A leading physicist delves into relativity and experimental applications Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity offers a Nobel laureate's perspectives on the wealth of data technological developments...

For the millions of readers of the international bestseller A Brief History of Time (with 3 million copies in print), this companion volume sheds more light on Stephen Hawking and his major scientific theories. Based on an exciting new documentary film...

Book by Thom Rene

Publish and perish-Giordano Bruno Given the number of books that already exist on the subject of quantum mechanics, one would think that the public needs one more as much as it does, say, the latest version of the Table of Integers. But this does not...

From the Marginalian creator and bestselling author Maria Popova, a bold exploration of what makes a meaningful life. In Traversal, her startling and moving new book, Maria Popova traverses the border between life and death, chance and choice, chemistry...

Both historical treatment and critical analysis, this work by a noted physicist takes a fascinating look at a fundamental of physics, tracing its development from ancient to modern times. Kepler's initiation of scientific conceptualization, Newton's...

Paul Feyerabend’s globally acclaimed work, which sparked and continues to stimulate fierce debate, examines the deficiencies of many widespread ideas about scientific progress and the nature of knowledge. Feyerabend argues that scientific advances can...

Book by Ralph Abraham, Jerrold E. Marsden, Tudor Ratiu, Richard Cushman

What if the Internet goes dark? We think of the Internet as wireless, weightless, ever-present--but its true foundation lies in the ocean's depths, where nearly 900,000 miles of fiber-optic cables quietly pulse with all the world's information. In The...

Why The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and the geopolitical model of our times. A tenth anniversary edition of the comprehensive political philosophy of planetary-scale computation, with a new preface from the author...

The Social Art is an engagingly written, highly accessible tour through the world of languages. Macaulay uses jokes, anecdotes, quotations, and examples to introduce readers to the full range of current linguistic knowledge, covering in 35 chapters,...

The Five-Minute Linguist has been a popular introduction to the subject of language because it is succinct, clear, accurate - and fun to read. It is used by beginning students of linguistics, language education and anthropology, and has broad appeal for...

Quantum computers, quantum cryptography, and even quantum AI--a century after uncovering an unexpected physical world, researchers are putting this puzzling science to work in dazzling new ways. In this exhilarating and mind-bending book, renowned...

A new approach to understanding irrational behavior that provides a framework for deriving new models of human cognitionWhat does it mean to act rationally? Mathematicians, economists, and statisticians have argued that a rational actor chooses actions...

A rich, narrative explanation of the mathematics that has brought us machine learning and the ongoing explosion of artificial intelligenceMachine learning systems are making life-altering decisions for us: approving mortgage loans, determining whether a...

Mathematical lexicon & addenda

This is a highly readable, popular exposition of the fourth dimension and the structure of the universe. A remarkable pictorial discussion of the curved space-time we call home, it achieves even greater impact through the use of 141 excellent...