Bestsellers

An Economy of Gifts and Abundance From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, an inspiring vision of how to reorient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and community'This book will...

The Return of Race Science Financial Times Book of the Year Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year Guardian Book of the Year New Statesman Book of the Year Where...

The True Power of Women and the Science That Shows It Are women more nurturing than men? Are men more promiscuous than women? Are males the naturally dominant sex? And...

How proteins, machine learning and molecular chemistry can teach us about human behaviour WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2020 How do we understand the people...

How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It A ground-breaking book that reveals why our human biases affect the way we receive...

Unravelling unconscious biasUncovers the science behind our 'unintentional' biases using real world stories underpinned by scientific theories and research.For the first time, behavioural and data scientist, activist and writer Dr...

An illustrated guide for truly understanding your cat Japan's leading cat doctor tells you EVERYTHING you need to know about feline behaviour Cats are so mysterious. What makes them climb...

Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice A doctor and an economist explore the hidden links between health and structural injustices, and set out a radical vision for a fairer...

Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going A blueprint for a better future that offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society. Playing on...

What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power An exuberant work of popular history: why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or serve the...

A Gripping History For the first time, this quirky and engaging history reveals the secrets of one of our most ancient social gestures. Strangers do it, friends do it, politicians...

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. **SUNDAY TIMES and NEW...

What won’t we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied...

The Quest for a Theory of Everything The best-selling physicist returns with a thrilling account of the search for the 'god equation' This is the story of a quest —...

An urgent exploration of how the gendering of emotions came about, and what we can do to change these damaging stereotypes, by award-winning behavioural and data scientist Dr Prayga Agarwal...

‘By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for what it is: something more fragile that has had to be constantly...

In an age where our attention is pulled in so many different directions and it feels almost impossible to properly engage with anything, how do we truly notice what we...

In this frank, funny and meticulous book, a leading social scientist lays out the striking facts we know about racism, how we have uncovered them, and how we can start...

On Race, Space, and Time A radical new treatise on time, quantum physics, and racial justice from world-renowned artist and advocate Rasheedah Phillips of Black Quantum Futurism. Why do some...

What do you need to know to prosper as a people for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deep understanding of the expertise, wisdom and ingenuity...

Drawing on centuries of history and science, a prize-winning journalist upends our assumptions about migration revealing it not to be the story of our time, but an ancient, essential response...

Take a dive into the deep and discover what it is about water that seduces us, heals us and brings us together. Join writer and swimmer Bonnie Tsui as she...

Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day From the constant pull of technology to the 24-hour news cycle to the overwhelming demands of work, our ability...

How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal From ItThe transformative guide to recognising, preventing and healing trauma by Dr Paul Conti, with a foreword by Lady Gaga.Do the work...

A Guide to Autism and ADHD New to the world of AuDHD? You’re probably familiar with autism or with ADHD by now: an increase of information online has helped more...

In this wondrously unusual memoir, a woman retreats into her shell in the aftermath of her divorce, and must choose between the pleasures and the perils of a closed-up life—a...

On Memory, Migration and Taiwan I have learned many words for 'island': isle, atoll, eyot, islet, or skerry. They exist in archipelagos or alone, and always, by definition, I have...

The Rise of Cybercrime and the Fight to Keep Us Safe In a world, where cyber threats evolve daily, the line between hacker and hero is thinner than you think....

A vital investigation into how disposability has transformed our lives and why we've been unable to kick our plastic habit by Wall Street Journal reporter Saabira Chaudhuri. Over the past...

At first glance, the concept of equality in maths seems unambiguous. Denoted by two parallel lines, the equals sign looks elegant, simple and entirely black and white.But between those two...

What your sleeping brain reveals about your waking life Uncover the incredible truth of your dreaming brain with Sunday Times bestselling neurosurgeon Dr Rahul Jandial A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK...

Translated by Eduardo Aparicio The Stories behind the Symbols A marvelous compendium of mathematical symbols and their fascinating histories Galileo famously wrote that the book of nature is written in...

Science, reason and the threat to 200 years of progress A gripping journey through the past, present and future of vaccines. Vaccination is arguably the greatest public health achievement in...

From the bestselling author of Why We Swim comes a mind-expanding exploration of muscle that will change the way you think about how we move and why it matters. Cardiac, smooth, skeletal-these...

How Contagion, Class and Captivity Shape Us, from Cholera to Covid-19 An original, revolutionary new social and scientific history, A History of the World in Six Plagues is a deeply...

An amusing history of crackpot ideas and why we love them A rollicking visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science. The Bermuda...

What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain What makes us who we are? Is it our background that creates our identities? Or our families, where we lived, how...

The Surprising Science Of Human Goodness Cynicism is making us sick; Stanford psychologist Dr Jamil Zaki has the cure - a 'ray of light for dark days' (Adam Grant, #1 New...

The world's leading educational technologist makes an inspirational case for how we should use AI to support pupils and teachersThe generative AI revolution has come to education. Salman Khan, the...

How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn How to Fail and Embrace the Unknown What can we learn about ourselves if we think like scientists? A scientist's journey from observation...

A poetic and intimate essay collection on the lives of plants and their entanglement with our human worldsA seed slips beyond a garden wall. A seaweed drifts through an ocean....

The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreaming Are humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the...

How It Works and How It Could Change the World The everything-you-need-to-know WIRED guide to quantum computing Quantum computing has been hailed as a technological game-changer. But what precisely is...

You've got questions: about space, time, gravity, and the odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are right here. As a species, we...

In the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon — a clever and engaging look at materials, the innovations they made possible, and how these technologies changed us....

Speaking the truth with impartial scientific knowledge, and advocating justice for the silent Words and actions can mean a thousand things in any mortality case, but only the body can...

A Guide for Improving Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral OutcomesA body-based, science-backed method for regulating behavior, thoughts, and feelings and improving well-being--shown to shorten therapy time and improve emotional outcomes.In the...

A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and their patient zeros), plus chapters on...

The Science of How Moving To a Beat Is Good for Body, Brain, and Soul Discover why humans were designed for dancing — and learn how to boogie for better...

Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the political All...