The role of our emotions in the light of recent research in multiple fields - psychology, neuroscience, biology. Mlodinow is a hugely popular science writer, and has written books with Steph... read more
Hugely enjoyable and widely researched, this will be accompanied by the happy sound of gender stereotypes being liberated from their historic chains...
A perfect antidote to toxic positivity – a touching, deeply felt and beautifully written look at the human condition, by the author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't ... read more
Brilliant detective work by this French paleoanthropologist, who has studied Neanderthal traces from the Arctic to the Mediterranean and argues that their intelligence was different from our... read more
VM was the author of The Map of Knowledge, a compelling account of the survival of the ancient classics in the Muslim world, and their re-emergence in the West. Now she turns her attention t... read more
Huygens developed the theory of light travelling as a wave, invented the mechanism for the pendulum clock, and discovered the rings of Saturn - via a telescope that he had also invented. His... read more
Explores the growth of Greek medicine from the early references in Homer to the flowering its Hippocrates and subsequent influence on the Islamic world and early modern Europe.
The light of reason is safe in the hands of Prof. Pinker, experimental cognitive scientist. He even manages to explain why we are surrounded by crack-pots, quacks and conspiracy theorists.
The discovery of the elements presented chronologically, with images drawn from a range of sources including alchemical documents, colour charts, advertisements, Theodore Gray's illustration... read more
The international roots of modern science - Arab and Persian mathematical texts, Indian observatories, a C17th African botanist, a C19th Japanese who first described the structure of an atom... read more
The reclusive Higgs posited the existence of his particle in a paper in 1964. It was 2012 before it was confirmed at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. A superb study of a scientist and his ... read more
How we might stabilise climate change and repair habitats and the environment, in consultation with geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists, engineers, economists, mathematicians, h... read more
The overturning of Newtonian physics in the C20th by Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, et alia. Translated from the German.
Biotechnology is becoming big business, the stuff of both dreams and nightmares. Cobb is an eminently reasonable guide to this strange new world: gene-editing, cloning, GMOs, ethics, etc.
A hotter, drier earth means a dustier earth. Owens frames these microparticles as the insidious biproduct of industrialism, whose immense repercussions will be felt ever more powerfully in ... read more
A grand tour of the 'big five' wipe-outs in history, with names such as 'the Carnian Pluvial Event' and 'the Great Dying'. These are tough days at the office of nomenclature.