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'An elegantly written and cogent guide to contemporary ideas about how and why the brain works' - Independent A compelling and authoritative study of the brain - its past, present...

From the petri dish to the pet shop, meet the high-tech menagerie of the near future, as humans reinvent the animal kingdom Fluorescent fish that glow near pollution. Dolphins with...

We ve come a long way from guesses at the Earth s shape (flat) and it s place in the Universe (dead centre). Thanks to ideas of pure genius and...

The world is full of questions. For centuries, scientists have pondered, and answered, many of them. The Big Questions in Science delves into 20 of the most intriguing, far-reaching and...

How Understanding Flocks, Schools and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making and Getting Things Done. The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first...

Five billion years ago, this place was barely planet at all, more like a condensing cloud forming from debris that circled a fledgling star. Not a promising candidate, perhaps, for...

Technology is the mediator and middleman in nearly every relationship we have in modern life. Interwoven within the bonds between parents and kids, teachers and pupils, romantic partners, employees and...

This is the miracle of flight as you've never seen it before: the evolutionary story of life on the wing. A bird flits overhead. It's an everyday occurrence, repeated hundreds,...

Do you remember the 'Climategate' email leak? Or the 'Frankenfoods'- style headlines about the perils of GM foods? What about the time the government sacked its own science advisor for...

Ever been told that reading in bad light will damage your eyes? Or have you ever noticed that mosquitoes seem to attack some people more than others? Or perhaps you...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2011 In That Used to Be Us , Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze...

Broadcast as an award winning radio-programme on BBC Radio 4 under the title of "Taking the Piss out of London", this work contains anecdotes and tales, from Marilyn Monroe to...

Do you want to be happy? If so - read on. This book has all the answers.* In The Happy Brain , neuroscientist Dean Burnett delves deep into the inner...

Uranium is a common element in the Earth's crust and the only naturally occuring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After WWII, it reshaped the...

Discover What Rodents Know About the Good Life What can the common laboratory rat tell us about being human? According to behavioral neuroscientist Kelly Lambert, a whole lot. Her twenty-...

'Fascinating...a great historical military account and essential reading' John Volanthen, author of Thirteen Lives . The untold story of the D-Day scientists who changed special operations forever. On the beaches...

'A highly engaging guided tour through the frontiers of what science knows about how the brain works, how to extend its power and how to fix it when it's broken.'...

Named one of Wall Street Journal's Best Books for Science Lovers Science is on the cusp of a revolutionary breakthrough. We understand more about aging - and how to prevent...

'A manifesto for future-proofing our jobs and prosperity' THE SUNDAY TIMES We stand on the edge of a new era that will bring change to our world on a par...

Modern brain scans reveal our thoughts, memories, and moods, as clearly as an X-ray reveals our bones. A person's brain will light up on a scan as it registers a...

Mathletics is a remarkably entertaining book that shows readers how to use simple mathematics to analyze a range of statistical and probability-related questions in professional baseball, basketball, and football, and...

We now live longer today than at any time in history. In the UK, more people are aged over sixty-five than under sixteen and by 2050, over a third of...

In this far- reaching foray into the millennia- long relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist and author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil deGrasse Tyson and...

At the dawn of the seventeenth century everyone believed that the Sun revolved around the Earth. Yet some men knew that the heavens did not move as they should. And...

This is the amazing story of how a quest to try to crack the mystery of the Megalithic Yard - an ancient unit of linear measurement - led to the...

The real Great Barrier Reef is not just a single clown fish or a colony of branching stag horn coral. Nor is it simply the crystal clear water, cocktails and...

Overviews the background and current status of the sciences, including creation, evolution, human nature, biology, neurology, psychology, and environmentalism.

Ideal gift and stocking filler for boys and men from bestselling author. Ever wondered why we yawn and have eyebrows, what happens at absolute zero and why some tunes get...

This book offers the first complete study of the origins of American intelligence testing. It follows the life and work of Henry Herbert Goddard, America's first intelligence tester and author...

There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future. Aarathi Prasad's Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together...

Darwin's theory of evolution is accepted by most educated Americans as simple fact. This easy acceptance, however, hides from us the many ways in which evolution as an idea shapes...

One day, humans will travel to Mars . . . This book tells you everything you would need to know about a trip to the red planet. From essential preparations...

One of the most potent questions we ask about the cosmos is: are we alone? From astrobiology to exoplanets in the 'Goldilocks Zone', Jaime Green traces our understanding of what...

Ideal gift and stocking filler for boys and men from bestselling author. Ever wondered why we yawn and have eyebrows, what happens at absolute zero and why some tunes get...

Will technology change what it means to be human You don't have to be a computer scientist to have discerning conversations about artificial intelligence and technology. We all wonder where...

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'Vast and arresting' SPECTATOR 'A remarkably human take on the geological world' NEW STATESMAN Rocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years. Nothing is...

Weaving together the great ideas of science, in this, his magnum opus, Brian Clegg builds up reality piece by piece, from space, to time, to matter, movement, the fundamental forces,...

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...

Even today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar anomalies have revolutionised our world: in the sixteenth century, a...

Your brain is shrinking. Does it matter? How Much Brain Do We Really Need? challenges us to think differently about the brain. Rather than just concentrating on the many wonderful...

A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023 'Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman 'Absolutely fascinating' James O'Brien 'An exceptional book - readable, funny and more...

A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023 'Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman 'Absolutely fascinating' James O'Brien 'An exceptional book - readable, funny and more...

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...

A renowned biologist's cutting-edge and unconventional examination of human reproduction and embryo research Scientists have long struggled to make pregnancy easier, safer, and more successful. In The Dance of Life...