
Series
Books

Branches
Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts
2008

The Water Kingdom
A Secret History of China
2017

Beyond Weird
2018

Curiosity
How Science Became Interested in Everything
2012

H2O
A Biography of Water
1999

The Self-Made Tapestry
Pattern Formation in Nature
1999

Beautiful Experiments
An Illustrated History of Experimental Science
2023

Stories of the Invisible
A Guided Tour of Molecules
2003

Serving the Reich
The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler
2013

How to Grow a Human
Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made
2019

Flow
Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts
2008

Critical Mass
How One Thing Leads to Another
2003

The Modern Myths
Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
2021

How Life Works
A User’s Guide to the New Biology
2023

Patterns in Nature
Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does
2016

The Elements
A Visual History of Their Discovery
2021

Universe of Stone
Chartres Cathedral and the Triumph of the Medieval Mind
2008

Unnatural
The Heretical Idea of Making People
2011

The Beauty of Chemistry
Art, Wonder, and Science
2021

The Devil's Doctor
Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
2006

Invisible
The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen
2014

Shapes
Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts
2008

Elegant Solutions
Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry
2005

The Music Instinct
How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It
2010

Bright Earth
The Invention of Colour
1999

Designing the Molecular World
Chemistry at the Frontier
1994

The Ingredients
A Guided Tour of the Elements
2002

The Elements
A Very Short Introduction
2004

Why Society is a Complex Matter
Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science
2012

Made to Measure
New Materials for the 21st Century
1997

The Book of Minds
How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens
2022