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Why is life worth living? What makes actions right or wrong? What is reality and how do we know it? The Brain and the Meaning of Life draws on rese...

Celebrated for his brilliantly quirky insights into the physical world, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman also possessed an extraordinary talent for e...

We spend much of our days talking. Yet we know little about the conversational engine that drives our everyday lives. We are pushed and pulled arou...

''You''ll never think about your largest organ the same way again'' David Epstein, author of RangeIntroducing the new science of skin and a more na...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 ANDRÉ SIMON FOOD & DRINK BOOK AWARDS'Like a new Bill Bryson, she offers an easy sharing of deep knowledge, with humour...

_________________________*The* puzzle book of 2018, as featured in the Times, Daily Telegraph, BBC Radio 4, and BBC Breakfast, and a Guardian Book ...

A comprehensive illustrated exploration of the fascinating science of color   Arielle and Joann Eckstut, authors of The Secret Language of Color, o...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Explores just about every area of life' DAILY MAIL'If only Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry were on tap to all of us, all...

As humans evolved, we developed technologies to modify our environment, yet these innovations are increasingly affecting our behavior, biology, and...

The Periodic Table of Poems is a unique collection of 93 short poems that explores the properties and nuances of each element in the periodic table...

HIGHLY COMMENDED for the British Medical Awards book prize for Popular Medicine'Filled with emotionally resonant stories, Can't Just Stop helps us ...

Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar systemWhere is the best place to find life beyond Eart...

''Passionate and urgent.'' Guardian, Book of the Week ''A must-read for all.'' Stylist, best new books for 2020 ''Cogently argued and intensely p...

This book tells the human story of one of man's greatest intellectual adventures - how it came to be understood that light travels at a finite spee...

Hugely readable and entertaining JIM AL-KHALILI An accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this disciplines breadth, largel...

A lively account of how dinosaurs became a symbol of American power and prosperity and gripped the popular imagination during the Gilded Age, when ...

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people ever to set foot on the Moon, their iconic small steps captured forever by...

Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you that the universe is orchestrated by chance. The iron in a spot of blood on your...

The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and dest...

''Passionate and urgent.'' Guardian, Book of the Week ''A must-read for all.'' Stylist, best new books for 2020 ''Cogently argued and intensely p...

What are bulletproof vests made of? How do manufacturers get lipstick into the tube? How much brass does it take to make a trumpet? The answers-and...

Travelling to the hard-living Dylan Thomas's Boathouse in Laugharne, Wales, psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple considered along the way another foible...

**The New York Times Bestseller**''Space elevators, gold asteroids, and fusion-powered toasters - who knew science could be so much fun? Soonish is...

Human beings have long seen themselves as the center of the universe, the apple of God's eye, specially-created creatures who are somehow above and...

Science is beautiful. With original illustrations that deftly explain the strange-but-true world of science, Seeing Science brings the wonderful wo...

In the tradition of Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works, popular psychologist Sian Beilock, an expert on performance and brain science, reveals the ...

On 14 September 2015, after 50 years of searching, gravitational waves were detected for the first time and astronomy changed for ever.Until then, ...

Behind every disease is a story, a complex narrative woven of multiple threads, from the natural history of the disease, to the tale of its discove...

Here is the essential companion to Welcome to the Universe, a New York Times bestseller that was inspired by the enormously popular introductory as...

Ever wondered why bad musicians always win the Eurovision Song Contest, or how incompetent politicians get elected?You need some Quirkology in your...

How robots will change our world Some fear that robots could do half our jobs and even wipe us out. But is that likely?  Smart machines already m...

** GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 **Popular science at its bestMail on SundayEminently accessible and enjoyableObserverWith every breath, y...

A Telegraph Book of the Year. What does a mammoth smell like? Do dinosaurs bob their heads as they walk, like todays birds? Do aurochs moo like co...

The pursuit of happiness is one of the most common and enduring quests of human life. Its what drives us to get a job, fall in love, watch stand-up...

Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In Blue Mind, Wallace J. Nichols revolutioni...