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***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***A New Scientist Book of the YearShortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing 'Fascinati...

Sudden flashes of inspiration have triggered many discoveries and inventions throughout history. Are such aha! moments merely random, or is there a...

This refreshingly clear layperson's overview of genetics shows how heredity actually works and how it is studied in plants and animals, clearly exp...

In this inspiring and optimistic story of a green revolution in the making, a veteran science and technology journalist shows how the unrelenting e...

Uncover the 2024 Total Solar Eclipseand more! Prepare to say, oh my stars! The 2024 Total Solar Eclipse is visible in North America on April 8th an...

A landmark work of nineteenth-century developmental and evolutionary biology that takes the Darwinian struggle for existence into the organism itse...

A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worldsOne of the most important books yet published this century Spec...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2023* This book soars Parikian is a nature writer at the top of his game. Steve Brusatte, a...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'A scientific memoir as gripping as any HBO drama series' Kate Kellaway, ObserverA dazzling scientific detective story ...

Lisa Kaltenegger offers first-hand access to her expertise on the search for planets in the universe, and the life they may contain. Along the way,...

Long before scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996, American developmental biologist and aspiring cancer res...

'Lucid and entertaining. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATION 'Pilcher is both very funny and very, very clever.' Gillian Burke 'Richly...

In the next decade, NASA, by itself and in collaboration with the European Space Agency, is planning a minimum of four separate missions to Mars. C...

What would it take to create a world in which fantasy is not confused for fact and public policy is based on objective reality? asksNeil deGrasse T...

Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2024Couldnt be a bolder, more forthright SOS for sport The ObserverThe world of sport has a...

The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great cat lover. ...

Our understanding of ourselves and the cosmos has advanced immeasurably over the last five hundred years of modern science, yet many fundamental my...

Is global warming just scaremongering by climatologists conspiring to protect their jobs? Is evolution just a theory? Is autism caused by vaccinati...

The goal of the book is to provide insight into many enjoyable and fascinating aspects of geometry, and to reveal interesting geometrical propertie...

The goal of the book is to provide insight into many enjoyable and fascinating aspects of geometry, and to reveal interesting geometrical propertie...

There is a special kind of intelligence for dealing with risk and uncertainty. It doesn't correlate with IQ and most psychologists fail to spot it ...

Humanity's ongoing quest to unlock the secrets of dark matter and dark energyHeart of Darkness describes the incredible saga of humankind's quest t...

The book describes what it means to say the world is complex and explores what that means for managers, policy makers and individuals. The first p...

An eye-opening investigation - combining reporting, history and cutting-edge science - into allergies and their rise in recent decadesHay fever. Pe...

First discovered in 1976, and long regarded as an easily manageable virus affecting isolated rural communities, Ebola rocketed to world prominence ...

Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is 'The Hidden Half' - those random, unknowable variables that mess up o...

Since the early 1990s, advances in toxicology have allowed scientists to detect traces of adulterant substances in everyday products even down to ...

***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***A New Scientist Book of the YearShortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing 'Fascinati...

Rising from a humble background in rural southern Ireland, John Tyndall became one of the foremost physicists, communicators of science, and polemi...

This book will take you on a journey through our physical universe, based on current, established science. The journey starts with the simplest fun...

In The One, particle physicist Heinrich Päs presents a bold idea: fundamentally, everything in the universe is an aspect of one unified whole.This...

A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Harts lightness of touch and passion for both su...