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Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Pulitzer Prize-winning author ...

John and Mary Gribbin tell the remarkable story of how we came to understand the phenomenon of Ice Ages. They focus on the key ...

In a 1950 conversation at Los Alamos, four world-class scientists generally agreed, given the size of the Universe, that advanc...

Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or...

Confronting us at every turn, flowing from every imaginable source, information defines our era--and yet what we don't know abo...

This volume provides the definitive treatment of fortune's formula or the Kelly capital growth criterion as it is often called....

"Math, Better Explained" is a clear, intuitive guide to math topics essential for high school, college and beyond. Whether you'...

". . . Nothing less than a major contribution to the scientific culture of this world." — The New York Times Book Review
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Merchants of Doubt has been praised―and attacked―around the world, for reasons easy to understand. This book tells, with “bruta...

Mindstorms has two central themes: that children can learn to use computers in a masterful way and that learning to use compute...

Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are hu...

"A reader's first impression on leafing through this book is of the large number of graphs and diagrams, used to illustrate sha...

The first book Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy: a bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu, now...

2018 Reprint of 1919 Edition. Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) was a prophet of the electronic age. His research laid much of the gro...

Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, h...

People love what’s natural: it’s the best way to eat, the best way to parent, even the best way to act—naturally, just as natur...

Often calculus and mechanics are taught as separate subjects. It shouldn't be like that. Learning calculus without mechanics is...

Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathema...

IN THIS REISSUED PAPERBACK EDITION WITH A NEW EPILOGUE, CARL ZIMMER REVEALS THE POWER, DANGER, AND BEAUTY OF PARASITES.

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The publication of Personal Knowledge in 1958 shook the science world, as Michael Polanyi took aim at the long-standing ideal...