Max JammerThe concept of mass is one of the most fundamental notions in physics, comparable in importance only to those of space and time. But in contrast to the latter,...

Joan Didion   'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief.'From one of America's...

Frank CloseOf all the mind-bending discoveries of physics--quarks, black holes, strange attractors, curved space--the existence of antimatter is one of the most bizarre. It is also one of the most...

Walter IsaacsonEinstein was a rebel and nonconformist from boyhood days, and these character traits drove both his life and his science. In this narrative, Walter Isaacson explains how his mind...

Michio Kaku   Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension   The first book-length exploration of the most exciting development in modern physics, the...

Bernard HaischOn the one hand, we have traditional science, based on the premises of materialism, reductionism, and randomness, with a belief that reality consists solely of matter and energy, that...

Bruce Rosenblum and Fred KuttnerIn trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum mechanics, the most successful theory in science and the basis of one-third of our economy. They found,...

Alice KaplanBrilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of...

Siddhartha Mukherjee** NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER **The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The...

Max JammerOf fundamental importance to physics and the philosophy of science, the notion of mass had never been given an integrated and coherent historical investigation until the publication of this...

Alexander McCall SmithThe No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency often helps people find things they have lost. But they have never had to help a client find herself—until now, in this...

Garth NixThe Left-Handed Booksellers of London tells of a young art student Susan who comes to London in 1983 in search of the father she never knew, and is drawn...