Science

Humans are mammals. Most of us appreciate that at some level. But what does it mean for us to have more in common with a horse and an elephant than...

The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its domi...

An uplifting exploration of ancient wisdom for our modern lives and how it can make us happier - from the author of The Anxious Mind and The Righte...

From the author of You Are Awesome: Find Your Confidence and Dare to be Brilliant at (Almost) Anything Essential ...

How to handle everything (and everyone) around you when all hell breaks loose, from the international bestselling author of Surrounded by Idiots.No...

Professor Stephen Hawking is generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. Here, his phenomenal bestseller A Brief Histor...

A relatable, interactive, and funny exploration of algorithms, those essential building blocks of computer science - and of everyday life - from th...

_______________________________ Ever wanted to save the world? Its easy to feel like we cant make a difference. But small, easy actions, if taken b...

Sunday Times Bestseller A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fictio...

Introduction by Professor Stephen Hawking.When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the g...

We got ourselves into this. Here's how we can get ourselves out.We know the problem: the amount of biodiversity loss, the scale of waste and pollut...

Exploring the revolutionary science behind the power of thought, this book will forever change how you think about your own thinking.This new updat...

Let this guide be your very own friendly nutritionist, on hand to debunk common food myths and give you the answers to those pressing health questi...

The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us tog...

Less than 450 years ago, all European scholars believed that the Earth was at the centre of a Universe that was at most a few million miles in exte...

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksIf a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self himself...

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BIG SHORT AND FLASH BOYS'A gripping account of how two psychologists reshaped the way we th...

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROne of TIME's Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade'Captivating, fascinating, profoundly beautiful. . . Rovelli is ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Hossenfelder stands between us and incomprehension' Daily Mail'Informative and engaging' TLSDo we have free will? Is th...

Discover and understand the key ideas that underpin the core science of chemistry and learn about the great minds who uncovered them Written in pla...

* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric...

Inferior is more than just a book. Its a battle cry and right now, its having a galvanising effect on its core fanbase Observer ...

'This is the most important conversation of our time, and Tegmark's thought-provoking book will help you join it' Stephen HawkingTHE INTERNATIONAL ...

Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of `maps` or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the fo...

Learn about the most important mathematical ideas, theorems, and movements in The Maths Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book ta...

How do you remember more and forget less? How can you earn more and become more creative just by mov...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Nerd royalty' BEN GOLDACRE 'Totally brilliant' TIM HARFORD'Required reading across the world' NEW YORK TIMESFrom the cr...

Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rain...

If reason is what makes us human, then why do we humans often behave so irrationally? Taking us from desert ants to Aristotle, cognitive psychologi...

BBC R4 Book of the Week Brilliant Guardian Fascinating and often delightful The Times What if intelligen...

'Game-changing. Katy Milkman shows in this book that we can all be a super human' Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of GritHow to Change is a po...

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN AND BBC SCIENCE FOCUS'An intimate, unique, and inspiring perspective o...

'Just the sort of creative prompts any cook could use right now' - The Wall Street Journal'A fascinating, thought provoking, palette-teasing read f...