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Author: David Whitehouse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, David Whitehouse brings you the inside story...

Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 What is consciousness? Is it real or just an illusion? And how does it work? What is this strange...

Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....

Author: Cathy N. Davidson (Distinguished Professor and Director of the Futures Initiative, CUNY Graduate Center) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 88 In this report, Cathy Davidson and David...

Author: Colin Stuart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A fascinating and comprehensive guide to the sun - our home star - which remains the greatest mystery in the solar...

Author: Helen Browning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 What is it about the humble pig that holds such a special place in our hearts? In a frosty...

Author: Andy Dougan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, Frankenstein, introduced readers around the world to the concept of raising the dead through scientific...

Author: Daniel Allen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A collection of anecdotes, facts, figures, folklore and literature, The Nature Magpie is a veritable treasure trove of humanity's...

Author: Brian Switek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Darwin's theory of evolution was for more than a century dogged by a major problem: the evidence proving the...

Author: Gavin Hesketh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 What is everything really made of? If we split matter down into smaller and infinitesimally smaller pieces, where do...

Author: Graham Farmelo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 How math helps us solve the universe's deepest mysteriesOne of the great insights of science is that the universe has an...

Author: Lisa Margonelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Who has the answer to the world's fuel problems? How can we bring ruined land back to life? Where do roboticists...

Author: Klaus Dodds Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Ice has played a prominent role in the history of the earth and its living communities for millennia. We...

Author: Daniel Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Arithmetic, Probability, Fractions, Measurements - maths is one of those subjects that continue to throw a lot of us...

Author: Amir Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our world On a cloudy day in 1413, a balding young man...

Author: Maggie Ryan Sandford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 CONSIDER THE PLATYPUS explores the history and features of more than 50 animals to provide insight into our current understanding...

Author: Theodore Gray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Million-copy bestselling author of THE ELEMENTS, MOLECULES, and REACTIONS Theodore Gray applies his trademark mix of engaging stories, real-time experiments, and...

Author: Marcus du Sautoy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it... Not falling in love, but counting. Animals and humans...

Author: Ted Gott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 In Gorilla, Tedd Gott and Kathryn Weir provide a compelling and sometimes disturbing account of our relationship with this...

Author: Steven Connor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 296 Ideas about quantities, magnitudes and frequencies shape and give texture to almost everything we feel, say, dream and do....

Author: Mary Robinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2018 Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by...

Author: Emmy J. Favilla Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Eats, Shoots & Leaves for the internet age As language evolves faster than ever before, what is the...

Author: Cordelia Fine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. Yet popular books, magazines and even scientific articles defend inequalities by citing...

Author: Adam Dodd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 From ancient Egyptian deities to German automobiles, beetles have left an indelible mark on human cultures around the world....

Author: Robin Boast Format: Hardback Number of Pages: We live in a digital age, within a digital economy, continuously engaged with digital media. Digital encoding lies at the heart of...

Author: Alex Bellos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of...

Author: Lewis Blackwell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 There are no places richer in diversity and host to such a quantity of different living things. With a visually stunning...

Author: Richard Coyne (Professor, Head of the School of Arts, Culture and Environment, The University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 294 Using the...

Author: George Michelsen Foy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In the bestselling tradition of The Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, "an exquisitely written and dramatic book...a literary page-turner"...

Author: Alexander Boxer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Despite a resurgence in popularity, horoscopes are generally considered to be pseudoscience today, but they were once a cutting-edge scientific tool....

Author: Hemant Taneja Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'A thought-provoking look at the technology that is changing the world of business and the benefits, pitfalls, and challenges...

Author: Menno Schilthuizen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, and a large portion of the planet's...

Author: Mary Ann Caws Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 This book, which includes a preface by Tom Conley, covers many aspects of Blaise Pascal's life and work that are...

Author: Edgar Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A witty and informative tale of everything lunar, tracing the moon's cultural resonance throughout humanity's history. Since humans first...

Author: Marianne Freiberger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 In Understanding Numbers, Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas will show key number patterns and maths principles that are vital...

Author: Katie Daynes Format: Board book Number of Pages: 14 Why is there so much plastic in the world? How does it help us? What's the problem and how can...

Author: Bernie Krause Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 A pioneer in the field of soundscape ecology explores the ways in which the voice of the natural world informs many...

Author: Prof. Brian Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us...

Author: Daniel MacCannell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The rainbow is a compelling spectacle in nature - a rare bridge between subjective experience and objective reality, and...

Author: Eugenia Cheng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "[Cheng] does a great service by showing us non-mathematician schlubs how real mathematical creativity works." -- Wall Street Journal How big...

Author: Twigs Way Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Carnations permeate our culture from the wedding bed to the funeral wreath. Derided in Shakespeare as 'nature's bastards', they challenged the...

Author: Louise M. Pryke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 From the dawn of civilization scorpions have captured the human imagination. Yet the scorpion is a misunderstood animal...

Author: Shelly Fan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production Awards The past sixty years have...

Author: Densey Clyne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 My Encounters with Minibeasts is a collection of stories about insects and spiders by naturalist Densey Clyne, who is...

Author: David Boyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In the three decades between 1492 and 1522, European merchants and explorers progressed from relative ignorance about the shape...

Author: Vivian T. Linacre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 168 An essential collection of articles, tables and notes, to define and explain the modern uses and relationships -...

Author: Lewis Wolpert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Why are there two sexes? How different are they and why? Why can't a woman be more like a...

Author: Neil Gershenfeld Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The 20th century witnessed two digital revolutions. Computing power has revolutionized every industry, from finance to agriculture to pharmaceuticals. We've got...