HORRIBLE SCIENCE: SPACE, STARS AND SLIMY ALIENS is bursting a space-hopping book of stunning science. Zoom to the stars with Oddblob the alien, and take part in a spacewalk that's out of this world and learn what the moon smells like. Redesigned in a bold, funky new look for the next generation of HORRIBLE SCIENCE fans.

Unravelling the latest amazing breakthroughs in theoretical physics, Stephen Hawking guides the reader through the evolution of Einsteinian physics to a universe of ten dimensions and a so-called theory of everything.

This novel chronicles the origins of our planet, as the three galactic empires fight for control of the human race.

'Penguin Readers' is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.

In Billions and Billions, Carl Sagan demonstrates his incredible ability to cut through the jargon and misinformation to help us make sense of the world around us as it prepares for the challenges of the coming millennium.

If you sit still in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are swirling around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. And the planet you are sitting on is whizzing through space 35 times faster than the speed of sound. In 'Zoom!', Bob Berman explores the wondrous and myriad motions that shape every aspect of the universe from the ground up. Spanning astronomy,...

Martin Rees demonstrates how it is that just six numbers, imprinted in the big bang, determine the essential features of the physical cosmos. Moreover, cosmic evolution is very sensitive to the values of these numbers.

The authors outline the key ideas and principles that people need to be able to tune into the Universe and order those things that they truly desire. It will provide people with a grounding in the rules that govern the cosmos and ways of changing our subconscious to positively shape our lives.

In 'A Briefer History of Time' the authors endeavour to make the themes and topics covered in Stephen Hawking's best-selling original work more accessible to the lay reader while expanding the scope of the subject matter.

Brian Greene reveals the extraordinary nature of parallel universes, string theory and what this means for the future of physics.