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No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Author: Daniel Kennefick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'One of Nature's Top Ten Books of 2019' 'Finalist for the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association...
Ant Architecture: The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests
Author: Walter R. Tschinkel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 Walter Tschinkel has spent much of his career investigating the hidden subterranean realm of ant nests. This wonderfully illustrated book...
Super Self-Care: How to Find Lasting Freedom from Addiction, Toxic Relationships and Dysfunctional Lifestyles
Author: Christopher Dines Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Christopher Dines has profound experience of recovery and personal growth; he struggled with drug addiction for most of his young adult...
Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution
Author: Skylar Tibbits Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today's researchers are...
Diamonds Everywhere: Awe-inspiring astronomy discoveries
Author: Tom Kerss Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Answers to the mysteries of the cosmos for inquiring minds. Explore the entire cosmos in 101 fascinating topics - from mind-blowing...
The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century
Author: Jamie Susskind Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK TO READ _______________ 'One of the foremost thinkers on the transformative impact of the technology revolution' -...
The Beauty Myth How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women
Author: Naomi Wolf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity . Every day, women around the...
Superyacht Captain: Life and leadership in the world's most incredible industry
Author: Brendan O'Shannassy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Billionaires are the suns in their unique universe. Their solar system contains planets built of information and access. Like Copernicus' physical...
SuperCooperators
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Author: Martin Nowak Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Beyond The Survival of the Fittest: Why Cooperation, not Competition, is the Key to Life If life is about survival of...
How to Make a Killing: Death, Dollars and the Business of Blood
Author: Tom Mueller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Six decades ago, researchers achieved the impossible: developing a treatment that transformed kidney failure from a death sentence to a manageable...
Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story
Author: Jeremy Farrar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The Coronavirus pandemic has devastated lives and livelihoods around the world - and continues to do so. These personal tragedies will,...
Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist)
Author: Sarah Chaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 *As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour* *A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022* 'Excellent ... one...
The Essentials of Psycho-Analysis
Author: Sigmund Freud Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The definitive collection of writing from the great founder of psycho-analysis. The Essentials of Psycho-analysis is the definitive collection of Sigmund Freud's...
The Magick of Matter: Crystals, Chaos and the Wizardry of Physics
Author: Felix Flicker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'This is a book about wizardry. It will reveal the secrets of the wizard's art, and how you, too, can learn...
Strange Labyrinth: Outlaws, Poets, Mystics, Murderers and a Coward in London's Great Forest
Author: Will Ashon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In litter-strewn Epping Forest on the edge of London, might a writer find that magical moment of transcendence? He will certainly...
The Self Delusion: The Surprising Science of Our Connection to Each Other and the Natural World
Author: Tom Oliver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A thought-provoking and worthwhile read' THE TIMES 'A timely, challenging book' GUARDIAN '[A] rich, intriguing book' NATURE WE ARE MUCH MORE...
The Short Story of the Universe: A Pocket Guide to the History, Structure, Theories and Building Blocks of the Cosmos
Author: Gemma Lavender Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The Short Story of the Universe is a new introduction to the subject of the universe. Covering 130 key components that...
Here Comes the Sun: How it feeds us, kills us, heals us and makes us what we are
Author: Professor Steve Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Illuminating!' Professor Brian Cox 'Every Steve Jones book is a masterclass in clear and captivating writing with tantalising detours into...
What Do You Think You Are?: The Science of What Makes You You
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Popular science master Brian Clegg's new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the...
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life on the Body in an Unjust Society
Author: Dr Arline Geronimus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Monumental ' IBRAM X. KENDI 'Eloquent, comprehensive and compassionate' LINDA VILLAROSA 'Superbly insightful' HARRIET A. WASHINGTON Fusing science and social...
The Future We Choose: 'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG
Author: Christiana Figueres Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 We can survive the climate crisis. This book shows us how. We have two choices for our future, which is still...
Animal Vegetable Criminal: When Nature Breaks the Law
Author: Mary Roach Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 What happens when nature and humanity clash? In past centuries, wild animals who broke the law would be given lawyers and...
Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future
Author: Tracey Spicer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man-Made aims to open readers' eyes to a transformative technological...
Decoding the World
Author: Po Bronson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A vision of the future where the latest Silicon Valley tech meets cutting-edge genetics. Decoding the World is a buddy adventure...
The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
Author: Professor Matthew Cobb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Brilliant .. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough' - Henry Marsh, New Statesman (about The Idea of the Brain)...
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars: The 10 Global Problems We Can Actually Fix
Author: Rowan Hooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the good of the world and the advancement...
The Story of the Brain in 101/2 Cells
Author: Richard Wingate Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and...
The Making of You: A Journey from Cell to Human
Author: Katharina Vestre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Join Katharina Vestre on an adventure to relive your very first moments. From your first cell to your first breath, this...
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Barack Obama's Books of 2019
Author: Professor Shoshana Zuboff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 The Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller 'Everyone needs to read this book as an act of digital self-defense.' - Naomi...
Pandora's Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk
Author: Alison Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A 'remarkable book.' - The New York Times This fearless, deeply reported book about laboratory accidents asks the haunting question some...
Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Our Senses
Author: Jackie Higgins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Sentient assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures - from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe - to...
The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet
Author: Arthur Turrell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Is it possible to build a star on earth? When asked what problem he hoped scientists will have solved by the...
The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
Author: Professor Matthew Cobb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A TIMES ENVIRONMENT AND SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'The ideal guide to what is not just a fiendishly...
Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist)
Author: Sarah Chaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 *As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour* *A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022* 'Excellent ... one...
The Science Magpie: Fascinating facts, stories, poems, diagrams and jokes plucked from science
Author: Simon Flynn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Fascinating lists, facts, stories, poems, drawings, diagrams - and even jokes - across the scientific disciplines and from science's bejewelled history....
The Accidental Scientist: The Role of Chance and Luck in Scientific Discovery
Author: Graeme Donald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Have you ever wondered how the ideas for some things come about? Surprisingly it is often as much down to chance...
Adventures in Human Being
Author: Gavin Francis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human...
The Self Delusion: The Surprising Science of Our Connection to Each Other and the Natural World
Author: Tom Oliver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A thought-provoking and worthwhile read' THE TIMES 'A timely, challenging book' GUARDIAN '[A] rich, intriguing book' NATURE WE ARE MUCH MORE...
Talking to Robots: How Humans and Machines Will Live Together in the Future
Author: David Ewing Duncan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'If you want to see what that future might look like, Duncan's book is a fun place to start' NPR...
Travellers to Unimaginable Lands: Dementia, Carers and the Hidden Workings of the Mind
Author: Dasha Kiper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A husband believes his wife is an imposter. A man's sudden, intense Catholic piety provokes his wife. A mother and daughter...
Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth
Author: Claire Horn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Throughout human history, every single one of us has been born from a person. So far. But that is about to...
Nostalgia Nerd's Gadgets, Gizmos & Gimmicks: A Potted History of Personal Tech
Author: Peter Leigh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In this eagerly-awaited new book from the author of the best-selling Nostalgia Nerd's Retro Tech, Peter Leigh takes a fun, informative...
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Why does eugenics still loom...
Pluses and Minuses: How Maths Makes the World More Manageable
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Author: Stefan Buijsman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Thousands of years ago the inhabitants of Mesopotamia became the first to use numbers. Since then, mathematics has been unstoppable. It's...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'The ultimate anti-racism guide' Caroline Criado Perez...
For the Love of Animals: Stories from my life as a vet
Author: Dr James Greenwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'A joy to read' - SARA COX Growing up in Yorkshire and with farming blood in his genes, James Greenwood...
The Brain: 10 Things You Should Know
Author: Professor Sophie Scott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Uncover the mind-blowing complexities of the brain and how it affects our personalities, behaviours and more. Written by Professor of...
The Cartographers
Author: Peng Shepherd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Exquisitely written ... Be prepared to be swept away on an incredible journey' Brad Thor, #1 bestselling author of Black Ice...