Science & Mathematics

Author: Charles Seife Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Stephen Hawking was widely recognized as the world's best physicist and even the most brilliant man alive-but what if his true...

Author: Erica Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Why mathematical models are so often wrong, and how we can make better decisions by accepting their limits Whether we are...

Author: Joseph L Graves Jr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Evolution has, ever since its inception, been one of the most ideologically fraught fields in all of science. It...

Author: Dhun Sethna Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Inspired by Homer's description of the ebb and flow of the "wine dark sea," the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement...

Author: Marcus Du Sautoy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 One of the world's great mathematicians shows why math is the ultimate timesaver--and how everyone can make their lives easier...

Author: Patrick Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world"--Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees From the age...

Author: Mark W. Moffett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The epic story, ultimate big history, and "remarkable intellectual achievement" (Quarterly Review of Biology) describing how human society evolved from...

Author: Kate Llewellyn-Waters Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 If we feel run down and we want to support our immune system, most of us tend to pop some vitamins....

Author: Professor Tim Spector Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Since the discovery of DNA, scientists have believed that genes are fixed entities that cannot be changed by environment -...

Author: Professor Matthew Cobb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Brilliant .. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough' - Henry Marsh, New Statesman (about The Idea of the Brain)...

Author: Wendy Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In this "deeply personal and lyrical book" (Publishers Weekly) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Horse, Wendy Williams...

Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 * FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST * Throughout history, people have sought to...

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: Kitty Ferguson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Kitty Ferguson, the award-winning and international bestselling author of Stephen Hawking's biography, presents an even deeper portrait of the legendary physicist's...

Author: Claire Potter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Looking to live a life that goes beyond 'sustainability'? Welcome to the circular economy. But what it is exactly? Taking inspiration...

Author: Kai Kupferschmidt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world - and to understand our collective obsession with this bewitching colour....

Author: Frans de Waal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 How different are men and women? Is gender uniquely human or do other primates also learn gendered roles? Drawing on...

Author: Kim Flottum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 With Common Sense Natural Beekeeping, learn to keep bees sustainably with limited chemical or human intervention. Today's bees face...

Author: Jeremy England Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And if you trace the evolutionary history of plants and animals...

Author: Jon Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In the autumn of 2005, researchers cracked the code of the chimpanzee genome and provided a startling new window...

Author: Eugenia Cheng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world In a world where fake news...

Author: Steve Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Camouflage is essential to surviving in the wild. Both a built-in defence mechanism and a cunning tactic for attack, this biological...

Author: Jillian Scudder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Looking up at the night sky, it is almost impossible to imagine that we can trace our common ancestry with the...

Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry,...

Author: Peter Riley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Wild and wonderful ... I doubt anyone will ever match Strandings for its sheer bravura, its wry insight, and its absolute,...

Author: 0 Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Being able to identify wild creatures in their natural environment adds an extra dimension to the enjoyment of being outdoors....

Author: Tom Mustill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A must-read' New Scientist 'Fascinating' Greta Thunberg 'Enthralling' George Monbiot 'Brilliant' Philip Hoare A thrilling investigation into the pioneering world of...

Author: Stephon Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "The rabbit hole gets wrestled here. An old school saying applies: the more you know, the more you don't know. Dance...

Author: David Blistein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 2017 over 60,000 Americans died as the result of opioid overdoses, more than died annually in this country during the...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Mr Derek Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'A dazzling chronicle, a bracing challenge to modernity's smug assumptions' - Bryce Christensen, Booklist 'O what a world...