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How authors are gaming Amazon’s algorithms with 3000-page books
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Censored: Why China’s online oversight is anything but crude
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Model Behaviour: How a sceptic was won over by life in the lab
A new book about shadowing a team of behavioural geneticists shows them at great pains to capture the vagaries and complexities of their tricky research
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Blossoms: The complex secrets of spring’s simple beauty
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Pushing the boundaries: A round-up of new popular science books
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