Science & Nature Books

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.

Drawing on the stories from the fields of sub-aquatic archaeology, geology, marine biology and anthropology, this book reveals a hidden world of lost cities, forgotten shipwrecks, underwater caves and submerged volcanoes. It explores the Mediterranean, the Sea of Cortez, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Southern Ocean and the Arctic Ocean.

The IEE Wiring Regulations (BS 7671) are the national standard to which the domestic and industrial wiring must conform. This book offers the contents of this regulation and includes: exhibition shows, photovoltaic (pv) power supply systems, floor and heating systems, marinas and fairgrounds and amusements parks.

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.

Guidance Note 3: Inspection and Testing .

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.

By exploring the subject through its 50 key insights - from the simple (the number one) and the subtle (the invention of zero) to the sophisticated (proving Fermat's last theorem) - this book shows how mathematics has changed the way we look at the world around us.

Collects several 'curiosities' of maths. This title covers the mysteries of Fermat's last theorem, the Four Colour Theorem, the Poincare Conjecture, chaos theory, complexity and P/NP problem. It also includes discoveries about familiar names and concepts like Pythagoras, prime numbers, and permutations as well as anecdotes about mathematicians.

A collection of the best questions that have appeared in New Scientist including: why can't we eat green potatoes? Why do airliners suddenly plummet? Does a compass work in space? Why do all the local dogs howl at emergency sirens? How can a tree grow out of a chimney stack? And why do bruises go through a range of colours?

A guide which enables competent electrician to deal with small installations (up to 100 A, 3-phase). It includes simple circuit calculations. It is suitable for electricians, electrical contractors and their managers, installation designers, and students in further education and professional training.

Meant for AS-level Maths for all specifications, this guide offers CGP explanations for students and teachers.

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.