Beginning and the End of Everything

Time Travel

From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and

The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State (Hardcover)

Both an indispensable scientific work and a beautiful collection of art, The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State documents and illustrates the

End Times

Newsweek and Bloomberg popular science and investigative journalist Bryan Walsh explores the history of extinction and offers a cutting-edge examination of existential ri...

The Practical Encyclopedia of Home Remedies & Natural Therapies

This practical guide to natural health-promoting treatments and techniques brings together the very best of traditional therapies for reducing stress, gaining vitality a...

FERMAT'S LAST THEOREM

The story of a puzzle that every child can understand but has baffled mathematicians for 300 years. Aged ten, Andrew Wiles stumbled across the puzzle,

Angels and Ages

On February 12th, 1809, two men were born an ocean apart: Charles Darwin on an English country estate
Abraham Lincoln in a Kentucky log cabin.

Essential Science

Essential Science aims to be the most detailed, accessible and authoritative book of its kind. Each of the 34 discoveries is broken down into seven

NUMERICON:THE HIDDEN LIVES OF NUMBERS

Numericon tells the stories of the numbers, mathematical discoveries, oddities and personalities that have shaped the way we understand the world around us. Each chapter...

What Star?

Have you ever looked up into the sky and thought about the names of star groupings and where they came from? Through glossy pages situated

The Brain That Changes Itself

Meet the ninety-year-old doctor who is still practicing medicine, the stroke victim who learned to move and talk again and the woman with half a

Our Mathematical Universe

Why does mathematics explain the universe so well? From the big bang to the distant future via parallel worlds, Max Tegmark proposes a radical idea:

Frankenstein and the Birth of Science

Romanul lui Mary Shelley „Frankenstein” a fost creat concomitent cu schimbarea rapidă a lumii științifice. „Frankenstein” și „The Birth of Science” îți oferă o perspecti...

QI: The Third Book Of General Ignorance

The Third Book of General Ignorance adună laolaltă 180 de întrebări, atât noi cât și unele care au figurat deja în seria populară despre QI

ALPHABETS: A Miscellany of Letters

Through the exploration of this grouping of 26 symbols, it becomes clear that each letter has its own persona and history, and the alphabets presented

Math: A Crash Course

It’s a sad truth that maths has the reputation of being “difficult.” Part of the problem is that many of us simply don’t speak the

The Universe in Bite-sized Chunks

The sheer scale of the universe can be intimidating, but in this easily digestible book we embark on an incredible journey through all the essential

MAGIC OF REALITY

Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of science. Here, he takes ...

Science of Everyday Life

In this fascinating scientific tour of household objects, The One Show's resident scientist Marty Jopson explains the answers to many baffling questions about the chemist...

Alex Through the Looking-glass

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

Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything -Hardcover

From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal , a hilariously illustrated investigation into future technol...

The Big Questions in Science

Explore the most intriguing, far-reaching, and pressing concerns in popular science today! From “What is consciousness?” to “Can we beat bacteria?,” The Big Questions i...

The Neanderthal Legacy: Reawakening Our Genetic and Cultural Origins

In The Neanderthal Legacy, eminent psychologist and paranormal researcher Stan Gooch brings together the wide-ranging investigative strands of his lifetime of study of t...

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Oliver Sacks has described Sapolsky as 'one of the best scientist-writers of our time.' This superb guide to human nature shows how all the perspective

The Digital Condition

Each generation of scholars produces a book that remaps the state of knowledge. Rob Wilkie's The Digital Condition: Class and Culture in the Information Network

Look up

Our story with the stars Most of us have never been to space. To date, of the more than 100 billion humans that have ever

THE BOOK OF HUMANS

WHAT MAKES US HUMAN? Waging war? Sex for pleasure? Creating art? Mastery of fire? In this thrilling tour of the animal kingdom, Adam Rutherford tells

Meet Your Hormones

Foreword by Professor John Wass, Professor of Endocrinology at Oxford University Did you know that you have thousands, perhaps millions, of hormones in your bloodstream?

The Wonder of Brian Cox

Professor Brian Cox is probably the best-known physicist in the world today. As presenter of the hit television series 'Wonders of the Solar System' and

Maths Hacks

The perfect introduction to algebra, logic, probability and much more, this is a great new way to learn about the most important mathematical ideas and

A Brief History of Mathematical Thought

Matematica este un produs al culturii umane care s-a dezvoltat odată cu încercările noastre de a înțelege lumea din jurul nostru. În O scurtă istorie

How to Lie with Statistics

‘Round numbers,’ pronounced Dr Johnson, ‘are always false.’ But not, of course, the precise and scientific calculations of trained statisticians with their decimals and...

The Infinite Monkey Cage – How to Build a Universe

he Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through

Little Book of Big Explorations

A collection of 150 mini essays of trailblazing journeys into the unknown that have had a profound effect on our understanding of the world, transformed

Chinese Medicine for Everyday Living

Take a holistic approach to your health and discover the ancient art of Chinese medicine. Over 3,000 years old, traditional Chinese medicine continues to be

The Little Book of Big Explorations

Inspiring accounts of remarkable adventures and scientific discoveries that have revolutionized our understanding of our world and tested the limits of human endurance. T...

EVOLUTION

Introducing the latest ideas on how life originated and diversified on earth, this new edition of a classic work provides a concise and engaging summary

THE MAZE OF INGENUITY: IDEAS AND IDEALISM IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY

From cathedrals to star wars, Arnold Pacey looks at the interaction of technologies and society over the last thousand years and uses that survey to

New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything

Introduction by Professor Stephen Hawking. When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the

The Aliens Are Coming! : The Exciting and Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe

For millennia, we have looked up at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe. In the last few years, scientists have

Jung: The Key Ideas

Jung- The Key Ideas te va familiariza cu gândirea revoluționară a acestui faimos om. Te va învăța totul despre conceptele lui fundamentale, de la inconștientul

The Intimate Universe : How the stars are closer than you think

The scale of the cosmos can be baffling, with distances so vast and timescales to long that it's easy to dismiss them as being completely

A Universe from Nothing

Fizicianul teoretician de renume internațional și autorul de bestselleruri Lawrence Krauss oferă răspunsuri provocatoare și revelatoare la cele mai mari întrebări filozo...

How Numbers Work

Discover the incredible connection between numbers and reality itself! Think of a number between one and ten No,hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero

Space: 10 Things You Should Know

Această carte este pentru oricine vrea să înțeleagă cu ușurință fundamentele uluitoare ale extraordinarului nostru univers în expansiune. Scris de astrofizicianul de l...

The Universe in Zero Words

Ordinary Differential Equations and Stability Theory

This brief modern introduction to the subject of ordinary differential equations emphasizes stability theory. Concisely and lucidly expressed, it is intended as a supplem...

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2017 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Your body is teeming

Anthropology and the Individual

This study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual, while remaining entirely distinct from psychology and other perspectives on the

Robot : Meet the Machines of the Future

Robotics is experiencing an explosion - with more than 45 million robots estimated to be in operation by 2019. Robotics and AI will increasingly become

Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker

A radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the bestselling author of Victoria: A Life. With the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin—hailed

Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe

'Clegg's writing style is highly readable, and the contemporary cultural references impressed upon me . . . how accessible [Dice World] is.'—Chemistry World Perfect for...

Blueprint

'A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more' (Frank Bruni, New York Times), B...

What Do You Think You Are?

Popular science master Brian Clegg’s new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the atomic level, through life

Book of Wonders

Thirteen volumes of mathematical definitions, propositions and proofs. Writing in 300 BC, Euclid could not have known his logic would go unsurpassed until the nineteenth...

30-Second Numbers

Counting and measuring when we're shopping, travelling, studying or playing are just the beginning
the applications of numbers are endless, from assessing variables and...

The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy

Are paperclips going to destroy life as we know it? What can Mickey Mouse teach us about how to programme AI? Could a more rational

Brilliant Ideas from Wonderful Women

Discover the stories behind 15 of the twentieth century's key inventions in this fun and informative treasury of trailblazing women, who each made a unique

Apollo 11: The Moon Landing in Real Time

Journey back in time and feel the excitement build in the days before launch and then experience the tension of the dramatic lunar landing and

Atlas Of The Universe

Cartea prezintă tot ce trebuie să știi despre Univers și despre locul Pământului în el. Prezintă înțelegerea Universului și cele mai recente descoperiri referitoare la

How Evolution Explains Everything about Life

How did we get here? It's the journey of a lifetime. All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles