Science & Mathematics

Author: Charles Foster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ATLANTIC, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND NEW STATESMAN A radically immersive exploration of three...

Author: Dale McCullough Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A topic of perpetual fascination, the kangaroos of Australia have been the focus of myriad books and documentaries. Kangaroos...

Author: Professor Ian Stewart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex...

Author: Stewart Cowley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Man vs Big Data explains to readers the science and theories that impact on our everyday existence. It taps...

Author: Rod Pyle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Packed with stunning images, including 75 illustrations created exclusively for this book, Blueprint for a Battlestar takes twenty-five remarkable and memorable...

Author: Steve Fiffer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Over 65 million years ago in what is now South Dakota, a battle-scarred Tyrannosaurus rex matriarch -- perhaps mortally wounded in...

Author: Brian Fagan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Human-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate...

Author: Oliver Kamm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A tour de force . . . an important, affecting and effective book' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL '[A] gorgeous and urgent book' STEVEN...

Author: Alan Weisman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Time #1 Nonfiction Book* An Entertainment Weekly #1 Nonfiction Book *A Finalist for the National...

Author: Simon Flynn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Fascinating lists, facts, stories, poems, drawings, diagrams - and even jokes - across the scientific disciplines and from science's bejewelled history....

Author: Jean-Philippe Noel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 A selection of nature's greatest imposters, tricksters and magicians. Whether to escape predators or to surprise their prey, the talented strategists...

Author: Menno Schilthuizen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 *Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts. *Lizards in Puerto Rico...

Author: Trevor Norton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Although inventors were often scientists or engineers, many were not: Samuel Morse (Morse code) was a painter, Laszlo Biro (the ballpoint pen)...

Author: Diane Ackerman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 With her celebrated blend of scientific insight, clarity, and curiosity, Diane Ackerman explores our human capacity both for destruction...

Author: James Barrat Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype 'If you read just one...

Author: Rowan Hooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the good of the world and the advancement...

Author: Norman Ferguson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Space is spectacular This short, informative and engaging guide to the wonders of the universe will fascinate and inspire readers of...

Author: Sarah Gilbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Chosen as a Book of the Year 2021 by the Financial Times, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Prospect, Guardian and The Times....

Author: Peng Shepherd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Exquisitely written ... Be prepared to be swept away on an incredible journey' Brad Thor, #1 bestselling author of Black Ice...

Author: Brian Butterworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Every pet owner thinks their own dog, cat, fish or hamster is a genius. What makes CAN FISH COUNT? so exciting...

Author: Leon Golub Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Essential for life on earth and a major influence on our environment, the Sun is also the most fascinating object in...

Author: Stephen R. Palumbi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. The Extreme Life of the Sea takes...

Author: Virginia Trimble Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 504 The Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical essays by women who broke down barriers and changed...

Author: Andrew Blum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 An engaging, narrative tour behind the scenes of our everyday lives to see the dark beating heart of the Internet itself....

Author: Tom Kerss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 The ideal gift to help kids learn brilliant new hobbies Get outside, look up and explore the night sky! The how-to...

Author: Max Wainewright Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Discover how today's amazing inventions and technologies work while developing your Scratch coding skills. Recreate the technology that lives...

Author: Steve Brookes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Parrots have always captured the imagination of humans. This beautifully illustrated book on the world s parrots explores all aspects of...

Author: Jessica Nordell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Unconscious bias: persistent prejudiced behaviour that clashes with our consciously held beliefs. Its effects can be corrosive, even lethal. It robs...

Author: Russ Swan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Uncovering the extraordinary science behind everyday life. From the Cloud to static, waterproof clothing and drones, there's a whole world of...

Author: Neil Shubin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 An exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national...

Author: Derek Harvey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Genes have a huge impact on who we are, from defining us as humans, to governing how we behave. Whether controlling...

Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Quantum mechanics underpins modern science and provides us with a blueprint for reality itself. And yet, it has been said that...

Author: William Poundstone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From the author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?, a fascinating look at how an equation that foretells...

Author: Hannah Mumby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Elephants are as unique as people. They can be clever and curious or headstrong and impulsive, shy or sociable....

Author: Raymond Reagan Butler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 290 In 1776 the American rebel colonists were desperately in need of arms and financial backing, and the Frenchman Pierre Augustin...

Author: Lawrence M. Krauss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Probably the most readable, exciting and authoritative writer on science we have. A new Lawrence Krauss book always...

Author: Lewis Blackwell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 There are no places richer in diversity and host to such a quantity of different living things. With a visually stunning...

Author: Kathleen M. Dudzinski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Exciting new technologies and research methods help scientists unravel the mysteries of dolphin communication, intelligence, and culture Dolphins have fascinated...

Author: Porter Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of...

Author: Vitalik Buterin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 At only nineteen years old Vitalik Buterin published a visionary paper outlining the ideas behind what would become Ethereum....

Author: Leisa Stewart-Sharpe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 72 Our world is WONDERFUL - and it's worth protecting. This book takes you on a breathtaking tour of our planet -...

Author: Chris Packham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Rousing, polemical and heartfelt' - Gardens Illustrated 'An invitation to take action' - The Observer One thing has become...

Author: Marianne Freiberger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 In Understanding Numbers, Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas will show key number patterns and maths principles that are vital...

Author: Brian Clegg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Scientifica Historica is a unique, essay-based review of those books that marked the development of science from classical times to the...

Author: Brian Switek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It gives our...

Author: Chandra Wickramasinghe, Ph.D. Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 408 Compelling evidence that life, intelligence, and evolution on Earth were seeded by comets and cosmic intelligence * Explains how life...

Author: Professor Joshua Paul Dale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Why are some things cute, and others not? What happens to our brains when we see something cute? And...

Author: David Ewing Duncan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'If you want to see what that future might look like, Duncan's book is a fun place to start' NPR...