How to Build a Time Machine / Build Your Own Time Machine

How to Build a Time Machine explains our best understanding of time and how it can be manipulated. Amazingly there is nothing in the laws of physics that prevents us from travelling in time.  Read more...

“Brian Clegg conjectures on the totally conjectural world of time and space travel and brings it all beautifully down to earth. Brilliant.” - Johnny Ball

Inflight Science #1 Popular Science (Amazon), book of the Week - Times

Packed full of amazing insights from physics, chemistry, engineering, geography and more Inflight Science is a voyage of scientific discovery perfect for any journey - even if it's just in your armchair.  Read more...

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“ 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

Armageddon Science

This book explores the reality of the dangers that science poses to the human race, from the classic fear of nuclear destruction to the danger of annihilation by gray goo. Combining the science behind those threats with an understanding of the real people responsible and an assessment of the likelihood of the end of the world, this isn’t a disaster movie, it’s Armageddon Science.  Read more...

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“ Easy to read and hard to set aside, Clegg’s new book is a balanced assessment of our chances to survive as species” - Booklist (American Library Association)

Before the Big Bang Scientific American Book Club Selection

At one time a taboo subject, science is now prepared to look back past the beginning – to answer the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything with something more satisfying than Douglas Adams’ cryptic 42. It’s an incredible journey through mind-bending theories, into the deepest past. Read more...

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“Clegg follows the footsteps of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, Steven Hawking’s A Brief History of Time and Timothy Ferris’s Coming of Age in the Milky Way.” - Kirkus Reviews

Ecologic Winner of the IVCA Clarion Award 2009

Looking after the environment should be a no-brainer. No one wants to destroy the world. Yet at every turn we fail to take the essential steps to prevent the destruction of the planet - or we are deceived, often by ourselves.

Opens up the reality beneath the layers of confusion and manipulation to expose what is truly green and what is simply greenwash. Read more...

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“This book crackles...
A cracking read for anyone who cares about both their environmental footprint and their sanity in a world being flooded with greenwash and gobbledegook.” - BBC Focus Magazine

Upgrade Me Scientific American Book Club Selection

In biological terms human beings haven't evolved in 100,000 years - but thanks to our amazing brains, we are able to upgrade ourselves to add capabilities that have taken other creatures millions of years to evolve. Read more...

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“Clegg’s latest will engage scientists and lay readers with a thorough, level-headed, reader-friendly treatment of controversial and complex material.” - Publishers Weekly

The Global Warming Survival Kit

The Global Warming Survival Kit is the must-have guide to overcoming extreme weather, power cuts, food shortages, and other climate change disasters. Read more...

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"We'd better prepare for the worst."

Light Years

There is something special, something wonderful about light. What is it? How does it work? How as it inspired people over the centuries? How might it enable us to send messages back in time? New edition, fully updated. Read more...

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"Immensely likeable," - The Guardian

The Man Who Stopped Time

The biography of a remarkable man, Eadweard Muybridge. Emigrating from the staid Victorian atmosphere of Kingston upon Thames to San Francisco, he would become a pioneer photographer, the father of the moving picture and a murderer. Read more...

"A joy to read," - Mark Frazier Lloyd

The God Effect Scientific American Book Club Main Selection

An instant connection between quantum particles over any distance, this strangest phenomenon in all of science is already being used to develop codes that cannot be broken, devise computers that would make finding a needle in a haystack trivial, and even learn to create teleportation. Read more...

"An excellent job," - Publishers Weekly

Infinity #1 bestselling popular maths book on Amazon for 10 weeks

Infinity is a subject that teases and fascinates. It has driven more than one mathematician mad, yet young children play with it, counting faster and faster before triumphantly shouting 'infinity!' A breathtaking mix of the gradual revelation of the infinite and the amazing paradoxes it throws up. Read more...

"Endlessly fascinating," - The Independent

Instant Egghead Guide: Physics

Physics is the most fundamental of the sciences, describing how everything works, yet it is often seen as remote and technical. The Instant Egghead Guide to Physics, produced with Scientific American sets out to change that. With 100 bite-sized articles on everything from relativity to quantum entanglement, and entertaining ‘cocktail party tidbits’ for every topic it makes physics fun. Read more...

"The great physicist Ernest Rutherford once said ‘All science is either physics or stamp collecting.’"

Getting Science

This straight-talking book from an experienced science writer and communicator looks at how to make the most of science and give primary school children a good grounding in the topic. It shows how to turn a difficult subject into a fun one, and encourages teachers to make the most of the available resources that can make science enjoyable for the children and for the teacher. Read more...

"Science is rightly a fundamental part of primary school education, but that doesn't make it easy to teach, especially for teachers without a science background."

The First Scientist

This is one man's story - a remarkable man who risked everything to spread the word on natural science. Roger Bacon, a Franciscan friar, whose incredible Opus Majus took the first faltering steps across the dividing line between natural philosophy and true science Read more...

"The author’s talent for giving the reader an almost tangible feeling for the atmosphere of 13th Century Europe in general and of England in particular was marvellous – I found it fascinating." Professor Heinz Wolff

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