Best Sellers - Individual titles

'This is the great Life, the Universe and Everything book for our time' Independent In our search for truth, how far have we advanced? This uniquely human quest for good...

Bill Gates, the chairman, chief executive officer and cofounder of the Microsoft corporation, is the principal architect of the "information super-highway" that will shape the future. It will affect everyone...

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...

*A FINANCIAL TIMES , GUARDIAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE SUMMER* 'The fascinating story of ancient words ... new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist ________________________________ One...

Uncover the incredible truth of your dreaming brain with Sunday Times bestselling neurosurgeon Dr Rahul Jandial A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'COMPLETELY TRANSFORMED MY WAY...

The world's leading educational technologist makes an inspirational case for how we should use AI to support pupils and teachers The generative AI revolution has come to education. Salman Khan,...

A powerful argument for reclaiming childhood - and all human relationships - from the online world, from the influential social psychologist and international bestselling author Jonathan Haidt has spent his...

The transformative guide to recognising, preventing and healing trauma by Dr Paul Conti, with a foreword by Lady Gaga. 'I can say with certainty that this man saved my life....

From the No.1 bestselling author of Do No Harm, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and what matters in the end. From the No.1 bestselling author of...

Your essential guide to eating well from the gut-health expert and publishing phenomenon 'Life-changing' DAVINA McCALL 'A must-read' Dr RUPY AUJLA 'Fascinating' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Empowering' LIZ EARLE **AS HEARD ON...

Launching the runaway bestseller with ambitions to be the biggest non-fiction paperback of the year IT'S NOT YOU. IT'S THE FOOD. 'If you only read one diet or nutrition book...

One of the world's leading scientists of food and nutrition reveals why so much of the current advice about food and nutrition is dangerously inaccurate, misleading and often downright wrong....

From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, the stunning odyssey of the cell - the key to life and ourselves **Longlisted for...

A new sporting classic - 'The book that could change the game forever' (The Times) Football has always been a numbers game- 4-4-2, the big number 9 and 3 points...

The eminent neuroscientist and nutritionist explains how what we eat affects how we think 'We are what we eat' is an age-old adage. But while we often talk about diets...

A revelatory account of the past, present and future of economic growth - and how we should rethink it Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from...

A renowned complexity scientist promotes a revolution to make economic predictions more scientific, allowing us to build a better world We live in an age of increasing complexity, where accelerating...

Stand-up mathematician, star of 'Festival of the Spoken Nerd', Matt Parker takes us on a riotous journey through the infinite possibilities of numbers in our everyday lives This is the...

The acclaimed Top Ten Bestseller that tells you everything you need to know about your dog 'Every dog lover, dog owner or prospective dog buyer should read this book' John...

Author, celebrity teacher and science guy Steve Spangler teaches you how to transform the ordinary into the amazing as you make everyday items ooze, bubble, fizz, pop. Make people wonder...

It's the age-old question: is there life on Mars? This is the story of the Mars Exploration Rover mission, the most ambitious attempt yet to explore the surface of another...

* Where do our thoughts come from? * How can we manipulate our dreams? * What is the role of the unconscious? * How do we make decisions and trust...

Through the vivid, true stories of five addicts, a neuroscientist explains how addiction happens in the brain, and what we can do to overcome it. The psychiatric establishment and rehab...

The communication superhighway, or the information superhighway as it is often more limitingly called, does not exist. It is an idea, the conceptualisation of which will largely shape its final...

The Earth's climate has always been in flux: glacial periods and warm ones have slowly and relentlessly alternated for millennia. But the period of global warming of the last 15,000...

One of Galileo's fingers is in a museum in Florence, Napoleon's severed penis is in the hands, as it were, of an American urologist. And the brain of the greatest...

Was mathematics invented or discovered? Why do we have negative numbers? How much math does a pineapple know? Think Like a Mathematician will answer all your burning questions about mathematics,...

Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid. It inspires revulsion even while it compels our fascination. It is a both a vehicle for pathogens...

After his death, Fremming's daughter inherited the lock, and eventually put it up for sale at Sotheby's, where two American Beethoven enthusiasts, Ira Brilliant and Che Guevara, purchased it in...

Over millions of years, male and female bodies developed crucial physiological differences to improve the chances for human survival. These differences have become culturally obsolete with the overturning of traditional...

A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees. Most of us are aware of the hive mind - the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do...

Nobelist Eric Kandel's account of how his personal quest to understand memory intersected with the emergence of a new science. In Search of Memory relates the astonishing story of how...

John D. Mayer, the renowned psychologist who co-developed the groundbreaking theory of emotional intelligence, now draws on decades of research to introduce another paradigm-shifting idea: that in order to become...

From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table. Why did Gandhi...

An exploration of why we don't talk to strangers and the wonderful things that would happen if we did. In our cities, we barely acknowledge one another on public transport,...

A practical and inspiring new book by the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author of A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled It took us 4 billion years to evolve to...

A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide a much-needed new framework for making sense of mental illness With his...

"It may be that I have stumbled upon an adequate description of life itself." These modest yet profound words trumpet an imminent paradigm shift in scientific, economic, and technological thinking....

When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralysed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying...

Longlisted for thePEN America Literary Awards 2021:PEN/E.O Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Waterstone's Best Books of 2020: Popular Science American Scientist's 2020 Science Book Gift Guide Why is the world...

Today's world is unpredictable and full of contradictions, and navigating its complexities while trying to make the best decisions is far from easy. The Joy of Science presents 8 short...

Dr Francis S. Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, working at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of...

Einstein is the great icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol...

A prescient analysis of what makes artificial intelligence so ... artificial The brave new world of faking it ... Artificial intelligence is, as the name suggests, artificial and fundamentally different...

An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella and his SGU co-hosts, which Richard Wiseman calls "the perfect...

Explore the physics behind the world of Star Wars, with engaging topics and accessible information that shows how we're closer than ever before to creating technology from the galaxy far,...

A modern take on that universally fascinating subject - plagueAs Ed Marriott discovered while researching this brilliant new book, plague is a powerful subject. As well as being a seriously...