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Space is quiet. Billion trillions of stars slowly burning out their lives. Bodies of rock, moons, planets, floating in the dark. Most of the time. Sometimes violence is unleashed on...

'Fine does it again. The mistress of 'I think you'll find it's more complicated than that' delivers a brilliant and witty riposte to the 'boys will be boys' bores. Fascinating.'...

Can our interactions with wildlife help answer life's big questions? In (Be)wilder , acclaimed urban ecologist Darryl Jones explores how people around the world interact with wildlife. He spends time...

Imagine you're sitting next to a pilot on a flight and he's eager to answer all those nagging questions you have about air travel. Are those bumps and noises normal?...

World-renowned neuroscientist Beau Lotto reveals the truths of human perception and devises a cognitive toolkit for how to succeed in a world of uncertainty . Perception is the foundation of...

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...

'The best book I've read this year ... It's written in such a beautiful way' - Dr Suzi Gage, Book Shambles podcast This is an excellent book for anyone who...

India: it's a nation of geeks, swots and nerds. Almost one in five of all medical and dental staff in the UK is of Indian origin, and one in six...

What happens if the world's richest and most powerful men decide to dismantle democracy? This is the story of the radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel,...

A Discover magazine Top Science Book Thomas Edison stunned America in 1879 by unveiling a world-changing invention--the light bulb--and then launching the electrification of America's cities. A decade later, despite...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith , a thought-provoking, "brilliant and witty" (Oliver Sacks) look at the notion of free will -and the implications...

In The Fire within the Eye, scientist and author David Park helps us reconceive the everyday phenomenon of light in profound ways, from spiritual meanings embedded in our culture to...

Ranging through the history of medicine, from the Hippocratic theory of humours to modern explanations of Mad Cow Disease and chronic fatigue syndrome, this book analyzes the development and acceptance...

The story of human history throughout the world is told in this book, from the origins of humankind to the beginnings of literate civilizations. Fagan does not favour any specific...

What does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Did volcanic eruptions extinguish the dinosaurs, or help humans to evolve, only to decimate their populations with...

The early fossilists were the extraordinary group of individuals who first identified the dinosaurs and whose discoveries helped pave the way for Darwin and the publication of "The Origin of...

A foremost thinker on science and religion argues that an adequate understanding of cosmic history requires attention to the emergence of interiority, including religious aspiration Over the past two centuries...

The interaction between new forms of biological life and new forms of social life in modern democracies. The molecular life sciences are making visible what was once invisible. Yet the...

A whip-smart, entertaining exploration of the geometry that underlies our world, from the bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong How should a democracy choose its representatives? How does...

NOMINATED FOR THE FT & McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2020- a brilliant analysis of the future of work in the age of AI New technologies have always...

This book provides a fascinating study of a community of scientists at the prestigious Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Science in Melbourne, Australia. These scientists are mainly concerned...

For many decades, the proponents of 'artificial intelligence' have maintained that computers will soon be able to do everything that a human can do. In his bestselling work of popular...

In its fourth edition, this dictionary contains 9000 entries on all aspects of science. Suitable for both students and non-scientists, it provides coverage of biology (including human biology), chemistry, physics,...

Start looking for Murphy's Law and you'll find it everywhere. The queue you join always goes the sloest, can there be a rational explanation.

"The Penguin Dictionary of Science" covers all the important topics in this key subject area, including chemistry, physics, molecular biology, biochemistry, human anatomy, mathematics, astronomy and computing. Superbly comprehensive and...

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry , shines new light on the crucial fault lines of...

Pulitzer-prize winning author Jonathan Weiner's revealing story of the science that is about to change all life forever. Biology used to be a science of the way things are. Now...

Think of a number between one and ten. No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity . Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are...

The Ultimate Book of Saturday Science is Neil Downie's biggest and most astounding compendium yet of science experiments you can do in your own kitchen or backyard using common household...

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,...

For the reader who has lain awake fretting over his tenuous grasp of the Critiques of Immanuel Kant, or his unformed sense of the line of thought that descends from...

"The photographs in this book capture a vision of the Heavens and our Earth with a crystal clarity which we are lucky enough to see with our own eyes." -...

'Consummate and thorough' - The Times 'Darkly entertaining' - The Spectator A superbly written work of narrative non-fiction by an exciting new talent, The Anti-Catastrophe League is a brilliant study...

All the Right Angles takes the often-feared field of mathematics and combines it with something that is widely understood by all- sports. Within every sport, a variety of mathematical and...

The frontiersmen who came to the Victoria River District of Australia's Northern Territory included cattle and horse thieves, outlaws, capitalists, dreamers, drunks, madmen and others, from the explorers of the...

Why do human beings wage war and persecute each other? Why do religious and political factions battle to control nations? Why do seemingly intelligent people cling to beliefs that fly...

Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary global utility which is omnipresent, universal, and available to all. Neither the internet nor the cloud would work without the...

In 'Combining', Nora Bateson invites us into an ecology of communication where nothing stands alone, and every action sets off a chain of incalculable consequences. She challenges conventional fixes for...

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...

Kindness can be your super-power. It feels good to be kind to others. And it feels good to receive kindness. Making the world better, in however small a way, feels...

Implicit bias affects us all, every day of our lives. But it can be overcome.Here's how we begin to change our minds. Implicit bias leads us to discriminate on the...

In order to understand the massive social and cultural changes that took place in Australia since the end of World War II, Michelle Arrow examines popular culture through three main...