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The earth is round, so why don't some people hang upside down?

Did you know there are gases all around us, but they're invisible?

Do you like to gaze at the stars?

Audisee(R) eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!

Audisee(R) eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!

Audisee(R) eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!

Crayfish are one of the most iconic freshwater crustacean groups of the world.

This middle grade adaptation of Our Dogs, Ourselves is an eye-opening, entertaining, and beautifully illustrated look at humans' complicated and sometimes contradictory relationship with man's best friend by New York Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog.

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Joanne Baker introduces and explains the fundamental physical concepts and laws that govern the inners workings of our universe.

A delightful treasure trove of tips on how to hold animals without hurting them.

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Tony Crilly explains and introduces the mathematical laws and principles - ancient and modern, theoretical and practical, everyday and esoteric - that allow us to understand the world around us.

In a series of 50 accessible essays, Tony Crilly explains and introduces the mathematical laws and principles - ancient and modern, theoretical and practical, everyday and esoteric - that allow us to understand the world around us.

'The perfect book to escape our human-sized existence and take a tour of the atomic world instead.

'What I like best about this fascinating book is the detail.

The International Bestseller, as featured in The Times Fat is a vital yet hugely under-rated organ.

'A powerful manifesto for the strength of "e;we"e; thinking' MARCUS DU SAUTOY'A treasure of a book' ROWAN WILLIAMS'Timely and engaging' IAN RANKIN'Genius' BETTANY HUGHESIn the history of humanity, almost everything we've ever achieved has been done by groups working together.

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO ALCOHOL AND YOUR HEALTHAlcohol - a simple molecule that can induce so much pleasure and pain at the same time.

Introduced by Jim Al-KhaliliCould you surf down an erupting volcano?

'Real science can be far stranger than science fiction, and much more satisfying'Will artificial intelligence outsmart us?

'If you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up.

'Moving and awe-inspiring.

'A brilliant account of how models are so often abused and of how they should be used' John KayHow do mathematical models shape our world - and how can we harness their power for good?

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO CANNABIS AND YOUR HEALTHUnderpinned by his two-year research trial in partnership with the Royal College of Psychiatrists, involving up to 20,000 patients, which will create Europe's largest body of evidence on the plant's medicinal qualities - Professor David Nutt and his team of scientists will break the mould on the way we use Cannabis for our health in the future.

Millions of highly effective people around the world have read Richard Koch's global bestseller THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE and enjoyed a serious advantage in the pursuit of success.

By the simple expedient of asking questions and conducting experiments to answer them, science has transformed our understanding of the world.

'Delightful, funny, and yet rigorous and intelligent' CARLO ROVELLIYou've got questions: about space, time, gravity, and the odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole.

'Thrilling, provocative and mind-expanding' Mail on Sunday'Masterful and illuminating' DAVID EAGLEMAN Dr Joseph Jebelli takes us on a seven-million-year journey through our own heads, drawing on insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, psychology, and philosophyto reveal how our brain's evolution turned us into Homo sapiens and beyond.

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2021 An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: whose values are guiding gene-editing experiments, and what are the implications for humanity?

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2021 An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: whose values are guiding gene-editing experiments, and what are the implications for humanity?

A wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of the importance of long-term thinking.

Heal yourself and find a path through trauma with the transformative guide to recognising, preventing and healing trauma from the acclaimed mental health doctor.

** An FT Book of the Year and Winner of the Penn Libraries Book Prize for Sustainability**The Darkness Manifesto urges us to cherish darkness for the sake of the environment, our own wellbeing, and all life on earth.

In A Brief History of Black Holes, award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics.

Understanding the human mind and how it relates to the world that we experience has challenged philosophers for centuries.

'Profound, lyrical, and fascinating, Life's Edge will give you a newfound appreciation for life itself.

'Everything he writes is an enlightening education in how to be human.

Winner of the Royal Society Science Book.

'Essential reading for everyone' - Marian Keyes, author of Again, RachelCracking the Menopause opens up the conversation about an urgent topic that half the population will experience, but barely anyone is talking about.

From revolution on Twitter to romance on Tinder, we live in a world constructed of code - and coders are the ones who built it for us.

'Highly accessible, content-rich and eminently readable .

A heartbreaking account of a medical miracle: how one woman's cells - taken without her knowledge - have saved countless lives.

With his trademark compassion and erudition, Dr Oliver Sacks examines the power of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people.

Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize.

Previously published as Careful!

Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators.

PEN/WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD FINALIST 2023'A beautifully written meditation on mathematics: whimsical, thought-provoking and deep' ALEX BELLOS, author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland'Infinitely fascinating' THE TIMESOur universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists.

The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our worldA 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: NEW SCIENTIST * WATERSTONES * SUNDAY TIMES'A splendid idea, vividly carried out: I enjoyed this book enormously' PHILIP PULLMAN'A rich history of beautiful discoveries' ROBIN INCE'An all-action thriller, laced with some of the most profound ideas humans have ever had' BRIAN ENO-----------How did a piece of gold foil completely change our understanding of atoms?

A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist'Full of curious facts' The TimesCauses of death have changed irrevocably across time.

__________________Our Earth is more beautiful and more diverse than we can possibly conceive of.

WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS 2022WINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS SPECIALIST SUBJECT AWARD 2022FINALIST IN THE IACP AWARDS 2022_________'I have nothing against gluten, but this book is just full of recipes I long to make' Nigella LawsonThe only gluten-free baking book you'll ever need, with delicious recipes that work perfectly every single time.