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...

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...

Mark KurlanskyHomer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning,...

Angus TrumbleIt has been said that supreme enlightenment is reflected in the holy smile of the Buddha. Yet, the Victorians thought of open-mouthed smiling as obscene, and nineteenth-century English and...

Roger A CarasA warm and fascinating look at the world of the cat from the cat's perspective by popular wildlife expert and ABC-TV correspondent Roger Caras.

Julius FastThis classic book introduces kinetics, the science of non-verbal communication, which is used to analyze the common gestures we use and observe every day, gestures which reveal our deepest...

James D WatsonThe first edition of Jim Watson's classic textbook Molecular Biology of the Gene appeared in 1965. This new edition, written with five new authors, has been brought fully...

Tracy KidderComputers have changed since 1981, when Tracy Kidder indelibly recorded the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market. What has changed...

James GleickA work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary edition of James Gleick’s groundbreaking bestseller Chaos introduces a whole new readership to...

Stephen Jay GouldRanging as far as the fox and as deep as the hedgehog (the urchin of his title), Stephen Jay Gould expands on geology, biological determinism, "cardboard Darwinism," and...

Mick O'HareWhy Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? is the latest compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly. Following...

Dark Pools: High-Speed Traders, A.I. Bandits, and the Threat to the Global Financial SystemScott PetersonA news-breaking account of the global stock market's subterranean battles, Dark Pools portrays the rise of...