Science is a highly competitive and ruthless discipline, and only its most determined and passionate practitioners make headlines - and history. This title explores some of the greatest breakthroughs in science, revealing the extreme lengths some scientists go to in order to make their theories public.

Shows how important science can be to the global economies of the 21st century, to solving some of our apparently intractable problems and to understanding the risks that the world faces. This title also shows the pleasures and importance of science, and warns us why we must take science deadly seriously.

What is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? This title argues that morality originates in the biology of the brain. It describes the 'neurobiological platform of bonding' that, modified by evolutionary pressures and cultural values, has led to human styles of moral behavior.

What if your future could be mapped out for you. Would you want to know?

Explores the nature and scope of scientific knowledge, the increased power of nature that science affords and the changes in the lives of human beings that result from different forms of science.

Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? This title includes tales that follow carbon, neon, silicon, gold and every single element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, conflict, the arts, medicine and the lives of the mad scientists who discovered them.

Presents scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe. This title reveals the Model dependent realism, the multi verse, the top-down theory of cosmology, and the unified M-theory. It also includes discoveries that are altering our understanding and threatening some of our most cherished belief systems.

The compelling account of one man's extraordinary odyssey. Jon Sarkin, an ordinary family man, recovered from a massive stroke to discover that he had become a man possessed with the compulsion to create art.

An irreverent guide to classroom horrors such as algebra, percentages and probability. It is full of examples and surprising puzzles. It demonstrates that maths is not an isolated realm of abstract thought but has fascinating connections with the world we encounter on a daily basis.

When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers, and read up on Arctic science and geography. But questions can be like ocean currents: wade in too far, and they carry you away.