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The best-selling author of Infinite Jest on the two-thousand-year-old quest to understand infinity.  Read More >>

Addresses and answers the problems associated with the many-worlds formulation step by step. This work provides...  Read More >>

Have you ever had a premonition, the feeling of being watched, or a telepathic experience? Renowned biologist Rupert...  Read More >>

How we raise and educate our children, how we treat various mental diseases or conditions, how we care for our elderly...  Read More >>

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Stem cells could be the key that unlocks cures to scores of diseases and illnesses. Part detective story, part medical...  Read More >>

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Stem cells could be the key that unlocks cures to scores of diseases and illnesses, such as Parkinson's disease,...  Read More >>

Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith presents a series of essays addressesing the crux issue before us as a species...  Read More >>

He also tells us how to boost our intelligence, how to tap into creative powers we never knew we had, how to break...  Read More >>

In the story of the man dubbed ""the father of the H-bomb,"" told here in greater depth and detail than ever before,...  Read More >>

Presents an exploration of how 21st Century is going to change not just the way we think, but also what we actually...  Read More >>

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A lively exploration of the fast-fading borderland between fringe and mainstream science.  Read More >>

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Does time really flow, or is that simply an illusion? Did time have a beginning? What does it mean to say that time...  Read More >>

Explores the history of life from its origins on a young planet to the Cambrian explosion, presenting an explanation...  Read More >>

""More than a history of science; it is a tour de force in the genre."" —New York Times Book Review  Read More >>

An illustrated history of science.  Read More >>

Featuring more than three hundred full-color photographs and diagrams, this fascinating, updated introduction to...  Read More >>

Fear of mad cow disease, a lethal illness transmitted from infected beef to humans, has spread from Europe to the...  Read More >>

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The ideas that gave birth to the computer age Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and World War II codebreaker, was...  Read More >>

A look at those whom some call freaks and medical monstrosities. Examines these strange persons sympathetically,...  Read More >>

In Sweden and Britain, imperial powers both, Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks ruled over their own small scientific...  Read More >>