Science

Hardback Royal Observatory Greenwich How far is a light year? Why isn't Pluto a planet anymore? Will the Universe end? What exactly is dark energy? How much does it cost to deliver a pizza to spa...

Matt Parker Paperback Explore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and no. 1 bestselling author of Humble Pi Why can no two people ever see the same...

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...

Carlo Rovelli Paperback 160 pages From Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, this is a story of wonder, new worlds and why the end is just the beginningLet us j...

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...

Lisa Kaltenegger Hardback 288 pages For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. The question...

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...

Frans de Waal Hardback 288 pages How different are the sexes? Is gender uniquely human? Where does gender identity originate? Drawing on decades of observing our closest living relatives, chimpan...

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...

Elizabeth Kolbert Hardback 160 pages Climate change resists narrative – and yet we must see clearly what’s happening in our world. Millions of lives are at stake, and upwards of a million sp...

Thomas Hertog paperback 336 pages sStephen Hawking's closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar's final thoughts on the universe. Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried t...

Chris Lintott Hardback 272 pages Our view of the Universe is changing. The timeless heavens, turning ceaselessly above us, have been revealed to be dynamic and ever-changing, requiring a new kind...

Michael Taylor Paperback In 1811, a twelve-year-old girl uncovered some strange-looking bones in Britain's southern shoreline. They belonged to no known creature and were buried beneath a hundred...

Laura Mersini-Houghton Paperback 240 pages One of the world's most celebrated cosmologists presents her breakthrough explanation of our origins in the multiverse. In recent years, Laura Mersini-H...

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...

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 ...

Carlo Rovelli Hardback 160 pages A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on PhysicsLet us journey into the h...

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...

Jason Roberts Paperback The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life. In the 18th century, two men dedicated their ...

Govert Schilling Paperback 376 pages When you train a telescope on outer space, you can see luminous galaxies, nebulae, stars, and planets. But if you add all that together, it constitutes on...

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

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...

Randall Munroe Paperback 368 pages WHAT IF you still had so many more strange questions about the universe?And WHAT IF Randall Munroe, former NASA roboticist and xkcd creator, were prepared to ...

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...