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How to Eat (And Still Lose Weight): A Science-backed Guide to Nutrition and Health

By Dr Andrew Jenkinson

The Times Killer Su Doku 2: 100 challenging puzzles from The Times (The Times Su Doku)

By AIIA, Times Mind Games

Vaxxers: A Pioneering Moment in Scientific History

By Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green

Bumpology The Science of Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond

By Linda Geddes

Memory and Emotion: The Making of Lasting Memories

By James L. McGaugh

Man on the Moon

By The Science Museum

Solar System

By The Science Museum

Psychedelic Apes: From parallel universes to atomic dinosaurs - the weirdest theories of science and history

By Alex Boese

The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the Extraordinary Number of Nature, Art and Beauty

By Livio, Mario

Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses

By Aarathi Prasad

Resilience from the Heart: The Power to Thrive in Life's Extremes

By Gregg Braden

Key Technologies for the 21st Century: A "Scientific American" Special Issue

By Scientific American

We Need to Talk About Kelvin

By Marcus Chown

The Wollemi Pine: The Incredible Discovery of a Living Fossil From the Age of the Dinosaurs

By James Woodford

Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis

By Helen Bynum (Freelance historian)

How Long Is a Piece of String?

By Eastaway, Rob, Rob Eastaway, Jeremy Wyndham

The Private Life of the Brain

By Baroness Susan Greenfield

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

By Professor Edward O. Wilson

Who Was Dr. Charlotte Bach?

By Francis Wheen

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

By Lisa Feldman Barrett

Elementary: The Periodic Table Explained

By James M. Russell

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

By Munroe, Randall

Big Data: Does Size Matter?

By Timandra Harkness

In the Blink of an Eye: How Vision Kick-started the Big Bang of Evolution

By Parker, Andrew

The Music of Life: Biology beyond genes

By Denis Noble (Emeritus Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Oxford)

Heath Robinson

Colour and Vision: Through the Eyes of Nature: 2016

By Steve Parker

Seven Days That Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science

By John C. Lennox

From Here to Infinity: Scientific Horizons

By Martin Rees

Why is Sex Fun?: Evolution of Human Sexuality

By Jared M. Diamond