A Sunday Times BestsellerThe inventor of the World Wide Web explores his vision’s promise—and how it can be redeemed for the future.Perhaps the most influential inventor of the modern world, Sir Tim...

Medicine advances ever faster, and with it not just a capacity to overcome sickness, but to transform the very nature of life. Starting in ancient antiquity, this text charts how this health...

Earth has existed for an immense period of time--an almost unimaginable 4.6 billion years. If we ventured far enough into the past, would we reach a time when our planet was fundamentally different?...

The story of how you created internet culture and why it mattersSince the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to vlogs, tweets to memes: for the...

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An ecologist explores how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all share It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over...

For this inexpensive paperback edition of a groundbreaking classic, the author has extensively rearranged, rewritten, and enlarged the material. Book is unique in its emphasis on the frequency...

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These notes constitute a faithful record of a short course of lectures given in São Paulo, Brazil, in the summer of 1968. The audience was assumed to be familiar with the basic material of homology...

Third edition of popular undergraduate-level text offers overview of historical roots and evolution of several areas of mathematics. Topics include mathematics before Euclid, Euclid's Elements,...

1. Purpose The purpose of this work is to provide, in one volume, a wide spectrum of essential (non-measure theoretic) Mathematics for use by workers in the variety of applied fields. To obtain the...

This book attempts to present the concepts which underlie the various optimization procedures which are commonly used. It is written primarily for those scientists such as economists, operations...

A conducted grand tour of the fundamental theories which shape our modern understanding of the physical world. This book covers the central themes of spacetime geometry and the general-relativistic...

From the Introduction: "This volume of selected papers of Jacob Wolfowitz is published to honor the 70th birthday of this leader of research in statistical inference and information theory...We have...

The Leo Baeck Institute, to whose late president this book is dedicated, has three branches, located in Jerusalem, London, and New York. Its chief aim is the collection of documents describing the...

A theoretician and professor of mathematical physics shares his conclusions on the existence of God, the possession of free will, and the reality of eternal life from a scientific and logical...

What happens when screen time is all the time?In the early 1990s, the phrase “screen time” emerged to scare parents about the dangers of too much TV for kids. Screen time was something to fret over,...