Machines That Think

Time Travel

From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and

Cutting-Edge Science

End Times

Newsweek and Bloomberg popular science and investigative journalist Bryan Walsh explores the history of extinction and offers a cutting-edge examination of existential ri...

The Practical Encyclopedia of Home Remedies & Natural Therapies

This practical guide to natural health-promoting treatments and techniques brings together the very best of traditional therapies for reducing stress, gaining vitality a...

FERMAT'S LAST THEOREM

The story of a puzzle that every child can understand but has baffled mathematicians for 300 years. Aged ten, Andrew Wiles stumbled across the puzzle,

Angels and Ages

On February 12th, 1809, two men were born an ocean apart: Charles Darwin on an English country estate
Abraham Lincoln in a Kentucky log cabin.

Wonderland

What connects Paleolithic bone flutes to the invention of computer software? Or the Murex sea snail to the death of the great American city? How

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

War. Mention it and most of us think of history, of conflicts on foreign soil, of heroism and compromise, of strategy and weapons. But there’s

Spaceman

Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal what 'the right stuff'

The Spinning Magnet

De multe ori, de-a lungul istoriei profunde, polii magnetici ai Pământului și-au schimbat locul, lăsând scutul protector al planetei noastre mai slab și viața vulnerabil...

Introducing: Chaos (Graphic Guide)

'Introducing Chaos' explains how chaos makes its presence felt in many varieties of event, from the fluctuation of animal populations to the ups and downs

QI: The Third Book Of General Ignorance

The Third Book of General Ignorance adună laolaltă 180 de întrebări, atât noi cât și unele care au figurat deja în seria populară despre QI

ALPHABETS: A Miscellany of Letters

Through the exploration of this grouping of 26 symbols, it becomes clear that each letter has its own persona and history, and the alphabets presented

Math: A Crash Course

It’s a sad truth that maths has the reputation of being “difficult.” Part of the problem is that many of us simply don’t speak the

Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World

For the first time, His Royal Highness Charles, the Prince of Wales, shares his views on how mankind’s most pressing modern challenges are rooted in

MAGIC OF REALITY

Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of science. Here, he takes ...

GRAPHIC DISCOVERY

Good graphs make complex problems clear. From the weather forecast to the Dow Jones average, graphs are so ubiquitous today that it is hard to

The Elements (The Compact Guide)

The Compact Guide: The Elements is authoritative and accessible, with a sense of wonder about the way in which the material world works, thanks to

Alex Through the Looking-glass

From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his

BEHAVE: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Oliver Sacks has described Sapolsky as 'one of the best scientist-writers of our time.' This superb guide to human nature shows how all the perspective

30-Second Chemistry

Chemistry is the science of matter. This book brings boils it down to its essential elements - in just 30 seconds.

The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible

The most powerful weapon in business today is the alliance between the mathematical smarts of machines and the imaginative human intellect of great leaders. Together

The Digital Condition

Each generation of scholars produces a book that remaps the state of knowledge. Rob Wilkie's The Digital Condition: Class and Culture in the Information Network

THE BOOK OF HUMANS

WHAT MAKES US HUMAN? Waging war? Sex for pleasure? Creating art? Mastery of fire? In this thrilling tour of the animal kingdom, Adam Rutherford tells

The Wonder of Brian Cox

Professor Brian Cox is probably the best-known physicist in the world today. As presenter of the hit television series 'Wonders of the Solar System' and

A Brief History of Mathematical Thought

Matematica este un produs al culturii umane care s-a dezvoltat odată cu încercările noastre de a înțelege lumea din jurul nostru. În O scurtă istorie

Pythagoras

Aceasta este povestea lui Pitagora și a pitagoreicilor, a unei puteri de pătrundere care a transformat lumea antică și care încă inspiră știința, matematica, filozofia

Handling Digital Brains : A Laboratory Study of Multimodal Semiotic Interaction in the Age of Computers

An analysis of how fMRI researchers actively involve their bodies-with hand movements in particular-in laboratory practice. The results of fMRI brain scanning require e...

How to Lie with Statistics

‘Round numbers,’ pronounced Dr Johnson, ‘are always false.’ But not, of course, the precise and scientific calculations of trained statisticians with their decimals and...

Introducing Game Theory

When should you adopt an aggressive business strategy? How do we make decisions when we don't have all the information? What makes international environmental cooperation...

The Tangled Tree

n The Tangled Tree, acclaimed science writer David Quammen chronicles these discoveries through the lives of the researchers who made them – such as Carl

Little Book of Big Explorations

A collection of 150 mini essays of trailblazing journeys into the unknown that have had a profound effect on our understanding of the world, transformed

Chinese Medicine for Everyday Living

Take a holistic approach to your health and discover the ancient art of Chinese medicine. Over 3,000 years old, traditional Chinese medicine continues to be

Introducing Darwin: A Graphic Guide

Progress in genetics today would not be possible without Darwin's revolution, but the mysterious man who laid the rational basis for undermining belief in God's

EVOLUTION

Introducing the latest ideas on how life originated and diversified on earth, this new edition of a classic work provides a concise and engaging summary

THE MAZE OF INGENUITY: IDEAS AND IDEALISM IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY

From cathedrals to star wars, Arnold Pacey looks at the interaction of technologies and society over the last thousand years and uses that survey to

New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything

Introduction by Professor Stephen Hawking. When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the

The Aliens Are Coming! : The Exciting and Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe

For millennia, we have looked up at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe. In the last few years, scientists have

The Intimate Universe : How the stars are closer than you think

The scale of the cosmos can be baffling, with distances so vast and timescales to long that it's easy to dismiss them as being completely

18 Tiny Deaths

For most of human history, sudden and unexpected deaths of a suspicious nature, when they were investigated at all, were examined by lay persons without

How Numbers Work

Discover the incredible connection between numbers and reality itself! Think of a number between one and ten No,hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero

The Zoomable Universe

Pregătește-te pentru o călătorie uimitoare prin enormitatea realității noastre care îți va tăia respirația. Pe urmele filmului clasic de Charles și Ray Eames, recunoscut...

Space: 10 Things You Should Know

Această carte este pentru oricine vrea să înțeleagă cu ușurință fundamentele uluitoare ale extraordinarului nostru univers în expansiune. Scris de astrofizicianul de l...

Future in Minutes

What does the future hold? How will we live, work and entertain ourselves? What new technologies will emerge? Will humanity evolve - and perhaps live

Shadows in the Sky

Although the saying, ‘Pigs might fly…’ may bring a smile to one’s lips, even stranger things have been reported as appearing in Britain’s skies over

The Comet Sweeper

Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy while helping her brot...

Symphony in C

Carbon. It's in the fibres in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat and the air that you breathe. It's

Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker

A radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the bestselling author of Victoria: A Life. With the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin—hailed

Rebel Star

In 1869, a great mystery was born. As astronomers observed a total solar eclipse, for the first time they saw the faint glow of the

Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe

'Clegg's writing style is highly readable, and the contemporary cultural references impressed upon me . . . how accessible [Dice World] is.'—Chemistry World Perfect for...

Blueprint

'A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more' (Frank Bruni, New York Times), B...

What Do You Think You Are?

Popular science master Brian Clegg’s new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the atomic level, through life

The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy

Are paperclips going to destroy life as we know it? What can Mickey Mouse teach us about how to programme AI? Could a more rational

Brilliant Ideas from Wonderful Women

Discover the stories behind 15 of the twentieth century's key inventions in this fun and informative treasury of trailblazing women, who each made a unique

How Evolution Explains Everything about Life

How did we get here? It's the journey of a lifetime. All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles

Human Origins

Where did we come from? Where are we going? Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to

Genes, Cells and Brains: Bioscience's Promethean Promises

Our fates lie in our genes and not in the stars, said James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. But Watson could not have

The Story of Mars

Mars is ingrained in our culture, from David Bowie's extra-terrestrial spiders to H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds. The red planet has inspired hundreds

Introducing Anthropology: A Graphic Guide

Antropologia a apărut ca studiul culturilor „primitive”. Dar noțiunea de „primitiv” expune prezumțiile de superioritate „civilizată” și dreptul Occidentului de a vorbi p...

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