Science

Through a chorus of voices from widows and orphans to rescue-workers and firefighters, the Nobel Laureate’s powerful and deeply humane oral history about Chernobyl reveals the full destruction and meaning of the catastrophe in breathtaking prose...

Ten laws of simplicity for business, technology, and design that teach us how to need less but get more. Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We're rebelling against technology that's too complicated, DVD players with too many menus,...

An insider’s guide to astronomy reveals everything you need to know about the planets, their satellites, and our place in the solar system.We have the impression that the solar system is perfectly regular like a clock or a planetarium instrument...

Look up...The Art of Stargazing is the ultimate insider's guide to the night sky in which award-winning space scientist and The Sky at Night presenter Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock shares her expertise and unique insights into the marvellous world of stars...

Take a voyage into space to explore the wonders of the galaxy and beyond.With award-winning science writer Brian Clegg as your deep space guide, step on board the starship Endurance and marvel at the fascinating sights of deepest, darkest space.Although...

New York Times Bestseller.International Bestseller.Finalist for the 2024 IACP Award for Food Issues & Matters.An Economist Best Book of 2023 • One of Smithsonian's Ten Best Books About Food of 2023 • A Financial Times Best Food and Drink...

AI is changing the world at frightening speed. A bestselling author decides to find out more.‘Something profound and utterly brilliant is going on... hilarious.’ -- THE TIMES.Is ChatGPT the end of creative industries as we know them? An...

The universe is a big place. Best to see it with Neil deGrasse Tyson and his fictional chaperone Merlin as a guide. Traveling through space one question at a time, this is a lively and energetic exploration of the cosmos.The #1 New York Times bestselling...

A STUNNING NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL, BRILLIANTLY ADAPTED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER.From “veritable tree whisperer” (WSJ) and internationally celebrated author Peter Wohlleben comes the long-awaited...

Steven Pinker, the bestselling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st century.What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even...

Available for the first time in the Philippines, this international bestseller reveals the secrets of nonverbal communication to give you confidence and control in any face-to-face encounter–from making a great first impression and acing a job...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and a former private investigator dive deep into the murky waters of the international salmon farming industry, exposing the unappetizing truth about a fish that is not as good for you as you have been told. A...

What if the most serious personal and global challenges won't be solved with more thinking or talking? The world is louder than ever. It's not just the noise in our ears, but also the noise on our screens and in our heads. 'Silence is golden,' the adage...

A landmark, radically uplifting account of our species’ progress, from one of the world's preeminent thinkers.“Unparalleled in its scope and ambition…All readers will learn something, and many will find the book fascinating...

A New York Times bestseller: "A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of nonhuman minds." —Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic. Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the...

A “fascinating, witty, and perspective-shifting” (Oliver Burkeman, New York Times bestselling author) tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from the acclaimed science writer and author of The Rationalist’s...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AISomething new entered our world...

Taking risks is a high-stakes game that not everyone wins. For those who want to roll the dice regardless of the consequences, Nate Silver is here to make sure you’re as ready as you can be. These case studies cast a light on our society as a...

Insightful, sweet, funny, charming, the list of adjectives you could apply to any work by Oliver Jeffers is pretty extensive. Here, he distills life on earth into a single picture book to dazzling effect.#1 New York Times bestseller...

The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet. If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is...