Barbara KingsolverWith the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Barbara Kingsolver explores her trademark themes of family, community and the natural world. Defiant, funny and courageously...

Mark Lynas The No Logo of climate change - a book that shows how global warming is not a theory we should still debate, but something that has already happened...

Welcome to the world of cutting-edge math, physics, and neuroscience, where the search for the ultimate vacuum, the point of nothingness, ground zero of theory, has rendered the universe deep,...

Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface David Standish Beliefs in mysterious underworlds are as...

Yuval Noah Harari   Humans today enjoy unprecedented levels of power and an increasingly god-like status. The great epidemics of the past – famine, plague and war – no longer...

Thomas L FriendmanHot, Flat, and Crowded: Why The World Needs A Green Revolution - and How We Can Renew Our Global FutureThomas Friedman's phenomenal The World is Flat helped millions...

Leonard Hayflick, Phd"How long can humans live? Is immortality possible? Just what is the aging process? The aging and inevitable death of the human body have inspired more myths and...

Sylvia A Johnson Describes the structure and purpose of leaves, the ways in which they change as part of the natural cycle of the seasons, and the process that creates...

Glenn MurphyPublished July 2nd 2015 by Pan MacMillan (first published July 4th 2008)

Michael Greger, MDHow Not To Diet: The Groundbreaking Science of Healthy, Permanent Weight LossDr. Greger hones in on the optimal criteria to enable weight loss, while considering how these foods...

James ReasonModern technology has now reached a point where improved safety can only be achieved through a better understanding of human error mechanisms. In its treatment of major accidents, the...

Paul R Ehrlich Why do we behave the way we do? Biologist Paul Ehrlich suggests that although people share a common genetic code, these genes "do not shout commands at...