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WOMAN explores the essence of what it means to be female. In mapping the inner woman - from organs to orgasms - Natalie Angier presents an extraordinary new vision of...

Popular science master Brian Clegg's new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the atomic level, through life and energy to genetics and...

Can we build moral machines? Toby Walsh, AI expert, examines the ethical issues we face in a future dominated by artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is an essential part of our...

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...

Renaissance craftsmen, such as painters, were educated in `practical mathematics'. This book tells us the fascintating story of how the artisan tradition made important contributions not only to art but...

How do you remember more and forget less? How can you earn more and become more creative just by moving house? And how do you pack a car boot most...

An eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping out planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman and OpenAI When longtime AI expert...

InThe Invisible History of the Human Race, Christine Kenneally reveals that, remarkably, it is not only our biological history that is coded in our DNA, but also our social history....

With an Introduction and Notes by Jeff Wallace, Professor Emeritus, Department of Humanities, Cardiff Metropolitan University. 'A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall...

The captivating, all-but-forgotten story of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and the search for a planet that never existed For more than fifty years, the world's top scientists searched for the...

Who are we? Where did we come from? What makes us human? The whole puzzle of our early life on earth is gradually being pieced together from fragments of bone,...

This vivid book tells a story that spans three centuries and crosses many national boundaries-a story of scientific discovery that fundamentally changed the way we understand the basis of life....

The story of the monk who experimented with peas in his monastery has all the highs and lows of great fiction. Mendel was a man of nervous constitution (whenever he...

The age of the Baroque-a time when great strides were made in science and mathematics-witnessed the construction of some of the world's most magnificent buildings. What did the work of...

A mother of small children trusts her 'gut feeling' and it saves her life. A young dad is able to grieve for his lost baby - using a song. What...

Could the dodo make a comeback? What does science tell us about the sex in Fifty Shades of Grey ? Is giving up meat really the greenest option? Can you...

Robots is a portrait of things to come, what robots will be like and how we will create them. This book is science fact, not science fiction!

Why has the War on Cancer" languished, focusing mainly on finding and treating the disease and downplaying the need to control and combat cancer's basic causes,tobacco, the workplace, radiation, and...

Learn all there is to know about the gut-brain connection and boost your health and mood from inside out with 10 proven gut-brain hacks Genius Gut is a revolutionary guide...

This volume examines the impact of soil quality on past societies and looks at the way in which agricultural regimes have been structured to combat soil deterioration. The case studies...

In The Man Who Lost His Head , Douwe Draaisma explores some of the most bizarre and intriguing brain disorders throughout history. From patients who believe their loved ones have...

The extraordinary genius of Archimedes--scientist, mathematician, engineer, and showman. Many of us know little about Archimedes other than his "Eureka" exclamation upon discovering that he could immerse an object in...

There is a human genetic fluke that is surprisingly common, due to a change in a key pair of chromosomes. In the normal condition the two look the same, but...

Men, towards the end of the last millennium, felt a sudden tightening of the bowels with the news that the services of their sex had at last been dispensed with....

Like Charles Seife's Zero and Dava Sobel's Longitude, this passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of science and the human, in this case the rivals who discovered...

Probing the science and mystery of volcanoes, this book chronicles not only their geologic behaviour, but also their profound effect on human life. From Mount Vesuvius to Mount St Helens,...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."-- The New York Times Book Review "A...

This text explains to the general reader the step-by-step process by which cancers arise and spread. The book is an expansion of the article from "Scientific American" which discussed developments...

A new biography of Carl Linnaeus, offering a vivid portrait of Linnaeus's life and work. Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalised and popularised the...

The great historian of science I. B. Cohen explores how numbers have come to assume a leading role in science, in the operations and structure of government, in marketing, and...

How a little mathematics goes a long way in helping you not to be wrong The maths we learn in school can seem like an abstract set of rules, laid...

What makes ice cubes cloudy? How do shark attacks make airplanes safer? Can a person traveling in a car at the speed of sound still hear the radio? Moreover, would...

"In this marvelously accessible book, philosopher-Christian Jim Stump provides the reader with new eyes for a journey through time, the origin of the soul, suffering, and morality, and reveals how...

A practical and inspiring book by the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author of A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled With a little help from a monk, and a neuroscientist,...

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...

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...

'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 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...