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.

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

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

Michael Palin brings to life one of the greatest adventures of all time

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. 

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

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

Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most revered writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness.

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.

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.

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!

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

A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian.

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

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

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.

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Climate Change is a clear, simple and enlightening introduction to one of the most important issues facing our world today.

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

How an unknown German and an Englishman on opposite sides of WWI created a scientific revolution.

A parenting book for people who don't buy parenting books.

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.