A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew.

A pocket edition of Darwin's classic work of evolutionary biology.

A profoundly moving exploration of the intelligence and personality of one of the world's most mysterious, beguiling creatures

Our solar system is currently orbiting a Black Hole 26,000 light years away at a speed of 200 km per second. In Ten Tips for Surviving a Black Hole physicist and novelist Janna Levin takes you on a journey inside a black hole, explaining what would happen to you in there and why.

Oxford University astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst presents what you need to know about the universe in ten beautifully crafted essays for people short on time.

'A profoundly illuminating book on humans by a great primatologist' John Gray, author of Straw Dogs

"Smart, delightful . . . a splendidly entertaining education in ethics, activism, and science." -The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)

An impassioned defense of intellectual freedom and a clarion call to intellectual responsibility, Galileo's Middle Finger is one American's eye-opening story of life in the trenches of scientific controversy. For two decades, historian Alice Dreger has led a life of extraordinary engagement, combining activist service to victims of unethical medica...

Guides you through the ideas, and charts the progress we have made in understanding the universe - from Galileo and Newton to Einstein and the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs boson. This title explains how we decide what questions to ask; and how risk, beauty, creativity and truth play a role in scientific thinking.