Earth System Science: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Tim Lenton

When humanity first glimpsed planet Earth from space, the unity of the system that supports humankind entered the popular consciousness. The concep...

From dinosaurs to lizards, snakes, and turtles, Tom Kemp considers the range of reptiles which have walked our Earth. Exploring how evolutionary ad...

From frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders, to the lesser-known caecilians, there are over 8, 000 species of amphibians alive today. T. S. Kemp expl...

This book explores the extraordinarily diverse and beautiful world of insects, from tiny wasps to giant beetles. It analyses insect evolution, and ...

This book provides a fresh modern introduction to geometry, an ancient branch of mathematics with important applications. It takes readers from Euc...

A wide-ranging exploration of all aspects of the global climate system - discussing the relationship and differences between climate and weather, c...

Fluid mechanics is an important branch of physics concerned with the way in which fluids, such as liquids and gases, behave when in motion and at r...

What is time? This book describes the developing physics of the concept of time from Newton, via Einstein, to the present day, and the related phil...

All living things are composed of cells, which have fundamentally the same chemistry. Biochemistry is the study of reactions within these cells, an...

Synaethesia is a neurological condition that gives rise to a 'merging of the senses': those with the condition might experience certain numbers as ...

Enzymes are the molecular machines that make life possible. Working as catalysts, teams of enzymes carry out the processes that power the bodies of...

This book explores the mathematical field of topology, giving a sense of the visual elements of the field, as well as the formal definition of cont...

Matthew Cobb explores the sense of smell - its complex evolutionary history, and its many functions in a wide variety of animals, including humans....

Forensic science is a subject of wide fascination. What happens at a crime scene? How does DNA profiling work? How can it help solve crimes that ha...

Crime is big news. From murder to theft to drug gangs, crime and criminal justice affect the lives of millions of people worldwide. Hardly surprisi...

Dyslexia is gaining increasing recognition as a relatively common learning disorder. Margaret Snowling introduces the exciting research surrounding...

The study of human evolution is advancing rapidly. New fossil evidence is adding ever more pieces to the puzzle of our past; the new science of anc...

Ideal for students of mathematics and science at both A-level and undergraduate level, this looks at the historical roots of fractal theory and exp...

Plants form a fundamental element of the biosphere, and the evolution of plants has directly affected the evolution of animal life and the evolutio...

Networks are involved in many aspects of everyday life, from food webs in ecology and the spread of pandemics to social networking and public trans...

Explains the life-cycle of the cell from division to death, outlining why and how this happens.

A brief account of the history of the development of probability theory, explaining the philosophical approaches, discussing probability distributi...

Physics encompasses all levels of nature from the subatomic to the cosmic, and underlies much of the technology around us. From modern quantum mech...

This book introduces the life and work of one of the most creative physicists of the 20th century. Niels Bohr, the pioneer of quantum theory, ranki...

Tom McLeish delves into the growing field of soft matter - the study of materials such as polymers, colloids, liquid crystals, and foams. Looking b...

In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Land introduces all aspects of the eye and vision in both human and animals. He looks at the features of t...

Number theory is the branch of mathematics primarily concerned with the counting numbers, especially primes. It dates back to the ancient Greeks, b...

An outline of the historical development of crystallography and its key role in the early days of molecular biology.

Every year billions of animals, from housecats to racehorses to pythons, are treated by veterinarians. The use of veterinary science to treat the h...

Have you ever wondered how it's possible to build a skyscraper, a big bridge, a jumbo jet, or a cruise liner?Everything has structure. Structure is...

In this exploration of the concept of the gene, Jonathan Slack looks at the discovery, nature, and role of genes in both evolution and development....

Geophysics is the physics of the Earth. Central to the Earth Sciences today, it encompasses areas such as seismology, volcanism, plate tectonics, g...

The aim of this book is to explain, carefully but not technically, the differences between advanced, research-level mathematics, and the sort of ma...

DescriptionWe live in a world of waves. The Earth shakes to its foundations, the seas and oceans tremble incessantly, sounds reverberate through la...

If you move at high speed, time slows down, space squashes up and you get heavier. Travel fast enough and you could weigh as much as a jumbo jet, b...