Mathematics & science

From the familiar to the improbable, the gross to the endearing, The Modern Bestiary is a compendium of curious creatures. It includes both animals...

'This is not simply a book of ideas, it is also a book of stories, most astounding, many heartbreaking' - Bryan Appleyard, SUNDAY TIMES Since the ...

About the Author G�sli P�lsson is professor semi-emeritus of anthropology at the University of Iceland. He has had academic affiliations in Norway...

A Scientific American Top Ten Book of 2023 If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains-ea...

Innovative, authoritative, and captivating - Life is the most balanced experimentally-based biology text available. It offers an engaging and coher...

About the Author Brian Clegg studied physics at the University of Cambridge and is now an award-winning and bestselling science writer and public ...

***SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2022*** ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 2022*** 'Fascinating... timely...

An irresistible stocking-filler: a hilarious romp through the science of Christmas. How does snow form? Why are we always depressed after Christma...

'If you want to see what that future might look like, Duncan's book is a fun place to start' NPR 'Intensely readable, downright terrifying, and su...

In this eagerly-awaited new book from the author of the best-selling Nostalgia Nerd's Retro Tech, Peter Leigh takes a fun, informative and irrevere...

From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going. From the recycling miracles in the soil; ...

How to Live in Space is the ultimate guide to your future life in space. Physicist and astronomer Colin Stuart takes you through the training proce...

Close your eyes and ask yourself, 'what do I feel?' You might feel thirsty or tired. You might feel healthy and well or perhaps a little under the...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE* *A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver An e...

Review Dr Susan Greenfield ... is rightly admired as a popular communicator and THE HUMAN BRAIN: A GUIDED TOUR will appeal as a Baedeker to the br...

Who are the most important men and women whose notions and theories have changed the world? When Isaac Newton claimed that he only saw further bec...

Your brain is a collection of maps. That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brain's surfaces are actual schematic images of the sights, sounds, a...

Review Fascinating, timely and very well put together . . . The range of human activities, and abilities, covered in Rowan Hooper's study is aston...

A pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean to understand bioluminescence, the language of light that helps life communicate in...

Review Fascinating, occasionally chilling and very readable -- Rhys Blakely ― The Times Detailed and deeply researched ... striking ... complex -...

Review "The Short Story of the Universe is ideal for amateur astrophysicists, as well as high school or college students taking astronomy classes....

Review Fascinating ― Daily Mail Published On: 2013-06-14 Helping people make sense of the barrage of confusing (and often misrepresented) statist...

Product Description 'A joy to read ... mind-expanding' Book of the Week, Guardian 'A bold and brave paean to our planet's ligneous, leafy kingdom...

Review Who better to guide us through online culture than Aleks Krotoski? She has been examining this fast-changing frontier since the last centur...

Product Description "If you buy just one guide... you won't do better than this" BBC Sky at Night Magazine "You're very much in the dark without t...

Review Stevenson is an excellent storyteller ... fascinating. ― The Times Inspirational. The book works so well because Stevenson gets out there ...

One of the world's science superstars presents a brilliantly illuminating, entertaining and cutting-edge account of how language actually works. Ho...

Following on from his bestseller, SCHRODINGER'S CAT, John Gribbin presents the recent dramatic improvements in experimental techniques that have en...

What we do and do not know about evolution, by one of the field's pioneering thinkers. Evolution is the most important idea in biology, with implic...

This volume contains the lectures and participant contributions delivered at the Sixth Training Course in the Physics of Correlated Electron System...

This book deals with recent breakthroughs in ion-channel research that have been brought about by the combined effort of experimental biophysicists...

This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to know what role mathematics can play in attempting to comprehend the dynamics of the human bra...

Glycoconjugates such as glycoproteins and glycolipids play important roles in cell-cell interaction events, including development, differentiation,...

This book presents a functional approach to the construction, use and approximation of Green's functions and their associated ordered exponentials....

This authoritative textbook - the second volume of a comprehensive three-volume course on theoretical astrophysics - deals with stellar physics. De...

This 1998 book describes the physics of superconductivity and superfluidity, macroscopic quantum phenomena found in many conductors at low temperat...

This concise guide to planning, writing, and presenting research is intended for biology students of all levels, especially those in behavioral eco...

This book examines from a multidisciplinary viewpoint the question of what we mean - what we should mean - by setting sustainability as a goal for ...

Green plants are all around us. We are totally dependent on them for food; we cultivate them for our pleasure; and we have used them in a vast numb...

The measurement models employed to score tests have been evolving over the past century from those that focus on the entire test (true score theory...

This volume features papers presented at the 7th Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum. It covers the up-to-date research done in...

The workshop has reviewed progress towards the future generation of neutrino oscillation experiments. These experiments will use very intense conve...

The recent evolution of ultra-intense lasers makes it possible to open new frontiers of science on superstrong field interactions which cover explo...

The conference presented an overview of several important topics in cosmology, astrophysics, and gravitation, with emphasis on the interplay betwee...