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From the author of the international bestseller Future Files comes the one book you need to read to prepare for the world of tomorrow. On most mea...

Physics is the science that studies how our universe behaves: from the tiny subatomic world of particle physics to the cosmos of astrophysics and s...

Biology is the natural science that studies life on our planet: from fungi to fossils and ecosystems to extremophiles, there is a whole world waiti...

'A remarkable achievement' - Stephen FryIn 2015 #thedress captured the worlds imagination. Was the dress in the picture white and gold or blue and ...

The Hive was the centrepiece of the gold medal winning UK Pavilion at the 2015 Milan Expo, and from June 2016 takes up its new home within Kew Gard...

This volume brings together the letters of the great Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) during his famous travels of 1854-62 in...

What does mathematics have to do with poetry? Seemingly, nothing. Mathematics deals with abstractions while poetry with emotions. And yet, the two ...

How similar are your choices, behaviours, and lifestyle to those of a parrot? We humans are not like other mammals. We look like them, but we don'...

A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem-solving to present-day problems. A self-professed comprehensive anticipatory des...

Tuberculosis is characterized as a social disease and few have been more inextricably linked with human history. There is evidence from the archaeo...

It is naturally important for any of us to have a correct view of the universe we are in. Having realized that the Newtonian world-view is untenabl...

When a ship's surgeon during a routine episode of bloodletting noticed that the sailors' blood was brighter in the tropics than in the north, he hy...

In this revealing romp through the mysteries of human perception, University of California psychologist Lawrence D. Rosenblum explores the astonish...

How did the human brain evolve? Why did it evolve as it did? What is mans place in evolution? In the final decades of the nineteenth century, these...

Water shapes our landscapes and sustains life on Earth. It also influences our emotions and inspires imagination and creativity. Yet we take it for...

What is Science? A Guide for Those Who Love It, Hate It, or Fear It, provides the reader with ways science has been done through discovery, explora...

Marvel at the wonders of the Universe, from stars and planets to black holes and nebulae, in this exploration of our Solar System and beyond.Univer...

Nanoscience is the fastest growing and most significant area of scientific exploration of our time In Nanoscience: Giants of the Infinitesimal, awa...

In The Accidental Universe, physicist and novelist Alan Lightman explores the emotional and philosophical questions raised by discoveries in scienc...

What is the origin of the universe? Are we alone in the Universe? Using clear and plain language, the author explores these two interesting scienti...

There is no physical law to prevent time travel nothing in physics to say it is impossible. So who is to say it can't be done? In Build Your Own Ti...

Everyone knows that sub-atomic particles have some very strange qualities. Light sometimes behaves like a particle, sometimes like a wave. Objects ...

Since the dawn of human civilization, forests have provided us with food, resources, and energy. The history of human development is also one of fo...