50 concise essays explaining the mathematical laws and principles that underpin our world.

Master the central ideas of maths that shape the world we live in today.

4.6 billion years of the story of life on Earth, in 52,000 words. Brief, brilliant and entirely gripping.

Open Access Data is emerging as a source for cutting edge scholarship. This concise book provides guidance from generating a research idea to publishing results. Both young researchers and well-established scholars can use this book to upgrade their skills with respect to emerging data sources, analysis, and even post-publishing promotion.

Open Access Data is emerging as a source for cutting edge scholarship. This concise book provides guidance from generating a research idea to publishing results. Both young researchers and well-established scholars can use this book to upgrade their skills with respect to emerging data sources, analysis, and even post-publishing promotion.

Fascinating insights into how the human brain has been understood and misunderstood throughout history from ancient times to the modern day.

From Stonehenge to atomic clocks, this is how we've used science to work out the time across the centuries

This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.

This book addresses the complex topic of cancer in two ways: firstly, no specialist knowledge is assumed on the part of the reader, and secondly, despite the serious nature of the topics, the book aims to stimulate interest, provoke thought, and entertain. It is aimed at the general public as well as students and researchers of biological subjects.

This book describes how we have come to understand the brain throughout the ages, from prehistory and antiquity, to the establishment of the basic fundamentals of modern neuroscience.