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Building the World: Power Stations and Electricity
Author: Paul Mason Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 See the world from a whole new angle! This innovative series, illustrated with amazing isometric artwork, reveals the technology, science and...
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth
Author: Kate Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In 2013 Kate Greene moved to Mars. On NASA's first HI-SEAS simulated Mars mission in Hawai'i, she lived for...
Fire, Ice, and Physics
Author: Rebecca C. Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 296 A PhD physicist (and self-professed fangirl) uses the science in George R. R. Martin's fantastical world--from ice walls...
The Origin of Species: (Patterns of Life)
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed...
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on...
Einstein's Fridge: The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe
Author: Paul Sen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Hugely readable and entertaining' JIM AL-KHALILI 'an accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this discipline's breadth, largely told through its...
Football School Season 1: Where Football Explains the World
Author: Alex Bellos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A groundbreaking new series from two bestselling writers that teaches you about the world through football. The first book...
Cool Engineering: Filled with fantastic facts for kids of all ages
Author: Jenny Jacoby Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 Engineering is no less than the power to change the world! Inside this mega-jampacked book find out about the lives of...
Look Inside How Things Work
Author: Rob Lloyd Jones Format: Board book Number of Pages: 14 Have you ever wondered how cars roar along roads, or planes soar into the sky? Discover how all sorts...
Body Bits: Hair-raising Human Body Facts
Author: Paul Mason Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Bizarre, incredible and downright gross facts about human and animal bodies In Hair-raising Human Body Facts, you'll learn about some of...
Stuff You Should Know About the Human Body
Author: John Farndon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 In this fascinating introduction to the human body, large, colourful diagrams are brought to life by tiny people running...
Little Learning Labs: Kitchen Science for Kids, abridged paperback edition: 26 Fun, Family-Friendly Experiments for Fun Around the House; Activities for STEAM Learners: Volume 3
Author: Liz Lee Heinecke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 Cook up some science at home with Little Learning Labs: Kitchen Science for Kids. Conduct physics, chemistry, and...
DNA Is You!: The Marvelous Science Behind Your One-of-a-Kind-ness
Author: Beatrice the Biologist Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Learn all about how your DNA makes you who you are-an awesome, unique individual-in this fun and simple illustrated guide!...
How to Solve the Da Vinci Code: And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Mathematics
Author: Richard Elwes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Can you outrun a bullet? How do you build an electronic brain? Could you slow down time? How do...
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design are Changing the Way We Live, Work & Play
Author: Cliff Kuang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A fascinating look at the secrets of user experience and how brilliant design changes everything, by Robert Fabricant, one...
The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19
Author: Mark Honigsbaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A timely and critically acclaimed 100-year history of pandemics, by medical historian and viral TED talk presenter - with...
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...
Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health
Author: Daniel Lieberman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing...
Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
Author: Lucy Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An urgent, comprehensive inquiry into how nature enriches the human psyche - and of the startling risks we face...
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Author: Joshua Foer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The international bestseller on memory and how to master it Can anyone get a perfect memory? Joshua Foer used...
How Not to Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life
Author: Jordan Ellenberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 How a little mathematics goes a long way in helping you not to be wrong The maths we learn...
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Author: Pedro Domingos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos reveals how machine learning is remaking business, politics, science and war. And he...
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...
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Author: John M Barry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called...
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,...
Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe
Author: Louisa Preston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'An expert romp through the science of extraterrestrial life.' Adam Rutherford Today we know of only a single planet that hosts...
Ideas Are Your Only Currency
Author: Rod Judkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 FUTURE-PROOFING FOR THINKERS. 'What skills and abilities will a student need to prosper in five, ten, or fifteen years'...
Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science
Author: Anna Reser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked,...
Seven Pillars of Science: The Incredible Lightness of Ice, and Other Scientific Surprises
Author: John Gribbin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 John Gribbin, author of Six Impossible Things, shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, presents a tour of...
Origins of the Universe: The Cosmic Microwave Background and the Search for Quantum Gravity
Author: Keith Cooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Nearly 60 years ago, Nobel Prize-winners Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson stumbled across a mysterious hiss of faint radio...
Can You Solve My Problems?: A casebook of ingenious, perplexing and totally satisfying puzzles
Author: Alex Bellos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old? Can you beat Sherlock Holmes? If you think the answer is yes...
Sense: The book that uses sensory science to make you happier
Author: Russell Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 How can colour prime you for creative thinking? What kind of music helps you run faster? Which scents can...
Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets
Author: Andrew May Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block,...
What a Wonderful World: One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff
Author: Marcus Chown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist?...
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 How our animal heritage affects the way we live From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and...
Brilliant Women: Pioneers of Science and Technology
Author: Georgia Amson-Bradshaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 48 In PIONEERS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY you'll say hello to Hypatia, an ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer. You'll learn...
The 2.67 Trillion Internet Searches Each Year Using Technology
Author: Paul Mason Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Do you know how many zeros there are in a duotrigintillion? Or which country has the greatest number of...
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate
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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...
Blueprint for a Battlestar: Serious Scientific Explanations for Sci-Fis Greatest Inventions
Author: Rod Pyle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Packed with stunning images, including 75 illustrations created exclusively for this book, Blueprint for a Battlestar takes twenty-five remarkable and memorable...
How Long is a Piece of String?: More hidden mathematics of everyday life
Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A fascinating book, from a leading maths educator and demystifier, that shows how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. Have...
On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA
Author: John Gribbin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from...
Science Makers: Making with Machines
Author: Anna Claybourne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Be a SCIENCE MAKER by experimenting, tinkering and building to discover the wonders of science! Learn all about MACHINES...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK --- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Seriously important' BILL BRYSON 'A book...