Item category 2: Science & Technology

What does it take to be a STEM genius? Check out these exciting, highly readable profiles of a dozen contemporary women who are on the cutting edge of scientific research. Searching the cosmos for a new Earth. Using math to fight human trafficking. Designing invisible (and safer) cars. Unlocking ...

Between 1903 and 1969, scientists and other experts made hundreds of predictions about what the future would hold. Their forecasts ranged from ruefully funny to eerily prescient and optimistically utopian.

The answers to life's biggest questions can be found in the smallest places, once you're ready to look. Get set for an insightful (and hilarious) peek into what we can learn from the world of the ant.

Have you ever heard of a meat-eating plant? Or a plant that traps spiders and flies? Welcome to "The Wonderful World of Carnivorous Plants", where sticky leaves and slippery stems are just some of the fascinating ways some plants capture their food. Explore the unique features and adaptations of ...

This book provides a lively and visual introduction to Einstein's theory of relativity. It brings to life the excitement of this fascinating subject, for an audience including young people at school and the general public with an interest in modern physics.

What is Life? Where did it come from? Why does it end? In this beautiful and definitive new book, Professor Brian Cox takes us on an incredible journey to discover how a few fundamental laws gave birth to the most complex, diverse and unique force in the Universe - life itself. There are thought ...

This compendium of amazing rocks and minerals, microscopic life, plants, and animals will wow children and many adults, too. With 100 remarkable items from the natural world, from orchids to opals and lichens to lizards, everyone will find something to be captivated by. Each plant, animal, and ro...

The Wonders of the Solar System - from the giant ice fountains of Enceladus to the liquid methane seas of Titan and from storms twice the size of the Earth to the tortured moon of Io with its giant super-volcanoes - is the solar system as you have never seen it before. It takes us on a journey of...

The book uncovers a huge range of mysteries around time: its beginnings, the methods of measuring it, how we experience it, different philosophies of time and the potential of time travel. Readers explore the timeline of timekeeping, looking at the evolution of our understanding - travelling acro...

An introduction to ecology explains biomes, the classifcation of living things, and succession; examines major ecosystems around the world; and discusses natural cycles and the role of humans.