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This book presents a comprehensive theory of evolution based on a new physicochemical approach of energy flow throughout the ma...

In a wonderful synthesis of science, history, and imagination, Gino Segrè, an internationally renowned theoretical physicist, e...

“WHERE DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM? WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE IT? WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING? AND FINALLY, WHY IS THERE SOMETHING RA...

A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination....

A major scientific revolution has begun, a new paradigm that rivals Darwin's theory in importance. At its heart is the discover...

From the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and b...

In Blueprint, behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin describes how the DNA revolution has made DNA personal by giving us the power...

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing ...

Why did the stock market crash more than 500 points on a single Monday in 1987? Why do ancient species often remain stable in t...

This major revision of the classic math text makes the subject at hand still more comprehensible to readers of all levels. With...

What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neuro...

The familiar call of the common cuckoo, "cuck-oo," has been a harbinger of spring ever since our ancestors walked out of Africa...

While Charles Darwin's vision of evolution was brilliant, natural selection ignores a crucial force that helps to explain the d...

Over the past two decades, no field of scientific inquiry has had a more striking impact across a wide array of disciplines–fro...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell

Limits are an illusion: discover the revolutionary account of...

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“One of the most important books I’ve ever read―an indispensable guide to thinking clear...

xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution

"I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposit...

Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, lu...

The genome's been mapped.
But what does it mean?

Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the...