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Ten Books to Look Out for in 2012
from New Scientist
Whether you want to know about black holes, the brain, genes or imagination, there's one for you in our list of books we can't wait to read this year.
Ignorance: How it Drives Science by Stuart Firestein, Oxford University Press. In this provocatively titled book, Stuart Firestein, chair of biological sciences at Columbia University in New York City, promises to disabuse readers of the myth that the scientific quest for truth is propelled by understanding. Instead, he emphasises, it is the very fact of not knowing that spurs scientists on--groping for scraps of insight and grappling with befuddling mysteries.
Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer, Canongate/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Science writer Jonah Lehrer's last book, The Decisive Moment, examined when we should let instinct run the show and when we should allow reason to take over, with exceptional results. Our hopes are high for Imagine, in which Lehrer sets out to understand human creativity, and dispenses with oversimplifications about creative "types."
17 Equations that Changed the World by Ian Stewart, Profile Books/Basic Books. We had a sneak peek at Ian Stewart's latest offering and found his shortlist of the most influential equations so compelling we have asked him to tell you more about them himself. Look out for his feature in our 11 February issue.
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