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The International Bestseller'A physics book unlike any other. The scope, depth and artistry are breathtaking' – John Preskill, theoretical physicis...

Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin gives us a new and compelling portrait of the poet-thinker as a modern Lucretius--moved to examine the que...

For the sake of salt, Rome created a system of remuneration (from which we get the word "salary"), nomads domesticated the camel, the Low Countries...

What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the scie...

A Scientific American Top Ten Book of 2023 If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains-ea...

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Seven-Tenths is James Hamilton-Paterson's classic exploration of the sea. A beautifully-written blend of literature and science, it is here brought...

From the tiniest microchip to the information superhighway, the modern world is dominated by and dependent upon science. Yet whether we realize it ...

Broadcast as an award winning radio-programme on BBC Radio 4 under the title of "Taking the Piss out of London", this work contains anecdotes and t...

A Song for Molly is both a love story and a poetic homage to science. The subjects in this first-person novella range from encounters with Wittgens...

This book consists of essays that stand on their own but are also loosely connected. Part I documents how numbers and geometry arise in several cul...

Enigma of the Skies is a joint endeavor by a scientist and a photographer to present to readers everything there is to know about auroras in an eas...

Enigma of the Skies is a joint endeavor by a scientist and a photographer to present to readers everything there is to know about auroras in an eas...

What is Science? A Guide for Those Who Love It, Hate It, or Fear It, provides the reader with ways science has been done through discovery, explora...

This book consists of essays that stand on their own but are also loosely connected. Part I documents how numbers and geometry arise in several cul...

Challenge yourself at home with word and number puzzles Specially compiled to provide the most deadly Su Doku challenge, this is the only...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of modern particle physics accessible to anyone with a true passion for wanting to know how the univers...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of modern particle physics accessible to anyone with a true passion for wanting to know how the univers...

This book summarizes the main scientific achievements of the blown-up theory of evolution science, which was first seen in published form in 1994. ...

Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code. This great scientific breakthrough has had far-reaching cons...

Don't You Have Time to Think? collects the witty, eccentric and moving letters letters of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman. Richa...

Here is an unprecedented collection of twenty freewheeling and revealing interviews with major players in the ongoing--and increasingly heated--deb...

In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the ...

With commentary by the greatest physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, this anthology has garnered impressive reviews. PW has called it a gem of ...