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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...

The phenomenon of friendship is universal. Friends, after all, are the family we choose. But what makes these bonds not just pleasant but essential...

The scientific consensus is that our ability to understand human speech has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. After all, there are whole...

Instant Mathematics pulls together all the pivotal mathematical theories and discoveries into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'ch...

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

A leading plant scientist offers a new understanding of the botanical world and a passionate argument for intelligent plant life. Are plants intell...

This book is about the evolution of the sense of smell, from its bacterial origin 3.4 billion years ago, to today's modern, sophisticated humans wi...

How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origin...

Say ''algae'' and most people think of pond scum. What they don''t know is that without algae, none of us would exist.There are as many algae on ea...

Simone Marchi presents the emerging story of how cosmic collisions shaped both the solar system and our own planet, from the creation of the Moon ...

Martin Stevens explores the extraordinary variety of senses in the animal kingdom, and discusses the cutting-edge science that is shedding light on...

A concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and major player...

The living world is beautiful, intricate, and highly ordered. Organisms flourish across virtually every location on earth, and biological scientist...

What is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of th...

Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. 'A masterly investigation of all asp...

Blue is the most widely beloved color but in nature, its the rarest hue of all. True, physics paints the sea and sky blue, but we cant bottle this...

The human brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. For more than a century, a diverse array of ...

'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...

The epic, page-turning history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades of the twentieth century. Marie Cur...

Ever since Darwin, science has enshrined competition as biology''s brutal architect. But this revelatory new book argues that our narrow view of ev...

Uncover the mysteries, wonders and natural history of Mars: as close as you''ll get to an eye-witness perspective of the incredible ''Red Planet''....