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The definitive work of Arthur C. Clarke's brilliant career - a pageant of dozens of futuristic pieces that anticipated many of this century's greatest scientific and technological advances. The most...

Science is hugely influential in our culture. Equations lie at the heart of many of the most extraordinarily successful scientific theories. Yet, for many of us, these equations have been...

If you think Intelligent Design Theory (IDT) is merely the respectable face of Christian fundamentalism, and Evolution the only sensible scientific world-view, think again. Historically, the situation is almost exactly...

'Superb: as much a feat of imagination as it is a work of globe-trotting scholarship' TELEGRAPH 'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime...

PEN/WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD FINALIST 2023 ' A beautifully written meditation on mathematics: whimsical, thought-provoking and deep ' ALEX BELLOS, author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland 'Infinitely fascinating' THE...

With more than half the population of the US not believing that humans are descended from apes, and to prepare the way for the 150th anniversary of the publication of...

The possibility of global climatic change as a result of increasing numbers of people requiring higher stands of living has spawned an international controversy over the appropriateness of controls on...

With bird flu a very present threat, this is a timely and important look at the impact of quiet killers through the ages. In 1658 Oliver Cromwell, having brought a...

Dr. Kevin Warwick warns us that robots and machine intelligence pose an enormous threat to mankind. He is deeply critical of techniques used to measure human intelligence, in particular IQ...

*A brand new and updated edition for 2024, including the latest insights on diet and weight management drugs, gene editing, cancer testing, anti-ageing, ultra-processed foods and much more* Professor Tim...

The world is changing at an ever-increasing pace. Most of us have accepted the idea that the World Wide Web is now an important part of life and here to...

For over half a century, at almost any hour of the day, mathematicians the world over might answer a knock at the front door to find a short, frail man...

From the researcher at the centre of the computational neuroscience revolution: Read Montague's entertaining and illuminating book reveals what the latest brain science reveals about the choices we make. He...

These essays by leading philosophers of science exemplify and illuminate the contemporary uncertainty and excitement in this changing field. The far-reaching criticism challenges arguments long prevalent in classic philosophical problems...

Intended for both the layman and the scientist, this book presents an overview of some of today's great scientific questions, from the way in which we acquire language and the...

Dr John Ratey explains the brains most important systems, the role they play in determining how we interact with the world and ways in which we can influence their operations...

Computers could be like humans in every respect. They could have the intelligence to understand Shakespeare's plays, Napoleon's military strategy, Einstein's theories of relativity. They could have the creativity to...

The Maths Gene explains how the human mind came to - and continues to - perform mathematical reasoning. Where does this ability come from? Our prehistoric ancestors' brains were essentially...

In this guided tour down the centuries, Rich ard Morris shows how each new encounter with infinity has fu rthered the advancement of physics and mathematics. This is a mathematical...

In an astonishing blend of art and science, Daniel Levitin describes how music played a pivotal role in the creation of human culture and society Dividing the sum total of...

I have struggled, harder and more explicitly than for anything else in my life as a writer, to develop a distinctive and personal form of essay to treat great scientific...

The Lightness of Being is a tour de force, revealing a universe where matter is the hum of strange music, mass doesn't weigh, and empty space is a multilayered, multicoloured...

God Created The Integers is Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the greatest mathematical works in history. He allows the reader to peer into the mind of genius by providing us...

Moving on from his books on chaos ("Does God Play Dice?") and symmetry ("Fearful Symmetry"), the author of this book deals with the wider field of complexity theory. The book...

DNA - the very building blocks of life. Its discovery by Francis Crick and James Watson has had astounding implications for mankind's present and future - opening up a whole...

Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year. "This was the most...

Winner of British Psychological Society Best Book Prize (Popular Science) 2023 Nature's Top 10 Books of 2023 A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023 A Waterstones Book of the...

The Short Story of Science is a new introduction to the complete subject of science. Covering 60 key experiments, from Archimedes' investigations of buoyancy to the discovery of dark matter,...

What was the golden secret known to Leonardo da Vinci, Kepler, Plato and the ancient magicians? Can there really be a key to nature and life itself? In this small...

Our story starts around 700 BC when the Chinese used a form of gunpowder to fumigate their houses. The first real rockets were gunpowder filled sections of bamboo thrown under...

Investigating some of the great breakthroughs in modern biology, involving the cloning and deciphering of the genes that control susceptibility or resistance to cancer, Angier explores a richly human community...

For more than a century, science has cultivated a sober public image for itself. But as bestselling author Michael Brooks explains, the truth is very different: many of our most...

This is an unsolved mystery, a reclusive Russian genius and a race to win a million dollars ...For over a century, the Poincare Conjecture was one of the world's most...

In 1859 Bernhard Riemann, a shy German mathematician, gave an answer to a problem that had long puzzled mathematicians. Although he couldn't provide a proof, Riemann declared that his solution...

Am I seeing things? Did that bottle just disappear into orbit? Uhmm, well, let me start at the beginning Sean Connolly, author of Wholly Irresponsible Experiments returns with another assemblage...

CALCULUS: A COMPLETE INTRODUCTION is the most comprehensive yet easy-to-use introduction to using calculus. Written by a leading expert, this book will help you if you are studying for an...

The Perfection Point is a pacy and fascinating look at the science behind the extremes of human performance, which identifies the absolute limits the human body can go to, whether...

*A brand new and updated edition for 2024, including the latest insights on diet and weight management drugs, gene editing, cancer testing, anti-ageing, ultra-processed foods and much more* Professor Tim...

Sparked by the a provocative comment to BigThink.com last fall, and fueled by a highly controversial debate with Creation Museum curator Ken Ham, Bill Nye's campaign to confront the scientific...

Natural phenomena and ordinary, everyday things often contain surprises and puzzles when we attempt to understand them in terms of basic physical principles. Trying to explain what we see around...

After their successful books What Killed Jane Austen? and How Isaac Newton Lost his Marbles, Dr Leavesley and Dr Biro turn their attention once again to a new collection of...

Challenges the belief that the Neandertal was the first true human species, revealing the existence of humans fifty thousand years earlier, and considering why the Neandertal species died out.

It is the end of an historical epoch, but to an old professor of physics, Victor Jakob, sitting in his unlighted study, eating dubious bread with jam made from turnips,...