Science

A comprehensive and richly illustrated introduction to the world of viruses. As parasites that are...

A Neanderthal hunter takes us on a riveting journey of discovery What if we have...

Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the...

Disease - specifically infectious disease - is what eventually kills the overwhelming majority of us....

A captivating journey into the inner lives of plants - from the colours they see...

What does a mammoth smell like? Do dinosaurs bob their heads as they walk, like...

A treasure trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from the legendary naturalist Here is Charles...

'Who knew numbers could be so charming? ... Suri takes us on a light-hearted journey...

Sound shapes our world in invisible but significant ways, and here Caspar Henderson brings his...

An authoritative, accessible and revisionist history of maths that reveals the vital contributions of mathematicians...

For centuries the moon had been synonymous with mystery, an unknown. But over the years,...

How can we see through the chaos and complexity of our lives? Beyond all the...

The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the...

In The Edge of the Sea Rachel Carson introduces us to the 'strange and beautiful...

A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself...

Understanding the human mind and how it relates to the world that we experience has...

A richly illustrated introduction to the spectacular reptiles that swam the oceans when dinosaurs roamed...

This annual gem (produced each year since 1991) continues to take the Australian stargazer on...

From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the...

A dazzling exploration of the strange and extreme numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of...

An ambitious, groundbreaking and myth-busting history of the evolution of the female body A NEW...

Unearthing the Underworld reveals the hidden world of rocks the secret-keepers of past environments, of...

The first major account of terminal lucidity- the remarkable return of clarity and cognition at...

People hunting monkeys in the jungle once devised a simple yet effective trap: When the...

All you need to know about the night sky This popular guide by astronomer and...

'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre 'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates 'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford WHAT IF you...

From gravity to black holes, special relativity to global warming, this authoritative and entertaining book...

'Dust is a book with an extraordinary global story to tell, but - and -...