Science: general issues books

Nanotechnology could be the key to future scientific and engineering breakthroughs, space travel and kickstarting...  Read More >>

Madeleine Orr pulls back the curtain on climate change’s devastating impacts on sport, and offers a bold and optimistic...  Read More >>

Why are we here? What's the point of existence? For those who are unsatisfied by the answers of traditional religion,...  Read More >>

A big idea book about how the world around us shapes how we think and defines the ten different 'thinker types'...  Read More >>

From the Marginalian creator and bestselling author Maria Popova, a bold exploration of what makes a meaningful...  Read More >>

This systematic introduction to the theory of contextuality requires no previous familiarity with the subject and...  Read More >>

The first book-length history of gems in early modern science offers a thought-provoking new take on the Scientific...  Read More >>

Who is Conscious? is an adventure into animal minds. It looks at recent evidence for consciousness in various animal...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking book that defines the ten different 'thinker types' we all inhabit, by leading academic Marius...  Read More >>

This book presents the synthesis and characterization, as well as biosensing and optoelectronic applications, of...  Read More >>

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A provocative rethinking of the intersection of death, technology, and disability, for a better life.  Read More >>

A guide to mutually transformative collaboration between artists and scientists. Art-Science Undisciplined invites...  Read More >>

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This book maps the hidden constitutions of major platforms and shows how they govern speech, trade and data as if...  Read More >>

How the computer revolution shaped our conception of rationality-and why human problems require solutions rooted...  Read More >>

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Crisis in a Tweet shows how a single social media post, like, or share can rapidly escalate into a public calamity,...  Read More >>

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A deep dive into the common cold, exploring our age old suffering and what, if anything, we can do to tackle it....  Read More >>

The disturbing true story of an all-powerful British doctor called William Sargant who in the 1960s and 1970s abused...  Read More >>

A Philosopher Looks at the Weather argues that weather is a powerful force that shapes how we live. As we have developed...  Read More >>

This Element argues for the benefits of integrating the perspectives of a new historiography of paleontology in...  Read More >>