Science

Robert Skidelsky 384 pages A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological fixes for our proble...

Thomas Halliday Paperback 416 pages This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the w...

Michael Taylor Paperback In 1811, a twelve-year-old girl uncovered some strange-looking bones in Britain's southern shoreline. They belonged to no known creature and were buried beneath a hundred...

Lucy Cooke Paperback 400 pages What does it mean to be female? Mother, carer, the weaker sex? Think again. In the last few decades a revolution has been brewing in zoology and evolutionary biolo...

Elinor Cleghorn Paperback 496 pages Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt ashamed of...

Ray Kurzweil Paperback 352 pages From the world's preeminent AI futurist: a fascinating account of how mapping the human mind leads to ever more intelligent machinesRay Kurzweil, described by Bi...

Max Bennett Paperback A Brief History of Intelligence bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be.The entirety of the human brain's ...

Cover: Hardback, Pages: 360, Author: Richard Dawkins...

Caspar Henderson Hardback 368 pages A compendium of sounds from this world and beyond, from the author of A New Map of Wonders and The Book of Barely Imagined BeingsSound shapes our world in invi...

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Cover: Softback, Pages: 448, Author: Kelly Weinersmith...

Philip Ball Paperback A cutting-edge new vision of biology that proposes to revise our concept of what life is – from Science Book Prize winner Philip Ball.Biology is undergoing a quiet but pro...

Cover: Hardback, Pages: 320, Author: Tom Lathan...

Noah Whiteman Paperback 304 pages A deadly secret lurks within our kitchens, medicine cabinets and gardens... Digitalis purpurea. The common foxglove. Vision blurs as blood pressure drops prec...

Dr William Pao Hardback 352 pages Meet the doctors, scientists, patients and campaigners tackling the world’s worst diseases We often hear about the dark side of the pharmaceutical industry ...

Author: Sarah Brown, Cover: Softback, Pages: 272...

Robert Hannigan Paperback From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers - what the secret world can teach us about performance and creativi...

Peter Godfrey-Smith Paperback The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith's three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Mi...

Matt Parker Paperback Explore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and no. 1 bestselling author of Humble Pi Why can no two people ever see the same...

Hardback Royal Observatory Greenwich How far is a light year? Why isn't Pluto a planet anymore? Will the Universe end? What exactly is dark energy? How much does it cost to deliver a pizza to spa...

Tim Flannery & Emma Flannery Hardback 208 pages Imagine a ferocious marine hunter up to twenty metres long, weighing twice as much as a humpback whale and ten times more than Tyrannosaurus rex. ...

Thomas Hertog Paperback 352 pages Stephen Hawking's closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar's final thoughts on the cosmos. Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried ...

Daniel Whiteson - Jorge Cham Paperback 336 pages You've got questions: about space, time, gravity, and the odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are righ...

Hardback 448 pages A new, deluxe hardcover edition of one of the most important scientific works ever written In December 1831, Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle, accompanying her crew on a f...