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The essays from prominent public intellectuals collected in this volume reflect an array of perspectives on the spectrum of conflict, competition, ...

As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your b...

For a physicist, all the world is information. The Universe and its workings are the ebb and flow of information. We are all transient patterns of ...

Jauhar weaves his own personal and family story into his history of the heartvery effectively This gives a certain dramatic tension to the book, as...

In this fascinating and easily digestible book, The One Shows resident scientist Marty Jopson takes us on a mouth-watering tour of the twenty-first...

The brain creates every feeling, emotion and desire we experience, and stores every one of our memories. And yet, until very recently, scientists b...

Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard F...

The Universe Within is a thrilling journey from today all the way back to the Big Bang, which shows the deep connections between the human body and...

Exploring the writings of major thinkers (among them Montesquieu, Burke, Kant, Marx, and Freud), and leading art historians (including Pliny, Winck...

Humans persist in building centres of civilisation in places of past disasters as we believe that our technology will protect us next time. Yet we ...

Erwin Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist famous for his contribution to quantum physics. He won the Nobel Prize in 1933 and is best known for hi...

'Thrilling' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall'Authoritative and furious, urgent and persuasive' Sunday Times'Compelling ... Roberts is that precious pe...

What are you? Obviously, you are a person with human ancestors that can be plotted on a family tree, but you have other identities as well. Accordi...

A highly entertaining book debunking the many myths about the human body. Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrong debunks the scientific ...

In this scientific 'Credo', Peter Atkins considers the universal questions of origins, endings, birth, and death to which religions have claimed an...

Antimatter explores a strange mirror world, where particles have identical yet opposite properties to those that make up the familiar matter we enc...

Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all...

Short-listed for the Society of Biology Book Award 2014 Long-listed for the Royal Society Winton prize for science books 2014In The Compatibility G...

In this fascinating foray into the millennia-long relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist and the world's best sc...

'Inspirational' Buzz AldrinWhen exactly did life begin? What really happened during the big bang - and before it? Is the universe expanding? Is da...

In 2006 Dr Adrian Owen and his team made medical history. They discovered a new realm of consciousness, somewhere between life and death, which the...

The third volume in Leonard Susskind's one-of-a-kind physics series cracks open Einstein's special relativity and field theoryIn the first two book...

Have you ever wondered why ice floats, how the GPS on your mobile phone works (and what it has to do with Einstein), or why woollen jumpers shrink ...

Acclaimed journalist Lone Frank embarks on an incredible adventure to the frontiers of neuroscience, revealing how todays top scientists are reinve...