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Gender is shifting. But is gender disappearing? This is the story of where biology meets behaviour - how sex drives us, and informs so many of the ...

In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke ONeill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grap...

In What Do Animals Think and Feel?, the biologist Karsten Brensing has something astonishing to tell us about the animal kingdom: namely that anima...

One of the most illuminating, useful and exciting books ever published in the mathematical field Taking only a modicum of knowledge for granted, L...

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...

A scientific and globetrotting exploration of the physics experiments changing the ways we understand our universe. Why is the universe expanding?...

Big History, the field that integrates traditional historical scholarship with scientific insights to study the full sweep of our universe, has so ...

A mathematical tour of some of the greatest unsolved ciphers of all timeIn 1953, a man was found dead from cyanide poisoning near the Philadelphia ...

A provocative new account of how morality evolvedWhat is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? I...

The Little Book of String Theory offers a short, accessible, and entertaining introduction to one of the most talked-about areas of physics today. ...

The String Book opens with a note about an 8,000-year-old piece of string that was found at a Stone Age settlement in England, about which the edit...

Learn all about how your DNA makes you who you are-an awesome, unique individual-in this fun and simple illustrated guide! Did you know your sense ...

Many times through deep history Earths magnetic poles have switched places, leaving our planets protective shield weaker and life vulnerable to dev...

Many times through deep history Earths magnetic poles have switched places, leaving our planets protective shield weaker and life vulnerable to dev...

'Prepare to have your mind blown! A brilliantly written overview of the past, present and future of modern cosmology.' DALLAS CAMPBELL, author of ...

Our understanding of the British Palaeolithic and Mesolithic has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and yet not since H...

The plant world has always been appreciated for its visual appeal, but its true beauty can be revealed when you look under the electron microscope....

In Magnitude, Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke take us on an expansive journey to the limits of size, mass, distance, time, and temperature in our ...

The Origin of Species may be the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure much of Charles Darwin''s other works. His visit to t...

Sean Carroll explores how evolution has shaped nature's wondrous complexity and diversity, from insects to octopuses, from mice to men.We not only...

If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex. Perhaps all three. But ...

Have you ever said goodbye to someone, only to discover that you''re both walking in the same direction? Or had your next thought fly out of your b...

Instant Psychology pulls together all the pivotal psychological knowledge and thought into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat...