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Acclaimed The Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the wizards of Discworld.  Read More >>

The fantastic first book in the Sunday Times bestselling Science of Discworld series When a wizardly experiment...  Read More >>

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Introducing astrochemistry to a wide audience, this book describes how molecules formed in chemical reactions occur...  Read More >>

Using no math beyond high school algebra, the authors lay out an approachable explanation of Einstein's special...  Read More >>

A neuroscientist recounts the story of her extraordinary relationship and research with H.M., the famous brain-damaged...  Read More >>

For the nonscientist, the claims and counterclaims are dizzying - what does it really mean to understand the genome?...  Read More >>

Professor Pollack takes us on a fantastic voyage through water, showing us a hidden universe teeming with physical...  Read More >>

Tells the story of life - where it came from and where it is going. From interplanetary collisions to the inner-workings...  Read More >>

In May 1904, the residents of Halcyon-a small utopian community on California's central coast-invited their neighbors...  Read More >>

Professor Pollack takes us on a fantastic voyage through water, showing us a hidden universe teeming with physical...  Read More >>

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A highly complex topic with universal appeal, brought to life in an accessible way  Read More >>

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In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal argues...  Read More >>

Some probability problems are so difficult that they stump the smartest mathematicians. But even the hardest of...  Read More >>

With a well-deserved reputation for original and sometimes iconoclastic thought, Schneier has a lot to say that...  Read More >>

Why monsters came to be and what made them so terrifying.  Read More >>

A revealing account of the numbers that the financial markets got wrong.  Read More >>

Der Boden unter unseren Füßen erscheint uns unwandelbar und fest. So sind die Kontinente immer in Bewegung, Gebirge...  Read More >>

Erwin Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist famous for his contribution to quantum physics. He won the Nobel Prize...  Read More >>

A full and intimate portrait of the most mysterious continent on earth and how it holds the key to all our futures...  Read More >>

Utterly beautiful. Profoundly disconcerting. Quantum theory is quite simply the most successful account of the physical...  Read More >>

“The Soyuz Launch Vehicle” tells the story, for the first time in a single English-language book, of the extremely...  Read More >>

Provides a provocative tour of the catastrophic outlier scenarios that could quickly send us crashing back to the...  Read More >>