Science

From the author of the million-copy bestseller The Book of Negroes, an absorbing, illuminating look at the vital fluid

This fully-updated second edition follows the evidence all the way from the crime scene to the court room

Mary Roach meets Michael Pollan in this ambitious, dynamic and thought-provoking foray into the future of food

In her addictive, bold voice, bestselling author Mary Roach delves into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.

What if Newton had never lived? A compelling dual biography argues that Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley easily could have filled the giant's shoes--and deserve credit for the birth of modern science. Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant figure of Newton, ...

Dazzling popular maths for the curious reader - from one of Britain's, and the world's, cleverest teenagers

This book tells the incredible story of the birth of a whole new field of science called Astrobiology. In the 1990's, powerful new ground - based telescopes plus space telescopes placed in orbits high above earth's atmosphere allowed astronomers to begin discovering that our sun is not the only star ...

This classic aid for the gardener deals with the pronunciation, derivation and meaning of common garden plant names. The glossary is a treasure trove of over a thousand entries.

No Way to Treat a Friend is an informative and readable expose of Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine (CAVM).

The human body is a marvel - but what happens when it comes under attack? A fascinating guide to why we get sick and how we get better.

Everything you need to know about your brain: an eye-opening, illustrated handbook.

In her addictive, bold voice, bestselling author Mary Roach delves into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.

The human body is a marvel - but what happens when it comes under attack? A fascinating guide to why we get sick and how we get better.

The story of the people who see beyond the stars...

What links the Taj Mahal and our skeleton? Calcium. The Eiffel Tower and our blood? Iron. The salt on our fries and the street lamps that guide us home? Sodium. Everything in the known Universe is made up of one of the 118 elements of the periodic table, this book features, their vital statistics, their main compounds and more.

A Journey Through The Universe is a grand tour of the most amazing celestial objects and how they fit together to build the cosmos.

Marie Curie made pioneering discoveries in the field of radioactivity and discovered two elements, Radium and Polonium, the latter having acquired new notoriety over one hundred years after Curie's discovery, when she named it in honour of her native Poland.

A Human Algorithm examines the immense impact intelligent technology will have on humanity. These machines, while challenging our personal beliefs and our socio-economic world order, also have the potential to transform our health and well-being, alleviate poverty and suffering, and reveal the mysteries ...

Many of the world's leading physicists are confident that they are on track to discover a new understanding of the universe which will entail a complete rethink of gravity, space and time.

What is extraordinary is that they are achieving these breakthroughs through thought alone.