Best Sellers - Individual titles

BODY: The Infographic Book of Us is the ultimate visual guide to the human body broken down into thematic sections of the physical, chemical, genetic, sensitive, coordinated, thinking, growing and...

A "gifted and tireless mathematical communicator" (Financial Times) shows why math is the ultimate timesaver--and how everyone can make their lives easier with a few simple shortcuts. Success isn't about...

In Waves in an Impossible Sea , physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human experience, and empty space. He begins with a simple mystery of motion....

One of the world's most creative mathematicians offers a "brilliant" and "mesmerizing" ( Popular Science ) new way to look at math--focusing on questions, not answers Winner of the Los...

From the phenomenal New Scientist series, with over 2,500,000 copies sold DO POLAR BEARS GET LONELY? is the third compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word'...

From the author of the international bestseller Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother , a bracing and original look at the tension between our democratic egalitarian political ideals and our...

Some have seen philosophy embedded in episodes of The Simpsons ; others have detected elements of psychology and religion. Simon Singh, bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem , The Code...

The author mtells the story of four domesticated species - the apple, the tulip, marijuana and the potato, and describes how each has thrived by satisfying humankind's most basic desires.

"One of the clearest, most enjoyable new science books in years... explains the entire history of physics and cosmology. En route, you'll laugh so hard you won't realize how much...

Terrors of the Table is an absorbing account of the struggle to find the necessary ingredients of a healthy diet, and the fads and quackery that have always waylaid the...

Learning the basic laws of physics - mechanics, thermodynamics, relativity, quantum mechanics - can be a struggle. But when that master of deduction, Sherlock Holmes, leads the way, those difficult...

The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that DNA...

Paul Smith stylishness collides with Einsteinian precision when, bored with waiting for the next sartorial breakthrough in male fashion, two physicists prove that there are not just four ways to...

The first human history of space travel - from the Apollo missions to our journey to Mars - by Britain's beloved astronaut From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake,...

From a foremost expert on the science of emotions, a ground-breaking exploration into the history, psychology and meaning of awe Social psychologist Dacher Keltner has spent his career speaking to...

Emotions are powerful. In newspaper headlines and on social media, they have become the primary way of understanding the world. But strong feelings make it more difficult to see the...

A thrilling, witty, genre-busting book on microbes, one of science's hottest topics, by a debut writer with a huge following. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE...

Physicist and rising BBC star, Dr Helen Czerski shows that science isn't something complicated for someone else somewhere else but all around us, happening right now in pigeons, teacups and...

A superb narrative history of the discovery of dinosaurs and how they revolutionised our understanding of the Earth's and mankind's origins Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery...

A short, practical and accessible guide to the perimenopause and menopause So much is still misunderstood about the menopause and how to manage it successfully - GP and menopause specialist,...

Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them before Fancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton, the elite hacking unit within Russian military...

A pioneer of artificial intelligence shows how the study of causality revolutionized science and the world 'Correlation does not imply causation.' This mantra was invoked by scientists for decades in...

The 25th Anniversary Edition of Brian Greene's iconic bestseller, combining great scientific insight and elegant writing to unravel the greatest mysteries of one of our most complex scientific concepts- string...

The invention of the bicycle changed history by democratizing travel for the first time. The common man-and importantly the common woman-could now afford to travel at reasonable speed without need...

Presents 26 cutting-edge articles from Scientific American on current brain research, by the biggest names working in the field.

In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes found the writing case of Charles Darwin's beloved daughter Annie, who died at the age of ten. Within...

The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is. Formed around 4.6 billion...

The Moon goes around the Earth, the Earth goes around the Sun, the Sun goes around the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole. As you read this...

Everybody knows that Thomas Edison devised electric light and domestic electricity supplies, that Guglielmo Marconi thought up radio and George Westinghouse built the world's first hydro-electric power station. Everybody knows...

This book takes readers to meet the presumed experts on how the brain works, but demonstrates that we cannot absolutely understand what is happening inside our heads, that science has...

At its height, Einstein's marriage to Mileva was an extraordinary one - a colleague and often fierce adversary, Mileva was brilliantly matched with the scientific genius. Dennis Overbye seeks to...

A brand new edition of an internationally renowned science bestseller. Now well into its fourth decade, What is this thing called Science? has become a classic the world over. Each...

The Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko became one of the most notorious figures in twentieth-century science after his genetic theories were discredited decades ago. Yet some scientists, even in the West,...

The greatest mass extinction in Earth's history happened some 251 million years ago. In this cataclysm at least 90% of life was killed, both on land and in the sea,...

This concise text offers an introduction to discrete mathematics for undergraduate students in computer science and mathematics. Mathematics educators consider it vital that their students be exposed to a course...

"Beyond doubt the most interesting book on the evolution of mathematics which has ever fallen into my hands."-Albert Einstein Number is an eloquent, accessible tour de force that reveals how...

In this book a master scientist tells the story of how life on earth evolved. Edward O. Wilson eloquently describes how the species of the world became diverse and why...

This third volume in Peter Ackroyd's series is a companion volume to 'Chaucer' and 'Turner'. It describes the life of Sir Isaac Newton who formulated calculus, hit upon the idea...

"An extraordinary advance in our understanding of the world." -- Sigmund Freud Introduction by Edward J. Larson Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific inquiry,...

Popular science with witty anecdotes that lighten the intellectual load, integtrated with scientific ideas, and philosophical and religious contexts. From Aristotle to the Big Bang, from the music of the...

Humans dream of super-intelligent machines. But what happens if we actually succeed? Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, according to the world's pre-eminent AI...

In The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize, Doherty recounts his unlikely path to becoming a Nobel Laureate. Beginning with his humble origins in Australia, he tells how he...

Two hundred years of modern science and culture, told through one family history In his early twenties, poor, depressed, stranded in the Coral Sea on the HMS Rattlesnake, hopelessly in...