Second Hand Books

Synopsis Subtitled : A Journey through the Nuclear Age, from the Atom Bomb to Radioactive Waste. At a moment when a new generation of power stati...

Synopsis Do Aliens Exist? And if they do - what would they look like? . . . Where would they live? . . . Would they be conscious beings? And what...

Synopsis George Johnson tells the stories of ten beautiful experiments which changed the world. From Galileo singing to mark time as he measured ...

Synopsis Drawing on a wide spectrum of topics - including politics, cosmology, the arts, philosophy and religious beliefs - 1001 Ideas That Chang...

Synopsis Showing you what others only tell you. Discover the history and origins of the universe and observe the stars and galaxies with over 100...

Synopsis Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020. Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Camilla Pang struggled t...

Synopsis Subtitled : Mathematics at the limits of Computation. The story of one of the greatest unsolved problems in mathematics. What is the sho...

Synopsis With Andrea Feachem. The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific m...

Synopsis Subtitled : Scienc-y Stuff Staring You In The Face. Let the brains behind the hugely successful Festival of the Spoken Nerd take you on ...

Synopsis Professor Lewis Dartnell takes us on an astonishing journey into our planet's past to tell the ultimate origin story. Blending geography...

Synopsis Seriously . . . another book that tells you how to live a good life? Don’t we have enough of those? You’d think so. Yet, more people tha...

Synopsis In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us that maths isn't confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rathe...

Synopsis Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction 2011. A comprehensive history of cancer - one o...

Synopsis Professor Stephen Hawking is generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. Here, his phenomenal bestseller A Bri...

Synopsis In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the world o...

Synopsis The definitive work of Arthur C. Clarke’s brilliant career - a pageant of dozens of futuristic pieces that anticipated many of this centur...