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Waves in an Impossible Sea
In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human experience, and empty space. He begins with a simple mystery of …
The Allure of the Multiverse
The long history of one of physics' most enticing ideas: that the universe we know isn't the only one? Our books, our movies-our imaginations-are obsessed with extra dimensions, …
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
A "fresh, fast-paced, and bracing" (Wall Street Journal) new biography of Winston Churchill, revealing how his relationships with the other great figures of his age shaped his own …
The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
A scholar and bookmaker "breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life" (Financial Times) in this five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the …
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
A top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the languages we use today The emergence of language began with the apelike calls of our …
A Nasty Little War: The Western Intervention Into the Russian Civil War
The first comprehensive history of the failed Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, a decisive turning point in the relationship between Russia and the West Overlapping …
Then I Am Myself the World
In Then I Am Myself the World, Christof Koch explores the only thing we directly experience: consciousness. At the book's heart is integrated-information theory, the idea that the …
House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France
"A joy to read...one of the most entertaining popular history books published in recent years" (Dan Jones, Sunday Times), this is the definitive history of the Capetians, the …
The Gravity of Math
One of the preeminent mathematicians of the past half century shows how physics and math were combined to give us the theory of gravity and the dizzying array of ideas and insights …
The End of Everything
A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of …
City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Époque
A top historian offers a new history of Paris's Belle poque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacr -Coeur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over …
F the Fairy Tale
From a popular dating coach and podcast host, a guide to dismantling the myths that get in the way of finding love Does dating feel like you're chasing a "happily ever after" that …