Science

From Zeno to Mandelbrot, this title helps you to explore fractals with which you can describe the shape of cloud as precisely as an architect can describe a house.

Why do some of nature's marvels have to wait millions of years for their time in the sun?

It's time to stop thinking in straight lines...

Whistle-blowers tend not to make themselves popular. Maurice Pappworth's whistle was Human Guinea Pigs, the controversial book published in 1967 which examined unethical medical experimentation on humans, identified the researchers and institutions responsible, took the medical establishment by storm ...

Reveals the roots of our biodiversity crisis, why we failed to meet targets set over a decade ago, and what we must do now to protect and preserve nature's wonders

The definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the greatest science story of our time - a Best Science Book of the Year for the Guardian, Financial Times, and New Scientist

Teach with greater confidence with the most accurate guide available, featuring content structured exactly to the latest syllabus.

Quantum theory confronts us with bizarre paradoxes which contradict the logic of classical physics. This book takes us on a step-by-step tour with the key figures, including Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and Schrodinger.

First published in 1962, many of the problems in this book started as examination questions in Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos, which is taken at the end of the second year at Cambridge. They have suffered some changes since then, and have been supplemented by specially invented problems, but the ...

A classic of contemporary nature writing, Water, Ice & Stone is Bill Green's John Burroughs Medal award-winning account of Antarctica

The greatest creation of human intelligence

This book will appeal not only to art collectors already familiar with Lynn Davis's exquisite and unique photography but also to all those interested in space, technology, architecture, and the unknown.

In her addictive, bold voice, bestselling author Mary Roach delves into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.

Seeing Physics uses drawings to help explain 51 key ideas of physics in an accessible way. Each discovery is placed in its historical context, revealing the controversies that once threatened the advance of modern science.

* The story of cosmic evolution, science and civilisation

Quantum theory is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it provides the fundamental underpinning of all modern sciences. Without it, we'd have no computers, no science of molecular biology, no understanding of DNA, no genetic engineering.

In Search ...

A deeply informed, radically hopeful manifesto for regenerating our economies and societies through the power of nature and natural capital.

A scientific and globetrotting exploration of the physics experiments changing the ways we understand our universe bringing the science of cosmology down to earth.

For fans of Ed Yong, Brian Cox and Carl Zimmer: a dazzling scientific and cultural adventure through our ideas about extraterrestrial life.