Science

Instant Science pulls together all the pivotal scientific knowledge and thought into one concise volume.

Philosopher Daniel Milo offers a vigorous critique of the quasi-monopoly that Darwin's natural selection has on our idea of the natural world. In popular thought, Darwinism has even acquired the trappings of an ethical system, focused on optimization, competition, and innovation. Yet in nature, imperfect creatures often have the evolutionary edge.

A COMPLETE, UNCOMPLICATED GUIDE TO THE SCIENCE OF LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING 'Most scientists know only their own field. Tim Coulson is at home with science as an integrated whole. A pleasure to read, and a lasting accomplishment' Richard Dawkins 'Step aside Star Wars - ours is the most astonishing ...

From an award-winning medic and scientist, the game-changing case that genetic females have greater resilience, immunity, endurance and more, compared with males'A powerful antidote to the myth of a "weaker sex"' Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered BrainFrom birth, genetic females are better at fighting ...

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'Roundly debunks racism's core lie - that inequality is ...

An act of rebellion and a reclamation of beauty

What if we could do the impossible and remove gender from the equation?

The anti-diet diet book by University of Cambridge geneticist, Dr Giles Yeo.

The shocking truth about sugar, the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick indeed.

Carbon is much more than a chemical element: it is a polymorphic entity with many faces, at once natural, cultural and social. Ranging across ten million different compounds, carbon has as many personas in nature as it has roles in human life on earth. And yet it rarely makes the headlines as anything ...

A revolutionary way of understanding quantum physics frees us from a century of absurdities and illusions and returns us to a universe that makes sense

A highly accessible, illustrated introduction to Game Theory, a concept that helps us understand everything from our social lives to global politics.

Get swept up in the beauty of our universe with this collection of spectacular images taken by today's most powerful telescopes and orbiting probes. These breathtaking photographs both enthrall and inform as they reveal the many wonders of outer space. Moving from the planets in our own solar system, ...

A distinguished scholar urges scientists and religious thinkers to become colleagues rather than adversaries in areas where their fields overlap

Gain a new perspective on the inevitable problems of everyday life

A vivid and captivating narrative about how modern science broke free of ancient philosophy, and how theoretical physics is returning to its unscientific roots In the early seventeenth century Galileo broke free from the hold of ancient Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy. He drastically changed the ...

One of the world's leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropology

Scientists agree that over last century the earth has become warmer. But do we really know why this has happened? This book explains, an interplay of the clouds, the Sun and cosmic rays - sub-atomic particles from exploded stars - which seems to have more effect on the climate than manmade carbon dioxide.

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Covering the history, key discoveries, inventions and people, this illustrated science encyclopedia reveals the story of scientific progress from the invention of the wheel to 21st-century climate solutions, including coverage from ancient Greek geometry and quantum physics to the worldwide web.