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Parents and children who enjoyed the entertaining science in Naked Eggs & Flying Potatoes will love this spectacular second volume of thrilling...

Fibbing, prevaricating, stretching the truth, white lies, of omission, of commission. Lying is so pervasive that we have countless words for it. Bu...

WINNER OF THE 2022 BARKER BOOK AWARDS FOR NON-FICTION. Heartwarming. THE TIMES A delightful read. KATE MACDOUGALL Just the thing for dog lovers. P...

'A dazzling chronicle, a bracing challenge to modernity's smug assumptions' - Bryce Christensen, Booklist'O what a world of profit and delightOf po...

In The Story of the Human Body, Daniel Lieberman, Professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard, shows how we need to change our world to fit ...

'In the same light-heartedly informative spirit as his previous Elemental, Tim James gives us an entertaining gallop through light years of space s...

Tie on your apron and step into Jim Henle's kitchen as he demonstrates how two equally savory pursuits--cooking and mathematics--have more in commo...

Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and published more than seventy books on topics as...

A fun and stunningly illustrated introduction to the art of linear optimizationLinear optimization is a powerful modeling method for discovering th...

Is there life after death? Can we prove the big bang theory? In his engrossing and accessible style, Dr Kerry Spackman uses everyday examples to an...

Can We Travel Through Time? addresses 20 of the most fundamental and frequently asked questions in physics. What is the God particle? Does chaos th...

How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can an orchid get jet lag? Does a tomato plant feel pain when you pluck a fruit from its vines? An...

How can one visualize a curve that fills the entire plane or all of space? Can a polyhedron be smoothly turned inside out? What is the projective p...

Where do ideas come from? How do they get put into action? How can we create social structures that are productive and creative? If the Big Data re...

In the visionary tradition of Rachel Carsons Silent Spring, One Square Inch of Silence alerts us to beauty that we take for granted and sounds an u...

Which is the densest element? Which has the largest atoms? And why are some elements radioactive?  From the little-known uses of gold in medicine t...

From your heart to your brain, this book is the quickest way to understand the structures and systems that are you. Whether you''re a medical stude...

From electromagnetic waves that enable us to connect in an instant to the gravity that keeps our feet firmly on the ground, this book is the fastes...

The book presents the conclusions of a psychologist seeking to make sense of contemporary particle physics as described in a number of popular scie...

Professor Brian Cox''s BBC programmes have helped make physics a very popular topic. Following the hugely successful The Math Book , this is a ric...

Dreams of Other Worlds describes the unmanned space missions that have opened new windows on distant worlds. Spanning four decades of dramatic adva...

Calculus. For some of us, the word conjures up memories of ten-pound textbooks and visions of tedious abstract equations. And yet, in reality, calc...