"Exciting and brilliantly reported . . . Roose makes the technology understandable while also conveying the historic nature of a new world being born." ―Walter Isaacson, author of Elon Musk This is...

"Our human brain is both unique and similar to that of other species. The only way we can trace its evolution is by comparing it to the brains of animals alive today. In this book, leading...

This volume opens in spring 1914 when Einstein takes up a research professorship at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin and closes with the collapse of the German Empire four and one-half...

“Whether you are an avid or occasional reader—a teacher, a bookseller, or a parent—there will be a ‘before’ and an ‘after’ Reader, Come Home.”—Joël Dicker, New York Times bestselling author of The...

The inside story of the epic quest to solve the mystery of dark matterThe ordinary atoms that make up the known universe—from our bodies and the air we breathe to the planets and stars—constitute...

"One in every five US adults has chatted with an AI romantic partner, and 83% of Gen Z-ers say they could form a "deep emotional bond" with one. Nearly 75% of teens and one third of adults use AI for...

For readers of Sam Kean and Bill Bryson, The Age of Alchemy uncovers a vibrant, interconnected world of forgotten artisans, scholars, and experimenters who, across millennia and continents,...

Concealed behind digital platforms, a vast, dispersed, and largely invisible workforce quietly generates and annotates the data that powers today’s AI boom. In Platform Extractivism, information...

A Nobel Prize–winning physicist illuminates how physicists think about and do physics What principles guide physicists’ ways of thinking and the practice and culture of the discipline? In The...

A major synthesis of homology, written by a top researcher in the field Homology--a similar trait shared by different species and derived from common ancestry, such as a seal's fin and a bird's...

"A field guide to the herbivorous dinosaurs of the Late Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous. Prosauropods were ancestral species to the sauropods, and date from the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic...

For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic "The Age of Spiritual Machines," he argued...

A captivating account of how a one-time mathematician cracked a two-thousand-year-old problem and rediscovered the joys of mathematics in the process Master Sun’s problem—first posed by Sun Bin, a...

“A timely reminder that we are not just our brains. Arm yourself against the forces of misinformation by reading this book!”—Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered Brain Challenge everything you think...

“Seventy years of a car-only approach—not car-centric, it’s car-only—is actually not just non-driver hostile, it’s driver hostile. No one benefits.” —Beth Osborne, Director, Transportation for...