For readers of Steven Strogatz's Infinite Powers and The Joy of x comes this illuminating exploration of the ways in which math—and the people who have mastered its inherent power through the ages—has shaped our world.In this captiva...

We've all been told we need to master our emotions and think rationally to succeed. But at the cutting-edge science of emotion, feelings are every bit as important to your success as thinking.You make hundreds of decisions every day, from what to eat...

Why are so many American children learning so much misinformation about climate change?Investigative reporter Katie Worth reviewed scores of textbooks, built a 50-state database, and traveled to a dozen communities to talk to children and teachers ab...

You’ve got questions: about space, time, gravity, and your odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are right here. As a species, we may not agree on much, but one thing brings us all together: a need to know....

From one of the world’s leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of the phenomenon of consciousness and its relation to lifeIn recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the ...

An extraordinary, strange, and startlingly beautiful exploration of smell, the least understood of our five sensesOverlapping with taste yet larger in scope, smell is the sense that comes closest to pure perception. Smell can collapse space and time,...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter, a powerful and cathartic portrait of a country grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic—from fear and overwhelm to extraordinary resilience—told through voices of people from all acros...

Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help us understand why there is so much irrationality in the world? Steven Pinker, author of  Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates’s "new favorite book of all time”) answers all the que...

Venture capitalist John Doerr reveals a sweeping—and actionable—plan to conquer humanity’s greatest challenge: climate change.In 2006, acclaimed investor John Doerr and his partners at Kleiner Perkins launched their first clean tech...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, a masterful, timely, and fully authorized biography of the great and hugely influential Harvard biologist and naturalist E. O. WilsonFew biologists in the long history of that s...

“An accessible, unfailingly interesting look inside the workings of the human brain, celebrating its beguiling nature.”—KirkusAnil Seth's quest to understand the biological basis of conscious experience is one of the most exciting c...

A leading medical ethnobotanist tells us the story of her quest to develop new ways to fight illness and disease through the healing powers of plants in this uplifting and adventure-filled memoir. Plants are the basis for an array of lifesaving and h...