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Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light ...

In the early 1960s scientists at the University of California, Berkeley set out to establish the key factors affecting health and longevity. Their ...

'What I like best about this fascinating book is the detail. Brian Butterworth doesn't just tell us stories of animals with numerical abilities: he...

Why is 2 times 3 equal to 3 times 2? One may think this is an axiom, but it has a proof, and a beautiful one at that. Elementary mathematics is as ...

Why is 2 times 3 equal to 3 times 2? One may think this is an axiom, but it has a proof, and a beautiful one at that. Elementary mathematics is as ...

Brought to you by Penguin.The highly anticipated new book from Malcom Gladwell, host of the chart-topping podcast Revisionist History. With origina...

We live in an incredible period in history. The Computer Revolution may be even more life-changing than the Industrial Revolution. We can do things...

Get the facts about the biggest beauty and skincare trends from Instagram's cosmetic science expert Dr Michelle Wong.Will eating dairy give me acne...

A #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERExplore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and No. 1 bestselling author o...

'Often-complex ideas are explained with clarity and precision, but this is clearly a passion project for the author, and the book soars where h...

Carbon is much more than a chemical element: it is a polymorphic entity with many faces, at once natural, cultural and social. Ranging across ten m...

Dismissing the idea that physics has to be dull, Byrne and Cassidy serve up a rip-roaring science adventure that puts the reader in the driving sea...

A lively and highly readable account of the origins, invention and discovery of just about everything on the planet, the truly global coverage of T...

Our fates lie in our genes and not in the stars, said James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. But Watson could not have predicted th...

A #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERExplore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and No. 1 bestselling author o...

A book to get the neurons firing. As a passionate game player I loved reading a neuroscientists perspective on the role games have played in humani...

Every year, air pollution prematurely kills seven million people around the world, in rich countries and poor ones. It is strongly linked to stroke...

In the early 1960s scientists at the University of California, Berkeley set out to establish the key factors affecting health and longevity. Their ...

A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023'Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman'Absolutely fascinating' Jame...

A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023'Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman'Absolutely fascinating' Jame...

Bright, nerdy and funny! Of course I loved it. Dara O BriainCan we resurrect dinosaurs, Jurassic Park-style? Are we living in The Matrix's digital ...

Concerns about the recent explosions of diseases like HIV, the West Nile Virus, and other avian and swine flus that originate in animals have encou...

We don't know what we've got until it's gone...This brief, lucid book by the Director of Science at Royal Botanical Gardens takes you on an unforge...

Discover the magical science of getting the life you want In The Neuroscience of Manifesting, psychologist and neuroscientist Dr Sabina Brennan use...

What is our universe made of? How did it get here, and how will it end? Why are many scientists currently so excited about these questions? And why...

What is our universe made of? How did it get here, and how will it end? Why are many scientists currently so excited about these questions? And why...

A fitting biography of one of the most brilliant, acerbic, and under-appreciated astrophysicists of the twentieth century. John Johnson has delved ...

As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your b...

How did we get here? All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and...

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...

There's a whole universe out there...Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit,...

In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In The Life of a Leaf, Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using t...

A fascinating look into how the transformative joys of mathematical experience are available to everyone, not just specialists   Math has a reputat...