Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God
20 April 2016
The Mind Club is a witty, insightful guide to other minds, rounded off with smart thinking about thinking in an age of neuroscience
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Next year in books: CultureLab's choicest reads for 2016
30 December 2015
From state-of-the art views on cosmology and human morality, to radically rethinking parenthood and gender inequality, get ready to curl up with some great books
Eye of the Beholder: Life through the camera obscura
31 March 2015
Both 17th-century artist Vermeer and scientist van Leeuwenhoek made pioneering use of optics. A joint biography shows how they changed our world view
Flights of fancy: An enchanting history of ornithology
12 February 2014
The excellent Ten Thousand Birds takes us from the obsessive bird collectors of Darwin's time to the fully fledged scientists of today
The engineer who defeated the wind
14 November 2012
In Wind Wizard, Siobhan Roberts shows how pioneering civil engineer Alan Davenport helped to keep our biggest structures standing in extreme conditions
The art of displaying dead animals
3 August 2011
In The Authentic Animal Dave Madden tours the world of taxidermy, including the guy who killed a leopard with his bare hands
Is reading fiction good for you?
20 July 2011
In his new book, Such Stuff as Dreams, cognitive psychologist and novelist Keith Oatley argues that reading fiction has broad psychological benefits
Inventing modern science over eggs and bacon
9 February 2011
In The Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder pins the rise of science as we know it on the weekly meetings of four great 19th-century thinkers
Solve this sci-fi thriller and reap the rewards
22 December 2010
Gruff Davies's The Looking Glass Club questions the nature of reality – and the reader who solves the book's puzzles can win up to £1 million
