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A billion-year history of movement, from bacteria to Olympic athletes.'Packed with revelations, scholarly but clear, Restless Creatures carries you...

''I loved it. She is in my view the best science writer around - a true descendant of Oliver Sacks'' Sathnam Sanghera, author of The Boy with the T...

A startling investigation of what it means to be human. Human beings know how to make machines. But what kind of machine is a human being...

Who wants to live forever? According to Stephen Cave, we all do - every single one of us. And the evidence is all around. Eluding the Grim Reaper...

In this deeply researched chronology, Colin Burgess describes the Soviet Unions extraordinary success in the pioneering years of space exploration....

'[A]n engaging exploration, ending with interesting speculation on the nature of a future 11th day.'Peet Morris, Times Higher EducationDevelopments...

If the world as we know it ended tomorrow, how would you survive?A nuclear war, viral pandemic or asteroid strike. The world as we know it has ende...

How did we get here? It's the journey of a lifetime. All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced...

In the wake of The Making of a Counter Culture Theodore Roszak established himself as the pre-eminent critic of twentieth-century American societ...

Opens a window into a previously dark and secret time in our universe's history: when the first stars were born. Astronomers have successfully obs...

''Brilliantly unillusioned thinking... It could hardly be more necessary in these all-too-moralistic times'' - James Marriott, THE TIMESMorals hav...

''A lucid, balanced and engaging tour of one of the most important phenomena of this century.'' - Steven PinkerFrom the face recognition on your sm...

A fascinating and comprehensive guide to the sun our home star which remains the greatest mystery in the solar system, and why understanding it i...

If memories of learning algebra bring you out in a cold sweat and thoughts of quadratic equations cause you feelings of fear and dread, I Used to K...

'Extremely authoritative. The best book I have read on space travel since Arthur C. Clarke's classic, The Promise of Space.' Marcus ChownIn an era ...

From cells in our bodies to measuring the universe, big numbers are everywhere We all know that numbers go on forever, that you could spend your l...

Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they hav...

Is science the only path to knowledge?In this sparkling and provocative book, Jonah Lehrer explains that when it comes to understanding the brain, ...

The International Bestseller, as featured in The Times Fat is a vital yet hugely under-rated organ. Fat has become a dirty word, but we know so l...

Simon Baron-Cohen's The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain is an unflinching look at the scientific evidence behind the in...

Take a colorful walk through human ingenuity. Humans have been unpacking the earth to use pigments since cavemen times. Starting out from surface ...

The next wave of science writing is here. Editor Max Brockman has talent-spotted 19 young scientists, working on leading-edge research across a wid...

The Cenozoic era began about 70 million years ago and still continues. In British Cenozoic Fossils 354 species from this period are classified and ...