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

A fascinating compendium of historical tales, organized by the days of the year. Read about the day Jesse Owens humiliated the Nazis at the Olympic...

Castles and palaces around the world are structures of grandeur, might and beauty. From the flamboyance of Germany's fairy tale-Neuschwanstein C...

Britain is well-known for its churches and cathedrals; buildings of great architecture and religious grandeur that form many of our recognisable sk...

Olympus, the Grand Canyon, Uluru and the Serengeti: national parks are home to the wonders of our natural world. Award-winning travel writer Aar...

On just about every continent, from Boston's strong ale to Norwegian stout, there are people brewing great beer. From English ales to Czech lager, ...

Throughout the history of rugby union, a select few players have stood out above the rest. Bringing together 50 of the finest, this book reveals th...

Author Barry Stone has served his apprenticeship as a western movie geek and aficionado. The Magnificent Seven, The Wild Bunch, Red River - for 50 ...

Journeying along London's waterways on a canal boat called Pike, Helen Babbs puts down roots for two weeks at a time before moving on. From Waltham...

Spanning ten historic years, from the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939 to 'Joe-1', the first Soviet atomic bomb test in August 1949, Atomic is ...

UPDATED EDITION WITH OVER FIFTY NEW STORIES 'A FIRST-RATE BOOK' - THE OBSERVER Laura Buxton, aged ten, releases a balloon from her garden. It...

High in the Tuscan hills above Florence, an elaborate medieval castle, converted to a POW camp on Mussolini's personal orders, holds one of the mos...

Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy ...

As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block, gaining respectability only in th...

Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed - 47 million antidepressant prescriptions in the UK alone last ye...

'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...

Have you ever wished you could tell your favourite books just what they mean to you? Or wanted to give a piece of your mind to the `must-read' book...

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

Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 10,000 new cases each year in the UK alone, and yet few know anything about t...

Product Description Electricity was the scientific fashion of the Enlightenment, 'an Entertainment for Angels, rather than for Men'. Lecturer...

At the beginning of this century enormous progress had been made in genetics. The Human Genome Project finished sequencing human DNA. It seemed it ...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE ETYMOLOGICON Mark Forsyth presents the secret of writing unforgettable phrases, u...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER `Witty and erudite ... stuffed with the kind of arcane information that nobody strictly needs to know, bu...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE ETYMOLOGICON Mark Forsyth presents a delightfully eccentric day in the life of unusua...

Product Description The story of the jet engine has everything: genius, tragedy, heroism, a world war, the individual vs. the state, and an i...

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

'As one of the last remaining survivors of the Great Depression and the Second World War, I will not go gently into that good night. I want to tell...

The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to the hour of the day when...

In the world of smartphones, instant internet access and on-demand documentaries, studying should be easier than ever. Yet all this background nois...

World-leading productivity expert Graham Allcott's business bible is given a complete update for 2019. Do you waste too much time on your pho...

Product Description 'Damn, all my cheating secrets revealed. In book form' Stephen FryWhich philosopher had the maddest hairstyle? Which nove...

The works of French philosopher Alain Badiou range from novels, poems, "romanoperas" and popular political treatises to elaborate philosophical arg...

Product Description Anthropology originated as the study of 'primitive' cultures. But the notion of 'primitive' exposes presumptions of 'civilized...

"Introducing Aristotle" guides the reader through an explosion of theories, from the establishment of systematic logic to the earliest rules of sci...

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 ...

Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzles--how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true na...

"Introducing Buddha" describes the life and teachings of the Buddha, but it also shows that enlightenment is a matter of experiencing the truth ind...

Unlock the mysteries of the universe with "Introducing Chaos," a captivating exploration of how chaos influences everything from nature to finance....

Linguist Noam Chomsky maintains that the human brain has an innate language faculty, and that part of this biological endowment is a 'universal gra...

"Introducing Consciousness" provides a comprehensive guide to the current state of consciousness studies. It starts with the history of the philoso...

What might a 'theory of everything' look like? Is science an ideology? Who were Adorno, Horkheimer or the Frankfurt School? The decades since the 1...

Cultural Studies signals a major academic revolution for the 21st century. But what exactly is it, and how is it applied? It is a discipline that c...

Progress in genetics today would not be possible without Darwin's revolution, but the mysterious man who laid the rational basis for undermining...

"Introducing Descartes" explains why he is usually called the father of modern philosophy. It is a clear and accessible guide to all the puzzling q...

Brand-new INTRODUCING guide to the subject that really makes the world go round. Economics was described by the English economist Lionel Robbins in...

Our knowledge comes primarily from experience - what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems? The experimental breakthroughs in ...

Epigenetics is the most exciting field in biology today, developing our understanding of how and why we inherit certain traits, develop diseases an...