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Enter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories. In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus declared the earth revolved around the Sun, overturning centuries of scholastic presumption. A new age was coming into view—one guided by observation...

In The New Sociology of Science, Boris Kriger delivers a direct challenge to the institutional foundations of modern science. The book argues that truth alone has never been enough — and is not even decisive. What determines whether an idea becomes science is not its correctness, but its ability to pass through fragile, often distorted social channels of persistence. Reinterpreting Auguste Comte, Kriger overturns the classical view: sociology is not the highest science — it is the hidden condition without which no science exists at all. From this follows a disturbing conclusion.

En un mundo que parece obsesionado con el apocalipsis, este libro es un antídoto contra el pesimismo. Héctor Socas es un astrofísico reconocido especialmente por su empeño en humanizar y divulgar la ciencia. Desde la solvencia científica de quien se ha pasado la vida estudiando el universo...

Are we alone in the universe? Mars has always seemed where we were likeliest to find the answer. Yet, since the Viking landers touched down in 1976, no mission has returned to the Martian surface to search directly for life living there now. Instead we’re searching the moons of outer planets...

For the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today. Reading is perhaps the essential practice of modern civilization. For centuries, it has been seen as key to both personal fulfillment and social progress, and millions today depend on...

You keep secrets from the world. But did you know your own body keeps secrets from you? Right now, as you listen to this sentence, your immune system is waging a war you will never feel. Your cells are partitioning information with a sophistication that would humble the CIA. Your brain—that magnificent engine of curiosity—is processing ten billion bits per second while graciously allowing you to be aware of roughly fifty. The rest? Classified. Need-to-know basis. And you, apparently, do not need to know. Secrecy is not a human invention.

The Brittle Self is a history of one of the oldest fears a mind can hold: that the self is fragile, that it can be seen through, broken, switched off, or shown to be unreal. Across six hundred years the fear holds steady while its costume keeps changing, and the book follows that single dread from a medieval palace to a present-day clinic. It begins in 1393, when Charles the Sixth of France forbade his court to touch him, certain his body had turned to glass and would shatter at a careless hand.

Every atom in your body has already been replaced. You didn’t notice. You didn’t stop being you. So what makes you you? It’s not the matter. The atoms in your brain right now aren’t the same ones that were there ten years ago. Neuroscience says your consciousness comes from how your brain is organized and how it functions, not from which specific carbon atoms happen to be sitting in your neurons on any given Tuesday. Mark Douglas spent decades following that observation to its logical end. The conclusion is not what you’d expect.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Et si votre manière de penser, de réagir et de décider était dirigée par des scripts que vous n'avez jamais choisis ? Dans les années 1970, une psychologue de Harvard a prouvé qu'un seul mot vide pouvait ouvrir 93 pour cent des portes. La plupart...

What if one of modern society’s most powerful ideas was never a biological truth at all? Race Isn’t Real —But It Changed Everything is a sharp, fearless investigation into one of humanity’s most deeply ingrained —and most misunderstood —social constructs. In this provocative nonfiction work, Kevin L. Whitworth dismantles the concept of race from its roots, separating visible human differences from the meanings societies attached to them.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 'A remarkable achievement' - Stephen Fry In 2015 #thedress captured the world's imagination. Was the dress in the picture white and gold or blue and black? It inspired the author to ask: if people in the same time and place can see the same thing...

As the climate emergency worsens and biodiversity shrinks, we somehow get used to it. We struggle to remember what summers were like before the unrelenting heat, in those years before wildfires became an annual routine. We adapt, we normalize. Scientists call this "shifting baseline syndrome,"...

Die Geschichte des größten wissenschaftlichen Abenteuers im 18. Jahrhundert erzählt dieser Wissenschaftsthriller, der an jenen magischen Moment erinnert, als die Dimensionen des Sonnensystems erstmals Kontur gewannen. Bestsellerautorin Andrea Wulf blickt zurück auf den Sommer des Jahres 1769, als beim Transit der Venus erstmals Wissenschaftler weltweit zusammenarbeiteten, um den Abstand zwischen Sonne und Erde exakt zu ermitteln.

Newly aware she had a fifty-fifty chance of developing the same condition, Wexler could have retreated. Instead, she immersed herself in what has become a lifetime's pursuit of the causes of the disease and a cure. She pioneered groundbreaking fieldwork that enabled the identification of the responsible gene. She took charge of what is now the Huntington's Disease Foundation and made it a force to be reckoned with.

*Winner of the 2025 Utah Book Award in Memoir/Narrative* *A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024* An immersive exploration of the nightly presence that has captured our imagination for the entirety of human history. In the luminously told Still As Bright, the story of the Moon traverses time and...

A compelling story to expand the human’s perspective on the new, unprecedented world of AI.

In Making Sense of Life, physics PhD and entrepreneur Dr. Simin Cai presents a rational, structured approach to life’s biggest questions. Drawing from science, philosophy, and personal experience, he helps readers develop their own “theory of life”—a consistent, personal framework for happiness, clarity, and fulfillment.

Øl, bue og pil og tegninger på væggen. Urmennesket havde en formidabel evne til at kombinere leg og fantasi med arbejde. Vi skal lade os inspirere af dén centrale del i menneskets udviklingshistorie og lukke legen ind i hverdagen igen. Rane Willerslev og tre videnskabsmænd fra...

Der Energiesektor steckt inmitten einer industriellen Revolution. So wie die Dampfmaschine die Pferdekraft verdrängt hat, das Auto die Kutsche oder das Smartphone das Handy, stellen heute erneuerbare Energien, Batteriespeicher und Elektroautos weltweit die Märkte auf den Kopf. Aber warum findet diese Revolution statt – und wird sie erfolgreich sein?

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Imagine an AI diagnoses cancer before a doctor can. It saves lives. Yet at the same moment, another AI decides which news you see – and which you don't. Is that progress? Or control? An algorithm that, like an invisible conductor, directs billions of...