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Oceans make up most of the surface of our blue planet. They may form just a sliver on the outside of the Earth, but they are very important, not on...

A 'difficult' subject so simply taught - brilliant book' - Amazon 5 star review 'This is a great refresher book! Lots of worked out examples, great...

Do you need to gain confidence with handling numbers and formulae? Do you want a clear, step-by-step guide to the key concepts and principles of st...

**'A masterpiece of evocative scientific storytelling.' BRIAN COX****'Will appeal to fans of Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens'. Mail on Sunday **The ext...

All science begins with questions... - Why is the night sky black, even though it's full of stars? - How do pebbles skim on water? - Why doesn't yo...

The variety of the mycological world is far greater than most people imagine. Tens of thousands of fungal species have been described and many more...

From the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton, The Science Magpie is a compelling collection of scientific curiosities.Expand your...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2014 WINTON ROYAL SOCIETY PRIZE FOR SCIENCE BOOKSAs troubling as we pattern-seeking humans may find it, modern science has repea...

By inviting the Dalai Lama and leading researchers in medicine, psychology, and neuroscience to join in conversation, the Mind & Life Institu...

Thought about sex today? Of course you have! It's about the most natural thing any animal can do. But have you ever wondered how human sex compares...

This book explains to the general reader the roles of chemistry in various areas of life ranging from the entirely personal to the worryingly globa...

Many are familiar with the beauty and ubiquity of fractal forms within nature. Unlike the study of smooth forms such as spheres, fractal geometry d...

And if anyone knows anything about anything it's Owl who knows something about something. Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne From prehistoric cave paint...

There is not just one story of silk.In silk is science, history and mythology.In silk is the future. ...

The Sunday Times Bestseller In Wonders of the Solar System the book of the acclaimed BBC TV series Professor Brian Cox will take us on ...

By turns creative and destructive, wind spreads seeds, fills sails and disperses the energy of the sun. Worshipped since antiquity, wind has moulde...

The marvelous microbes that made life on Earth possible and support our very existenceFor almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oc...

An entertaining and enlightening history of irrational numbers, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first centuryThe ancient Greeks discovered them, ...

The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, ...