Science

Mary Roach meets Michael Pollan in this ambitious, dynamic and thought-provoking foray into the future of food

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

What if Newton had never lived? A compelling dual biography argues that Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley easily could have filled the giant's shoes--and deserve credit for the birth of modern science. Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant figure of Newton, ...

Dazzling popular maths for the curious reader - from one of Britain's, and the world's, cleverest teenagers

No Way to Treat a Friend is an informative and readable expose of Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine (CAVM).

The human body is a marvel - but what happens when it comes under attack? A fascinating guide to why we get sick and how we get better.

The story of the people who see beyond the stars...

What links the Taj Mahal and our skeleton? Calcium. The Eiffel Tower and our blood? Iron. The salt on our fries and the street lamps that guide us home? Sodium. Everything in the known Universe is made up of one of the 118 elements of the periodic table, this book features, their vital statistics, their main compounds and more.

A Journey Through The Universe is a grand tour of the most amazing celestial objects and how they fit together to build the cosmos.

Marie Curie made pioneering discoveries in the field of radioactivity and discovered two elements, Radium and Polonium, the latter having acquired new notoriety over one hundred years after Curie's discovery, when she named it in honour of her native Poland.

Packed with simple and practical ways to start reducing the amount of plastic you use, How to Go Plastic Free will show you how to eliminate plastic from your life, one step at a time.

Come face to face with some of the world's deadliest, scariest and most awesome creatures living in water with amazing Life-Size artworks including the Great White Shark and Giant Squid. 'Life-Size Sharks and other Underwater Creatures' is an exciting and unique exploration of life in the oceans and freshwater.

Come face to face with some of the world's deadliest, scariest and most awesome creatures living in water with amazing Life-Size artworks including the Great White Shark and Giant Squid. 'Life-Size Sharks and other Underwater Creatures' is an exciting and unique exploration of life in the oceans and freshwater.

A fun puzzle book that combines puzzles with real-world science.

Here is the captivating history of maths from prehistoric times to our digital age, looking at the people and their cultures, their beliefs and aims behind the discoveries that fundamentally changed the way we see the world.

Oliver Sacks takes us through the world of hallucinations and explains how our brains can deceive us.

Six general anesthetics! Yes 6! That is the astonishing number of anesthetics the average American will experience in a lifetime. This Anesthesiologist's Record tells the story.

A SPECIES IN DENIAL is the revolutionary bestseller by Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith. In it the author presents a series of essays addressesing the crux issue before us as a species of the human condition, our capacity for good and evil, describing how humans have coped with the dilemma of the ...

"The Big Question in Science" delves into twenty of the most intriguing, far reaching and "of the moment" questions in popular science today that speak to our sense of wonder and the desire to know more