Science & Mathematics

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...

Author: Alec Ross Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This book answers the question: 'What's next?' The Internet had a world-changing impact on businesses and the global community...

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: Vybarr Cregan-Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 IF YOU THINK YOU ARE YOU, THINK AGAIN. PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging, polemical look at how and why...

Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The ALIENS invasion is coming ... It's the biggest question we've ever faced, one that has fascinated generations of...

Author: Nuria Jimenez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 35 All animals and plants require clean air. In this book, children learn about why we need air, the value...

Author: Timothy Snyder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In a time of pandemic and tyranny Our Malady is an urgent diagnosis of the vital link between health...

Author: Arthur Holland Michel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The fascinating history and unnerving future of high-tech aerial surveillance, from its secret military origins to its growing use on...

Author: Edward Posnett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 "[Strange Harvests is] an impressive addition to the modern travelogue, painting some of the world's most remote terrain in visceral and...

Author: Martin J Blaser, MD Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 "In Missing Microbes, Martin Blaser sounds [an] alarm. He patiently and thoroughly builds a compelling case that the threat...

Author: Joshua D Mezrich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 With When Death Becomes Life, Joshua Mezrich has performed the perfect core biopsy of transplantation--a clear and compelling account of...

Author: Marcus Chown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one...

Author: Jelmer Mommers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Over five years covering climate change, Jelmer Mommers has learned that the subject is a great way to ruin...

Author: Seth Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE Einstein's Shadow follows a team of elite scientists on their historic mission to...

Author: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The second book by the bestselling author of Extraordinary Insects Trees clean air and water; hoverflies and bees pollinate...

Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 An entertaining guide to how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. An entertaining guide to how maths is relevant to...

Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 338 A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on...

Author: David Sloan Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From noted evolutionary biologist and the author of Evolution for Everyone comes a paradigm-changing new look at how we can...

Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed...

Author: Andrew Rader Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights...

Author: Matthew Stanley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "Stanley is a storyteller par excellence."--The Washington Post Kirkus Review starred review; Publishers Weekly starred review; Booklist starred review The birth...

Author: Jon Gertner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic...

Author: Edmund Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the...