The Book of MindsPrize winning science writer Philip Ball explores the diversity of thinking minds, from the variety of human minds to those of mammals, insects, computers and plants, in a book that brilliantly illuminates how many different ways there are to think and engage with the world; and how unique are our own.

Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship

featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien's own design

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Now There Are Two of You' tackles a new addition to the family and all the fears and frustrations attendant to the simple

anagrams and mathematical conundrums to keep you occupied as you go

is bursting with ideas for fingerprinting cats and dogs

which professes to be a place of excess and vulgarity

the centre of the acid house movement

Sometimes it's not easy to find self-worth in a world that seems obsessed with telling us we're not good enough

the dazzling Shakespearean actor whose monstrous ego and terrible alcoholism saw him nearly murdered by his own audience - the list of stars whose careers burned bright before the Age of Television is extensive and thrillingly varied

Ten years later

In this revelatory new book