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21st January 2025
The Infinite Tortoise: The Curious Thought Experiments of History’s Great Thinkers
From Plato’s Cave to Descartes’ Demon, and from Zeno’s paradoxes to Hilbert’s Hotel, great thinkers have used thought experiments and paradoxes to try and work... more »
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21st January 2025
Freudian Slips: All the Psychology You Need to Know
Freudian Slips presents the essential facts and findings of psychology in an accessible and thoroughly enjoyable way, leaving no Freudian slip or phallic symbol unexamined.... more »
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21st January 2025
Why?: Answers to Everyday Scientific Questions
The simplest questions are sometimes the hardest to answer. Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet? Why do we need sleep? Why are... more »
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21st January 2025
Meltdown: Stories of nuclear disaster and the human cost of going critical
Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in secrecy. Combining human tragedy with... more »
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15th February 2019
Armchair Chemistry: From Molecules to Elements: The Chemistry of Everyday Life
Part of the Armchair series, Armchair Chemistry is a quick refresher course in how we survey of the science. It explains how we evolved from believing in alchemy to... more »
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15th February 2019
The Big Book of Science
The well-known “a bee in a cathedral” analogy describes the size of an atom and its nucleus in understandable terms. The analogy goes that if... more »
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15th February 2019
The Big Bang (Traveller’s Guides)
Imagine you could travel back in time to see the Big Bang! Starting with an explanation of which time travel devices might take you there,... more »
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15th February 2019
Psychology for Busy People
Explore the fascinating world of the human psyche with this accessible and concise guide to the fundamentals of psychology. Broken down by subject, from the... more »
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15th February 2019
Mathematics: A Curious History
Mathematics opens new doors to the amazing world of maths. Telling the exciting story from a historical perspective, it shows how mathematical science advanced through... more »
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15th February 2019
Frankenstein and the Birth of Science
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was conceived against the backdrop of rapid change in the scientific world. Frankenstein and The Birth of Science offers an engrossing insight... more »
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5th November 2015
Why We Do the Things We Do
Can you really tell a criminal by the bumps on his head? What does a memory look like? Can a machine think? Why are some... more »
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16th October 2014
Boost Your Brain
witch on your brain with puzzles, tips and teasers Improve your memory and recall, develop cognitive skills and increase your brain power with Boost Your... more »
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