A lively and eclectic sequence of more than 150 concise and intellectually challenging essays in which the world's leading thinkers reflect on how the internet...
Every year, air pollution prematurely kills seven million people around the world, in rich countries and poor ones. It is strongly linked to strokes, heart...
Marie Kondo will help you declutter your life with her new major Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. Transform your home into...
Why do so many of us struggle to remember the maths we were taught at school? The answer is that we can successfully memorise things...
'Terrifying and timely ... a book everyone should read and heed' - George MonbiotNuclear war is a far greater immediate threat to humanity's survival than...
",Holly Grigg-Spall is fearless, and her courageous advocacy on behalf of women whose stories are too often silenced is a model for others trying to...
For fans of Adrian Newey, Guy Martin and Chris Hadfield, in Taking on Gravity inventor Richard Browning tells the inspiring story behind his iconic jet...
As his health begins to fail, a historian in the year 2084 sets out to document the irreparable damage climate change has wrought on the...
Using simple language, illustrations, humour and everyday examples, the author demonstrates how the science of epigenetics is revolutionizing our understanding of the link between mind...
We like to think of ourselves as exceptional beings, but is there really anything special about us that sets us apart from other animals? Humans...
Sally Coulthard explores the miraculous world of the earthworm, the modest little creature without whom life as we know it would not be possible. For...
There's so much we don't know about what lies deep beneath the ocean's surface - and the time to find out is growing increasingly precious...
'Compulsively readable...Green threatens to do for string theory what Stephen Hawking did for holes' New York TimesIn this international bestseller, Columbia University professor Brian Greene...
Winner of the 2018 Brage Prize'Perfect popular science . . .not just a well-written story about the elements, but a book about being human in...
From the bestselling author of The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos takes us on an irresistible and revelatory journey through the...
Schizophrenia: whether it's the associations it conjures or the people it brings to mind, it is a word we all have a view on. How...
A journey through the history of science and man's relationship with the night sky and the cosmos beyond, from the author of Wellcome Prize-longlisted Cure....
The “brilliant” best-selling classic on the paradoxes of modern physics and their relationship to concepts of Eastern mysticism (New York Magazine)The Tao of Physics&,nbsp,brought the...
'The very treeline is on the move: a devastating image. This book is an evocative, wise and unflinching exploration of what it will mean for...
Reveals that traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for the majority of human history in evolutionary terms....