Named a winner in the AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers of 2002 competition presented by the American Institute of Graphic Designers (AIGA), Named Best of Show at Bookbuilders of Boston's 2003 New England Book...

An expert yet easy-to-understand examination of space travel, from the first human voyages to the goals of future endeavors.In Space Travel: Ten Short Lessons, Paul Parsons takes us on an...

The watchmaker belongs to the eighteenth-century theologian William Paley, who made one of the most famous creationist arguments: Just as a watch is too complicated and too functional to have sprung...

Explore the scientific crescendo of the Manhattan Project through newly contextualized and never-before-seen photographs from Los Alamos National Laboratory's legacy collections--some just...

Einstein Versus Bohr is unlike other books on science written by experts for non-experts, because it presents the history of science in terms of problems, conflicts, contradictions, and arguments...

The story of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey--home for geniuses and great thinkers of the 20th century. Ed Regis explores the past of this "intellectual hotel" that has...

This book is about dynamical aspects of ordinary differential equations and the relations between dynamical systems and certain fields outside pure mathematics. A prominent role is played by the...

The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures - the arts or humanities on one hand, and the sciences on the other - has...

Consciousness in all its possible human and nonhuman varieties, explored through words and images. What is consciousness, and who (or what) is conscious—humans, nonhumans, nonliving beings? How did...

"A very fun way to learn about where quantum physics comes from and the strange, even astonishing places it has gone." —Peter Galison, Harvard University, author of Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps...

Although the concept of space is of fundamental importance in both physics and philosophy, until the publication of this book, the idea of space had never been treated in terms of its historical...