Mathematics & science

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'The ultimate anti-racism guide' Caroline Criado Perez 'Seriously important' ...

"Her stories have the power to transform your life." - Lori Gottlieb, bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone "Radically changes the...

This is a powerful and a thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world. The adjective 'medieval' has beco...

Poo! Most of us don't really like to talk about it. In fact, many of us would probably rather it didn't exist at all, or at least if it must exi...

What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this gripping and illuminating book, Dr Allan Ropper reveals the extraord...

Whilst living amongst Peruvian Indians, anthropologist Jeremy Narby learned of their phenomenal knowledge of plants and biochemical interactions, g...

What is mathematics, and why is it such a mystery to so many people? Mathematics is the greatest creation of human intelligence. It affects us all....

Review The tone is that of an extended Ted talk . . . at the heart of Nichols's book are real revelations -- Philip Hoare ― Guardian A fascinatin...

In Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science, Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world....

An inspirational and beautifully illustrated book that tells the stories of 80 plants from around the globe. In his follow-up to the bestselling A...

*FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYONE WHO EVER LIVED and HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST* WHAT MAKES US HUMAN? Waging war? Se...

Quantum theory confronts us with bizarre paradoxes which contradict the logic of classical physics. At the subatomic level, one particle seems to k...

'The Diet Myth is fascinating, and now I'm obsessed with microbes!' Nigella Lawson Why do most diets fail? Why does one person eat a certain meal ...

'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian Cox This is a story about you. ...

Meet the bacteria, viruses, and other germs and microbes that are all around, but too small for us to see, in this children's science book by bests...

Review 'Entertaining and at times mind-boggling guide to the weakest of nature's fundamental forces, which also controls the fate of the universe'...

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...

Review An intellectual tour de force, and a brilliant demonstration of how a historical approach is often the best way of explaining difficult...

In Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science, Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world....

Have you ever wondered if a severed head retains consciousness long enough to see what happened to it? Or whether your dog would run to fetch help,...

When should you adopt an aggressive business strategy? How do we make decisions when we don't have all the information? What makes international en...

Product Description 'Extremely authoritative. The best book I have read on space travel since Arthur C. Clarke's classic, The Promise of Space.' ...

Calculus: A Complete Introduction is the most comprehensive yet easy-to-use introduction to using calculus. Written by a leading expert, this book ...

Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rain...

What really happens at the most fundamental levels of nature? Introducing Particle Physics explores the very frontiers of our knowledge, even showi...

Half a century of research has resulted in machines capable of beating the best human chess players and humanoid robots that can interact. But can ...

Trigonometry: A Complete Introduction is the most comprehensive yet easy-to-use introduction to Trigonometry. Written by a leading expert, this boo...

If memories of learning algebra bring you out in a cold sweat and thoughts of quadratic equations cause you feelings of fear and dread, I Used to K...

How Numbers Work is a tour of the mind-blowing but beautiful realm of numbers and the mathematical rules that connect them.

Uncover the mind-blowing complexities of the brain and how it affects our personalities, behaviours and more. Written by Professor of Cognitive Ne...

A Sunday Times Book of the Year A New Scientist Gift Pick "Bright, nerdy and funny! Of course I loved it." Dara O Briain Can we resurrect dinosau...

Exam Board: AQA Level: A-level Subject: Physics First teaching: September 2015 First exam: June 2017 Suitable for the 2020 exams Need m...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2017 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Your body is ...

Review Ince makes profound - and funny - reflections on our tiny lives in a massive universe. ― ObserverA delightful and scintillating hymn to...

'Clear and compact ... It's hard to fault as a brief, easily digestible introduction to some of the biggest questions in the Universe' Giles Sparro...

It is now more than a century since Einstein's theories of Special and General Relativity began to revolutionise our view of the universe. Beginnin...

Review Praise for The Nation of Plants: This artfully crafted exposition delightfully delves into the lives of plants by presenting the eight pill...

Review Intriguing ... a challenging but rewarding trip through a quantum world of uncertainties. ― Publisher's WeeklyPraise for Ian Stewart: S...

If a 'robot' could do your job quicker than you and better than you for no pay, would you still be employed? Today it's travel agents, data-analyst...

Exam Board: AQA Level: A-level Subject: Chemistry First teaching: September 2015 First exam: June 2017 Suitable for the 2020 exams Need...

This is a vehement attack on the latest pseudo-scientific claims about the differences between the sexes - with the scientific evidence to back it ...

Genius Inventions gives readers an unprecedented insight into the events, people and histories behind technological and scientific developments tha...

We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, more than half of the landmass of the planet is urbanized, and t...

From the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton, The Science Magpie is a compelling collection of scientific curiosities. Expand yo...

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

'From your brain to your fingertips, you emerge from her book entertained and with a deeper understanding of yourself' Richard Dawkins 'A masterfu...

The Lunar Men by Jenny Uglow is a vivid group portrait that brings to life the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a group of eighteenth-century amateur e...