"Blooms with such glorious rushes of exalted prose that I was dog- earing almost every page." --The New York Times Book ReviewAs debate over the future of NASA heats up, award-winning author Stephen J. Pyne presents America's greatest space expeditions...

More than 2,000 years ago, Eratosthenes, in Alexandria, used a stick, a hole in the ground, sunllght at summer solstice, and elementary geometry to measure the circumference of the Earth with surprising accuracy, long before anyone was able to...

The seventeen equations that form the basis for life as we know it.Most people are familiar with history's great equations: Newton's Law of Gravity, for instance, or Einstein's theory of relativity. But the way these mathematical breakthroughs have...

"Vaclav Smil is my favorite author."—Bill GatesAn indispensable analysis of how the world really produces and consumes its food—and a scientist's exploration of how we can successfully feed a growing population without killing the planetWe have never had...

A NEW YORK TIMES AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos, the true limits of the mind—and each in their own way...

This Book Delves Into The Criminal Structure Of Digital Capitalism Fostered By States And Corporations Along The Supply Chain, Illustrating How The Rise Of Algorithmic Racism, Lithium Extractivism, The Googlization Of Education, Or The Deployment Of Ai...

A Treasure Trove Of Illuminating And Entertaining Quotations From The Legendary Naturalist Here Is Charles Darwin In His Own Words—the Naturalist, Traveler, Scientific Thinker, And Controversial Author Of On The Origin Of Species, The Book That Shook The...

In the 1970s, microbiologist Lynn Margulis and atmospheric chemist James Lovelock developed the Gaia theory. Embracing the circular logic of life and engineering systems, the Gaia theory states that Earth is a self-regulating complex system in which life...

By closely following Goethe's explanations of the color phenomena, the reader may become so divorced from the wavelength theory—Goethe never even mentions it—that he may begin to think about color theory relatively unhampered by prejudice, ancient or...

The latest volume in the New York Times–bestselling physics series explains Einstein’s masterpiece: the general theory of relativityHe taught us classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and special relativity. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind, assisted by...

A biography of Tor—a cultural and technological history of power, privacy, and global politics at the internet's core.Tor, one of the most important and misunderstood technologies of the digital age, is best known as the infrastructure underpinning the...

From the UK’s ‘statistical national treasure’, a clever and data-driven guide to how we can live with risk and uncertaintyLife is uncertain. We are all the result of an unforeseen and unforeseeable sequence of small occurrences. But what underlies this...

An investigation of the emotional power of narrative that illuminates the relationship between the human brain and the stories we tellAs humans, we think in stories—stories that allow us to feel and share emotions. In order for this phenomenon to work,...

A clear-eyed, timely investigation of the threat posed by Artificial Intelligence to individual freedom, social cohesion, and the democratic process—and a radical proposal on how to fight back.In this sharp, urgent book, philosopher, psychoanalyst, and...

From the authors of Quackery, a visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science.From the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, to straight-up hucksterism, Pseudoscience is a romp through much...

An insider offers a “forceful critique...of Big Tech's steady erosion of democracy” (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop itOver the past decades, under the cover of “innovation,” technology companies have successfully resisted...

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeA New Scientist Best Book of 2023One of the world’s most creative mathematicians offers a new way to look at math—focusing on questions, not answersWhere do we learn math: From rules in a textbook? From logic and...

Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles) is considered to be among the finest scientific works ever published. His grand unifying idea of gravitation, with effects extending throughout the solar system, explains by one principle...

Will help you appreciate and understand the significance of Isaac Newton's masterpiece--what many regard as the greatest scientific contribution of all time.Despite its dazzling reputation, Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, or...