The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution

Do spiders get thirsty? How long would it take a cow to fill the Grand Canyon with milk? How do they get the stripes on toothpaste? This title answers these questions.

Full of spleen, this will be a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of Bad Science.

A compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New Scientist , one of the world's best-selling science weekly.

Following the success of Does Anything Eat Wasps? and Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? , this work looks at scientific conundrums that can be answered by simple experiments which can be done at home and enjoyed by the armchair scientist.

An entertaining collection of history's some of the most bizarre experiments, from the 19th-century creation of zombie kittens to a University of Wisconsin study that answers, definitively, the question of whether women who play hard to get really are more desirable.

Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. This book is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization.

Did you know that there's so much empty space inside matter that the entire human race could be squeezed into the volume of a sugar cube? Or that you grow old more quickly on the top floor of a building than on the ground floor? This book is a science book discussing such questions.

The 30th anniversary edition of the million copy international bestseller, with a new introduction from the author. As relevant and influential today as when it was first published, this classic exposition of evolutionary thought, widely hailed for its stylistic brilliance and deep scientific insights, stimulated whole new areas of research.

Answers one hundred essential questions about existence. From winning the lottery, placing bets at the races and escaping from bears to sports, Shakepeare, Google, game theory, drunks, divorce settlements and dodgy accounting; from chaos to infinity and everything in between, this book contains the answers.

Includes finding such as: How does your surname influence your life? What does the way you walk reveal about your personality? Why should women have men write their personal ads? And what is the funniest joke in the world?