Brian Cox; Andrew Cohen Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space. This time he shows us our universe as we've never seen it before. | John James Audubon A complete edition of John James Audubon's world famous The Birds of America, bound in linen and beautifully presented in a special slipcase. To create this edition of Audubon's masterpiece... |
Rebecca Skloot The internationally bestselling story of a young woman whose death in 1951 changed medical science for ever ... | James Gleick Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing. |
Richard Cohen A dazzling tour d'horizon of mankind's enduring fascination with, and reliance upon, the extraordinary star at the centre of our solar system. | Ball, Philip Examining how our inquisitive impulse first became sanctioned, changing from a vice to a virtue, "Curiosity" begins with the age when modern science began, a time that spans the lives... |
Marco Polo A superbly illustrated, silk-bound gift edition of one of the greatest travel adventures - Marco Polo set out from Venice along ancient trade routes to the court of Kublai Khan... | John Brenkus The fastest man, the highest jump, and the science behind the absolute limits of physical potential |
Stephen Blackmore In Green Universe, eminent botanist Stephen Blackmore takes us on a journey through time and space - from the origin of the first cell more than three billion years ago... | Tim Spector A provocative, enlightening and entertaining guide to cutting-edge genetic research |
Edward Glaeser A compellingly readable, critically acclaimed, agenda-setting account of how and why cities function as they do and why so many of us choose to live in them | Brian Switek The first book on the hunt for evolution's 'missing links' over the last three decades - and what palaeontologists' findings mean for our place on earth. |
Ian Stewart 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 everyday life. In this book... | Ben Miller * An engaging, accessible and fascinating look at science's 'best bits' by popular comedian and particle physicist Ben Miller |
Siddhartha Mukherjee Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011... | Hannah Holmes In this delightful and endlessly fascinating explication of the animal behaviour of the human species, Hannah Holmes explores our plumage, our mating habits, our social lives and our development. |