Science, Mathematics & Technology

This book offers a multifaceted perspective on mathematics by demonstrating 99 different proofs of the same theorem. Each chapter solves an otherwi...

The Age of Intelligent Machines is upon us, and we are at a reflection point. The proliferation of fast-moving technologies, including forms of art...

Illustrated by Ben Newman Greetings, my little Astro Kittens! Are you ready to take off on your first space adventure? Join Professor Astro Cat as ...

Illustrated by Ben Newman Greetings, my little Astro Kittens! Are you ready to take off on your first space adventure? Join Professor Astro Cat as ...

Are we alone in the Universe, or are there as many planets supporting life as there are stars in the sky? It's one of the most important and fascin...

The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years―because a new computer system inte...

Language is humanity’s most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways tha...

In this provocative book, Ramesh Srinivasan describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics, ec...

The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA that differs between people. Our intellectual capacity, our introversion or extraversion,...

Looking at the night sky, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's all quiet up there in space. But you'd be wrong. Extreme events are forever unfolding...

Have you ever wondered what makes a kite fly or a boat float? Have you ever thought about why snowflakes are symmetrical, or why golf balls have di...

All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5 percent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzl...

Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment...

Have you ever found yourself wondering what we might have in common with stars, or why the Moon never leaves us? Thinking about the precise dancing...

Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects-from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and g...

Forgotten Women is a new series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept th...

As digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world, discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields, from politics a...

What impact does our relentless fixation on gadgets have on the struggle for new kinds of solidarity, political articulation and intelligence? In t...

Everyone knows about DNA, the essence of our being, the molecule where our genes reside. But DNA by itself is useless without a machine to decode t...

Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies...

The only book you need if you're going back! in time What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past... and then br...

Did you drink a glass of water today? Did you turn on a light? Did you think about how miraculous either one of those things is when you did it? Of...

In Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the "Mindscape," where he explores infinity in al...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen major advances in recent years. While machines were always central to the Marxist analysis of capitalism, AI ...

Modern medicine is exceptionally powerful, and has achieved unprecedented successes. But it comes at a price; individuals suffer from medicine's fa...

Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution caused both outrage and wonder, and quickly made him one of the most famous men in history. From his five-ye...

Marie Curie was a brilliant scientist who coined the term 'radioactivity', discovered polonium and radium, and helped develop treatments for cancer...

Stephen Hawking was one of the world's most famous scientists. His ground-breaking research into black holes and the Big Bang has helped to explain...

When Stephen Hawking was a little boy, he used to stare up at the stars and wonder about the universe. Although he was never top of the class, his ...

On July 21, 1969, the first man set foot on The Moon. When Neil Armstrong was asked if this made him feel big, he answered: "No, it made me feel re...

When the young naturalist Darwin set sail on a round-the-world expedition at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion that the relationship...

How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to tra...

In this groundbreaking book, Manuel DeLanda analyzes different genres of simulation, from cellular automata and generic algorithms to neural nets a...

Photographs have been doctored since photography was invented. Dictators have erased people from photographs and from history. Politicians have man...

Sadness is now a design problem. The highs and lows of melancholy are coded into social media platforms. After all the clicking, browsing, swiping ...

Quantum physics is strange. It tells us that a particle can be in two places at once. Indeed, that particle is also a wave, and everything in the q...

What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why don't we have a lunar colony already? In this witty and entertaining boo...

This comic by award-winning graphic novelist Sonny Liew and Hsu Li Yang from National University of Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health...

Our immune system is one of the great marvels of nature – and it holds the key to human health. Here, Professor Daniel Davis charts the groundbreak...

'Correlation does not imply causation.' For decades, this mantra was invoked by scientists in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thi...

From the Five Star Movement to Podemos, from the Pirate Parties to La France Insoumise, from the movements behind Bernie Sanders to those backing J...

Human civilization is on the verge of living beyond Earth. But how will it happen? World-renowned physicist Michio Kaku takes us on a journey to th...

From Classical times to the 19th century, the great quest to discover and define the intoxicating diversity of the natural world attracted a host o...

The world's tech giants are at the centre of controversies over fake news, free speech and hate speech on platforms where influence is bought and s...

The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world’s most famous high-styled typewriter co...

'We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons. We are memory. We are nos...

Karen Olsson's stirring and unusual third book, The Weil Conjectures, tells the story of the brilliant Weil siblings--Simone, a philosopher, mystic...

After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other–even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on...