🌍 The wonders of the world, explained (or at least explored).
From black holes to backyard ecosystems, these books unpack the hows and whys of the universe—curious minds welcome, lab coats optional..
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An up-to-date look at one of science's greatest detective stories: the search for order in the workings of the solar system— "Masterly. . . . Eminently readable. . . . Lucid" ( Wall Street Journal ). "[Peterson] is well-suited to wean the general reader away from one...
An insightful, revealing history of the magical mathematics that transformed our world. The Lady Tasting Tea is not a book of dry facts and figures, but the history of great individuals who dared to look at the world in a new way. At a summer tea party in Cambridge,...
An authoritative history of how the privatization of public science has prioritized profits over people—from patents to the COVID-19 vaccine—for readers of Bad Blood and Empire of Pain . Owning the Sun tells the story of one of the most contentious fights in human...
A physicist's efforts to understand the enigma that is quantum mechanics. "One of the finest books I have read on quantum mechanics: lucid and careful, but also entertaining, honest, and generous."—Phillip Ball, author of Beyond Weird Astrophysicist George Greenstein...
A physicist's efforts to understand the enigma that is quantum mechanics. "One of the finest books I have read on quantum mechanics: lucid and careful, but also entertaining, honest, and generous."—Phillip Ball, author of Beyond Weird Astrophysicist George Greenstein...
365 days of inventions, discoveries, science, and technology, from the editors of Wired Magazine. On January 30, Rubik applied for a patent on his cube (1975). On the next day, 17 years earlier, the first U.S. Satellite passed through the Van Allen radiation belt. On...
"A wonderfully lucid, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the boundary between justified and unjustified belief." —Sam Harris, New York Times–bestselling author of The Moral Landscape and The End of Faith In this work synthesizing thirty years of research,...
One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade "Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander...
INSIDE THE MYSTERIES OF THE HEART: See your heart in a whole new way as a leading cardiac scientist reveals astonishing insights on heart function, heart health, and heart disease. “Our blood-pumping organ and its impressive tricks deserve all our cartoon-heart...
A heartwarming memoir by "one of California's hardest-working hummingbird rehabilitators . . . will leave the average bird lover agog" (The Washington Post). Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna's hummingbird with a head and throat cloaked in...