Science & Medicine

What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history of our species challenges everything we know about being human.

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

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

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.

Stunningly repackaged edition of the international bestseller

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. 

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!

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

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.

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.

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2018 ** ** A GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 **

A milestone work of memoir, travel writing and history, The Bush by Don Watson takes us on a profoundly revelatory and entertaining journey through the Australian landscape and character.

Dale Bredesen's groundbreaking plan, based on his landmark clinical trials, offers the first real hope of preventing and reversing Alzheimer's

A beautiful new colouring book that takes you beneath the waves by creator of the worldwide bestsellers, Secret Garden and Enchanted Forest.

A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. Winner of the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize.

Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos is an astonishing grand tour of the universe and the best layman's guide to current thinking on 'how everything works'.

Forget about the glass ceiling – let’s change the system altogether by redefining the very meaning of success at work and in our personal lives

'There's a book I've been carrying around like a small Bible, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Benedict Cumberbatch

A charmingly illustrated gift book profiling 50 famous women scientists from the ancient Greek mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer, Hypatia, to Marie Curie, a physicist and chemist.

New answers to the ultimate questions of life from the world's most famous living scientist.

The international bestselling broadside that has taken the world by storm

The leading voice on emotions offers a revolutionary approach that enables us to understand and embrace difficult emotions without letting them derail us.