History & Philosophy

A Riveting Medical Mystery About A Young Woman's Quest To Uncover The Truth About Her Likely Fatal Genetic Disorder That Opens A Window Onto The Exploding F...

Unusually Gifted As Both A Physicist And A Novelist, Alan Lightman Has Lived In The Dual Worlds Of Science And Art For Much Of His Life. In These Brilliant ...

In How Brains Make Up Their Minds, Walter J. Freeman Charts The Brain's Mind, Progressing From Single Nerve Cells To Cooperative Nerve Cell Assemblies To Th...

There is a war going on between the established scientific community and those who would explore new theories, realities, energy, and dynamics. J. Douglas K...

There Are Few Industrialists In History Who Could Match Elon Musk's Relentless Drive And Ingenious Vision. A Modern Alloy Of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howa...

A Visual Guide To The Brain, Discussing The Work Of Scientists Who Are Using Modern Imaging Techniques To Locate The Precise Brain Activity That Creates Spe...

The leading guide to driving growth and profits through green strategy—now revised and updated "Green to Gold provides the definitive thinking on how busi...

The Story Of The Gene Begins In Earnest In An Obscure Augustinian Abbey In Moravia In 1856 Where Gregor Mendel, A Monk Working With Pea Plants, Stumbles On ...

Imre Lakatos' philosophical and scientific papers are published here in two volumes. Volume I brings together his very influential but scattered papers on t...

The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories. Early studies of the...

Livio (head, Science Division, Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute) tells the tale of the number phi (1.6180339887) and the golden ratio. He explains ...

A Painstakingly Researched, Revelatory Portrait Of The Soviet Dictator's Daughter Traces Her Formative Years In The Kremlin, The Losses Of Numerous Loved On...

Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved be...

Reality is Not What it SeemsCategories: Science & Math PhysicsRelativity

With her bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel introduced readers to her rare gift for weaving complex scientific concepts into a compel...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Negroni is a talented aviation journalist who clearly understands the critically important part the human factor plays in aviat...

The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets, Spycraft and Gaia TheoryCategories: Science & MathHistory & Philosophy

It is now abundantly clear that we have at our fingertips all of the tools we need to solve the climate crisis. The only missing ingredient is collective w...

Do you know if your waiter sings in the bathroom? Or if the lady who whipped up the icing on your cake wore false fingernails? When was the last time you m...

For 150 Years, Down's Syndrome Has Constituted The Archetypal Mental Disability, Easily Recognizable By Distinct Facial Anomalies And Physical Stigmata. Thi...

A fascinating exploration of the relationship between music and the mind-and the role of melodies in shaping our lives Whether you load your iPod with Bach...

Stefan Nowak. -- Includes Bibliographies And Index.Categories: Science & Math History & PhilosophyGeneral

Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Patricia K. Kuhl. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [227]-264) And Index.Categories: Medical Books PsychologyChild ...

As a young speechwriter in the Reagan White House, Peter Robinson was responsible for the celebrated "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech. He was a...

For Four Years, The Author Interviewed Extremist Members Of Three Religions Around The World: Christians, Jews, And Muslims. Traveling Extensively To Refuge...

Soul Made Flesh Is The Remarkable Untold Story Of A Dramatic Turning Point In History, The Exciting Discovery Of How The Human Brain Works. In An Unpreceden...

An Award-winning Theoretical Physicist And Best-selling Author Of A Universe From Nothing Traces The Dramatic Discovery Of The Counterintuitive World Of Rea...

Winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and She...

A Portrait Of Albert Einstein Shares Critical Insights Into Both The Genius And Hubris Of Modern Physics, Linking Einstein's Popular Downfall Through The Fi...

For Fifteen Years, Bestselling Author Michael Shermer Has Written A Column In Scientific American Magazine That Synthesizes Scientific Concepts And Theory F...

Biology until recently has been the neglected stepchild of science, and many educated people have little grasp of how biology explains the natural world. ...

just As Henry David Thoreau “traveled A Great Deal In Concord,” Nobel Prize–winning Physicist Steven Weinberg Sees Much Of The World From The Window Of Hi...

The march of science has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, by outrageous strokes of luck, dese...

How Should We Live? According To Philosopher And Biologist Massimo Pigliucci, The Greatest Guidance To This Essential Question Lies In Combining The Wisdom ...

Many At Work In The Field Of Cultural Studies Argue That Science Is Politics By Other Means, Insisting That Scientific Inquiry Is Profoundly Shaped By Ideol...

Science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten,” notes guest editor Amy Stewart in her...

If offered the chance—by cloak, spell, or superpower—to be invisible, who wouldn’t want to give it a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy voyeuri...

Sparked By A Controversial Debate In February 2014, Bill Nye Has Set Off On An Energetic Campaign To Spread Awareness Of Evolution And The Powerful Way It S...

In This Rich, Irreverent, Compelling History, Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Steven Weinberg Takes Us From Ancient Miletus To Medieval Baghdad And Oxford, Fr...

In This Visionary Look Into The Future, Freeman Dyson Argues That Technological Changes Fundamentally Alter Our Ethical And Social Arrangements And That Thr...

Signatures: )(⁸⁻¹ A-2g⁸. Title Vignette; Head- And Tailpieces. Der Kirschbaum. Ein Kindergespräch Im Garten, In Prose: P. [427]-438. Einiges Von Und...

The Man Who Touched His Own Heart Tells The Raucous, Gory, Mesmerizing Story Of The Heart, From The First Explorers Who Dug Up Cadavers And Plumbed Their He...

Provides An Overview Of Western Science From The Renaissance To The Present. Newton Gets It Completely Wrong -- I Believe -- Thomas Aquinas Versus Neil Arms...

Imagine a world where whole epochs will pass, cultures rise and fall, between a telephone call and the reply. Think of the human race multiplying 500-mill...

A Breakthrough Theory That Tools And Technology Are The Real Drivers Of Human Evolution Although Humans Are One Of The Great Apes, Along With Chimpanzees, G...

In December 1942, A Team At The University Of Chicago Achieved A Milestone In Human History: A Nuclear Chain Reaction. At The Forefront Of This Breakthrough...

With The Publication Of The International Bestseller The Selfish Gene Some Thirty Years Ago, Richard Dawkins Powerfully Captured A Newly Emerging Way Of Und...

From The Author Of How Emotions Are Made, A Myth-busting Primer On The Brain In The Tradition Of Seven Brief Lessons On Physics And Astrophysics For People ...