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The Knifemaker asks searching questions about the morality of science via the biography of Werhner Von Braun, whose life embodies the contradiction at the heart of many landmark advancements of the twentieth century: between the romance of new scientific frontiers and the human cost of reaching...

Monteverdi and His Constellation, a new William Collins book, full description to follow when available...

A Home in the Cosmos has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...

Wir erleben einen radikalen globalen Stimmungswechsel. Die Gewissheiten der letzten Jahrzehnte bröckeln, und viele von uns blicken mit Sorge auf eine Welt, die zunehmend unvorhersehbar scheint. In seinem beeindruckenden Sachhörbuch-Debüt entwirft der Host des Erfolgspodcasts Die Peter Thiel Story ein hellwichtiges Szenario für die Zeit nach der Krise.

The thrilling true story of the unlikely American codebreakers who cracked Japan’s top cipher machine, eavesdropped on Hitler, and helped win World War II. In 1937, Japanese engineers invented Purple, a cipher machine capable of scrambling a message more than 500 quadrillion ways. It encrypted...

In this inspiring memoir, one of the first Black woman astronauts recounts her journey from the South Side of Chicago to the International Space Station—and the trials, setbacks, and triumphs that ultimately led her to opportunities out of this world. Joan Higginbotham never set out to be the...

One of our most brilliant, acclaimed novelists turns to nonfiction with a mind-expanding, slyly humorous personal exploration of the scientific imagination. In Lives of the Scientists: or, How to Predict the End of the World, Rivka Galchen offers a profound and playful exploration of the lives...

An intimate history of plastics, written by a plastic-maker’s daughter turned environmental sociologist who, for the past decade, has searched for the origin story of plastic and how it is inextricably bound to her own. In one generation, industry has created billions of tons of plastic. It's...

From bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson, this is the inspiring tale of Marie Curie, the passionate scientist who pushed through all obstacles to set the stage for the modern world. The only person in history to win Nobel prizes in two different sciences, Marie Curie ushered in the 20th...

From bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson, this is the morally inspiring tale of the passionate scientist who pushed through all obstacles to set the stage for the modern world. The only person in history to win Nobel prizes in two different sciences, Marie Curie ushered in the 20th century by...

From the trailblazing, world-leading expert on psychedelic research, a groundbreaking exploration of how psychedelics may unlock long-held mysteries of the mind, and how these revelations can be used to treat the most crippling of mental illnesses We are living through a psychedelic renaissance...

「機械は考える！」「人間は機械だ！」 世界を大きく変えた「人工(A)知能(I)の父」 天才数学者アラン・チューリングの生涯と思考 ナチスの暗号「エニグマ」を解読 世界で最初にコンピュータを開発 栄誉なく迎えた41歳での「謎の死」 AI時代の到来を70年以上前に予見した 天才数学者の偉業と苦悩 ＜本書の内容＞ 第１章 　異端の天才児 ――アランが来たら、僕の生活がメチャメチャにされる！ 第２章 　運命の初恋 ――アランは天才だ！

The Nobel Prize–winning “godfather of AI” explains why the machines he helped create may soon surpass us—and what humanity can still do to shape the future. Geoffrey Hinton is one of the architects of modern artificial intelligence. For more than half a century, he has sought to...

A thrilling history of how we fell in and out of love with a technology that changed not just the world, but changed us. 'Forces you to see the world with new eyes . . . I loved it!' – Alice Loxton, author of Eighteen and Eleanor 'Science and technology never seem more exciting than when James...

An intellectual biography of one of the most celebrated and yet least understood figures of the late twentieth century, Terence McKenna. A stand-up philosopher who made a unique contribution to science, humanism, and the hidden arts, Terence McKenna (1946–2000) was the twentieth century's...

The authorized, “definitive and deeply researched” (The Times UK) biography of a brilliant theoretical physicist and science communicator, featuring revelations from never-before-seen personal records, by an award-winning writer and biographer “An incisive picture of the audacious...

Als die Mauer fiel, war Joachim Sauer vierzig, er verbrachte also sein halbes Leben in der DDR. Hier erzählt er erstmals von seinem Aufwachsen in der SED-Diktatur, dem Beginn seiner Forscherkarriere als Quantenchemiker, dem Anpassungsdruck und der Abgrenzung sowie seinem Erleben der deutschen Einheit und dem Glück der Freiheit.

Scientist Rosemary Grant's journey in life has involved detours and sidesteps—not the shortest or the straightest of paths, but one that has led her to the top of evolutionary biology. 

Nikola Tesla is one of the most fascinating characters in the history of science. A brilliant inventor and eccentric visionary, his ideas were undoubtedly ahead of his time. His name today is synonymous with innovation. Yet he lived much of his life in poverty, feuded with fellow inventors and died in obscurity.

The dramatic, high-stakes account of Artemis II, the first human journey into deep space in fifty years, told from the perspective of astronaut Jeremy Hansen, with a foreword by Chris Hadfield The historic Artemis II mission was celebrated around the world and broke the record for the farthest...