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
A biography of the Hungarian scientist who created the first ever programmable digital computer, and whose colleagues thought his brain was too inexplicably powerful to be entirely human.
Professor Simard has spent a life-time in dendrological research, looking at the ways trees communicate and trade with one another that have been popularised in recent years by Peter Wohlle... read more
Weather-beaten and remote, Helgoland is the treeless North Sea island to which 23-year old Werner Heisenberg fled to relieve his hay fever symptoms. Upon it he devised the theory of quantum ... read more
Humane and witty ruminations on science, history, philosophy and politics by the bestselling physicist: Dante's universe, Nabokov's butterflies, Einstein's errors, etc.
SB-C argues that the secrets of humanity's cognitive development - from the invention of agriculture to musical instruments - can be found in the genes for autism.
Combining neuroscience and psychoanalysis, the psychotherapist author is further qualified to write this book being married to Tom Stuart-Smith, the garden designer and winner of umpteen awa... read more
The wires are owned by individuals, corporations and states: an invention once hailed as a democratising force has concentrated power in places it already existed.
... and statistics - their use and misuse is legendary, and confusing: TH is a whizz at clearing the obfuscations and shows what brilliant tools numbers can be.
Beautifully designed and illustrated, large format. Informative and somewhat interactive; enlivens the imagination. The planets, asteroids, comets... For ages 8-11.
The cleverness of crickets, crows, cockatoos: a fascinating study of the relationship between genes and behaviour. (The book is published in the US as some eagle-eyed readers will perceive).
We did a podcast with the brilliant Clare for his previous book, Heavy Light. Here, he moves further from his own experience to look at how the system could work better. He is a joy to read.
Entertaining and intriguing - if the dear reader can be persuaded to overlook the fatuous and needy title and its horrid, self-promoting exclamation mark.
The story of PayPal, a Silicon Valley startup with a few scruffy tech-heads at the helm. It is now one of the most successful and ubiquitous companies in the world, whose alumni aren't doing... read more
FT, a clinical psychologist and academic, cannot have imagined the world into which his book will be published: his thesis remains as apposite despite our altered circumstances.
The alternative is to learn Tom Lehrer's song by heart: "There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium / And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium..." Even more have been discarvered ... read more
Henderson lends an ear to the world around him, to both the audible and the inaudible... the rustling of the Northern Lights, the sound of desert sands, the subterranean boom of a volcano...... read more
Charles Foster is one of those rare people who seem to cram several lives into their own allotted span while the rest of us just about manage one... Adopting a sort of method-acting approach... read more
"There's a hole in our universe, dear Liza, dear Liza..." A whizz around some cosmological complexities by a distinguished professor of physics who has the further honour of having a minor p... read more
A fascinating introduction to one of the most important Buddhis texts, balanced by Kerr's experiences in Kyoto, Tibet, Mongolia, Korea and India. Kerr has spent most of his adult life living... read more
Despite its title, this is not a self-help book but rather a beautiful exploration of a condition that is at the heart of human life - solitude. The book is a memoir of time spent in social ... read more
JN explores ancient and modern breathing techniques to show how breathing correctly - yes, most of us do it wrong - can transform one's physical and mental health.
The author is a medical doctor and a poet: this book is both a meditation on art and life and a collection of snippets about the history of medicine. Written over twenty years, it moves effo... read more
Natural selection and the table, served as a meal of several courses... beginning with oysters. Who knew of the role of mussels in the exodus of our ancestors from Africa? A fascinating and ... read more