Sublime murder takes the reader on a science based trip into the near future. Energy issues are being solved and the climate addressed, while carbon dioxide remains the elephant in the room. As people go about their everyday lives, Ferg and Saffy are doing what they can to save the planet and in the process save individual lives.Forensic geoscience and chemistry are their tools of trade as they combine to solve a murder or two and unravel some complex system analysis. It is an opti...

Signs of a River goes back in time to a very different world, one that experienced thousands of years of peaceful existence. A young Ferg returns to discover this hidden secret and begin his career as a world travelling geophysicist.The story tells something of the geologic history of India matching it with the growth of humanity and the beginnings of its understanding of science. That said it is also an epic adventure and crime fiction novel.Follow the trials of a young ca...

A fun Sci fi oddity encompassing heliophysics, Einstein, George, sortition, Donovan, block universe or, if you like, how to create a new society. It is a whodunnit on steroids that shouldnt be taken too seriously

Starting with a simple question - 'Which way am I looking?' - Tristan Gooleyblends natural science, myth, folklore and the history of travel to introduce you to the rare and ancient art of finding your way using nature's own sign-posts, from the feel of a rock to the look of the moon.With Tristan's help, you'll learn why some trees grow the way they do and how they can help you find your way in the countryside. You'll discover how it's possible to find North simply by looking at a ...

One bright February afternoon on a beach in Cornwall, GavinPretor-Pinney took a break from cloudspotting and started watching thewaves rolling into shore. Mesmerised, he wondered where they had comefrom, and decided to find out. He soon realised that waves don't justappear on the ocean, they are everywhere around us, and our livesdepend on them.From the rippling beats of our hearts, to the movement of food throughour digestive tracts and of...

Basic Weather KnowledgeThis booklet is meant to help you determin today's weather in the morning and tomorrow's weather in the evening as what may occur within your immediate horizons, so that you may act accordingly to improve your chances of survival.Written by Mors Kochanski

An elegant, text-only edition of the New York Times bestseller that’s been hailed as the definitive authority on…everything by Richard Dawkins.Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of science. Here, he takes a broader approach and uses his unrivaled explanatory powers to illuminate the ways in which the world really works.Filled with clever thoug...

Killer tornadoes. Violent tropical storms. Devastating temperatures. Are these just the prelude to an unprecedented environmental disaster in our near future?Two of America's leading investigators of unexplained phenomena -- Art Bell, the top-rated late-night radio talk-show host, and Whitley Strieber, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Communion and the legendary Nature's End -- have made a shocking discovery based on years of res...

Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen Univeristy feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time track. But now it's all gone wrong - Victorian England has stagnated and the pace of progress wou...

(Article, 53 pages, 17000 words)Most people suck at choosing which lure to use.For example, did you know that some fish species can see different colors than other species can, and some fish can even see colors that humans can't?Did you know that that the colors fish see depends on how deep they are?Have you ever wondered why fish sometimes charge at your lure, then turn away at the last second without striking?Would you like the confidence to choose...

The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time around dealing with THE REALLY BIG QUESTIONS, Terry Pratchett's brilliant new Discworld story Judgement Day is annotated with very big footnotes (the interleaving chapters) by mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen, to bring you a mind-mangling combination of fiction, cutting-edge science and philosophy.Marjorie Daw is a librarian, and takes her job - and indeed the truth of words - very seri...

In the spirit of Schott's Miscellany, The Magic of Reality, and The Dangerous Book for Boys comes Can a Bee Sting a Bee?—a smart, illuminating, essential, and utterly delightful handbook for perplexed parents and their curious children. Author Gemma Elwin Harris has lovingly compiled weighty questions from precocious grade school children—queries that have long dumbfounded even intelligent adults—and she's gathered together a notable crew of scientists, ...