Fran Balkwill Once upon a time you were very, very small. In fact, you were made of just one tiny cell. But the incredible thing about that tiny cell was...

Tom Pollock I just wanted to see you. Before the end. A taut psychological thriller about obsession, fame and betrayal, for fans of Black Mirror . Cat is in love....

Carl L Hart   High Price is the harrowing and inspiring memoir of neuroscientist Carl Hart, a man who grew up in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods and, determined to...

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...

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...

Sherwin B Nuland A runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin Nuland's How We Die has become the definitive text on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death. This new...

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...

Pavel Novak, AIB Moffat, C Nalluri Hydraulic Structures demonstrates to the advanced undergraduate student the design of hydraulic structures in practice. It does this by explaining dam engineering, the design...

Gould's final essay collection is based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine-exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually...

Thomas L White Have humans been sharing the planet with other intelligent life for millions of years without realizing it? In Defense of Dolphins combines accessible science and philosophy, surveying the latest...

Massimo Piattelli PalmariniThis highly enjoyable read covers provocative recent discoveries in the study of the mind. Demonstrates that everyone is prone to certain "cognitive" illusions or biases in thinking which...

Ib A Svendsen This book is intended as an introductory textbook for graduate students and as a reference book for engineers and scientists working in the field of coastal engineering....