Science, Mathematics & Technology

This book offers a multifaceted perspective on mathematics by demonstrating 99 different proofs of the same theorem. Each chapter solves an otherwi...

The Age of Intelligent Machines is upon us, and we are at a reflection point. The proliferation of fast-moving technologies, including forms of art...

Language is humanity’s most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways tha...

From Stone Age to space age, people have looked up at the stars and been inspired by their beauty, their patterns, and their majesty. Beneath the N...

In this provocative book, Ramesh Srinivasan describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics, ec...

Most of us feel at home in front of a computer; we own smartphones, tablets, and laptops; we look things up online and check social media to see wh...

Through her writing, astrophysicist Janna Levin has focused on making the science she studies not just comprehensible but also, and perhaps more im...

This substantial, gifty, and compellingly browsable kids encyclopedia takes Britannica's reputation for authentic, trustworthy information and brin...

In the era of big data, it is easy to imagine that we have all the information we need to make good decisions. But in fact the data we have are nev...

In space the sun rises and sets 16 times a day. You fly over every sea, every mountain and desert, every city and every port. The most ordinary thi...

Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment...

Have you ever found yourself wondering what we might have in common with stars, or why the Moon never leaves us? Thinking about the precise dancing...

Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her and the way people worked. D...

What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoreti...

Forgotten Women is a new series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept th...

In Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of moder...

Human beings can and do change the future. Humanity has gained the ability not only to imagine the future, but to design and engineer it. At times ...

Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies...

Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution caused both outrage and wonder, and quickly made him one of the most famous men in history. From his five-ye...

Marie Curie was a brilliant scientist who coined the term 'radioactivity', discovered polonium and radium, and helped develop treatments for cancer...

Stephen Hawking was one of the world's most famous scientists. His ground-breaking research into black holes and the Big Bang has helped to explain...

Alan grew up in England, where his best friends were numbers and a little boy called Christopher. When his young friend died, Alan retreated to the...

When Marie was young, she was unable to go to college because she was a woman. But when she was older, her scientific work was respected around the...

When Stephen Hawking was a little boy, he used to stare up at the stars and wonder about the universe. Although he was never top of the class, his ...

The only numbers in this book are the page numbers. The three main branches of abstract math - topology, analysis, and algebra - turn out to be sur...

On July 21, 1969, the first man set foot on The Moon. When Neil Armstrong was asked if this made him feel big, he answered: "No, it made me feel re...

Do you know what your brain is made of? How does memory function? What is a neuron and how does it work? For that matter, what’s a comic? And in th...

illustrated by Damien Hirst This exciting anniversary edition has a new introduction and scholarly references by William Bynum, and the cover desig...

Paper Engineering by Olivier CharbonnelIllustrated by Annabelle Buxton Open this book and discover the dazzling magic of the moon! Find out where i...

Paper Engineering by Bernard DuisitIllustrated by Tom Vaillant Open this book and step into the fiery world of volcanoes! Find out why they erupt, ...

This well established popular textbook contains new exercises throughout to keep pace with recent changes to the IGCSE and equivalent examinations....

A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf’s Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we thin...

In this illuminating book, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky trace the origins and development of the centuries-long, passionate, but ultimat...

How can the furniture in your home affect your well-being? What colour clothing will help you play sport better? And what simple trick will calm yo...

Quantum physics is strange. It tells us that a particle can be in two places at once. Indeed, that particle is also a wave, and everything in the q...

Millions of people in the third world die from diseases that are rare in the first world--diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, and schistosomiasis....

'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is ...

At a time when computers were a short step removed from mechanical data processors, Licklider was writing treatises on “human-computer symbiosis,” ...

Did you know that without the 'lead' in your pencil, there would be no life on Earth? Just about everything in the universe is made from only 92 el...

We know the universe had a beginning. But what happens at the end of the story? With lively wit and wry humour, astrophysicist Katie Mack takes us ...

This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Today we tend to picture it as a compute...

The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are r...

From planets and asteroids to black holes and galaxies, every page will captivate young readers as they journey through the vastness of space. Each...

Mars - bewilderingly empty, coated in red dust - is an unlikely place to pin our hopes of finding life elsewhere. And yet, right now multiple space...

From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological pro...

Karen Olsson's stirring and unusual third book, The Weil Conjectures, tells the story of the brilliant Weil siblings--Simone, a philosopher, mystic...

Shining a light on the most profound insights revealed by modern physics, Jim Al-Khalili invites us all to understand what this crucially important...

In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the move, Carlo Rovelli follows his curiosity and invites us on a voyage t...