Mathematics & Science Books

What if your best days weren’t left to chance, but something you could control and activate at will? Most of us want to be a little happier, a little more focused, and a lot less stressed. We want...

This incredible book by Tomoko Fuse, Japan's most famous living origami artist, shows you how to create dozens of amazing geometric kusudama spheres using many small paper squares that are folded...

The Fascinating World of Fungi introduces fungi and their importance in sustaining all life on Earth. People have had intimate associations with fungi for millennia. But most of us are unaware how...

Plants have always moved between land masses with human aid. European colonialism accelerated this, and its legacy can be seen in landscapes across the world and the twin crises of climate change and...

Mosses have a spectacular diversity of beautiful and surprising forms. They are nearly always, what we as humans would consider, small; but they play a critical role in climate change prevention and...

"Outstanding ... among the most important books about whisky ever written." Charles MacLeanBringing together landscapes, geology, history, people, and their whisky, and addressing the key role of...

With many diverse species, from the woodland-dwelling toothwort to the hardy desert hyacinth, the Orobanchaceae family of striking and unusual plants can be found in every biome in the world but...

This second edition of the essential reference book for plant identification in winter is updated with new illustrations and fully revised text.To many plant lovers winter seems like lost time, but a...

The first human organ transplant in 1950 at a suburban hospital is the focus of The Graft: How a Pioneering Operation Sparked the Modern Age of Organ Transplants. The book examines the controversies...

From netting to quivers, basketry in its many forms continues to be an intricate and sustainable expression of human ingenuity.The centuries-old craft of basketmaking and collection of baskets from...

What if the world around us is far richer than we can perceive?In Invisible Rainbows, astrophysicist and science communicator Dr Alfredo Carpineti reveals the extraordinary hidden universe beyond the...

A bold reimagining of the Greek mathematician’s singular life as a truly modern scientist.Galileo, Leonardo, Newton, and Tesla revered him: Archimedes of Syracuse – an engineer who single-handedly...

An inviting expedition across our galactic neighbourhood, from Mercury to the Sun’s furthest satellites, complete with the latest discoveries.The Space Age probes to the Moon, Venus and Mars ushered...

Moss and Lichen is a fascinating exploration of mosses and lichens, celebrating the extraordinary biology, beauty and resilience of these unassuming organisms. Endowed with unique superpowers, from...

World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to...

The Druid Peak Pack was the most famous wolf pack in Yellowstone National Park, and maybe even in the world.This is the dramatic true story of its remarkable leader, Wolf 21 — whose compassion and...

Moisture, temperature, gravity. These are the ingredients that create the life story of the driest of Earth’s continents.Heart of Ice takes the reader on a compelling journey across space and time,...

Why should we care about a failed Soviet mission to Venus at the height of the cold war? Can mathematics teach us about drug cartels? And what is life – do we even know?The best science writing...

Why do we like robots that act like humans? What kind of inner life does an insect have? And can exoplanets offer us a better home?The best science writing doesn’t just answer questions, it cracks...

Artificial intelligence is being used, on a massive scale, to decide who gets hired, fired and promoted. Through whistleblower exclusives, leaked internal documents and astonishing real-world...

Investigative journalist Rich Haridy reports on the latest developments in psychedelic medicine.Psychedelics have been one of the most exciting – and controversial – developments in mental health...

Can our interactions with wildlife help answer life’s big questions?In (Be)wilder, acclaimed urban ecologist Darryl Jones explores how people around the world interact with wildlife. He spends time...

**Longlisted, Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award 2026**‘I’m listening for a ghost. Bright green and yellow, with a tail striped like a bumble-bee, it crouches in wait as the sun sinks below the...

Marine biologist Micheline Jenner discovered humpback breeding grounds off the Kimberley coast, has swum through orange golfball-sized pygmy blue whale poo to uncover a feeding spot, and is one of...

The ultimate guide to the night sky.This popular guide by astronomer and author Dr Nick Lomb is the perfect companion to the southern night sky. Opening with an essay by Meriam artist Gail Mabo about...

A photographic celebration of one of nature’s most majestic creatures.Over a five-year period, photographer and filmmaker Jem Cresswell took more than 11 000 images of one of nature’s largest mammals...

Join the millions of cyclists who swear by the name Zinn. Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance is the world’s best-selling guide to the maintenance and repair of mountain bikes, hybrids, and...

Identify West Virginia birds with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by color and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information.Make birdwatching in West Virginia even more enjoyable...

Once home to the United States's largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The threat of an...

Years ago, James V. Schall wrote Another Sort of Learning, a book listing those things you should read but probably were never requiredLike Schall’s book, it is not a curriculum. It is, however, a...

Big History tells the story of the universe, from the beginning to now, by interweaving the fields of biology, geology and anthropology to offer an all-encompassing account of Earth's history...

Aperture regularly invites guest editors to collaborate on issues where their unique perspectives and exciting networks of artists and writers expand and enhance specific themes. This issue will be...

With stories of life in the Anthropocene, this book places Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table of elements and his groundbreaking theory of elementality into modern context.An Anthropogenic Table of...

Brain injuries can result in highly specific and surprising changes in behaviour that have revealed to us how the mind works. The brain is the most complicated object in the known universe. After...

A new and ancient story about perennial nut trees, our ecological role as humans, and the future of food.The day Elspeth Hay learned that we can eat acorns, stories she'd believed her whole life...

AMAZING ILLUSTRATIONS: Explore Caroline Selme's intricately drawn underwater world, bursting with minute detail!ADDICTIVE GAMEPLAY: A matching game for the whole family with super-detailed underwater...

Why spend countless hours indoors in front of screens when being in nature feels so good? In learning why and how to nurture our emotional connection with nature, we can also regenerate the...

From the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning historian, the colourful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin’s journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the evolutionary theories in his path-breaking books On...

Based on the iconic images from Theodore Gray's bestselling book THE ELEMENTS, this beautiful magnet set is the perfect way to add a little atomic flair at work and home. Spell out a fun message or...

Jane Goodall's classic account of primate research provides an impressively detailed and absorbing account of the early years of her field study of, and adventures with, chimpanzees in Tanzania,...

'It is a strange model and embodies several unusual features. However, since DNA is an unusual substance, we are not hesitant in being bold.'By elucidating the structure of DNA, the molecule...

Throughout history, people have wanted to conquer, plot and travel across with the world in two-dimensions. From the murky origins of human’s earliest past times, where fortune-telling and play blur,...

When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic devices — or perhaps we envision the lightning-streaked clouds of a stormy...

A philosopher explores the transformative role of wonder and awe in an uncertain world. Wonder and awe lie at the heart of life’s most profound questions. Wonderstruck shows how these emotions...

How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity.Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest...

What a Mushroom Lives For pushes today’s mushroom renaissance in compelling new directions. For centuries, Western science has promoted a human- and animal-centric framework of what counts as action,...

Virtual You is a panoramic account of efforts by scientists around the world to build digital twins of human beings, from cells and tissues to organs and whole bodies. These virtual copies will usher...

Longlisted for the PEN America Literary Awards 2021: PEN/E.O Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardWaterstone's Best Books of 2020: Popular ScienceAmerican Scientist's 2020 Science Book Gift GuideWhy...