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Understanding modern physics doesn’t have to be confusing and hard

_What if there was an intuitive way to understand how nat...

A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible—from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks—revealing to...

This volume presents topics in probability theory covered during a first-year graduate course given at the Courant Institute of...

4th International Edition of Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes

Which famous proof did Archimedes inscribe on his tombstone? How and why do knots make perfect pentagons? Have you ever seen a ...

It is widely held that Bayesian decision theory is the final word on how a rational person should make decisions. However, Leon...

Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish...

“The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they’re calling the next Stephen Hawking.” —The Times Magazine

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"This is science writing as wonder and as inspiration." —The Wall Street Journal

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From one of the mo...

The New York Times bestseller from the author of The Order of Time and Reality Is Not What It Seems and Helgoland

“One of th...

Celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass a...

Learn from a Nobel Peace Prize winner in this entertaining and educational guide to physics, written for the enjoyment of curio...

As you read these words, copies of you are being created.

Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most ...

This lively and engaging textbook explains the things you have to know in order to read empirical papers in the social and heal...

A smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes ...

In 1997, an endurance runner named Yiannis Kouros ran 188 miles in twenty-four hours. Akira Haraguchi can recite pi to the 100,...

Armed with extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley turns his attention to the natur...

Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this...

Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carr...

The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don’...