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

(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, ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Explores just about every area of life' DAILY MAIL'If only Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry were on tap to all of us, all the time . . . The pair have such a gift for making life, numbers and the forces at work in the universe all the richer, stranger, funnier and more marvellous.' Stephen FryIn Rutherford and Fry's comprehensive guidebook, they tell the complete s...

"This book is invaluable!" Alexander ArmstrongChildren ask the funniest questions: Why does sweetcorn come out the same as when I ate it? Do spiders speak? Why does Daddy never win the lottery? Which is faster, a Velociraptor or a cheetah? How does the lady in the satnav know where to go? Does my goldfish know who I am? (Do you think fish have two-second memories? Find out the truth on page 94!)This book takes real children's questions gathered from primary schools across t...

Not just another science book and not just another Discworld novella, The Science of Discworld is a creative, mind-bending mash-up of fiction and fact, that offers a wizard’s-eye view of our world that will forever change how you look at the universe.Can Unseen University’s eccentric wizards and orangutan Librarian possibly shed any useful light on hard, rational Earthly science?In the course of an exciting experiment, the wizards of Discworld have accidentally cre...