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Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world
We have never had so much information at our ...
'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre
'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates
'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford
WHAT IF you still had so many more strange questions about the universe ...
From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity-and its attendant breakthroughs and busts.
The world is never finished ...
'Outstanding' Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry
The remarkable untold story of how a group of sixteen determined women used the power of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew.
'A wildly ambitious book by a formidably ...
From gravity to black holes, special relativity to global warming, this authoritative and entertaining book from bestselling author Marcus Chown breaks down complex science into ...
In The One, particle physicist Heinrich Ps presents a bold idea: fundamentally, everything in the universe is an aspect of one unified whole.
This idea ...
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 ...
In the next two decades, we'll see profound technological, social and cultural developments that will drive the same level of change as we have ...
Forty articles expertly curated by biographer Andrew Robinson provide an unrivalled account of the lives and personalities behind the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time ...
Over two thousand years ago, one man changed the way we see the world. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed in the heavens ...
What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree?
We've never been good at ...