The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View Richard Tarnas "[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'West's mainstream...

PW Atkins Come on a journey into the heart of matter—and enjoy the process!—as a brilliant scientist and entertaining tour guide takes you on a fascinating voyage through the Periodic...

Primo Levi The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element, the collection...

Hans ReichenbachA brilliantly clear and penetrating exposition of developments in physical science and mathematics brought about by the advent of non-Euclidean geometries, including in-depth coverage of the foundations of geometry,...

Dava SobelWith her bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel introduced readers to her rare gift for weaving complex scientific concepts into a compelling narrative. Now Sobel brings her full...

Oren Harman"Enthralling." —Frans de Waal, The New York Times Book ReviewSurvival of the fittest or survival of the nicest? Since the dawn of time man has contemplated the mystery of...

Tom WolfeA wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's manned space program, from the author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test‘What is it’ asks Tom Wolfe, ‘that makes a man...

God According to God: A Scientist Discovers We've Been Wrong About God All AlongFor the readers of The Language of God, another instant classic from "a sophisticated and original scholar"...

Alison Gopnik, PhD Andrew N Meltzoff, PhD Patricia K Kuhl, PhD This exciting book by three pioneers in the new field of cognitive science discusses important discoveries about how much...

Hannah Holmes A mesmerizing expedition around our dusty worldSome see dust as dull and useless stuff. But in the hands of author Hannah Holmes, it becomes a dazzling and mysterious...

George B Schaller Based on three years of study in the Serengeti National Park, George B. Schaller’s The Serengeti Lion describes the vast impact of the lion and other predators on the...

Shing-Tung Yau, Steve Nadis A Fields medalist recounts his lifelong transnational effort to uncover the geometric shape — the Calabi-Yau manifold — that may store the hidden dimensions of our...