Flexner and Dijkgraaf argue that basic research--driven by curiosity, freedom, and imagination--is a proven and essential…

[I]f you are going to read one book on climate engineering, it should be The Planet Remade. . . . [The book] is as much an…

The Little Book of Black Holes by Gubser and Pretorius provides an elegantly brief introduction to the basic properties of…

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Oatley provides [a] ... history of modern psychology told through the stories of its most important breakthroughs and the…

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A fascinating investigation of the relationship between math and music--what they have in common, how they differ, and how…

For every quantification, there's a way of gaming it. So argues this timely manifesto against measured…

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The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe - from our bodies and the air we breathe to the planets and stars -…

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Homology - a similar trait shared by different species and derived from common ancestry, such as a seal's fin and a bird's…

Biology students will find this material helpful, and those with a desire to learn more about the history of life, genes,…

Offers an introduction to critical transitions in complex systems - the radical changes that happen at tipping points when…

Explores the origins and development of geographic variation, divergence, and speciation. This work shows how geographic…