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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman,from interviews and speeches to lectures ...
How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years?
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The extraordinary story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century. The solution of Fermats Last Theorem is the ...
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The periodic table, created in the early 1860s by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, marked one of the most extraordinary advances in modern chemistry. This basic ...
You wake up and feel a tickle in your throat. Your head hurts. You're mildly annoyed as you get the kids ready for school ...
In 20 short books, Penguin Classics brings you the new canon of great environmental works
Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged ...
The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
A Waterstones Best ...
From the world-renowned physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe comes this captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose
Until ...
The clearest, simplest guide to quantum physics ever publishedDiscovering quantum physics has never been easier. Combining bold graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Quantum Physics is ...
Randall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre
'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford
'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates
'Wonderful' Neil Gaiman
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What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? How do billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? How does a building ...
For thousands of years, mathematicians have used the timeless art of logic to see the world more clearly. In The Art of Logic, Royal Society ...