Misha Glenny - Dark Market

Having investigated the world of organized crime in his bestselling McMafia, journalist and broadcaster Misha Glenny now turns his attention to cybercrime, a shadowy world in which no one is what they seem and law enforcement struggles to keep up with the latest developments from the hackers and crackers.

In this interview, Misha Glenny tells host George Miller why he decided to concentrate on the human stories rather than the computer technology in his new book and where he thinks cybercrime will go next.

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Tim Flannery - Here on Earth

In this podcast, our host George Miller talks to one of the most celebrated scientists in the world today about sustainability and humanity's chances of survival. Tim Flannery, author of Here on Earth, explains why, despite all the challenges we face, he remains optimistic.

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Ted Nield - Incoming!

We speak to geologist Ted Nield about Incoming!, a book which seeks to persuade us to stop worrying and learn to love the meteorite. As Ted explains, a meteorite impact may not, after all, have been responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs.

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Richard Cohen - Chasing the Sun

Richard Cohen's book, Chasing the Sun , takes him to the four corners of the earth on a quest to find out all he can about the star that gives us life. Its role in the life of our planet is so all-pervasive that we take it for granted most of the time, yet as Richard shows, its influence is visible everywhere, from the most ancient of religious beliefs to the most up-to-date science.

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Henry Nicholls - The Way of the Panda

Henry Nicholls introduces us to The Way of the Panda, a fascinating blend of natural, cultural and even political history, for the panda is a political animal like few others...

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David Wootton - Galileo: Watcher of the Skies

David Wootton has produced a major biography of a central figure in the history of science and thought - Galileo. Galileo: Watcher of the Skies he overturns some long-cherished myths about the man and his beliefs.

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Mary Roach - Packing for Mars

Having peered into the distant future in his previous book, The Earth after Us, Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz winds back the clock of the earth's history in his latest publication The Planet in a Pebble.

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Mary Roach - Packing for Mars

Science journalist Mary Roach's new book, Packing for Mars, takes us on a trip to Mars, in one of this year's funniest popular science books, boldly going where other writers fear to tread. Among the questions she tackles are: what's it like to spend two weeks in the same spacesuit? And is there sex in space?

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Marek Kohn - Turned Out Nice

Marek Kohn is an author and journalist, specialising in science and society. Having published books on drug use in post-war Britain (Dope Girls) and the 'Englishness' of evolutionary theory (A Reason for Everything), Kohn is back with a new book with the British Isles at the centre. Turned Out Nice offers a stark view on how the climate, wildlife, terrain and inhabitants of Britain and Ireland may change over the course of the forthcoming century due to the ever-increasing threat of global warming. Using what we know about climate change today, Kohn shows how our small corner of the planet will be vastly different from today...

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Paul Davies - The Eerie Silence

Paul Davies is a physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist, and broadcaster. An author of numerous popular science titles, his latest book is The Eerie Silence. In the book Davies tells the story of the search for extra terrestrial intelligence and asks, after 40 years of trying to no avail, whether we really are alone in the universe.

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Philip Ball - The Music Instinct

Philip Ball is a freelance science writer and author. He he written numerous bestsellers including Critical Mass and Elegant Solutions. With The Music Instinct, Ball turns his attention to the psychology of music, providing a comprehensive, accessible account of humans' obsession with music; piecing together the puzzle of how our minds understand and respond to it.

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Graham Farmelo - The Strangest Man

Graham Farmelo's The Strangest Man looks at the extraordinary life of the theoretical physicist, Paul Dirac. Little-known beyond the scientific community, Dirac was one of the leading pioneers in quantum mechanics, arguably the greatest scientific discovery of all time.

Yet outside of his professional work Dirac was a curious character: pathologically reticent, strangely literal-minded and legendarily unable to communicate or empathize.

With The Strangest Man shortlisted for this year's Costa Book Awards, our regular podcast host George Miller spent some time with Graham Farmelo to discuss the quantum genius.

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Marcus du Sautoy - The Music of the Primes

Marcus du Sautoy is Professor of both Mathematics and the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford. His 2003 publication, The Music of the Primes, is a critically acclaimed popular science book that delves into the mysterious world of prime numbers. The paperback release features in the Blackwell Books of the Decade list and with that in mind, our regular host George Miller spent some time with Marcus to discuss not only his bestselling title, but also the three books that he has most enjoyed over the past 10 years.

The Music of the Primes:

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Marcus' Books of the Decade:

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Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou - Logicomix | DOWNLOAD SEGMENT

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Marcus Chown - We Need to Talk About Kelvin

Marcus Chown is a former radio astronomer at CALTEC and current cosmology consultant of New Scientist magazine. In his latest book, We Need to Talk About Kelvin, Chown shows how familiar, everyday occurrences can teach us profound truths about the fundamental nature of reality. From the bizarre particle/wave duality of photons in the light of your reflection from a window, to the traces of cosmic background radiation left from the Big Bang found on an untuned television set, We Need to Talk About Kelvin will change the way you look at the world forever.

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Graeme Gibson - The Bedside Book of Beasts

With his 2005 bestseller, The Bedside Book of Birds, Canadian author Graeme Gibson gave readers a beautifully illustrated miscellany of the avian world. Now with The Bedside Book of Beasts, Gibson extends his reach to other wildlife combining beautiful illustrations, scientific extracts, poems, fables and stunning photography to present a captivating celebration of wild animals.

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Christopher Potter - You are Here

Christopher Potter is a publisher-turned-author who has written the hugely successful popular science book You are Here. The book takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the life of the cosmos - from the birth of the universe some 13.7 billion years ago to the strange world of quantum mechanics, the ground-breaking theory of general relativity and much, much more, this is the ultimate story of the universe and our place in it.

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Gavin Pretor-Pinney - The Cloud Collector's Handbook

Gavin Pretor-Pinney, author of the bestselling Cloudspotter's Guide and founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society discusses The Cloud Collector's Handbook, a full-colour, pocket guide to cloud lovers everywhere, enabling spotters to identify and record their sightings while on the move.

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Esther Woolfson - Corvus

Listen to Esther Woolfson as she discusses Corvus. The book is an enchanting, warm, and at times moving account of what it is like to share your life and home with a crow, a magpie and a rook.

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Jeremy Taylor - Not a Chimp

In Not a Chimp, Jeremy Taylor argues that while the DNA similarities between humans and chimpanzees are evident, small differences in genetic code can lead to profound differences in cognition and behaviour resulting in two wildly dissimilar species.

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Donna Dickenson - Body Shopping

Donna Dickenson discusses her book Body Shopping which provides an alarming account of the business of body parts trade.

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