Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (12)
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Nodding Off
The Science of Sleep from Cradle to Grave
2024 || Paperback || Alice Gregory || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The science of our slumber, from the different stages of sleep and how our sleeping patterns change throughout our lives, to what happens when things go wrong.
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Planet Insect
How Insects Conquered The Earth
2024 || Paperback || Steve Nicholls || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Flights of Fancy
Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
2024 || Paperback || Richard Dawkins || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Richard Dawkins explores the wonder of flight. A book about flying – from the mythical Icarus, to the sadly extinct but magnificent bird Argentavis magnificens, to the British Airways pilots of today.
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The Digital Republic
Taking Back Control of Technology
2024 || Paperback || Jamie Susskind || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK TO READ
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'One of the foremost thinkers on the transformative impact of the technology revolution' - TONY BLAIR
'Original and hopeful . . . a unique guide to the great challenges of the digital age' - ANNE APPLEBAUM
'Lucid and persuasive' - NIALL FERGUSON
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The Digital Republic is the definitive guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive in a world of powerful digital technologies?
Not long ago, t...
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Into the Groove
The Story of Sound From Tin Foil to Vinyl
2024 || Paperback || Jonathan Scott || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Evolutions
Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World
2024 || Paperback || Oren Harman || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A reimagining of modern science and ancient mythology, and of what it means to be human.
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The Known Unknowns
The Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos
2024 || Paperback || Lawrence M. Krauss || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Mindwandering
How It Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity
2024 || Paperback || Moshe Bar || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
An original, provocative and fascinating new theory by one of the world's leading neuroscientists about why the mind wanders - and when and why it's good for you' Daniel Gilbert
'A gentle and humane book that should be read by everyone interested in the human mind and the human brain' Andy Clark
Our brains are noisy. Certain regions are always grinding away at involuntary activities like daydreaming, worrying about the future and self-chatter, taking up to forty-seven percen...
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Superheavy
Making and Breaking the Periodic Table
2024 || Paperback || Kit Chapman || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Takes an in-depth look at how elements are discovered, why they matter and where they will take us, with a particular focus on the new 'superheavy' elements discovered very recently
The Apothecary's Wife
The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
2024 || Hardcover || Karen Bloom Gevirtz || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
How women were removed from the Scientific Revolution, and what we lost as a result.
The running joke in Europe for centuries was that anyone in a hurry to die should call the doctor. As far back as ancient Greece, physicians were notorious for administering painful and often fatal treatments and charging for the privilege. For the most reliable, effective treatment, the ill and injured went to the women in their life. This system lasted hundreds of years and it took less than a cent...