Popular Science
The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-century America
Paperback
“There is Life on the Planet Mars” — The New York Times, 9 December, 1906
Kobuk the Destroyer: And Other Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering
Hardback
An exuberant exploration of why the stuff we use (mostly) works—and a celebration of the unsung engineers who ensure it does.
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
Paperback
The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For...
How to Kill an Asteroid: The Real Science of Planetary Defense
Paperback
One of Smithsonian Magazine's ‘Ten Best Science Books of the Year’
A gripping account of the "city-killer" asteroids that could threaten Earth and the race to build a planetary defence system
The Secret World of Denisovans: The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals
Paperback
An unprecedented, meticulously reported account of our prehistoric ancestors, the recently discovered “Third Man” cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals