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The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity
Author: Robin InceFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 240mm, 765g, 400 pagesPublished: Atlantic Books, United Kingdom, 2021'A delightful and scintillating hymn to science.' - Carlo RovelliComedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at...
Gemstones: A Concise Reference Guide
Gemstones have been a source of fascination for Millenia, from the icy brilliance of diamond and the soft iridescence of pearl, to the deep red garnets treasured by ancient Egyptians...
Sapiens: THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER
What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history of our species challenges everything we know about being human. **THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Interesting...
Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the
The smash-hit bestseller which exposes the invisible bias in our everyday lives - 'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things' (Caitlin Moran)...
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
*A FINANCIAL TIMES , GUARDIAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE SUMMER* 'The fascinating story of ancient words ... new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist ________________________________ One...
Extinct: Artistic Impressions of Our Lost Wildlife
Australia is home to an incredible diversity of native animals. While Australian animals are among the most unique in the world, they are also among the most endangered, with hundreds...
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The incomparable Bill Bryson travels through time and space to introduce us to the world, the universe and everything in this groundbreaking book, the best selling popular science book of...
The Life of Birds
A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough's bestselling classic. BIRDS. 11,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home...
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
An Economist book of the year 2024.The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life.In the 18th century, two men dedicated their...
Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It
Huge swathes of people spend their days performing tasks they secretly believe are not really necessary. This book shows why, and what we can do about it Back in 1930,...
The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest Minds
A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit.The more you delve into the stories behind history's greatest names,...
The Origin Of Species
Charles Darwin's classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world. Few other books have created such a lasting...
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
The #1 bestselling economist opens our eyes to the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. In his boldest and most...
Blue Mind: How Water Makes You Happier, More Connected and [...]
Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In BLUE MIND, Wallace J. Nichols revolutionizes how we...
Trees - 10 Things You Should Know: The perfect stocking filler [...]
Discover the wonders at the centre of our planet's ecosystem.In ten short and accessible essays, science and nature writer Carolyn Fry takes us on an awe-inspiring journey of the Earth's...
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more...
Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1: The Birth of Humankind
The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash Sunday Times #1 bestseller, with gorgeous full-colour illustrations and a beautiful package - the perfect...
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains-eating, pooping, and dying along the way-are its heart and arteries, pumping nitrogen and phosphorus...
The Order of Time
The number 1 bestseller from the superstar physicist hailed as 'the new Hawking' (Sunday Times) Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets...
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly
The spellbinding story of a visionary British surgeon who changed medicine forever In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when...
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
The second volume in Leonard Susskind's hugely popular, one-of-a-kind introductory series on physics In The Theoretical Minimum, world-class physicist Leonard Susskind provided a brilliant first course in classical mechanics, offering...
Is Maths Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023A NEW SCIENTIST BEST BOOK OF 2023WINNER OF THE LA TIMES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2023 BOOK PRIZE'A generous tour of mathematics for anyone whose instincts...
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural
Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe? The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols -...
Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
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A Nobel Prize-winning biologist tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology's most important molecule "Ramakrishnan's writing is so honest, lucid and engaging that...
Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide
Author: J.P. McEvoy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 An enjoyable, comic-style book on the most successful set of ideas ever devised by human beings. Quantum theory confronts us with...
The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness
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The holy grail of psychologists and scientists for nearly a century has been to understand and replicate both human thought and the human mind. In fact, it's what attracted the...
Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food ...
Launching the runaway bestseller with ambitions to be the biggest non-fiction paperback of the year IT'S NOT YOU. IT'S THE FOOD. 'If you only read one diet or nutrition book...
The Hawkesbury River: A Social and Natural History
The Hawkesbury River is the longest coastal river in New South Wales. A vital source of water and food, it has a long Aboriginal history and was critical for the...
Coral Reefs of Australia: Perspectives from Beyond the Water's Edge
Australia's coral reefs stretch far and wide, covering 50 000 square kilometres from the Indian Ocean in the West to the Pacific Ocean in the East. They have been viewed...
Why Balloons Rise and Apples Fall: The Laws That Make the World Work
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'Everything we do is touched by physics. Whether we're on the motorway, at the beach or in the pub, its laws tell us what happens in our world and why.'From...
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go
Triumphs and disasters in the deep seaThis is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see...
Metamorphosis: How insects are changing our world
Insects are incredibly weird. Their morphology is about as alien to us as you can get without leaving this planet. They outnumber us 200 million to one. Before humans stamped...
Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
A radical retelling of human history through collapse, and what it means for our uncertain future A radical retelling of human history through collapse - from the dawn of our...
Unknown Universe: Discover hidden wonders from deep space unveiled by
A lens into the unexplored and unseen cosmos. A beautiful book showcasing the most stunning images from the first years of the James Webb Space Telescope , the most powerful...
The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the
An agenda-setting, myth-debunking book by neuroscientist Professor Gina Rippon that demolishes the idea of biology as destiny and the myth of the male or female brain. Barbie or Lego? Reading...
Calculus: A Complete Introduction: The Easy Way to Learn Calculus
CALCULUS: A COMPLETE INTRODUCTION is the most comprehensive yet easy-to-use introduction to using calculus. Written by a leading expert, this book will help you if you are studying for an...
The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time
'A beautifully turned, calmly persuasive but urgent book' IAN MCEWAN 'A landmark book that could help to build a much brighter future' DAVID ROBSON A wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of...
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
The enchanting international bestselling sensation on modern physics comes to paperback In this mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Carlo Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes,...
Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist's Patients Taught Him About
What makes us who we are? Is it our background that creates our identities? Or our families, where we lived, how we were brought up and educated, the jobs we've...
Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory
The third volume in Leonard Susskind's one-of-a-kind physics series cracks open Einstein's special relativity and field theory In the first two books in his wildly popular The Theoretical Minimum series,...
Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
Stand-up mathematician, star of 'Festival of the Spoken Nerd', Matt Parker takes us on a riotous journey through the infinite possibilities of numbers in our everyday lives This is the...
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
From the No. 1 bestselling author of WHAT IF? - the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons - comes a series of brilliantly simple...
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
'The physicist transforming how we see the universe' (Financial Times) What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli...
Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control
Humans dream of super-intelligent machines. But what happens if we actually succeed? Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, according to the world's pre-eminent AI...
Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity
Winner of British Psychological Society Best Book Prize (Popular Science) 2023 Nature's Top 10 Books of 2023 A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023 A Waterstones Book of the...
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
The definitive guide to the Female Body, Eve is the book women all over the world have been waiting for. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE...
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and
'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read. Bookworms...
The Criminal Mind
The extraordinary life and work of Britain's leading forensic psychiatrist - A powerful and unforgettable journey into the true nature of good and evil A likeable young girl burns her...