark and green office parks in southern India, to solar panel factories
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Here Comes the Sun

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From the acclaimed environmentalist, a call to harness the power of the sun and rewrite our scientific, economic, and political future.Our climate, and our democracy, are melting down. But Bill McKibben, one of the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis, insists the moment is also full of possibility. Energy from the sun and wind is suddenly the cheapest power on the planet and growing ... Read more

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From the acclaimed environmentalist, a call to harness the power of the sun and rewrite our scientific, economic, and political future.Our climate, and our democracy, are melting down. But Bill McKibben, one of the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis, insists the moment is also full of possibility. Energy from the sun and wind is suddenly the cheapest power on the planet and growing
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New Adventures in Engineering

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Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s past, its present, and its future. Along the way it highlights our greatest successes, like London’s ... Read more

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Just Say Yes

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Bob McDonald, host of CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks, offers a personal and inspiring memoir of life-changing events in his early years through five decades in science journalism.Revered science reporter and radio host Bob McDonald has devoted a decades-long career to turning our attention away from everyday perspectives and outward to the vast, intricate wonders of our planet and universe. Now, in
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Full Circle

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Invention

A Life

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Dyson has become a byword for high-performing products, technology, design, and invention. Now, James Dyson, the inventor and entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life, “one of the year’s most relevant and revelatory business books” (The Wall Street Journal)****.Famously, over a four-year period, James Dyson made 5,127 prototypes of the ... Read more

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ORDER NONESUCH, THE NEW NOVEL FROM FRANCIS SPUFFORD, NOWA brilliant, beautiful account of how British boffins triumphed across the decades in creating everything from computer games to Martian landers.Backroom Boys is a vivid love-letter to quiet men in pullovers, to those whose imaginings take shape not in words but in mild steel and carbon fibre and lines of code. Above all, it is a celebration ... Read more

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