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The World as We Know It The World as We Know It: From Natural Philosophy to Modern Science Peter Dear

From the award-winning author of Revolutionizing the Sciences, a monumental historical account of how we came to see the world through the lens of science

The Essential Einstein: Public Writings The Essential Einstein: Public Writings Albert Einstein

The ultimate collection of Einstein’s public writings on everything from religion and art to pacifism and the atomic bomb

The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings The Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings Albert Einstein

The ultimate collection of Einstein’s scientific writings on everything from statistical mechanics to general relativity

The Wake of HMS Challenger The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans' Decline Gillen D’Arcy Wood

A scientific adventure story that dramatizes how profoundly our oceans have changed over the past 150 years

At the Threshold of the Image At the Threshold of the Image: From Narcissus to Virtual Reality Andrea Pinotti

An exploration of the impact of immersive experiences on visual practices from cave painting to virtual reality

Mythopedia Mythopedia: A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore Adrienne Mayor

From acclaimed folklorist and historian Adrienne Mayor, an enchanting collection of the ancient myths that emerged out of the wonders—and disasters—of the natural world

Wound Man Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image Jack Hartnell

A spectacularly illustrated history of an enigmatic surgical diagram

How to Change a Memory How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past Steve Ramirez

A disarmingly personal account of the new science of memory manipulation by one of today’s leading pioneers in the field

How Progress Ends How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations Carl Benedikt Frey

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award

How 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapse

Jung's Life and Work Jung's Life and Work: Interviews for Memories, Dreams, Reflections with Aniela Jaffé C. G. Jung and Aniela Jaffé

The complete interviews that served as the basis for Jung’s bestselling memoir Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Features a significant amount of material withheld from the original book
Newly translated and thoroughly annotated by world-renowned Jung expert Sonu Shamdasani

On Pedantry On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All Arnoud S. Q. Visser

A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual vice

The Descent of Man The Descent of Man: An Annotated Edition of Darwin’s Classic Work Charles Darwin

The first annotated edition of the book that shocked the Victorian world and continues to generate controversy today

Volcanoes in Human History Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders

The classic account of how volcanism has shaped human culture and science, from the Bronze Age eruption that destroyed Minoan Crete to Mount St. Helens

AI Snake Oil AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor

From two of °Õ±õ²Ñ·¡â€™s 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI—and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products

Addiction by Design Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas Natasha Dow Schüll

An anthropologist traces the intimate connections between gambling addiction and casino industry design tactics

The Weirdness of the World The Weirdness of the World Eric Schwitzgebel

How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosmos are bizarre—and why that’s a good thing

The Fifth Hammer The Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World Daniel Heller-Roazen

A revolutionary history and theory of harmony from music to metaphysics