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Carlo Rovelli
Born
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics uses short, carefully paced essays to introduce relativity, quantum theory and our place in the physical world. Rovelli's literary style gives a newcomer room to wonder before tackling formal detail. It is an inviting first map of the questions, with further learning still ahead.
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Esther Duflo
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In Poor Economics, co-written with Abhijit Banerjee, Duflo helps explain poverty through specific decisions about health, schooling, saving and work. This approach makes research methods and policy questions easier to discuss together. The clear movement from a large problem to a testable question gives a general reader a useful way to examine proposed solutions.
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Jorge Wagensberg Lubinski
Born
Wagensberg's work transforming Barcelona's science museum into CosmoCaixa treated real objects, phenomena and participation as ways into science. His books and museum thinking shared an interest in provoking questions, broadening this list beyond the page and screen to a carefully designed encounter with something happening in front of the visitor.
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Marcus du Sautoy
Born
The Music of the Primes brings readers into number theory through the people, puzzles and unanswered questions behind it. Du Sautoy's books and broadcasts repeatedly connect mathematics with culture and creative practice. Those connections give a beginner a reason to stay with an abstract idea long enough to start understanding it.
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Ed Yong
Born
An Immense World makes sensory biology accessible by asking readers to consider the environments other animals can perceive. I Contain Multitudes similarly connects microbiology with visible life. Yong combines reporting and concrete examples to help readers recognise both what an experiment reveals and how much of the living world human senses miss.
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Harold McGee
Born
On Food and Cooking connects the chemistry and physics of food with familiar kitchen observations, letting cooks ask why an ingredient behaves as it does and carry that understanding into another situation. McGee makes a specialist subject approachable by starting with something a reader can smell, taste or watch change.
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