Science & Mathematics

Author: Bob Berman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A heart-pumping exploration of the biggest explosions in history, from the Big Bang to mysterious activity on Earth and everything in...

Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough's classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology,...

Author: The Dalai Lama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Saving the environment is our collective duty. With each passing day, climate change is causing Pacific islands to disappear into...

Author: William Atkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 For all the desert's dreamlike beauty, to travel here was not just to pitch yourself into oblivion: it was...

Author: Carole Hooven Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports and politics, we need a good explanation of the science...

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: Margee Kerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Pain seems like a fairly straightforward experience - you get hurt and it, well, hurts. But how would you...

Author: Tim Smedley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 **SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2019** 'Read this book and join the effort to...

Author: Kenneth Catania Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In Great Adaptations, Kenneth Catania presents an entertaining and engaging look at some of nature's most remarkable creatures. Telling...

Author: Mark Kurlansky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Charting the waves a mere fish can send through history, Kurlansky has fashioned an epic masterpiece out of a...

Author: Kevin Hand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar system....

Author: Leonard Mlodinow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 This "vivid and compelling account" (The Wall Street Journal) opens not only the inner workings of one of physics' greatest minds,...

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: Bryan Walsh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Newsweek and Bloomberg popular science and investigative journalist Bryan Walsh explores the history of extinction and offers a cutting-edge...

Author: Paul Steinhardt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 *Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize* One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories...

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: Matt McCarthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 International Bestseller "An amazing, informative book that changes our perspective on medicine, microbes and our future." --Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD,...

Author: Laurence C Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 An eye-opening, sometimes alarming, and ultimately inspiring natural history of rivers and their complex and ancient relationship with human civilization...

Author: Robert Stone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 JFK issued the historic moon landing challenge. These are the stories of the visionaries who helped America complete his vision with...

Author: Rebecca Schwarzlose Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Enlightening and ambitious... a book that travels into rich terrain, charted by a smart and eager tour guide."--New York Times Book...

Author: Gino Segre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope...

Author: Anil Ananthaswamy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Some of the greatest scientific minds have grappled with this experiment. Thomas Young devised it in the early 1800s to show...

Author: Richard Panek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An award-winning science writer plumbs the depths of the greatest mystery in physics, showing how gravity has shaped our universe, minds,...

Author: Michael Marshall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'The story of the quest to understand life's genesis is a universal one, in which everyone can find pleasure and fascination....

Author: David F Dufty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In this remarkable behind-the-scenes narrative, David F. Dufty follows a group of scientists on their mission to create "Phil," a...

Author: Russell Bonduriansky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 There is much more to heredity than genes For much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate...

Author: Richard A. Muller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 536 Physics and Technology for Future Presidents contains the essential physics that students need in order to understand today's core science...

Author: Simon Mundy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 As featured on CNN's Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4's Start the Week with Andrew Marr One of the Financial...

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: Timothy Caulfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Masterfully, and humorously . provides much needed sanity in a world of claims run amok . I devoured it'...

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: Sue Weaver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The Goat: A Natural History offers a complete overview of this captivating creature, from the goatish Greek god Pan, to their...

Author: Hubert Krivine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Our planet's elliptical orbit around the Sun and its billions-of-years existence are facts we take for granted, matters every literate high...

Author: Meera Senthilingam Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out...

Author: Kate Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In 2013 Kate Greene moved to Mars. On NASA's first HI-SEAS simulated Mars mission in Hawai'i, she lived for...

Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Big or small, there's an answer to every question, and sometimes there are even a few!How long is now?...

Author: Ed Stafford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 262 'A fascinating and unique look at these celebrated expeditions.' -Sir Ranulph Fiennes Explorer and survival expert Ed Stafford looks...

Author: Bernie Krause Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 A pioneer in the field of soundscape ecology explores the ways in which the voice of the natural world informs many...

Author: William Hartston (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Like it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts,...

Author: Mark Denny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 264 Power generation is a relatively recent concern because humans had little need for sustained power until the dawn of...

Author: Laurence Scott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 You are a four-dimensional human. A constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring your inner life, increasingly coaxing you...

Author: Christopher G De Pree Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Using the power of the sun, moon, stars, and planets, this unique, illustrated guide is filled with...

Author: Hannah Critchlow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'A truly fascinating - if unnerving - read' The Telegraph 'Acute, mind-opening, highly accessible - this book doesn't just...

Author: Rose George Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of...

Author: Levison Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Following in the footsteps of great explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, ARABIA is Levison Wood's...

Author: Michael Klare Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate change-still linked, for many people, with...

Author: Amir Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our world On a cloudy day in 1413, a balding young man...

Author: Matt Collins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Forest celebrates the diverse ways in which trees and forests are as magnificent, economically relevant and profoundly enchanting today as they...