Mathematics & science

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...

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

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

Winner of the 2010 Royal Society Prize for science books Powerful new research methods are providing fresh and vivid insights into the makeup of...

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 Praise for Ian Stewart: 'Humbling and inspiring. Stewart shows with his typical clarity how the power of pure thought has shaped our world ...

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 The unique Haynes insight into Mars, providing a sister title to Earth Manual and Moon Manual. The recent Ridley Scott/Matt Da...

Amazon Review So many of us are blessed--or at least affected--by the fruits of science, yet how many of us really understand how we got them? Sci...

Product Description Discover the astonishing truth about our aquatic cousins: how they think and what they know, their experiences and unique beha...

Product Description * 2021 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in Middle Grade Longlist * 2021 NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science...

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...

Sunday Times bestseller We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Hum...

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

A brilliant theoretical physicist argues that the solution to the ultimate question in science: how to unify Einstein's theory of general relativit...

About the Author James M. Russell has a philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge, a post-graduate qualification in critical theory, and ...

Review This volume is an exciting guide for helping children to find health and happiness. Sexuality education is not an easy topic; however, ...

Review Britain's most brilliant and prolific populariser of mathematics (Alex Bellos Guardian)Ian really is unsurpassed as raconteur of the wo...

Think of a number between one and ten. No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity. Even if you stick to the whole numbers...

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...

Product Description In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the question of consciousness unsolvable, but...

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

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...

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...

These proceedings are divided into parts; global analysis and applications, and applied mathematics. Part one contains plenary lectures and other c...

The Division of Particles and Fields of the Mexican Physical Society (DPF-MPS) organized the X Mexican School of Particles and Fields (X MSPF). Thi...

This volume consists of articles written by leading scientists in the field of heliospheric physics, analyzing the latest spacecraft measurements a...