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** WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 ** 'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox 'Important reading not just for any...

'A work of exhilarating scope and relevance ... What a rare and powerful experience to feel a book in your very body' Naomi Klein'Health is not som...

For most of human history, sudden and unexpected deaths of a suspicious nature, when they were investigated at all, were examined by lay persons wi...

An original graphic novel based on the IVF stories of its husband-and-wife authors and the 1-in-50 couples around the world like them. Conrad and J...

How do you remember more and forget less? How can you earn more and become more creative just by moving house? And how do you pack a car ...

In 2003 the Human Genome Project announced that it had achieved a stunning scientific breakthrough: the full map of the human genome, and with it o...

What is like to live without touch or movement/position sense (proprioception)? The only way to understand the importance of these senses, so famil...

Citizen science enlists members of the public to make and record useful observations, such as counting birds in their backyards, watching for the f...

A little over a century ago the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of transmitting...

'A gripping and sobering reminder of how much we are all governed by our genetic inheritance. So much for free will.' The Mail on Sunday Stress, o...

Winner of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada General Audience award We live at the bottom of an ocean of air - 5,200 million millio...

Winner of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada General Audience award We live at the bottom of an ocean of air 5,200 million million t...

Born Together explores the fascinating and rare phenomenon of conjoined twins in both humans and animals. Have you ever wondered if conjoined tw...

''Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.'' Professor Brian Cox ''Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours...

Living with the Stars tells the fascinating story of what truly makes the human body. The body that is with us all our lives is always changing. We...

The story of Europe and its people, told through its genetic legacy. 'An extraordinary book ... part travel narrative, part family history, part s...

Among the many constants that appear in mathematics, ?, e, and i are the most familiar. Following closely behind is ?,, or gamma, a constant that a...

Water is the most every day of substances. It pours from our taps and falls from the sky. We drink it, wash with it, and couldn't live without it. ...

In 1844, Foy's great-great grandfather, captain of a Norwegian cargo ship, perished at sea after getting lost in a snowstorm. Foy decides to unrave...

In the conventional wisdom the scientist is pictured as a data gatherer, methodically working towards general scientific laws by objective research...

Author, celebrity teacher and science guy Steve Spangler teaches you how to transform the ordinary into the amazing as you make everyday items ooze...

Fascinating Brian Cox, Mail on Sunday Books of the Year Where are we? Who are we? Do our beliefs, hopes and dreams hold any significance out ther...

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