Science

Jason Roberts Paperback The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life. In the 18th century, two men dedicated their ...

Chris Lintott Hardback 272 pages Our view of the Universe is changing. The timeless heavens, turning ceaselessly above us, have been revealed to be dynamic and ever-changing, requiring a new kind...

Rebecca Skloot Paperback 464 pages The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a fascinating mix of memoir and science, telling the story of how one woman’s cells have saved countless lives. Now...

Jana Schaich Borg , Walter Sinnott-Armstrong , Vincent Conitzer Hardback 304 pages A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Can computers understan...

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...

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...

Steven Novella Paperback 432 pages Our predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to our present hopes and fears, biases and ignorance. Whether they be the outlandish le...

Randall Munroe Paperback 368 pages WHAT IF you still had so many more strange questions about the universe?And WHAT IF Randall Munroe, former NASA roboticist and xkcd creator, were prepared to ...

Brian Clegg Paperback 176 pages An exploration of the transformative ways in which nature has inspired the technological advancement of humankind. Biomimetics literally means emulating biology -...

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...

Randall Munroe Paperback 336 pages From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask. Millions visit ...

Mark Hanson & Lucy Green Paperback 200 pages Ever wondered why your life and health can sometimes be so hard to control? Or why it seems so easy for other people? Mark Hanson and Lucy Green draw...

PaperbackBill Bryson 'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the...

PaperbackRachel Carson (Introduction by Shackleton ) Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revol...

PaperbackStephen Hawking The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant post...

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