Science

Lucy Cooke Paperback 400 pages What does it mean to be female? Mother, carer, the weaker sex? Think again. In the last few decades a revolution has been brewing in zoology and evolutionary biolo...

Daniel Whiteson - Jorge Cham Paperback 336 pages You've got questions: about space, time, gravity, and the odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are righ...

Cat Bohannon Paperback How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Cat Bohannon an...

JohnJoe McFadden Paperback 384 pages Life is Simple tells the remarkable story of how a thirteenth century monk's search for simplicity led to the emergence of the modern world. We begin in the ...

For your friend who loves animals, and cannot get enough facts about how weird some of them are....

PaperbackRachel Carson (Introduction by Shackleton ) Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revol...

Andrew Pontzen Paperback 241 pages We are part of an incredible chain of events stretching 13.8 billion years into the past and even further into the future. But what does that future hold? And ...

Caspar Henderson Hardback 368 pages A compendium of sounds from this world and beyond, from the author of A New Map of Wonders and The Book of Barely Imagined BeingsSound shapes our world in invi...

Max Bennett Paperback A Brief History of Intelligence bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be.The entirety of the human brain's ...

David Sumpter Paperback 320 pages Acclaimed mathematician David Sumpter shows how we can deal with the chaos and complexity of our livesWhat is the best way to think about the world? How often d...

Dan Saladino Paperback 464 pages From a tiny crimson pear in the west of England to an exploding corn in Mexico, there are thousands of foods that are at risk of being lost for ever. Dan Saladin...

Hardback 448 pages A new, deluxe hardcover edition of one of the most important scientific works ever written In December 1831, Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle, accompanying her crew on a f...

Bill Bryson Paperback 672 pages The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century and...

Merlin Sheldrake Hardback 240 pages The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. They can change our minds, heal our bodies and even help us avoid environmental disaste...

Nicklas Brendborg Paperback 288 pages A deep-dive into the astonishing nature and true science of longevity Molecular Biologist Nicklas Brendborg takes us on a journey from the farthest reaches ...

Thomas Halliday Paperback 416 pages This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the w...

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Robert Skidelsky 384 pages A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological fixes for our proble...

PaperbackBill Bryson 'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the...

Lawrence M. Krauss Paperback 208 pages The news is full of hotly debated and divergent claims about the impacts and risks of climate change. Lawrence Krauss, one of the world’s most respe...

John Gribbin Hardback 160 pages Obvious questions do not always have obvious answers. John Gribbin is known for giving us simple explanations of big concepts in science. But there is another way...

Siddhartha Mukherjee Paperback 496 pages From the dawn of life itself, every being that has ever lived owes its existence to the cell. 'Will leave you in awe' GuardianThe discovery of this vital...

Brian Clegg Paperback 176 pages An exploration of the transformative ways in which nature has inspired the technological advancement of humankind. Biomimetics literally means emulating biology -...