Brian Clegg's books
By Popular Science
Brian Clegg's books
By Popular Science
Brian Clegg is an award-winning British science writer and public speaker who has written over 40 popular science books and a growing range of novels. Find out more at Brian's website www.brianclegg.net or read Brian's online articles here
Brainjacking: The Science of Influence and Manipulation
Brian Clegg
£20.00 £19.00Brainjacking explores the psychology of storytelling - the ability that makes us human. To discover how science intersects with our desires and decisions, the book pulls together three ways that we use story to modify others’ brains: informing, influencing and manipulating. Running through education and politics, advertising and marketing we discover how techniques can range from subtle nudges and subliminal influences to powerful emotional manipulation.
Interstellar Tours: A Guide to the Universe from Your Starship Window
Brian Clegg
£18.99 £18.04In Inflight Science I took readers through the science you experience on a flight: here we have the same experience on an imagined starship - but the science is all real, from extrasolar planets to black holes and supernovae.
Biomimetics: How Lessons from Nature can Transform Technology
Brian Clegg
£10.99 £10.44Taking inspiration for innovation - not the book I set out to write, as often it hasn't worked, but a fascinating topic.
Lightning Often Strikes Twice: The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in Science
Brian Clegg
£12.99 £12.34A fun exploration of often-held ideas about science that turn out to be myths
Game Theory: Understanding the Mathematics of Life
Brian Clegg
£10.99 £10.44The mathematical study of human interaction - the kind of games where winning or losing can mean everything.
Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World: How Physicists Transformed Everyday Life
Brian Clegg
£10.99 £10.44Paperback: Physics informs our understanding of how the world works – but more than that, key breakthroughs in physics have transformed everyday life. We journey back to ten separate days in history to understand how particular breakthroughs were achieved, meet the individuals responsible and see how each breakthrough has influenced our lives.
How it All Works: All scientific laws and phenomena illustrated & demonstrated
Adam Dant and Brian Clegg
£19.99Unique collection of amazing Adam Dant illustrations illustrating scientific phenomena from the kitchen to the universe
What Do You Think You Are?: The Science of What Makes You You
Brian Clegg
£9.99 £9.49Now in paperback: An entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the atomic level, through life and energy to genetics and personality, it explores how the billions of particles which make up you – your DNA, your skin, your memories – have come to be.
Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution
Brian Clegg
£10.99 £10.44An introduction to the transformative technology of using quantum particles in place of bits in computers.
10 Short Lessons in Time Travel
Brian Clegg
£9.99 £9.49A fascinating and up-to-date tour of the workings of the universe that suggest the possibility of journeying back and forth through time.
Conundrum: Crack the Ultimate Cipher Challenge
Brian Clegg
£8.99 £8.54With a focus on ciphers and codebreaking, Conundrum contains twenty sections, each built around a specific subject from music to literature, physics to politics. To take on Conundrum you need good general knowledge and the ability to think laterally. But if you need help, there are plenty of hints to point you in the right direction.
What Do You Think You Are?: The Science of What Makes You You
Brian Clegg
£12.99 £12.34An entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the atomic level, through life and energy to genetics and personality, it explores how the billions of particles which make up you – your DNA, your skin, your memories – have come to be.
Cracking Quantum Physics
Brian Clegg
£14.99Enter the invisible world of sub-atomic physics and discover the very core of existence. Cracking Quantum Physics takes you through every area of particle physics to clearly explain how our world was, and is, created, and breaks down the most complex theories into easily understandable elements.
A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable
Brian Clegg
£10.99 £10.44In this highly entertaining and stimulating history, Brian Clegg takes us on a tour of that borderland between the extremely large and the ultimate, from Archimedes counting the grains of sand that would fill the universe, to the latest theories on the physical reality of the infinite.
Professor Maxwell’s Duplicitous Demon: The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell
Brian Clegg
£9.99 £9.49Maxwell, an unassuming Victorian Scotsman, explained how we perceive colour. He uncovered the way gases behave. And, most significantly, he transformed the way physics was undertaken in his explanation of the interaction of electricity and magnetism, revealing the nature of light and laying the groundwork for everything from Einstein’s special relativity to modern electronics.
The Quantum Age: How the Physics of the Very Small has Transformed Our Lives
Brian Clegg
£10.99 £10.44The Stone Age, the Iron Age, the Steam and Electrical Ages all saw the reach of humankind transformed by new technology. Now we are living in the Quantum Age, a revolution in everyday life led by our understanding of the very, very small.
Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe
Brian Clegg
£8.99 £8.54In Dice World, we take an incredible trip around our random universe, uncovering the truths and lies behind probability and statistics, explaining how chaotic intervention is behind every great success in business, and demonstrating the possibilities quantum mechanics has given us for creating unbreakable ciphers and undergoing teleportation.
Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window
Brian Clegg
£8.99 £8.54'He still managed to surprise me with something new on every page. With this book in hand, we have all we need to set off on our next flight with our eyes open to the sheer wonder of what is involved.' Alain de Botton
Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide
Brian Clegg and Oliver Pugh
£8.99 £8.54Graphic guide introduction to this most mind-boggling of topics.
How Many Moons Does the Earth Have?: The Ultimate Science Quiz Book
Brian Clegg
£7.99 £7.59In How Many Moons, Brian produces two full scale quizzes of eight rounds each purely on science questions. Not the kind of boring questions you got asked at school - these are questions to intrigue and delight.