This book offers a largely chronological illustrated guide to how the chemical elements were discovered over the past three millennia. It provides a view not...
Accompanying a major 5-part BBC series presented by David Attenborough and produced by the team behind Planet Earth and Blue Planet, Perfect Planet is an...
The way autoimmune disease is viewed and treated is undergoing a major change millions of people suffer from these conditions. For many patients, the key...
Longlisted for the 2025 Financial Times &,amp, Schroders Business Book of the YearA New York Times BestsellerAn eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping...
In the growth rings of every tree are ingrained and encrypted the stories of the tree, its environment and the changes through which...
A foremost thinker on science and religion argues that an adequate understanding of cosmic history requires attention to the emergence of interiority, including religious aspiration...
Now a National Bestseller! Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem....
Paul Lockhart reveals arithmetic not as the rote manipulation of numbers but as a set of ideas that exhibit the surprising behaviors usually reserved for...
A breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking book accompanies the new BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest...
'How to Invent Everything is such a cool book' -- Randall MunroeGet ready to make history better... on the second try. Imagine you are stranded...
The remarkable progress in algorithms for machine and deep learning have opened the doors to new opportunities, and some dark possibilities. However, a bright future...
All humans share three origins: the beginning of our individual lives, the appearance of life on Earth, and the formation of our planetary home. Wallace...
In&,nbsp,Magnitude,&,nbsp,Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke take us on an expansive journey to the limits of size, mass, distance, time, and temperature in our universe, from...
The detection of gravitational waves-ripples in spacetime-has already been called the scientific coup of this century. Govert Schilling recounts the struggles that threatened to derail...
A history of science distilled into 100 notable experiments - epic moments that have fuelled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond....
Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShe Has Her Mother's Laugh presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation...
Over the last half century, a quiet revolution has taken place. In a series of breathtaking discoveries, biochemist Thomas Cech and a diverse cast of...
Fresh ways of thinking about war and information on the data- saturated battlefields of the twenty-first century— drawing on Russia’s conflict with Ukraine. Thanks to...
From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. An expert in computer science and media explains the present...
From the first particles of matter and atomic building-blocks to hydrogen fusion, large galaxies and supermassive black holes, with a healthy dose of history and...
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