(Hardback)
By: Lydia Kang
ISBN: 9781523524259
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Workman Publishing
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A rollicking visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproved by science.
(Paperback)
By: Professor David Nutt
ISBN: 9781399719681
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The definitive guide to psychedelics, science and our health by a world-renowned, leading authority, Professor David Nutt.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Dean Burnett
ISBN: 9781783352333
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2021
Publisher: Guardian Faber Publishing
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An expertly written, extremely accessible primer on mental health from the bestselling author of The Idiot Brain.
(Paperback)
By: Dr Joe Schwarcz
ISBN: 9781770416581
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
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A fun, fast-paced, and evidence-informed exploration of outrageous claims, "alternative" therapies, and "miracle cures" such as juice cleanses, detoxes, ear candling, raw water, and more. In a world filled with misinformation and twisted science, this is a must-read.
(Paperback)
By: Leonard Susskind
ISBN: 9780141977812
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In The Theoretical Minimum, the author provided a first course in classical mechanics, offering readers everything they need to start doing physics. In this book, he returns with the next challenge that every aspiring physics buff must tackle: quantum mechanics. It combines explanations, helpful dialogues, and basic exercises.
(Paperback)
By: Jrmie Harris
ISBN: 9781035402090
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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What the most successful scientific theory in history teaches us about being human.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Dr Allan Ropper
ISBN: 9781782395508
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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One of the world's leading neurologists reveals the extraordinary stories behind some of the brain disorders that he and his staff at the Harvard Medical School endeavour to treat.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Dr Allan Ropper
ISBN: 9781805463221
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2025
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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One of the world's leading neurologists reveals the extraordinary stories behind some of the brain disorders that he and his staff at the Harvard Medical School endeavour to treat - an updated and revised edition of the Sunday Times bestseller and modern classic of the medical memoir genre.
(Paperback)
By: Carlo Rovelli
ISBN: 9780141983219
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Lisa Genova
ISBN: 9781761107221
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
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(Paperback)
By: David Astle
ISBN: 9781760876944
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Master wordsmith and crossword guru David Astle shows how cryptic crosswords can boost your brain power and improve your memory and cognitive capacity.
(Paperback)
By: Susan Elizabeth Hough
ISBN: 9780691173283
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Suzi Gage
ISBN: 9781473686236
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A definitive and authoritative guide to drugs and why we get high from the creator of the top-rated podcast, Say Why to Drugs.
(Paperback)
By: Geoffrey West
ISBN: 9781780225593
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2018
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A startlingly original 'theory of everything' that invites us to rethink our understanding of the connections between human civilization and the laws of nature.
(Paperback)
By: Hazel Muir
ISBN: 9781780871448
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2012
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The quickest ever way to learn everything, from the physics of black holes to quantum computing.
(Paperback)
By: Bill Bryson
ISBN: 9780008301620
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated book tells the story of science and the Royal Society, from 1660 to the present.
(Paperback)
By: Charles Spence
ISBN: 9780241361153
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 27th January 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Carlo Rovelli
ISBN: 9780141981727
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2016
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents what you need to know about modern physics, the universe and our place in the world in seven lessons. In this introduction to modern physics, the author explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Ian Stewart
ISBN: 9781846685323
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
UK Publication Date: 13th June 2013
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A unique history of humanity told through its seventeen defining equations; from Pythagoras to Calculus.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Professor Ian Stewart
ISBN: 9781781254301
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2018
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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Vivid accounts of the lives of 25 of the world's greatest mathematicians with clear descriptions of their far-reaching discoveries.
(Paperback)
By: Aarathi Prasad
ISBN: 9780008451851
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics.
(Hardback)
By: DK
ISBN: 9780241722756
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2025
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: DK
ISBN: 9780241634752
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Romeel Dav
ISBN: 9781789147148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2023
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A behind-the-scenes look into one of the hottest and fastest-moving areas of astrophysics today: simulations of cosmology and galaxy formation.
