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Bound in cloth, blocked and printed with a computer-generated image of a golden DNA double helix unwinding. Set in Sabon with O...

From one of our foremost mathematicians and cosmologists comes this fascinating exploration of the surprisingly substantial and...

A narrative of exploration―full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants―that explains the enduring fascination of F...

The classic personal account of Watson and Crick’s groundbreaking discovery of the structure of DNA, now with an introduction b...

A penetrating exploration of the new physics, including time travel, quantum computers, and the multiverse – as referenced in t...

The legendary introduction to physics from the subject's greatest teacher

"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Ric...

Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the...

From Steve McIntyre's earliest attempts to reproduce Michael Mann's Hockey Stick graph, to the explosive publication of his wor...

How can you maximize success—and limit failure? Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Cohen brilliantly investigates the mystery and...

It is because mathematics is often misunderstood, it is commonly
believed it has nothing to say about politics. The high schoo...

Benoit B. Mandelbrot, one of the century's most influential mathematicians, is world-famous for making mathematical sense of a ...

One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade

"Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling bo...

Charles Darwin’s classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transfor...

This is a one-of-a-kind reference for anyone with a serious interest in mathematics. Edited by Timothy Gowers, a recipient of t...

Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same ...

Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same ...

How did we make reliable predictions before Pascal and Fermat's discovery of the mathematics of probability in 1654? What metho...

As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought...

The New York Times bestseller – with a new afterword added to the paperback – from the author of Range: Why Generalists Triumph...

The present third edition of The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets is published only four years after the ?rst edition...