History & Philosophy

Jared Kushner Was One Of The Most Consequential Presidential Advisers In Modern History. For The First Time, He Recounts What Happened Behind Closed Doors D...

the American Plague Delves Into America's Not-so-distant Past To Recount One Of The Greatest Epidemics Of Our Time. It Tells The Story Of The Yellow Fever ...

“Switek seamlessly intertwines two types of evolution: one of life on earth and the other of paleontology itself.”—Discover Magazine ““In deligh...

The church disagreed with Galileo. That set off a controversy that rages on today. The passion remains but the issues have changed and the arguments have b...

Space elevators. Internet-enabled contact lenses. Cars that fly by floating on magnetic fields. This is the stuff of science fiction—it’s also daily lif...

The Present Is A Contest Between The Bright And Dark Sides Of Discovery. To Avoid Being Torn Apart By Its Stresses, We Need To Recognize The Fact - And Gain...

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Farsighted, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas.In this illust...

A Searing Account Of How Vaccine Opponents Have Used The Media To Spread Their Message Of Panic, Despite No Scientific Evidence To Support Them. In This Sea...

her Name Was Henrietta Lacks, But Scientists Know Her As Hela. She Was A Poor Southern Tobacco Farmer Who Worked The Same Land As Her Slave Ancestors, Yet...

In This Classic About Economics, Freedom, And The Relationship Between The Two, Milton And Rose Friedman Explain How Our Freedom Has Been Eroded And Our Pro...

In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us. Th...

One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science ...

The Legendary Fbi Criminal Profiler, Number-one New York Times Bestselling Author, And Inspiration For The Hit Netflix Show Mindhunter Delves Deep Into The ...

"This is the book I have been waiting for."--Rachel Maddow INSTANTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | The FBI veteran behind the Russia investigation draws on de...

The award-winning former editor of Science News shows that one of the most fascinating and controversial ideas in contemporary cosmology―the existence of...

One of science's great unsung heroes, Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) was a prophet of the electronic age. His research laid much of the groundwork for modern el...

a Work Of Enormous Breadth, Likely To Pleasantly Surprise Both General Readers And Experts.—new York Times Book Review david Futrelle to Those Outside The...

Current scientific philosophy, guided by materialism, argues that religious experience is the product of nothing more than the wiring of the brain. In The S...

Which Is More Dangerous, A Gun Or A Swimming Pool? What Do Schoolteachers And Sumo Wrestlers Have In Common? Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live With Their Moms?...

The book you hold in your hands is revolutionary, a groundbreaking exploration of the science of intention.Drawing on the findings of leading scientists fr...

More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in h...

The Zeroth Law : The Concept Of Temperature -- The First Law : The Conservation Of Energy -- The Second Law : The Increase In Entropy -- Free Energy : The A...

It is hard to imagine any device more crucial to modern life than the microchip and the transistor from which it sprang. Every waking hour people of the wor...

Beliefs in mysterious underworlds are as old as humanity. But the idea that the earth has a hollow interior was first proposed as a scientific theory in 169...

Research Regarding The Significance And Consequence Of Anthropogenic Transformations Of The Earth’s Land, Oceans, Biosphere And Climate Have Demonstrated ...

The World-renowned Physicist Presents A Revolutionary Look At The Momentous Discoveries That Changed The Perception Of The World With This First-ever Compil...

A Preeminent Scientist Asserts The Irrationality Of Belief In God And The Grievous Harm Religion Has Inflicted On Society From The Crusades To 9/11. He Crit...

Elon Musk, The Entrepreneur And Innovator Behind Spacex, Tesla, And Solarcity, Sold One Of His Internet Companies, Paypal, For $1.5 Billion. Ashlee Vance Ca...

Some of the chief goals of science - understanding, explanation, prediction, and application in new technologies - can only be conducted with any purpose if...

In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine mill...