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'A fascinating and challenging story' New York Review of Books
'This is an incredibly absorbing and insightful book about the most important scientific question of ...
This new eighth edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent progress in the fields of biology, biophysics, and biochemistry, with particular expansion ...
Far beneath our skin exists an unfathomable, ancient universe - an internal ecosystem that is critical to our health. Dr Martin Blaser invites us into the ...
For all the "selfishness" of genes, they team up to survive. Is the history of life in fact a story of cooperation?Amid the violence ...
A dynamic and sweeping history that exposes how humankind's affinity for pesticides made the modern world possible-while also threatening its essential fabric.
For thousands ...
The stunning Sunday Times bestseller that will transform the way you perceive the world - from Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes ...
For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet ...
A 'remarkable book.' - The New York Times
This fearless, deeply reported book about laboratory accidents asks the haunting question some elite scientists don't want ...
Every animal on Earth begins life as a single cell. From this humble origin, the nascent creature embarks on a risky journey fraught with opportunities ...
'A delightful balance of ideas, inspiration and science' Tristan Gooley, author of The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues & Signs
'We can all learn ...
For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the ...
A comprehensive and richly illustrated introduction to the world of viruses.
As parasites that are often hundreds of times smaller than bacteria, viruses exist in ...
For decades scientists have been warning of a global pandemic, and the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak has realised their worst fears.
Covid-19 and monkeypox make Outbreaks ...
Throughout human history, every single one of us has been born from a person. So far. But that is about to change.
Scientific research is ...