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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Author: John M Barry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called...
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
Author: Charles Duhigg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 An award-winning journalist reveals the secrets of why you do what you do - and how to change There's...
The Female Brain
Author: Louann Brizendine, MD Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Female Brain is a thought-provoking, accessible and fun guide that will help women to better understand themselves...
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
Author: Sarah Stewart Johnson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A talented young planetary scientist traces our centuries-old obsession with a seemingly desolate planet Right now, spacecraft are circling Mars,...
The Human Age: How we created the Anthropocene epoch and caused the climate
Author: Prof Gisli Palsson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The Human Age is an intrepid exploration of the new geological epoch in which we now find ourselves: the Anthropocene....
Ideas Are Your Only Currency
Author: Rod Judkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 FUTURE-PROOFING FOR THINKERS. 'What skills and abilities will a student need to prosper in five, ten, or fifteen years'...
The Great Mystery: Science, God and the Human Quest for Meaning
Author: Alister McGrath, DPhil, DD Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 There is currently huge interest in the question of human nature and identity, and what the human...
Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science
Author: Anna Reser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked,...
Hollywood Wants to Kill You: The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies
Author: Michael Brooks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'A wonderful book...Delightfully varied...As with all the best science writing, this book doesn't just give answers, it also asks...
How The Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria and the Riddle of Mental Illness
Author: Dr Allan Ropper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In 1882, Jean-Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established a neurology clinic at the...
Sense: The book that uses sensory science to make you happier
Author: Russell Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 How can colour prime you for creative thinking? What kind of music helps you run faster? Which scents can...
Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets
Author: Andrew May Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block,...
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 How our animal heritage affects the way we live From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and...
The 2.67 Trillion Internet Searches Each Year Using Technology
Author: Paul Mason Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Do you know how many zeros there are in a duotrigintillion? Or which country has the greatest number of...
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate
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Author: Paolo Giordano Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 'The literature of the time after begins here' EVENING STANDARD 'A jolt of brevity and simplicity' THE TIMES 'In...
How Long is a Piece of String?: More hidden mathematics of everyday life
Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A fascinating book, from a leading maths educator and demystifier, that shows how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. Have...
Join the Greener Revolution: 30 easy ways to live and eat sustainably
Author: Ollie Hunter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Following the groundbreaking 30 Easy Ways to Join the Food Revolution, Ollie Hunter is back with his second book, 30 Easy...
Science Makers: Making with Machines
Author: Anna Claybourne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Be a SCIENCE MAKER by experimenting, tinkering and building to discover the wonders of science! Learn all about MACHINES...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK --- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Seriously important' BILL BRYSON 'A book...
The Beekeeper's Field Guide: A Pocket Guide to the Health and Care of Bees
Author: David Cramp Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 This guide is a diagnostic tool and an aide memoire for the hobbyist and for the professional beekeeper, who...
Megacatastrophes!: Nine Strange Ways the World Could End
Author: David Darling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 200 Which will get us first? The asteroid hurtling towards us from outer space? The Black Plague: Round Two? Swiss...
Universal: A Journey Through the Cosmos
Author: Brian Cox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Top Ten bestselling authors of The Quantum Universe take us on an awe-inspiring journey of scientific exploration. We...
The Blind Watchmaker
Author: Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an...
Elephants: Birth, Death and Family in the Lives of the Giants
Author: Hannah Mumby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Elephants are as unique as people. They can be clever and curious or headstrong and impulsive, shy or sociable....
Why do Buses Come in Threes?: The hidden mathematics of everyday life
Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 An entertaining guide to how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. Why is it better to buy a lottery ticket...
The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen
Author: Brian Cox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The world we live in is stranger than we can possibly imagine. The closest we've got to understanding it...
A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes
Author: Stephen Hawking (University of Cambridge) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Stunningly repackaged edition of the international bestseller with a new appendix of updates from the author....
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World
Author: Michael Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From the No. 1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the surprising and profound story of...
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Author: Richard Dawkins (Oxford University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Britain's greatest science writer comprehensively rebuts the creationists by pulling together the incontrovertible evidence for evolution Charles...
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Author: Brian Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 From the world-renowned physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe comes this captivating exploration of deep time and...
The Body: A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 #1 Sunday Times bestseller in both hardback and paperback, this head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human...
Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History
Author: Lewis Dartnell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations Read the Sunday...
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Author: Yuval Noah Harari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. **THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**...
Letters from an Astrophysicist
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'The most popular scientist in the world' (Sunday Times) bares his soul and answers the biggest questions in...
The Order of Time
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The number 1 bestseller from the superstar physicist hailed as 'the new Hawking' (Sunday Times) Time is a mystery...
Gut: the inside story of our body's most under-rated organ
Author: Giulia Enders Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The key to living a happier, healthier life is inside us. The key to living a happier, healthier life...
The Grand Design
Author: Leonard Mlodinow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 New answers to the ultimate questions of life from the world's most famous living scientist. When and how did...
Nature's Nether Regions: What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity and Ourselves
Author: Menno Schilthuizen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 What's the easiest way to tell species apart? Check their genitals. Researching private parts was long considered taboo, but scientists are...
The History of Science
Author: Tom Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Mankind has forever strived to learn. The tribe with the better weapons can hunt more efficiently, defend itself better...
Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of its Ice
Author: Gillen D'Arcy Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A history of the first race to Antarctica that weaves the great polar discoveries of the nineteenth century...
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable
Author: Paul J. Nahin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 232 An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic...
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
Author: Rob Dunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A savoury account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolution Nature, it has been said, invites...
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done
Author: David Badre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 312 A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday lives. Why...
Hard to Break: Why Our Brains Makes Habits Stick
Author: Russell A. Poldrack Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The neuroscience of why bad habits are so hard to break-and how evidence-based strategies can help us change...
The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds
Author: Mark Humphries Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 232 The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains work We see the last...
Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space
Author: Kevin Hand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar system....
Outbreaks and Epidemics: Battling infection from measles to coronavirus
Author: Meera Senthilingam Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out...
My First Book of Comparisons: How the world measures up
Author: Ana Seixas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 Packed full of facts this wonderfully illustrated book measures and compares everything from animals, space and dinosaurs to machines, sports and...