Science: general issues books

Brainjacking takes us on a journey through advertising and marketing's attempts to understand and influence our...  Read More >>

Nanotechnology could be the key to future scientific and engineering breakthroughs, space travel and kickstarting...  Read More >>

Madeleine Orr pulls back the curtain on climate change’s devastating impacts on sport, and offers a bold and optimistic...  Read More >>

How do we know what's true? The bestselling author of The Rules of Contagion mines two millennia of knowledge to...  Read More >>

Find all the inspiration you need to keep your kids entertained and engaged - both indoors and outdoors, all without...  Read More >>

Who is Conscious? is an adventure into animal minds. It looks at recent evidence for consciousness in various animal...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking book that defines the ten different 'thinker types' we all inhabit, by leading academic Marius...  Read More >>

From the Marginalian creator and bestselling author Maria Popova, a bold exploration of what makes a meaningful...  Read More >>

Crisis in a Tweet shows how a single social media post, like, or share can rapidly escalate into a public calamity,...  Read More >>

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A provocative rethinking of the intersection of death, technology, and disability, for a better life.  Read More >>

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History is littered with scientific errors. This contrasts sharply with the image of science as providing a systematic...  Read More >>

A deep dive into the common cold, exploring our age old suffering and what, if anything, we can do to tackle it....  Read More >>

A Philosopher Looks at the Weather argues that weather is a powerful force that shapes how we live. As we have developed...  Read More >>

This Element argues for the benefits of integrating the perspectives of a new historiography of paleontology in...  Read More >>

The disturbing true story of an all-powerful British doctor called William Sargant who in the 1960s and 1970s abused...  Read More >>

In the era of evidence-based medicine (EBM), discussions of medical knowledge have largely focused on the role of...  Read More >>

This book will appeal to scholars in literary studies and the history and philosophy of science, offering a new...  Read More >>

This Element argues for the benefits of integrating the perspectives of a new historiography of paleontology in...  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary study of the history of tobacco to explore the impact it has had on societies both past and...  Read More >>

How did an ungainly hairless ape conquer the planet?  Read More >>