Did you know that bats compose their own songs and babble to each other? Or that mice giggle when they are tickled? This work shows how animal friends keep in touch, and how they warn and help each other in times of danger; how some animals problem-solve more effectively than humans - and how they build, create and entertain themselves and others.

When it comes to big science, very few things are conclusively known. From Quantum Mechanics to Natural Selection, what we have instead are theories - ideas explain why things happen the way they do. Suitable for those keen on expanding their mind with science's thrilling ideas, this work contains profiles of key scientists behind each theory.

From the inability of wealth to make us happier, to our catastrophic blindness to the credit crunch, this book reveals ten ways in which economics has failed us. It explains how the economy is the result of complex and unpredictable processes; how risk models go astray; and, why the economy is not rational or fair.

The battle on Sunday 18th June 1815, near Waterloo, Belgium was to be Napoleon's greatest triumph - but it ended in one of the greatest military upsets. Waterloo became a legend overnight and remains one of the most argued-over battles in history. This title presents a reinterpretation of this seminal event in modern history.

Strange sometimes to think, even the biggest events of world history happened on a particular day - a rainy February 25th, a sweltering July 2nd, your father's birthday... This work presents a leap year of historical stories, spanning the history of man's life on earth and various corners of the inhabited world.

By the age of 25, entirely self-taught, Newton had sketched out a system of the world. This work explains the extraordinary ideas of a man who sifted through the accumulated knowledge of centuries, tossed out mistaken beliefs, and single-handedly made enormous advances in mathematics, mechanics and optics.

Psychoanalysis has become in the West the dominant paradigm for understanding our emotional lives. But do we know what it's all about? Using examples from popular culture and everyday experience, each book in the series explains a psychoanalytical concept and its ability to illuminate the nature of human society and culture.

Follows the historical development of logic, explains the symbols and methods involved and explores the philosophical issues surrounding the topic. This title takes you through the influence of logic on scientific method and the various sciences from physics to psychology.

The mobile phone is one of the wonders of the modern world. This vibrant, popular history tells the story of the mobile, what happened and why.

The autobiography of the racing driver, Tommy Byrne. It tells the tale of a poverty-stricken Dundalk kid's rise to become the only racing driver the great Ayrton Senna ever feared.

A guide to Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. It takes readers on a tour through the world of Will.

In this text, George Myerson examines the media hype surrounding genetically-modified foods in the light of Donna Haraway's postmodern, but critical work becoming ever more essential as we watch technology engulf our lives.

The existence now of virtual communities underlines what McLuhan predicted, and the philosophical questions that become apparent make a reassessment of his work rather timely. This text attempts to do this by discussing Marshall McLuhan and the subject of virtuality .

The universe is expanding, but how long has the expansion been going on? Will it expand forever, or collapse in a Big Crunch, a Big Bang in reverse? From Aristotle to Newton, Einstein to Quantum Mechanics, Introducing The Universe recounts the revolutions in physics and astronomy that underlie the present-day picture of the universe.

Scientists agree that over last century the earth has become warmer. But do we really know why this has happened? This book explains, an interplay of the clouds, the Sun and cosmic rays - sub-atomic particles from exploded stars - which seems to have more effect on the climate than manmade carbon dioxide.