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George Fraser has been a significant contributor to the great flowering of human and clinical genetics of the last half century. He has made major contributions to clinical genetics, to...

PenCraft Book Awards 2023 Non-Fiction Runner Up The world has long misunderstood trauma. Now, leading experts in the field have a radical new understanding of post-traumatic stress . . ....

This unrivalled illustrated guide to human evolution brings you face to face with your ancient ancestors. Travelling back in time almost eight million years, the book charts the development of...

Codon-based models of evolution are a relatively new addition to the toolkit of computational biologists, and in recent years remarkable progress has been made in this area. The study of...

A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa over the last 500 years In this paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has...

"Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual differences, and even intelligence. ....

A well-researched chronicle of America's development of a secret biological weapons program, tracing its post-World War II beginnings through its 1969 abandonment and documenting its use of human volunteers, its...

The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations Read the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape...

Nathaniel Kleitman arrived in the US as a penniless teenager who could not speak a word of English. Within a decade, he was pioneering the first ever experiments about how...

What neuroscience can - and can't - tell us about our emotions What can a brain scan, or our reaction to a Caravaggio painting, reveal about the deep seat of...

From the author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon, a new history of the brain told via fascinating tales of the greatest and most astounding injuries in neuroscience For centuries,...

""The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines."" -Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks...

Providing the reader with the tools need ed to be successful writers in college and their profession, A Short Guide to Writing about Biology emphasizes writing as a means to...

Is free will just an illusion? What is it within the brain that allows us to pursue our own actions and objectives? What is it about this organ that permits...

The saga of sex differences in brain and behavior begins with a tiny sperm swimming toward a huge egg, to contribute its tiny Y chromosome plus its copies of the...

In the late 1910s Dr. Harry J. Haiselden, a prominent Chicago surgeon, electrified the nation by allowing the deaths of at least six infants he diagnosed as "defectives". He displayed...

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025: the profound and life-affirming memoir about finding our way in a chaotic world 'A sumptuous, surprising, dark delight' Carmen Maria Machado 'Fast-moving,...

It might be their large, strangely human eyes or their dog-like playfulness, but seals have long captured people's interest and affection, making them the perfect candidate for an environmental cause,...

Since the dawn of humanity we've been mystified by desire, love, and the compulsion to bond with others. How do we fall in love and back out again? Why do...

The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank , investigates the environmental and economic impact termites inflict on...

The author of the New York Times bestselling Genius Foods offers a lifestyle program for resetting your brain and body to their "factory settings"-to help fight fatigue, anxiety, and depression...

Why do we have nightmares? Get hangry? Relive embarrassing memories? Find canned laughter so annoying - and fake news so effective? Emotions can be a pain. If only we were...

What would happen if you took a swim outside a deep-sea submarine wearing only Speedos? How long could you last if you stood on the surface of the sun? How...

The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving. We've come a long way. The earliest human had a brain as small as a child's fist;...

This book is an account of the first great triumph of genomics: the thirty-year struggle to decode the complete DNA of a nematode worm. Success in this was what made...

In The Private Science of Louis Pasteur , Gerald Geison has written a controversial biography that finally penetrates the secrecy that has surrounded much of this legendary scientist's laboratory work....

Deep Water offers an incisive, searching, and beautifully written account of the emerging crisis over dams and the world's water. Reporting in the tradition of John McPhee and Peter Matthiessen,...

"Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as good as the best scientist writers." - New York Times Book...

Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents...

'Even if you've never picked up a weight, Stronger is for you ' - Arnold Schwarzenegger No matter how you think of yourself - strong or weak, large or small...

The invisible world of microbes - capable of surviving in the most harsh and inhospitable conditions on earth - reveals the remarkable potential and resilience of life itself. John Postgate's...

An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It is the building block of every cell that makes up every living...

A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain's most dazzling science writers. What...

Our increasingly frantic lifestyles make it difficult to slow down and listen to what our bodies are telling us, paying attention only when it is broken, without stopping to ask...

An award-winning natural-history writer opens the door to the nature that thrives in our yards, gardens, and parks We all live on nature's doorstep, but we often overlook it. From...

A spellbinding scientific and cultural study of snakes, the fascination and fear they inspire, and how surprising new science is indelibly changing our perception of these stunning and frightening creatures....

From the world's foremost neuroscientist of romantic love comes a personal story of connection and heartbreak that brings new understanding to an old truth: better to have loved and lost...

'An epic travelogue, brimming with the excitement of discovery. With characteristic panache, Venter unveils the teeming array of bacteria, viruses, and eukaryotes that crowd our planet's oceans' - Siddhartha Mukherjee...

'Mind expanding - this book will change your view of the world forever' Matthew Syed A blueprint for a better future. Playing on the phrase "a theory of everything" in...

Why do we have nightmares? Get hangry? Relive embarrassing memories? Find canned laughter so annoying - and fake news so effective? Emotions can be a pain. If only we were...

An award-winning natural-history writer opens the door to the nature that thrives in our yards, gardens, and parks We all live on nature's doorstep, but we often overlook it. From...

A FINANCIAL TIMES SUMMER BOOK OF 2021 PICK A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online 'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read' All...

'Truly eye-opening' The Times Discover what your dog is thinking in this groundbreaking book by a world-renowned neuroscientist and a highly respected dog trainer. Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with expert practical...

What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we...

The Pacific Ocean has been the focus of our fascination for as long as we have lived beside and on it. It covers one-third of Earth's surface - greater than...

An estimated 4.6 billion years ago, the Earth and Moon were formed in a violent impact. On this, many agree, and even more that a long time after that, life...

Beginning at the moment of creation with the Big Bang, Here on Earth explores the evolution of Earth from a galactic cloud of dust and gas to a planet with...

Ever since the first discovery of their bones, the Neanderthals have provoked controversy. Who were they? How were they related to modern people? What caused their disappearance 35,000 years ago?...