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The two volumes of 'Engaging Young Students in Mathematics through Competitions' present a wide scope of aspects relating to mathematics competitio...

David Singmaster believes in the presentation and teaching of mathematics as recreation. When the Rubik's Cube took off in 1978, based on thinly di...

'A future classic of popular science' Mail on Sunday 'A dazzling account' Financial Times 'Absorbing, surprising and at times profound. After rea...

The two volumes of 'Engaging Young Students in Mathematics through Competitions' present a wide scope of aspects relating to mathematics competitio...

This well-illustrated book on the life sciences covers many topical issues, ranging from the origin of life to mad-cow disease. The illustrations i...

"I loved the book! This book is not just interesting, it is exciting. I have probably read every significant book in the field, and this is the str...

The clearest, most accessible explanation yet of the amazing world of quantum mechanics. How can matter behave both like a particle and a wave? Do...

Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense. Even today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can n...

In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from ap...

The last 100 years has seen science deal with issues outside itself, communicate with the public and try to answer questions long considered the pr...

The combative metaphor of Oscience warsO has taken on a predominant position within the collective conscious, from being featured on the programs o...

20 years later The Music of the Primes is still a groundbreaking popular science book. This new edition features updates from the author and a fore...

Television, the movies, and computer games fill the minds of their viewers with a daily staple of fantasy, from tales of UFO landings, haunted hous...

Winner of the 2010 Royal Society Prize for science books Powerful new research methods are providing fresh and vivid insights into the makeup of...

Darwin's greatest accomplishment was to show how life might be explained as the result of natural selection. But does Darwin's theory mean that lif...

Are we still evolving? Scientists have grappled with this question since the time of Darwin. Now, in this provocative book, biologist Christopher W...

Space and time are the most fundamental features of our experience of the world, and yet they are also the most perplexing. Does time really flow, ...

Human Nature offers a wide-ranging and holistic view of human nature from all perspectives: scientific, historical, and sociological. Mary Clark ta...

Human Nature offers a wide-ranging and holistic view of human nature from all perspectives: scientific, historical, and sociological. Mary Clark ta...

Most of us believe that we sleep in order to rest our tired bodies and minds. Originally published in 1977, this centuries-old common-sense view is...

Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth-and all complex life shares many str...

Why does the size of a space shuttle's fuel tanks have more to do with a horse's rump than rocket science? Is there a correlation between the humbl...

The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All ideas that have revolutionised science - and that were dismissed out of hand when they first ap...