Mathematics & science

A journey through 55 alternative realities, parallel worlds and possible futures.It's lucky you're here. But for a series of incredible coincidence...

The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All ideas that have revolutionised science - and that were dismissed out of hand when they first ap...

Do something amazing and learn a new skill thanks to the Little Ways to Live a Big Life books! The beginning of the 20th century heralded a scien...

Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old? Can you beat Sherlock Holmes? If you think the answer is yes - I challenge you to solve my problem...

Exam Board: Edexcel Level & Subject: AS Maths First teaching: September 2008 First exams: June 2009 Endorsed by Edexcel ...

With wit, colour and clarity, What A Wonderful World quickly and painlessly brings us up to speed on how the world of the 21st century works. From ...

WOMAN explores the essence of what it means to be female. In mapping the inner woman - from organs to orgasms - Natalie Angier presents an extraord...

A Sunday Times bestseller How long is 'now'? The short answer is 'somewhere between 2 and 3 seconds'. The long answer involves an incredible journ...

A fully updated edition of one of the most original accounts of evolution ever written, featuring new fractal diagrams, six new 'tales' and the lat...

Since the dawn of humanity, men have attempted to divine the nature of the heavens. The first astronomers mapped the movement of the seasons and us...

Stephen Hawking is the world-famous physicist with a cameo in "The Simpsons on his CV", but outside his academic field his work is little understoo...

Water is the most every day of substances. It pours from our taps and falls from the sky. We drink it, wash with it, and couldn't live without it. ...

A readily understandable exploration of how figures are badly reported or deliberately misrepresented everywhere from political arguments and brief...

In Why It’s Not All Rocket Science , Robert Cave examines 100 extraordinary projects, theories and experiments that have been conducted in the ...

What do scientists actually do? Is science "value-free"? How has science evolved through history? Where is science leading us? "Introducing Philoso...

Product Description Introduced by Jim Al-Khalili Could you surf down an erupting volcano? Why do zebras have stripes? Are you breathing the sam...

Science tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light travels, and why stones fall to earth. But scientific endeavour goes far beyond th...

Immerse yourself in the breathtaking world of 'Frozen Light,' where the intricate beauty of sculpted crystals and gemstones comes to life through o...

From the bestselling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Oliver Sacks's broad range of interests - from his...

In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world with a radical theory - evolution by natural selection. One hundred and fifty years later, his theory sti...

Product Description The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Bes...

"Introducing Genetics" takes readers on a journey through this new science to the discovery of DNA and the heart of the human gene map. In everyday...

The story of how our ancestors made the first tentative steps towards becoming human, how we lost our fur but gained language, fire and tools, and ...

"This book introduces the reader to the niceties of samples (random or stratified random), averages (mean, median or modal), errors (probable, stan...

Since ancient times, we have tried to make sense of our universe by observing objects far beyond our abilities to see or touch – from the smallest ...

The full story of how our relationship with light shapes our health, productivity and mood. 'A sparkling and illuminating study, one of those rare...

We are all increasingly bewildered by the simple question of what to eat. Despite advice from experts, governments and dieticians about the dangers...

What would that universe be like if human beings were not here to observe it? Would there be still be numbers, or scientific laws? Would the univer...

A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023 'Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman 'Absolutely fascinating' ...