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A myth-busting, mind-blowing, jaw-dropping and fun-filled expedition through the world of Game of Thrones.Do dragons actually exist? Is it possible...

Discover how the world really works in this spectacular journey through space and time that shows the fundamentals of science in groun...

Curious about quarks, quasars and the fantastic universe around you? Ever wanted to explore a mathematical proof? Need some trigonometry fast? Want...

If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a plann...

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now ab...

Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2011.We are poised on the edge of discovery in particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of...

Discover a world of outrageous experiments with the Sunday Times top ten bestseller, Elephants on Acid. Guided by Alex Boese's engaging storytellin...

Jim Al-Khalili is about to untangle the world's greatest science conundrums...___________How does the fact that it gets dark at night prove the Uni...

For fans of WHAT IF? and NEW SCIENTIST comes Matt Simon''s THE WASP THAT BRAINWASHED THE CATERPILLAR, a brilliantly funny and informative look at t...

The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.Formed around 4.6...

From the phenomenal New Scientist series, with over 2,500,000 copies soldDo Polar Bears Get Lonely? is the third compilation of readers' answers to...

Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind and the dawn of civilisation. Through a century...

For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemist...

50 Science Ideas You Really Need to Know is your guide to the biggest questions and deepest concepts from across the whole of science. What was the...

More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as ma...

Cells to Civilizations is the first unified account of how life transforms itself--from the production of bacteria to the emergence of complex civi...

An awe-inspiring, unforgettable journey of scientific exploration from Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, the top ten bestselling authors of The Quantum U...

Chaser has a way with words. She knows over a thousand of them more than any other animal of any species except humans. In addition to common noun...

This book gives a down-in-the-trenches view of how knowledge of the biological world increased. It deals with science, but in a way that does not p...

Nothing seems more real than time passing. We experience life as a succession of moments. But just as some of us see God as eternal, so physicists ...

Michio Kaku's Physics of the Future: The Inventions that will Transform our Lives is a hypothetical journey through the next 100 years of scientifi...

Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely r...