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HERE ARE MANY, MANY THINGS THAT NOBODY KNOWS . . .Why are so many giraffes gay?Has human evolution stopped?Where did our alphabet come from?Can ro...

From the wireless to the computer, and from hula hoops to interplanetary travel, inventions and discoveries have changed our lifestyles in ways tha...

What if we woke up one morning all of the dinosaur bones in the world were gone? How would we know these iconic animals had a165-million year histo...

Human domination of our earth is now so complete that it is easy to forget how recently our role in the history of our planet began: the earliest a...

Though nothing in the natural world would be quite the same without them, microbes go mostly unnoticed. They are the tiny, mighty force behind the ...

Nature''s Palette is a highly illustrated, immensely entertaining exploration of the science of plant color. Beginning with potent reminders of ho...

From the brilliant mind of Japanese artist Bunpei Yorifuji comes Wonderful Life with the Elements, an illustrated guide to the periodic table that ...

Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95 percent of all living species died out--a g...

This is the definitive edition of the hugely popular collection of Einstein quotations that has sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide and been...

As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conf...

A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of the YearA Guardian Best Book about Ideas of the YearNo one likes to be bored. Two leading psychologists expl...

This unique volume applies physics and basic science to the mountain environment and is written in a non-technical language for curious laypeople w...

Defense of Scientific Hypothesis: From Reproducibility Crisis to Big Data sets out to explain and defend the scientific hypothesis. Alger's mission...

Quantum mechanics allows a remarkably accurate description of nature and powerful predictive capabilities. The analyses of quantum systems and thei...

This book describes the long-term four billion-year context of anthropogenic climate change, and seeks to explain our inability to respond positive...

A leading cancer specialist tells the compelling stories of three adult leukemia patients and their treatments, the disease itself, and the drugs d...

Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends in...

A fully updated edition of one of the most original accounts of evolution ever written, featuring new fractal diagrams, six new 'tales' and the lat...

A New Scientist Book of the YearA Physics Today Book of the YearA Science News Book of the YearThe history of science is replete with women getting...

Spark was previously published as Bored and Brilliant.'Crammed with practical exercises for anyone who wants to reclaim the power of spacing out' -...