Brian's latest books, Ten Billion Tomorrows and How Many Moons does the Earth Have are now available to pre-order. He has written a range of other science titles, including the bestselling Inflight Science, The God Effect, Before the Big Bang, A Brief History of Infinity, Build Your Own Time Machine and Dice World. Along with appearances at the Royal Institution in London he has spoken at venues from Oxford and Cambridge Universities to Cheltenham Festival of Science, has contributed to radio and TV programmes, and is a popular speaker at schools. Brian is also editor of the successful www.popularscience.co.uk book review site and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Brian has Masters degrees from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences and from Lancaster University in Operational Research, a discipline originally developed during the Second World War to apply the power of mathematics to warfare. It has since been widely applied to problem solving and decision making in business. Brian has also written regular columns, features and reviews for numerous publications, including Nature, The Guardian, PC Week, Computer Weekly, Personal Computer World, The Observer, Innovative Leader, Professional Manager, BBC History, Good Housekeeping and House Beautiful. His books have been translated into many languages, including German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Turkish, Norwegian, Thai and even Indonesian.
Series
Books
How to Build a Time Machine
The Real Science of Time Travel
2011
What Do You Think You Are?
The Science of What Makes You You
2005
The Universe Inside You
The Extreme Science of the Human Body From Quantum Theory to the Mysteries of the Brain
2012
Biomimetics
How Lessons From Nature Can Transform Technology
2023
The Graphene Revolution
The Weird Science of the Ultra-thin
2018
Upgrade Me
Our Amazing Journey to Human 2.0
2008
Introducing Infinity
A Graphic Guide
2012
Final Frontier
The Pioneering Science and Technology of Exploring the Universe
2014
A Lonely Height
A Stephen Capel Mystery
2015
30-Second Quantum Theory
2014
The Quantum Physics Bible
The Definitive Guide to 200 Years of Subatomic Science
2017
The Quantum Age
How the Physics of the Very Small has Transformed Our Lives
2014
Lightning Often Strikes Twice
The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in Science
2022
Scientifica Historica
How the world's great science books chart the history of knowledge
2019
Inflight Science
A Guide to the World From Your Airplane Window
2011
Are Numbers Real?
The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World
2016
What Colour is the Sun?
2016
Light Years
An Exploration of Mankind's Enduring Fascination with Light
2001
Ten Physicists Who Transformed Our Understanding of Reality
2015
How Many Moons Does the Earth Have?
The Ultimate Science Quiz Book
2015
Big Data
How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives
2017
Biographic
Einstein
2019
The Man Who Stopped Time
The Illuminating Story of Eadweard Muybridge ? Pioneer Photographer, Father of the Motion Picture, Murderer
2007
Extra Sensory
The Science and Pseudoscience of Telepathy and Other Powers of the Mind
2013
Ten Billion Tomorrows
How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future
2015
Everyday Chaos
The Mathematics of Unpredictability, from the Weather to the Stock Market
2020
Cracking Quantum Physics
2017
Quantum Theory
A Crash Course:Become An Instant Expert
2019
30-Second Einstein
The 50 fundamentals of his work, life and legacy, each explained in half a minute
2015
10 Short Lessons in Time Travel
2021
Science for Life
A manual for better living
2015
The God Effect
Quantum Entanglement, Science's Strangest Phenomenon
2006
Exploring the Universe
The Illustrated Guide to Cosmology
2012
Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon
The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell
2019
A Brief History of Infinity
The Quest to Think the Unthinkable
2003
Quantum Computing
The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution
2021
What if Einstein was wrong
2013
Instant Egghead Guide
Physics
2009
The Reality Frame
Relativity and our place in the universe
2017
Gravity
How the Weakest Force in the Universe Shaped Our Lives
2012
The First Scientist
A Life of Roger Bacon
2003
Armageddon Science
The Science of Mass Destruction
2010
Crash Course
Physics
2019
Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe
2021
Ten Days in Physics That Shook the World
2021
Game Theory
Understanding the Mathematics of Life
2022
30-Second Physics
2016
Dark Matter and Dark Energy
The Hidden 95% of the Universe
2019
Before the Big Bang
The Prehistory of Our Universe
2006
Physics
A Crash Course: Become An Instant Expert
2019
Gravitational Waves
How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
2018
Instant Creativity
Innovate for Competitive Advantage Now!
1999
