Mathematics & science

Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize Bias affects us all, every day of our lives. It shapes how we see each other, and how we are ...

Summary: This book is a collection of powerful and dramatic images of weather phenomena from around the world. The images are taken from an annual ...

Product Description One of the world's most outstanding astrophysicists provides a state-of-the-art investigation into the possibility of time...

Product Description Voyages of Discovery is a mesmerising visual record of ten of the most significant natural history expeditions. Superb artwor...

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...

An intimate, profound portrait of the Earth's closest neighbour. 'An out-of-this-world read ... brilliant and compelling. Morton is a high-octane B...

Product Description If you thought you knew who you were, THINK AGAIN.Did you know that half your DNA isn't human? That somebody, somewhere ha...

In the last thirty years, gamma-ray bursts have grown from an oddity to a central position in astrophysics. Not only are they the largest explosion...

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

Product Description 'A fascinating and challenging story' New York Review of Books 'This is an incredibly absorbing and insightful book about the...

Designed for students having no previous experience with rigorous proofs, this text can be used immediately after standard calculus courses. It is ...

The incredible story of a scientific breakthrough that changed the course of history and contributed significantly to the Industrial Revolution. It...

When it comes to big science, very few things are conclusively known. From Quantum Mechanics to Natural Selection, what we have instead are theorie...

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

** NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ** The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of...

`I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.' It was with these words, writ...

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. ...

Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, Frankenstein, introduced readers around the world to the concept of raising the dead through scientific procedures. T...

`I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.' It was with these words, writ...

Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, so...

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...

From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical disc...

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. ...

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

Where did the universe come from? From early religions through Greek philosophy and Western science, man has always attempted to discover the meani...

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 ...

Product Description What is the universe made of? How did it start? This Manual tells the story of how physicists are seeking answers to these que...

'A remarkable achievement' - Stephen Fry In 2015 #thedress captured the world’s imagination. Was the dress in the picture white and gold or blue a...

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...

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

From the earliest-known elements to those named in 2016, this book takes a comprehensive look at the development of the periodic table - and reveal...

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

Extraterrestrial life is a common theme in science fiction, but is it a serious prospect in the real world? Astrobiology is the emerging field of s...