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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...

A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in genetic editing, cloning and neural downloading. After...

'Promises a new route through the parenting wilds' Sunday Times 'Powerful, honest and reassuring' Professor Gina Rippon 'A vital new narrative . . . Meticulously researched, compelling and compassionate' Elinor...

Crack open this book and take a read. You will be transported, illuminated, and delighted. Psychology Today Just 125,000 years ago, humanity was on a path to extinction, until a...

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...

A Neanderthal hunter takes us on a riveting journey of discovery What if we have completely misunderstood who the Neanderthals truly were? For over a century we saw them as...

An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life 'A powerful antidote to the myth of a "weaker...

A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds For as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that information flowing from our...

A user's guide to rationality during an epidemic of unreason In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and at the same time appears to...

No one has done more to shape our view of what makes us human than Charles Darwin, whose seismic theory of evolution turned the Victorian world upside down, utterly rewrote...

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...

A brilliant young neuroscientist explains how to preserve our minds indefinitely, enabling future generations to choose to revive us Just as surgeons once believed pain was good for their patients,...

Edith Widder grew up wanting to become a marine biologist. But after complications from surgery caused her to go temporarily blind, she became fascinated by light, and her focus turned...

An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure...

For readers of Entangled Life and The Hidden Life of Trees, a fascinating journey into the world of plants and animals, and the ways they communicate with each other. For...

Meet the ecosystem inside you ... A timid Bifidobacterium named Biffy is forced to leave their family and become part of a new community, in the gut of a newborn...

A wonderfully entertaining overview of all of psychology by a world expert Are you a human? Do you have a mind? Then this book is for you. Nothing is more...

"One of the ten most significant books" - Sigmund Freud No book made a greater impact on the intellectual world of its first Victorian readers nor has had such an...

A refreshing antidote to prescriptive ideas about wellness and a profound reframing of how body and brain work together to interpret our experience of the world around us There are...

An award-winning journalist reveals the secrets of why you do what you do - and how to change There's never been a better time to set new habits. This book...

In this acclaimed bestseller, an explorer and Neanderthal hunter takes us on a riveting journey of discovery What if we have completely misunderstood who the Neanderthals truly were? For over...

For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heart-breaking book about how to live. ** SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** 'Rattling....

#1 Sunday Times bestseller in both hardback and paperback, this head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body is as compulsively readable as it is comprehensive. Bryson at...

A fascinating and practical guide from two New York Times bestselling authors, backed by state-of-the-art scientific research Drawing on cutting-edge research, friends and Harvard collaborators Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson...

A graceful, illuminating study of the wisdom of the natural world, from a world-renowned indigenous scientist As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature...

Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most revered writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness 'It's as if we made entering...

Everything we think, do and refrain from doing is determined by our brain. From religion to sexuality, it shapes our potential, our desires and our characters. Taking us through every...

One of the world's most original and provocative thinkers offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious mind What is human consciousness and how is it possible?...

'This might just be the most important book on evolution since Darwin' John Gribbin in The Good Book Guide Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the...

The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history. ** NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ** The Gene is the story...

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...

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...

Britain's greatest science writer comprehensively rebuts the creationists by pulling together the incontrovertible evidence for evolution Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook society to its core on...

The neuroscientist and best-selling author of The Organized Mind explains what happens to our brains from womb to tomb. We have long been encouraged to think of old age as...

Intriguing and uplifting stories of the world's oldest plants, from the revered botanist and indigenous teacher Robin Wall Kimmerer Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a...

From bestselling author Michael Pollan comes a radical challenge to how we think about drugs Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is...

Forming a twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution, Edward O. Wilson offers a bold work of scientific thought and synthesis Of all species that have ever existed on earth, only one...

An astonishing new contribution to our ongoing quest for the secret of life itself When Darwin set out to explain the origin of species, he made no attempt to answer...

A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide a much-needed new framework for making sense of mental illness With his...

From one of the world's top geneticists, the controversial and cutting-edge book that's making us rethink who we are The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA...

A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2019- the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful species on Earth Humans are a planet-altering force. Our closest living...

A ground-breaking examination of human perception, reality and the evolutionary schism between the two Do we see the world as it truly is? In The Case Against Reality, pioneering cognitive...

The anniversary paperback edition of our new On the Origin of Species edited by Professor William Bynum This exciting anniversary edition has a new introduction and scholarly references by William...

The most important work of modern science now available in Vintage Classics Discover Charles Darwin's most important ideas... When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board...

'This is the story of how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life.' Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman on a whistle-stop tour of the inner...

Over 500,000 years ago, a single gene mutated. It spread over time, becoming critical in the journey that transformed our earliest ancestors into fully modern humans, capable of navigating the...

Swearing, it turns out, is an incredibly useful part of our linguistic repertoire. Not only has some form of swearing existed since the earliest humans began to communicate, but it...

In his beautifully written prose, Dr Jonathan Reisman - physician, adventure traveller and naturalist - allows readers to navigate their insides like an explorer discovering a new world.Through his offbeat...