Sort by:
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Author: James Nestor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of...
Terry Denton's Really Truly Amazing Guide to Everything
Author: Terry Denton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A mini book of facts packed with maximum humour! Sure to engage anyone from the ages of 8 to 80 (and...
The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain
Author: Gina Rippon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An agenda-setting, myth-debunking book by neuroscientist Professor Gina Rippon that demolishes the idea of biology as destiny and the...
The Gene: An Intimate History
Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history. ** NEW...
Expert: Understanding the Path to Mastery
Author: Roger Kneebone Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 THE EXPERT ON EXPERTS SHOW US WHAT IT TAKES TO MASTER ANY SKILL What could a lacemaker have in...
Sleep: Change the way you sleep with this 90 minute read
Author: Nick Littlehales Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Proven solutions for better nights, from the 'sleep guru' to international sports stars. One third of our lives are...
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Author: Max Tegmark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Why does mathematics explain the universe so well? From the big bang to the distant future via parallel worlds,...
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
Author: Vaclav Smil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Bill Gates' favourite scientist is on a mission to make facts matter Is flying dangerous? How much do the...
Physics of the Future: The Inventions That Will Transform Our Lives
Author: Michio Kaku Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'A whirlwind tour of technological possiblity' New Scientist We all wish we could predict the future, but most of...
Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control
Author: Stuart Russell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Humans dream of super-intelligent machines. But what happens if we actually succeed? Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest...
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum
Author: Lee Smolin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A renegade quantum physicist argues for a radical new interpretation of the structure of reality Human beings, says Lee...
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Author: Steven Pinker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Steven Pinker's landmark defence of human nature Recently many people have assumed that we are blank slates shaped by...
A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
Author: Frank Wilczek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A Nobel Prize-winning physicist argues that beauty is the fundamental organizing principle for the entire universe In this scientific...
The Art of Flight
Author: Fredrik Sjoeberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Two more tales of memory, nature, travel and collecting from the author of the Swedish bestseller The Fly Trap...
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond
Author: Michio Kaku Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning vision of our future in...
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
Author: Robert Plomin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 From one of the world's top geneticists, the controversial and cutting-edge book that's making us rethink who we are...
The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking)
Author: Katie Mack Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An acclaimed theoretical astrophysicist explores the end of the Universe. When will it take place? How is it likely...
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
Author: David Christian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 This is the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to...
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
Author: Sarah Stewart Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A talented young planetary scientist charts our centuries-old obsession with Mars - Winner of the 2021 Whiting Award...
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
Author: Daniel C. Dennett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 One of the world's most original and provocative thinkers offers a major new account of the origins of...
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Author: Max Tegmark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business - and there's no one better to explore that future...
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
Author: Leonard Susskind Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The second volume in Leonard Susskind's hugely popular, one-of-a-kind introductory series on physics In The Theoretical Minimum, world-class physicist...
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery
Author: Seb Falk Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A spellbinding journey through the life of an English monk, an age of discovery and the mysteries of the...
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Author: Steven D. Levitt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Are you a FREAKONOMIST? Cult bestseller, new buzz word... Freakonomics is at the heart of everything we see...
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
Author: Jevin D. West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we? A spotter's guide to bullshit in...
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 The enchanting international bestselling sensation on modern physics comes to paperback In this mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Carlo...
Peter 2.0: The Human Cyborg
Author: Peter Scott-Morgan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The extraordinary true story of the man who decided to live forever Peter, a brilliant scientist, is told that...
Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea
Author: Edith Widder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 An exhilarating underwater exploration for readers wanting to recapture their sense of wonder Edith Widder grew up wanting to...
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Author: Elizabeth Kolbert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking-...
12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love
Author: Jeanette Winterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 *A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND EVENING STANDARD* Twelve bytes. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny...
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
Author: Nichola Raihani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Exploring evolution, animal behaviour and human psychology, THE SOCIAL INSTINCT reveals how and why cooperation has shaped and defined...
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
Author: Kate Murphy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you? This life-changing book will...
The Secret Network of Nature: The Delicate Balance of All Living Things
Author: Peter Wohlleben Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees comes an exploration of the invisible connections sustaining the...
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life)
Author: Yuval Noah Harari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet....
How To Be a Stoic
Author: Epictetus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen' How can...
Peak: How all of us can achieve extraordinary things
Author: Anders Ericsson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Reveals that all of us can excel at our chosen activities and offers a guide to unlocking our potential...
The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language
Author: Albert Costa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The definitive study of bilingualism from a leading neuropsychologist Over half of the world's population is bilingual and yet...
Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physics
Author: Anthony Aguirre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A delightful intellectual adventure that brings together physics and ancient philosophy Could there be a civilization on a mote...
The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well
Author: Daniel Levitin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The neuroscientist and best-selling author of The Organized Mind explains what happens to our brains from womb to tomb....
The Science of Meditation: How to Change Your Brain, Mind and Body
Author: Daniel Goleman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A fascinating and practical guide from two New York Times bestselling authors, backed by state-of-the-art scientific research. Drawing on...
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
Author: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Winner of the 2020 British Psychological Society Popular Science Prize and the 2018 Royal Society Science Book Prize. Up...
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,...
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate
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...