Acclaimed author Matt Ridley’s thrilling follow-up to his bestseller ‘Genome’. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, Ridley turns his attention to the nature versus nurture debate to bring the first popular account of the roots of human behaviour.
After the huge national and international success of LONGITUDE and GALILEO’S DAUGHTER, Dava Sobel tells the human story of the nine planets of our solar system.
A cutting-edge science book in the style of ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’ and ‘Chaos’ from an exciting and accessible new voice in popular science writing.
Combining myth, biography, and wit, this is a highly original depiction of cutting-edge science and its profound implications told through the scientists who are rewriting life on earth.
From the acclaimed author of ‘Seeing and Believing’. In clear and vivid prose, Richard Panek examines two of history’s greatest thinkers, Einstein and Freud, to offer a fresh portrait of the extraordinary scientific developments of the 20th-century.
The bestselling author of ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’ and ‘The Code Book’ tells the story of the brilliant minds that deciphered the mysteries of the Big Bang.
Pulitzer-prize winning author Jonathan Weiner’s revealing story of the science that is about to change all life forever.
In ‘Deep Time’ Henry Gee told us why the chicken came before the egg. In his new book, ‘Jacob’s Ladder’, he tells us the comprehensive answer to the simple question: how did I get here?
From one of the best writers on science, a portrait of Isaac Newton – the man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith.
In a stunning, historical narrative, ‘The Music of the Primes’ reveals the history behind one of the biggest ideas in science.
An environmental parable for our times – the story of a beautiful blue bird meeting its nemesis at the end of the 20th-century.
A narrative history of the men and women who have explored Mars and mapped its surface from afar, and in so doing conditioned our understanding of our nearest planetary neighbour.
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley’s thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, Ridley turns his attention to the nature versus nurture debate to bring the first popular account of the roots of human behaviour.
The eccentric story of one of the most bizarre marriages in the history of British business: the invention of the world’s first office computer and the Lyons Teashop.
The tale of a flagrant scientific fraud and its cover-up, and scientific incompetence behind the most important paradigm in evolutionary biology: Charles Darwin’s ‘Theory of Evolution’.
‘Phantoms in The Brain’ takes a revolutionary new approach to theories of the brain, from one of the world’s leading experimental neurologists.
