Sciences and Technology

Camilla Pang / Explaining Humans

WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE, JULY 2020 How proteins, machine learning and molecular chemistry can teach us about the complexities of human behaviour and the world around us How do we understand the people around us?...

Steven Sloman / The Knowledge Illusion

The human mind is both brilliant and pathetic. We have mastered fire and have stood on the moon, and yet every one of us is fundamentally ignorant, irrational and prone to making simple mistakes every day. Why? 'In The Knowledge Illusion , the...

Oliver Morton / Mapping Mars (Hardback)

A narrative history of the men and women who have explored Mars and mapped its surface from afar, and in so doing conditioned our understanding of our nearest planetary neighbour. When Columbus first reached his new found land he had no idea what he...

Michael White / Rivals (Hardback)

Wherever there is science, there are scientists; and wherever there are scientists there is rivalry. Rivalry is a key feature of scientific endeavour. This text examines eight instances in the history of science and technology that changed the world, in...

Eyal Nir / Hooked (Hardback)

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER | OVER 500,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE Why do some products capture our attention while others fade into obscurity? What makes us check our phones, open an app, or scroll a feed without even thinking? Is there a repeatable...

Chris Waring / I Used to Know That

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...