Science Books

'Informative and persuasive enough to rouse the most ardent couch pototo' New Scientist Walking upright on two feet is a uniquely human skill...

Read the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations. 'Stands comparison with Sapiens... ...

_______________'One of the best books yet written on data and algorithms. . .deserves a place on the bestseller charts.' (The Times) You are accus...

This large-format poster book lets you decorate your walls with images from Katie Scott's Botanicum. Featuring plantlife of all kinds, from right a...

'Compelling and wise and rational.' - Jon RonsonMotion sickness. Nightmares. Forgetting people's names. Why did I walk into this room??For so...

THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S TOP BOOKS OF THE YEARShortlisted for The Orwell P...

Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford PrizeA New Statesman Book of the YearThis is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious obje...

Award-winning scientist and BBC broadcaster Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock (MBE) is here to answer all the questions curious kids will ever have about the...

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'This seminal book...will transform your understanding ...of the environmental and health effects of electricity and radio frequencies' Paradigm Ex...

Chosen as a Book of the Year 2021 by the Financial Times, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Prospect, Guardian and The Times. 'Vaxxers is so good that th...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*Chosen as a Book of the Year by the Financial Times, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Prospect, G...

'A rich feast of his essays, reviews, forewords, squibs and conversations, in which talent and passion are married to deep knowledge.' Matt Ridley...

'Amazing. It would be my desert island choice' Martin Rees'Fascinating, beautiful, alarming and revelatory use of mapping and infographics' Stephen...

'Read this book, then look and wonder' Sunday Times We have to learn to live as part of nature, not apart from it. And the first step is to start ...

'Required reading for everyone' Adam RutherfordShortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021 Medicine, education, psychology, economics...

In this funny, brilliant, entertaining book - highly illustrated with cartoons and diagrams - Terry Denton talks you through all you need to know a...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging wri...

'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer, juggling humour, precision, polemic and poetry to en...

'Spellbinding . . . More than any other book, [Sentient] has made me think differently about the world this year.' - Financial Times Best Books of ...

'Jackie Higgins's lyrical, literate style will charm you while her book stuns your imagination with strange, other-worldly truths' Richard DawkinsS...

With an introduction by author of The Tidal Zone, Sarah Moss Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobac...

'[A] fascinating, incisive account of how the human brain evolved to keep us orientated . . . Beautifully written and researched.' - Isabella Tree,...

Fully updated throughout and with a new foreword for this edition. Why do most diets fail? Why does one person eat a certain meal and gain weight...

The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously demonstrated that activity in the brain's motor regions can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a per...

This charming reference book takes a closer look at the things that surround kids every day and how they work-from cars to vacuum cleaners, animal ...

The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting qualit...

The second hilarious book for curious kids from the UK and Ireland's best-loved comedian, Dara O Briain! So you think everyday life is bo...

We need more beautifully illustrated and involving non-fiction like this. Wade and Castrillon introduce nanoscience with perfect clarity and inviti...

Our planet is in trouble. It needs YOU. Together we can fight climate change by speaking up and changing what we eat, how we travel and the ways we...

Maisy's going to the moon, and you can come too! With easy-to-use play, pull and slide tabs on every spread, little ones will love this interactive...

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our re...

Uncover one of the most exciting frontiers of modern physics in this fascinating, insightful and accessible overview of Chaos theory. 'An exceedi...

A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew. 'A wildly ambitious book by a formidably tal...

A BOOK OF THE YEARGUARDIAN, THE ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, BLOOMBERGAnil Seth's radical new theory of consciousness challenges our ...

In this groundbreaking book, Dr Louann Brizendine describes the uniquely flexible structure of the female brain and its constant, dynamic state of ...

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the new Edexcel International GCSE (9-1) specification with progression, international relevance and s...

How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside, one patient at a time? To bridge the gulf between a perilously unwell patient in quarantin...

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

A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year DISCOVER HOW LIFE REALLY WORKS - ON EARTH AND IN SPACE 'A wonderfully insightful sidelong look at Earthly b...

'If you think you understand AI and all of the related issues, you don't. By the time you finish this exceptionally lucid and riveting book you wil...

Revolutionise your running techniques! Learn how to run better and faster, with more energy while avoiding injury. There is a science to running, a...

Bored of biology? Crushed by chemistry? Perplexed by physics? DOES SCIENCE REALLY MATTER ANYWAY? Oh, only for... JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING!From how to ...

***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***Feel like you're always drowning in email? How much more would you achieve without them - and how much happier would...

Packed with more than 1,000 incredible images and full of fascinating facts, this children's book takes you on an visual and vibrant journey of all...

The past few years have seen a revolution in our ability to map whole genome DNA from ancient humans. With the ancient DNA revolution, combined wit...

For many decades, the proponents of `artificial intelligence' have maintained that computers will soon be able to do everything that a human can do...

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...