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Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal ...
The fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical world
From the beginning of history, measurement has ...
A Sunday Times 'Must Read' book
'Jam-packed with information, this book will fascinate sailors, fishers, birders, naturalists, hikers, and anyone interested in the natural world ...
The Quadrivium consists of the four Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, and Cosmology, studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of glimpsing ...
By the end of the Victorian era, the world had changed irrevocably. The speed of the technological development brought about between 1800 and 1900 was ...
'Fascinating and vivid' CARLO ROVELLI
DROPOUT, PACIFIST, PHYSICIST, CASANOVA, REFUGEE, GENIUS . . . WHO WAS ALBERT EINSTEIN?
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered relativity, black holes and ...
For 20 years, Nerd Nite has delivered to live audiences the most interesting, fun, and informative presentations about science, history, the arts, pop culture, you ...
A journey guided by science that explores the universe, the earth, and the story of life
For Irwin Shapiro, good science starts with good questions ...
A mind-expanding exploration size, the measure of all things, from the New York Times bestselling author
The New York Times bestselling author returns with a ...
Overlooked, under-explored and misunderstood - this is the story of spin, the force which, quite literally, makes the world go round. In this comprehensive and wide-ranging ...
Should we alter animals' DNA to save them from extinction? What secrets will old ice reveal to us about the Earth's deep past? How ...
A biting satire of corporate power and disinformation- how it works, how it harms us and what we can do about it
Knowledge is power ...
From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity-and its attendant breakthroughs and busts.
From the New York Times-bestselling ...
An exhilarating biography of John von Neumann- the lost genius who invented our world
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries ...
Longlisted for the PEN America Literary Awards 2021: PEN/E.O Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardWaterstone's Best Books of 2020: Popular ScienceAmerican Scientist's ...
