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Explores the value of describing the machinery of neuroscience using the elegant language of mathematics and reveals...  Read More >>

Forged by natural selection and honed by evolution, humans are perfectly adapted machines ... for a world that no...  Read More >>

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A savoury account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolution  Read More >>

A popular account of some of the inventions, discoveries and developments where the contributions of Scottish scientists...  Read More >>

From the bestselling authors and hosts of 'The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe' a high-tech roadmap of the future...  Read More >>

Ground-breaking discoveries, profound crises, revolutionary thoughts, refutation of previously unshakable beliefs...  Read More >>

This book sheds light on how the ""things"" these theories are about relate to our everyday things, and points out...  Read More >>

A thrilling compendium of our deepest fears and obsessions by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher....  Read More >>

How has DNA typing developed? How it is used in forensic science? What challenges have arisen? Written for a general...  Read More >>

How has DNA typing developed? How it is used in forensic science? What challenges have arisen? Written for a general...  Read More >>

A collection of popular biographical histories describing the pioneering inventions and discoveries of Scotland's...  Read More >>

The history of our planet is written in its geology – this lavishly illustrated guide show you how to read it  Read More >>

A groundbreaking exploration of the parental brain that untangles...  Read More >>

Written by an expert who has spent 40 years treating couples who had fertility challenges, this book provides a...  Read More >>

4.6 billion years of the story of life on Earth, in 52,000 words. Brief, brilliant and entirely gripping.  Read More >>

Written by an expert who has spent 40 years treating couples who had fertility challenges, this book provides a...  Read More >>

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Chris Thorogood dreamed of becoming a botanist and would stop at nothing to feed his growing addiction to plants....  Read More >>

From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, and the Sunday Times bestseller What If?, even more hilarious and...  Read More >>

The computational neuroscientist Daniel Graham offers an innovative paradigm for understanding the brain. He argues...  Read More >>

From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, and the Sunday Times bestseller What If?, even more hilarious and...  Read More >>

How did time begin? What conditions led to humans evolving on Earth? Will we survive the Anthropocene? And is it...  Read More >>