Non-Fiction Books

The Compact Guide: DNA provides a fascinating look at the world of the double helix and examines who we are, how we're wired, and how we repair our...

The Compact Guide: The Elements is authoritative and accessible, with a sense of wonder about the way in which the material world works, thanks to ...

'A wonderful book... Delightfully varied... As with all the best science writing, this book doesn't just give answers, it also asks interesting que...

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

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was conceived against the backdrop of rapid change in the scientific world. And the science that inspired it is almost ...

The iconic futurist artist and designer Syd Mead once described science fiction as 'reality ahead of schedule'. In From Science Fiction to Scienc...

Mathematics - A Curious History opens new doors to the amazing world of maths. Telling the exciting story from a historical perspective, it shows h...

A lively and highly readable account of the origins, invention and discovery of just about everything on the planet, the truly global coverage of T...

'Prepare to have your mind blown! A brilliantly written overview of the past, present and future of modern cosmology.' - DALLAS CAMPBELL, author of...

An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It is the building block of ever...

An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It is the building block of ever...

This book answers the question: 'What's next?' The Internet had a world-changing impact on businesses and the global community over the twenty year...

Have you ever wondered how the ideas for some things come about? Surprisingly it is often as much down to chance as a single person's brilliance...

From earliest pre-history, with the dawning understanding of fire and its many uses, up to the astonishing advances of the twenty-first century, Th...

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

Smell is the most emotional and evocative of our senses: it can bring back memories faster and with more immediacy than a photograph - so why is it...

IF YOU THINK YOU ARE YOU, THINK AGAIN. PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging, polemical look at how and why the human body has changed since humankin...

On 14 September 2015, after 50 years of searching, gravitational waves were detected for the first time and astronomy changed for ever. Until t...

Weaving together the great ideas of science, in this, his magnum opus, Brian Clegg builds up reality piece by piece, from space, to time, to matter...

A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2017 A New Scientist Gift Pick 2017 "Bright, nerdy and funny! Of course I loved it." Dara O Briain Can we resurre...

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...

Why do birds sing at dawn? What's the slowest a plane can fly without stalling and falling out of the sky? And how long can you keep a tiger cub as...

In this fascinating and easily digestible book, The One Show's resident scientist Marty Jopson takes us on a mouth-watering tour of the twenty-firs...

'Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the str...

Take control of your life, take control of your pain Chronic pain can be extremely debilitating; however, it does not need to dominate your life. ...

User-friendly in its presentation, this concise text avoids dry language and complex formulas which can be intimidating. Illustrates the applicatio...

Revised to emphasize critical thinking, this Fifth Edition is the most engaging, student-friendly, and comprehensive fundamentals textbook for begi...

A single-volume overview of the current literature in respiratory disorders, The Year in Respiratory Medicine 2003 identifies and evaluates the pap...

A new, comprehensive review of the radiographic examination of the post-operative GI tract. Organized on an organ-by-organ basis, emphasis is place...

Informatics, the study of the science of information and related disciplines, is being increasingly applied to medicine and healthcare. Medical sch...

As minimal access approaches to cancer diagnosis, staging, and therapy become more widely used, it is vital for general surgeons, along with laparo...

Personality disorders have been recognized as categories of psychiatric illness, and still need to be better defined. This book interprets the pers...

Salmonella enterica encompasses a diverse range of bacteria that cause a spectrum of diseases in many hosts. Advancements in prevention and treatme...

Charitable Knowledge explores the interconnections between medical teaching, medical knowledge, and medical authority in eighteenth-century London....

Patients with advanced cancer increasingly receive end-of-life care from a variety of health care professionals, physicians and nurses. These profe...

In this 2006 volume Smith examines the early modern science of generation, which included the study of animal conception, heredity, and fetal devel...

Editorial Board: Jack L. Lesher, Loretta S. Davis, David E. Kent, David J. Cohen Pocket Guide for Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery is written for der...

Modern medicine is exceptionally powerful, and has achieved unprecedented successes. But it comes at a price; individuals suffer from medicine's fa...

The main purpose of this symposium is to stimulate the application of physics to medicine, both in practice and research. Recognized specialists, r...

Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new break...

Procedural sedation and analgesia represents one of the great advances in the maturation of emergency medicine as a discrete speciality within medi...