Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant
A real walk with a dinosaur, as two teams of scientists race to bring back to life the long-extinct woolly mammoth, using DNA from a frozen mammoth discovered in a cliff face in Northern Siberia.
Mathematics and Science
Fingerprints: Murder and the Race to Uncover the Science of Identity
A fascinating exploration into the history of science and crime. In the tradition of ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’, FINGERPRINTS is the story of the race to discover the secrets trapped in the whorls and arches found on the palm of one’s hand.
Diamond: The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair
The history of man’s love affair with a completely useless gem.
Spix’s Macaw: The Race to Save the World’s Rarest Bird
An environmental parable for our times – the story of a beautiful blue bird meeting its nemesis at the end of the twentieth century.
Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World
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.
Fermat’s Last Theorem
‘I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.’
Annie’s Box: Charles Darwin, his Daughter and Human Evolution
The story of the personal tragedy that lay behind Darwin’s revolutionary understanding of man’s place in nature.
The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking
The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
From the best-selling author of Fermat’s Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of man’s urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer encryptions.
The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead
Throughout history, from the Ancient Egyptians to medieval saints and the remains of figures like Eva Peron and Lenin, mummies have held a powerful place in our collective imagination. THE MUMMY CONGRESS is a riveting survey of the history, science and popular culture of mummies and of man’s ancient quest for immortality.
Of Moths and Men: Intrigue, Tragedy and the Peppered Moth
The tale of a flagrant scientific fraud, its cover-up and scientific incompetence behind the most important paradigm in evolutionary biology: Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.
Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man
How long have humans left on Earth? Using cutting edge science that revolutionises our understanding of evolution, Michael Boulter explains how we may be closer to our own extinction than we imagined.
Diamond: The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair
A race to prospect and discover a pipe of kimberlite in the remote Barrens of Northern Canada prefigure a much larger story: of a diamond strike to overshadow all previous ones, that would fracture the airtight cartel established by De Beers and once more show what men and women are prepared to do in the name of romancing this particular stone.…
Fingerprints: Murder and the Race to Uncover the Science of Identity
The extraordinary true story of the development of the science of identity and the history of fingerprint detection.
Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant
A real walk with a dinosaur, as two teams of scientists race to bring back to life the long-extinct woolly mammoth, using DNA from a frozen mammoth discovered in a cliff face in Northern Siberia.
Aging with Grace: The Nun Study and the science of old age. How we can all live longer, healthier and more vital lives.
AGING WITH GRACE reveals the cutting-edge research that has transformed scientists’ understanding of healthy aging and shows what everyone can do to help prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead
Throughout history, mummies have held apowerful place in our collective imagination. Packed with extraordinary stories and narrated with great humour and verve, THE MUMMY CONGRESS is a compelling and entertaining journey into the world of the everlasting dead.