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Robert M. Sapolsky holds degrees from Harvard and Rockefeller Universities and is currently a Professor of Biology and Neurology at Stanf...

Max Tegmark is a professor of physics at MIT and president of the Future of Life Institute. He is the author of Our Mathematical Universe...

An explosive book now in paperback, that calls an end to religion's monopoly on morality. 'Sam Harris breathes intellectual fire into an ...

Collection of articles from the hugely popular "Guardian" column of the same name, by turns hilarious, satirical, informative and, where ...

'My favourite author has done it again. Numbers Don't Lie is by far his most accessible book to date, and I highly recommend it to anyone...

Joshua Foer studied evolutionary biology at Yale University and is now a freelance science journalist, writing for National Geographic an...

For many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos share their food. Now he delivers fascinating fr...

The trade paperback edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller for many weeks, the brilliantly acclaimed biography of the most influenti...

Data is everywhere. We create it every time we go online, turn our phone on (or off) or pay with a credit card. This data is stored, stud...

Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to ...

You don't have to be a genius to achieve extraordinary things. In this fascinating book, Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool explain that lea...

A Financial Times Master of Science and chosen by The Times as one of the 100 most influential scientists in the UK, Mark Miodownik is Pr...

Professor Jim Al-Khalili, OBE is an academic, author and broadcaster. He is a leading theoretical physicist based at the University of Su...

Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things g...

An exploration of transhumanism, the philosophical and technological movement that is working on an update of the human machine. From tec...

As advances in biology and artificial intelligence complicate the question of what constitutes sentient life, "The Demon In The Machine" ...

Mathematician and author of "The Order Of Time" Marcus du Sautoy explores how recent developments in AI and machine learning could mean t...

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, La...

The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available -- a fully realised portrait of this extraordin...

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else including towns, rivers,...

Richard Dawkins has written a string of bestselling books, including the phenomenal The God Delusion. He is a fellow of the Royal Society...

Our gadgets are getting smarter. Technology can log what we buy, customize what we consume and enable us to save and share every aspect o...

A Financial Times Master of Science and chosen by The Times as one of the 100 most influential scientists in the UK, Mark Miodownik is Pr...

The story of carbon, the most resonant and necessary chemical element on Earth, from its birth among the stars to its role in the evoluti...

For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunte...

If left to their own devices, would babies instinctively choose a well-balanced diet? What is the secret to falling asleep on a plane? Wh...

Steven Weinberg has won the Nobel Prize in Physics, the National Medal of Science, the Lewis Thomas Prize for the Scientist as Poet and n...

For decades, mathematicians the world over would open their doors to find Paul Erdos--homeless and relying on others while he explored th...

A new theory of reality going beyond quantum mechanics and following the models of nature. Accessible to specialist and general readership.

The author of "The Knowledge" indicates the links between the rhythms and changes of the natural world and human history and culture, exp...

The processes that delineate our thoughts, judgements, dreams and unconscious are revealed, building on a particularly popular TED talk f...

In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and ...

Randall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre 'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford 'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates 'Wonderful' Neil Gai...

As the outbreak of a new and deadly form of coronavirus dominates headlines and triggers fear and global recession, now is a good time to...

Wohnbebauung trägt in Deutschland bedeutend zum nationalen Gesamtausstoß an Klimagasen bei. Nicht nur der Betrieb, auch die Errichtung un...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Richard Feynman: physicist . . . Nobel winner . . . bestselling author . . . safe-cracker. In this substantia...

Keeping up with the newest technology, this work includes navigation in difficult weather (such as a whiteout), integrating hand-held GPS...

Dr. Kelly Weinersmith (Author) Dr. Kelly Weinersmith is Adjunct Faculty in the BioSciences Department at Rice University. Kelly's researc...

Preface 1: The Mangle of Practice 2: Machines: Building the Bubble Chamber 3: Facts: The Hunting of the Quark 4: Concepts: Constructing Q...

Welcome to Europe as you've never known it before, seen through the peculiarities of its languages and dialects. Combining linguistics an...

This early work by Two was originally published in 1910 and we are now republishing it. 'Home Life with Herbert Spencer' is a biography o...

An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists' willingness to change theories on the basis o...

Based on a PhD thesis, with a focus on Sierra Leone, this book explores the conflicts between pursuing mining activities to foster econom...

Powerful human stories from across the career of facial surgeon Jim McCaul, restoring identity to the traumatised and afflicted. Gives th...

Sexualorgane unter der Lupe Der größte Unterschied zwischen Menschen und Tieren liegt unterhalb der Gürtellinie. Dieses Buch lädt ein zu ...

Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In Blue Mind, Wallace J. Nichols r...

»Ein Lesevergnügen.« The Sunday Times Ebbe und Flut faszinieren die Menschen seit jeher und beflügeln die Fantasie. Trotz aller heutigen ...

he author describes simply and carefully how to make models of all the known uniform polyhedra and some of the stellated forms.

"Well researched and highly readable, The First Transplant Surgeon pulls off the difficult trick of re-evaluating Dr Alexis Carrel withou...

An examination of the global trade and traffic in discarded electronics that reframes the question of the "right” thing to do with e-wast...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Elephant's on Acid comes a collection of the wackiest theories from science and history. What...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the different dynamic patterns involved in the redistribution of mercury in the global env...

'Deeply researched and profoundly absorbing . . . Matthew Stanley traces one of the greatest epics of scientific history . . . An amazing...

This volume is a collection of the Nobel lectures delivered by the prizewinners, together with their biographies and the presentation spe...

Gaia Vince is a journalist and broadcaster specialising in science, the environment, and social issues. She was awarded the 2015 Royal So...

Rocknocker: A Geologist's Memoir reviews the life of George Devries Klein, an immigrant who made it through the American System as a geol...

This series for beginning readers explains the criteria for determining whether items are living or nonliving. Each book gives many examp...