An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, author ofand A History of the World in Twelve Maps'Not merely an horologist's delight, but an ingenious meditation on the nature and symbolism of time-keeping itself'...

Appeals to the nerdy side of just about all of us... a great book to give'and -and Jane Garvey'A splendid book: clearly written, elegantly structured and full of facts you are unlikely to chance on anywhere else' -and Daily Mail'A wonderful book' - Mark...

Artificial intelligence has long been a mainstay of science fiction and increasingly it feels as if AI is entering our everyday lives, with technology like Apple's Siri now prominent, and self-driving cars almost upon us.But what do we actually mean when we talk about...

Battle with the bots . . . in realistic AR technology!Watch robots come to life as interactive animations, thanks to the digital magic of Augmented Reality. Using this book, the free app, and a tablet or smartphone, children can build their own robot and...

Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the...

Bored of biology? Crushed by chemistry? Perplexed by physics? DOES SCIENCE REALLY MATTER ANYWAY? Oh, only for... JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING!From how to stop a virus to defy gravity, and from how to predict the future to how to see the past, this book shows...

Brilliant and fundamental, this is the necessary book about our prime global emergency' Ian McEwanThe news is full of hotly debated and divergent claims about the impacts and risks of climate change. Lawrence Krauss, one of the world's most respected physicists and science popularizers,...

Cars are one of the most significant human creations. They changed our cities. They changed our lives. They changed everything. But in the next thirty years, this technology will itself change enormously. If Google get their way, are we all going to be ferried...

Celebrate more than 100 years of Germany's best two- and four-wheeled rides. This handsome volume is filled with images, history, and in-depth review of the incredible machines BMW has created year after year.Established in 1916, BMW is one of the automotive and motorcycle industry's...

Cyber-warfare is often discussed, but rarely truly seen. When does an intrusion turn into an attack, and what does that entail? How do nations fold offensive cyber operations into their strategies? Operations against networks mostly occur to collect intelligence, in peacetime. Understanding the lifecycle...

DESIGN, BUILD AND SHARE YOUR OWN APPS - NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!Design, build and share your own apps with the official guide from MIT App Inventor. Follow simple step-by-step instructions for six different projects using MIT's free App Inventor website, and you can make a...

Discover a new side to Carl Jung in this beautiful collection of his writings, speeches, seminars, and letters on nature and our connection to the natural world.Join Jung as he rediscovers the original unity of nature, and the spirits inside matter come to life...

Discover how space is part of our daily lives withand Everyday STEM Science - Space,and filled with facts, stories and experiments to try at home!Everyone knows there are planets and stars and space rocks, but how do these, and everything else in space, affect...

Discover how your everyday tech works while developing your coding skills!Smartphones have become an extension of ourselves. We couldn't live without them. But how do they work? What's inside them and how are the apps we rely on so much created and designed? These...

Discover our expansive solar system in this breathtaking journey into space.This charming book is the perfect introduction for young readers who want to learn about our local star - the Sun - and the planets that orbit it.and The Solar Systemand covers space in...

DK brings you a beautifully illustrated and engaging ocean encyclopedia to teach young readers all about what lies beneath!Introducingand How Deep is The Ocean?and - A captivating kid's fact book set out to answer over 200 burning questions your child may have about the...

Elmira Bayrasli's colourful narrative takes readers through the world of high-growth entrepreneurs as they overcome vexing obstacles to build businesses that create jobs and economic growth and, perhaps most important, shift mindsets. Here are the people who personify the transformative force of entrepreneurship from...

Embark on an awe-inspiring and informative journey through our Solar System and beyond in this illuminating astronomy book!Discover how big the Universe is, why our view of the sky is constantly changing, what came before the Big Bang, and so much more. 3, 2,...

Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services and spaces...

Explore Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths with this jam-packed collection of fun-filled experiments you can do at home.Get immersed in exciting STEM activities that will inspire every budding home scientist, technology fan, young engineer, and mathematician!Witness your very own erupting volcano blow sky high....

Explore the science innovations as you have never seen them with this visual guide.From the humble beginnings of science, right through to today's information age - go on a journey through the history of science through its people, inventions, and discoveries. This updated 3rd...

For all that's been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering success as insightfully as Scott Galloway.and Instead of buying the myths these compa­nies broadcast, Galloway asks fundamental questions. How did the Four infiltrate...

From award-winning journalist Parmy Olson,and Supremacyand is the astonishing, untold, behind-the-scenes story of the battle between two AI companies, their struggles to use their tech for good, and the dangerous direction that they're now going in."They declined his offer too, not realizing how much...

From Lollies Award-winning Michelle Robinson comes this colourful rhyming story following trains, boats and planes in their busy day. But where are they all going?Join three busy transport vehicles as they speed their doggy passengers to the Big Festival! The running isn't smooth, and...

From the man theand Wall Street Journaland describes as a 'global change guru', more than one hundred of the trends that touch every aspect of our lives. This new and updated edition looks even farther into the future, predicting trends past the first decades...

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era. In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and...

From the winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize for young authors, a book that maps the billion-dollar companies springing up around the globe and the future landscape of the world economy.Global technological trends come and go. In this book, Mehran...

Get to grips with how things work inside hundreds of machines with this extraordinary book for kids that explains the science behind technologies and inventions.In this extensive encyclopedia packed full of simple science for kids aged 9+, David Macaulay's beautiful illustrations show the inner...

Go behind the scenes with the producer ofand Father of the Brideand to learn all the skills necessary to be a top Hollywood producer.As former co-president of Dolly Parton's production company, Sandollar, and as a successful independent producer, Carol Baum is an expert in...

Google and Facebook receive 90% of the world's news advertising spend. Amazon takes half of all e-commerce in the US. Google and Apple operating systems run on all but 1% of cell phones globally. And 80% of corporate wealth is now held by 10%...

Google. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the content that feeds them are farmed for the purposes of being sold ever more products and advertising. Those that create the content -...

Have you ever asked yourself how the inventions, gadgets, and devices that surround us actually work? Discover the hidden workings of everyday technology with this graphic guide.How Technology Worksand demystifies the machinery that keeps the modern world going, from simple objects such as zip...

HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things - a monumental piece of research' Caitlin MoranImagine a world where...·and Your phone is too big for your hand·and Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your...

How did artificial intelligence become the most powerful technology on the planet? Sometime in the future the intelligence of machines will exceed that of human brain power. So are we on the edge of an AI-pocalypse, with superintelligent devices superseding humanity, as predicted by...

How to Build a Transportation System to Provide Mobility for All Road to Nowhere exposes the flaws in Silicon Valley's vision of the future: ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft to take us anywhere; electric cars to make them green'; and automation to...

Important, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting'and HELEN MACDONALD,and New York TimesONE OF THEand SUNDAY TIMESand 'BOOKS OF 2021'The author of the international bestsellerand The Sixth Extinctionand returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change...

In Google It, award-winning investigative reporter Anna Crowley Redding shares an inspiring story of innovation, personal and intellectual bravery, and most importantly, of shooting for the moon in order to change the world.Think. Invent. Organize. Share. Don't be evil. And change the world.Larry Page...

In Hashtag Authentic, social media guru Sara Tasker provides tips, advice, and guidance on how to turn your personal Instagram account into a profitable creative outlet. Since setting up her Instagram account (me_and_orla) while on maternity leave in 2013, Sara has become a celebrated...

In September 2014, a Chinese company that most Westerners had never heard of held the largest IPO in history - bigger than Google, Facebook and Twitter combined. Alibaba, now the world's largest e-commerce company, mostly escaped Western notice for over ten years, while building...

In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon.and Little Neil's dreams took flight when he rode on his first airplane as a child. After...

In this book, Armen Sarkissian, former president of Armenia, argues that small states can navigate the complex challenges of the twenty-first century in smarter ways than 'greater' powers. For smallness--often regarded as a weakness-- can be a strength. It may induce insecurity in states,...

In this sequel to his prescient New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots, Martin Ford presents us with a striking vision of the very near future. He argues that AI is a uniquely powerful technology, a kind of "electricity of intelligence" that is...

In this specially combined edition with a new foreword, Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer and acclaimed author Charles Fishman blend their insights from bestselling booksand A Curious Mindand andand Face to Faceand to transform the art of connecting with and through curiosity.Inand A Curious...

Insane Mode is the astounding story of the most revolutionary car company since Ford, revealing how, under Elon Musk's leadership, it is bringing to an end the era of gasoline-powered transportation.and Hamish McKenzie, journalist and former writer for Tesla, explores how an unlikely West...

Join the race to drive the futureCan a startup conquer the biggest and most entrenched industry in the global economy?The petrol car transformed our lives, both as a lifestyle object and a means of transport. It created a new economy and changed the design...

Just because we're little doesn't mean we can't learn BIG facts. Have you ever wondered how robots work? If you're a Little Scientist who is curious about robotics, you're about to STEP INTO THE LAB with Puffin Little!

Katy Milkman shows in this book that we can all be aand superand human' Angela Duckworth, bestselling author ofand GritHow to Changeand is a powerful, groundbreaking blueprint to help you - and anyone you manage, teach or coach - to achieve personal and professional...

Kids can develop their computer skills withand Scratch Challenge Made Easy, the perfect workbook for budding computer whizzes itching for bigger, better Scratch challenges.Experts say computer programming is a powerful tool for children to "learn" learning, andand Scratch Challenge Made Easyand is perfect for...

Learn about everything in the world from animals to art with this book of extraordinary figures and number-based facts for children aged 9-12!DK's cool compendium puts the fun back into learning, taking children on a number crunching journey around the wonders of our world....

Learn how to switch off and find calm - from theand New York Timesand bestselling author ofand A World Without Email'Digital Minimalism is the Marie Kondo of technology'and Evening Standard'An eloquent, powerful and enjoyably practical guide to cutting back on screen time'and The Times'An...