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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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Behave: The bestselling exploration of why humans behave as they do
A groundbreaking synthesis of the entire science of human behaviour by 'one of the best scientist-writers of our time' (Oliver Sacks) Why do human beings behave as they do? 'Awe-inspiring......
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
The first ever maths book to be a No.1 Bestseller shows us what happens when maths goes wrong in the real world What makes a bridge wobble when it's not...
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...
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...
The Race Against Time: Adventures in Late-Life Running
A transformational quest for the secrets of happy, healthy, whole-life running that will change the way you think about growing older. 'Inspirational' - Observer A transformational quest for the secrets...
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...
Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your
The paperback edition of the liberating Sunday Times bestseller is set to enhance readers' lives even further with extra content on how we can all spend our four thousand weeks....
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...
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...
The Ethnobotanical: A world tour of Indigenous plant knowledge
Since the beginning of humanity's existence, plants have provided us with everything we need for our survival - they sustain us with air to breathe, food to eat, materials to...
Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the
The world-leading scientist of plant communication and intelligence reveals how she discovered the secrets of the forest Raised in the hardy forest communities of British Columbia, scientist Suzanne Simard overturned...
Homo Deus: 'An intoxicating brew of science, philosophy and futurism'
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. **THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** Sapiens showed us where we came from. In uncertain times, Homo Deus...
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 Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing
A powerful argument for reclaiming childhood - and all human relationships - from the online world, from the influential social psychologist and international bestselling author Jonathan Haidt has spent his...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Poetics of Space
The beloved multidisciplinary classic on the spaces we inhabit and the dreams and memories that fill them A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics Since its initial publication in...
Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are
"I can't believe I just said that." "What possessed me to do that?" "What's wrong with me?" We're constantly seeking answers to these fundamental human questions, and now, science has...
Food for Life: Your Guide to the New Science of Eating Well
Your essential guide to eating well from the gut-health expert and publishing phenomenon 'Life-changing' DAVINA McCALL 'A must-read' Dr RUPY AUJLA 'Fascinating' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Empowering' LIZ EARLE **AS HEARD ON...
Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the supernatural
'One of the best books about the paranormal I have read... Uncannily good' DANNY ROBINS 'A fascinating testimony to our nervous hunger to map the hazy, haunted territory at the...
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...
The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding
An exploration of human rationality from two ground-breaking thinkers Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If reason is so useful,...
Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World
Earth is home to a huge story that is rarely told - that of our ocean. Not the fish or the dolphins, but the massive ocean engine itself- what it...
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...
A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes
Stunningly repackaged edition of the international bestseller with a new appendix of updates from the author. Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite...
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case Against Superintelligent
The founder of the field of AI risk explains why superintelligent AI is a global suicide bomb and we must halt development immediately AI is the greatest threat to our...
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and
From the bestselling philosopher, a gripping history of science, thought, life on earth and the human mind - and what we might know in the future In very recent times...
On the Origin of Time
A new theory of the universe, twenty years in the making, by Stephen Hawking and his close collaborator Thomas Hertog. Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in...
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...
The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time
A wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of the importance of long-term thinking.Humans are unique in our ability to understand time, able to comprehend the past and future like no other species....
The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking)
An acclaimed theoretical astrophysicist explores the end of the Universe. When will it take place? How is it likely to happen? How do scientists know? You're going to die. The...
The Reassembler
When we look around our homes, sheds and garages we see an array of objects that spring to life with the click of a button or twist of a knob,...
How We Learn: The New Science of Education and the Brain
An illuminating dive into the latest science of how we learn - and how we do it better than machines In today's technological society, with an unprecedented amount of information...
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...
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality
Brian Greene'sThe Fabric of the Cosmosis an astonishing grand tour of the universe and the best layman's guide to current thinking on 'how everything works'. Brian Greene's The Fabric of...
Fear: An Alternative History of the World
'Extraordinary' Ai Weiwei'Brilliant' Simon SchamaFear has long been a driving force - perhaps the driving force - of world history: a coercive tool of power and a catalyst for radical...