Science

Offers a behind-the-scenes look into the field and describes the techniques used by criminal investigators to locate a body, uncover and record evidence, and identify a dead person's age, sex, and cause of death.

Cosmological Koans invites the reader into an intellectual adventure of the highest order. Through more than fifty Koans—pleasingly paradoxical vignettes following the ancient Zen tradition—leading physicist Anthony Aguirre takes the reader across the world from West to East, and through ideas spanning ...

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A medical historian narrates the last century of scientific struggle against an enduring enemy: deadly contagious disease. Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite ...

"A fascinating and thought-provoking investigation into the nature of black holes-a blend of the spiritual, the philosophical, and the scientific-from the premier German astrophysicist who made history in 2019, capturing the first one on film"--Publisher's description.

Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting there must have been something tremendous to gain from bipedalism.

An explosive epic encompassing the Big Bang, other past booms and future cataclysms!

Physics: A Crash Course is the quickest way to get up to speed with the most fundamental of the sciences. Physics tells us how the universe works - it's behind most of our exciting technology, from space rockets and satellites to cell phones, from electric cars to MRI scanners. This book distils ...

Lets face it, numbers underpin every aspect of our lives - from the supermarket shop to social media metrics and even our notions of what is beautiful - but more than that, being numerically literate can open doors to better life choices, greater financial wellbeing and allow us to digest information in a digital age.

Holland, this persuasively argued and firmly scientific book exposes some of history's most persistent bamboozling. Be forewarned, you may never be taken in again!

Explores how Christians can make balanced ethical decisions.

Equine Pharmacology combines highly practical therapeutic guidance with reliable scientific background information to provide a clinically relevant resource.

The World in Six Songs will change the way you listen to music for ever.

An acclaimed writer-doctor shares moving stories of mental illness, in a book that signals the arrival of the next Oliver Sacks

A doctor's inspiring obsession with the heart, combining history, gripping scenes from the operating theatre and a moving personal story

A textbook on global pharmaceutical policies

Do corporations own the genetic codes to our future? McGiffen explores who's in control and what it means.

A study of climate change, one of the global challeneges of the twenty-first century

In this engaging guide, Numerology expert Sonia Ducie answers the most frequently asked questions about the subject.

The fascinating history of electromagnetism and how, in the not-so-distant future, the Earth's poles will switch places - with potentially catastrophic results