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Learn to: Master maths with more than 2,000 practice questions Add, subtract, multiply and divide with confidence Work with decimals, fractions a...

Hailed as “the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement” (Christian Science Monitor), The Big Switch makes a simple and profoun...

The Story of Science guides us to the original texts that have changed the way we think about our world, our cosmos and ourselves. Whether referenc...

Metaphysics isn't ordinarily much of a laughing matter. But in the hands of acclaimed comedy writer and scholar Eric Kaplan, a search for the truth...

In Women After All, anthropologist Melvin Konner traces the arc of evolution to explain the relationships between women and men. Drawing on colourf...

'A rewarding glimpse of another world' THE GUARDIANSeashells are the sculpted homes of a remarkable group of animals: the molluscs. These are some ...

Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her as slow, stubborn - or worse. As a child, she...

Taking an ecological approach to our evolution, Clive Finlayson considers the origins of modern humans within the context of a drying climate and c...

While golf has a popular following among casual fans, it has become popular among another passionate yet unlikely group: scientists. Beyond the cad...

Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Th...

Human beings are the only species to have evolved the trait of emotional crying. We weep at tragedies in our lives and in those of others - remarka...

Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the USA. But perhaps less well known is that he wa...

We inherit mechanisms for survival from our primeval past; none so obviously as those involved in reproduction. The hormone testosterone underlies ...

From the development of the scientific understanding of storms to their representation in literature, art and music, from the destruction of the st...

In the modern world the theory of probability is used extensively in mathematics, science, engineering, medicine and, of course, gambling. A propos...