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.
Mathematics and Science
Aeons: The Search for the Beginning of Time
The full story of man’s attempt to discover the moment that time began, from James Ussher’s confident assertion in 1650 that the world was 5,654 years old to the Hubble Space telescope’s images of a world 13 billion years old, with a starry cast of eccentrics, mystics, scientists and visonaries.
Trigger Happy: The Inner Life of Videogames
Ground-breaking account of the cultural history and impact of videogames, from Pong and Space Invaders to Tomb Raider and Tekken.
The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World
The story of two nineteenth-century scientists who revealed one of the most significant events in the natural history of this planet: the existence of dinosaurs.
The Science of Secrecy: The Secret History of Codes and Codebreaking: TV tie-in edition
A TV tie-in edition of The Code Book filmed as a prime-time five-part Channel 4 series on the history of codes and code-breaking and presented by the author.
Trigger Happy: The Inner Life of Videogames
Ground-breaking account of the cultural history and impact of videogames, from Pong and Space Invaders to Tomb Raider and Tekken.
A Fish Caught in Time
A gripping story of obsession, adventure and the search for our oldest surviving ancestor – 400 million years old – a four-limbed dinofish!
Deep Time: Cladistics, The Revolution in Evolution
In ‘Deep Time’, Henry Gee, assistant editor of ‘Nature’, shows us that everything we think we know about evolution is wrong. He also reveals the scientific proof of what came first – the chicken or the egg. It was the egg.
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
The most important investigation of genetic science since The Selfish Gene, from the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling The Red Queen and The Origins of Virtue.
Seeing and Believing: The Story of the Telescope, or how we found our place in the universe
‘A deft and beautiful book! Panek has turned his considerable talent to the subject of telescopes, their history, and how they changed our universe, and he’s hit a sweet spot of poetry and science. Seeing and Believing is about vision in its deepest sense.’ Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone
The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie: The Science and Aesthetics of Tie Knots
Paul Smith stylishness collides with Einsteinian precision when, bored with waiting for the next sartorial breakthrough in male fashion, two physicists prove that there are not just four ways to tie a tie, but a further 81. Tie Knots unravels the history of ties, the story of the discovery of the new knots and some very elegant mathematics in action.
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
From the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling The Red Queen and The Origins of Virtue, Genome is set to be the most important investigation of genetic science since The Selfish Gene.
The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking
From the bestselling author of ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’, ‘The Code Book’ is an enthralling history of codes and code-breaking from Egyptian puzzles to modern-day computer encryptions.
My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World
The true story of a journey into an on-line community, LambdaMOO, a virtual Eden, where race, gender and identity were infinitely malleable and whose visitors thought they had escaped from all usual cultural limits. Until a brutal rape and ideological warfare between high and low castes brought the virtual and real worlds into seismic collision.
A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth
A unique history of our oldest living ancestor, thought to have been extinct for 70 million years. A gripping story of obsession and adventure set in the exotic islands of the Indian Ocean.
Eclipse: The science and history of nature's most spectacular phenomenon
In the year when Britain will be touched by a solar eclipse for the first time since 1927, J P McEvoy looks at this remarkable phenomenon through a thrilling narrative that charts the historical, cultural and scientific relevance of solar eclipses through the ages and explores the significance of this rare event.