Science & Medicine

A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed by Patternity, the award-winning creative studio and pattern consultancy.

Girl Stuff 8–12 is the essential younger girl's guide to puberty and the pre-teen years.

The bestselling phenomenon returns with 21 bite-sized lessons to help us understand our troubled times.

Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going.

A cinematic, propulsive and frightening climate tour of our near future - coming much faster than you think.

The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body. 

One of the world's greatest thinkers tells the heroic story of human progress - and why we neglect it at our peril.

An award-winning journalist reveals the secrets of why you do what you do - and how to change

For readers of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal and Henry Marsh’s Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heart-breaking book about how to live.

For far too long, those who are naturally quiet, serious or sensitive have been overlooked. The loudest have taken over - even if they have nothing to say. It's time for everyone to listen. It's time to harness the power of introverts.

Stunningly repackaged edition of the international bestseller with a new appendix of updates from the author.

From Sunday Times bestselling author of The Knowledge, a book that takes us far back in time to the point where history becomes science, and that unpeels the layers of this history to reveal not how we made the earth, but how the earth made us.

Now in spectacular full colour throughout, a special 10th anniversary edition of the internationally bestselling journal that started it all-with more than 7 million copies sold!

The transcript of the one and only conversation between 'the four horsemen' of New Atheism, with new introductions from Dawkins, Dennett and Harris and a sparkling foreword by Stephen Fry.

Real marketing isn't about racking up clicks and tweets; it's about connection, empathy, and making a difference.

A compact and up-to-date photographic guide to Australia’s birds from the author of Birdscaping Australian Gardens.

What wolves can teach us about being human.

The incomparable Bill Bryson travels through time and space to introduce us to the world, the universe and everything in this groundbreaking book, the best selling popular science book of the 21st century.

The revolutionary scientific book that explained evolution to millions of people for the first time, retold in stylish and accessible picture-book form.

An exciting and ground-breaking work of journalism and activism about women, and the systemic discrimination caused by a data gap that affects half the population – from an award-winning writer and feminist campaigner, who got a woman on our banknotes and a statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square

The essential guide to statistical science in the age of big data, from the President of the Royal Statistical Society.