"Delightful . . . easily digestible chapters include plenty of helpful examples and illustrations. You'll never forget the Pythagorean theorem again!"—Scientific American Many people take...
Shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize and 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize. 'One of the best books yet written on data and...
In Dancing Naked in the Mind, Prize-winning chemist Kary Mullis, writes with passion and humour about a wide range of subjects including parapsychology, cloning, HIV...
The awe-inspiring Sunday Times Bestseller from astronaut Tim Peake Shortlisted for the British Book Award 2018 'Amazing . . . A brilliant book' Chris Evans,...
Over the last 50 years, humanity has developed an extraordinary global utility which is omnipresent, universal, and available to all. Neither the Internet nor the...
George Dyson's fascinating account of the early years of computers: Turing's Cathedral is the story behind how the PC, ipod, smartphone and almost every aspect...
Accessible exploration of one of the most exciting areas of scientific inquiry - the nature of light. Following on from his bestseller, SCHRODINGER'S CAT, John...
From Clifford Pickoverùthe ingenious author of the phenomenally successful The Math Book and The Physics Bookùcomes an inspirational volume that celebrates the beauty and wisdom...
An indispensable guide that empowers parents to understand and recognise anxiety in their children, and to help them to develop strategies to manage it together....
It takes five years and more than #150,000 to train a doctor, and the training is tough and emotionally taxing. Tying in with a BBC1...
Between 1816 and 1845 John Barrow launched the most ambitious programme of exploration the world had ever seen. His hand picked teams of elite naval...
Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows...
The cancer survivor explores the correlation between her own family's illnesses and the environmental conditions surrounding their rural Illinois home.
An eccentric comic about the central mystery of quantum mechanics Totally Random is a comic for the serious reader who wants to really understand the...
Singer and Avery present-in popular language supported by in-depth scientific evidence-the compelling concept that global temperatures have been rising mostly or entirely because of a...
Hackers know everything about us. We know almost nothing about them. Until now. The hacker now known as Alien entered MIT in 1998, intending to...
Modern physics is heady stuff. It seems that barely a week goes by without some new astounding science story; some revelation about hidden dimensions, multiple...
How can you measure the speed of light with chocolate and a microwave? Why do yo-yos yo-yo? Why does urine smell so peculiar after eating...
From Newton's Law of Gravity to the Black-Scholes model used by bankers to predict the markets, equations, are everywhere -- and they are fundamental to...
Celebrates twenty great adventures of the twentieth century, ranging from an account of Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon to a chronicle of Sir Edmund...
A revised edition of Gardner's classic on the development of creativity. Illustrated throughout with children's art, this book is a systematic examination of the relation...
«Non vengono da un altro pianeta e non nascono dal nulla. I responsabili della prossima pandemia sono già tra noi, sono virus che oggi colpiscono...
GOD CREATED THE INTEGERS is Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the greatest mathematical works in history. He allows the reader to peer into the mind...
Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged. Ever since the last 1970s, his monthly essay in Natural...
Scientific insight and literary flair combine, in this collection of reflections where such topics as the importance and relevance of Darwinism, the question of size...
Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world 4 times More than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year...
The Handbook of Membrane Separations: Chemical, Pharmaceutical, and Biotechnological Applications provides detailed information on membrane separation technologies as they have evolved over the past decades....
Now in its third edition, this classic text covers many aspects of infrared and Raman spectroscopy that are critical to the chemist doing structural or...
Written by exceptionally experienced experts from one of the world′s major biotech regions, the Heidelberg area, the authors come from academia, such well–known research centers...
Lovelock's unique authority and original perspective sets this book apart from other books on environmental change. He speaks as a "planetary physician" with more than...
Every year, readers send in thousands of questions to New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly, in the hope that the answers to them will...
Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Why the...
What is Big Data, and why should you care? Big data knows where you've been and who your friends are. It knows what you like...
The history of science is replete with ideas that were considered socially, morally or emotionally dangerous in their time. The Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are...
Fun, quirky and informative, A Neutron Walks Into A Bar... is a collection of facts, definitions, explanations, biographies and jokes guaranteed to quench a thirst...
