'An essential primer on humanity's ongoing quest to understand the secrets of life . . . Ex...

Eine spannende Reise durch die Welt der experimentellen Naturwissenschaft.Vom Foucaultschen Pende...

From the swirl of a wisp of smoke to eddies in rivers, and the huge persistent storm system that ...

Is there a 'physics of society'? Philip Ball's investigation into human nature ranges from Hobbes...

As part of a trilogy of books exploring the science of patterns in nature, acclaimed science writ...

All human cultures seem to make music - today and through history. But why they do so, why music ...

This Very Short Introduction traces the history and cultural impact of the elements on humankind,...

This Very Short Introduction traces the history and cultural impact of the elements on humankind,...

Patterns are everywhere in nature - in the ranks of clouds in the sky, the stripes of an angelfis...

Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite su...

If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do ...

In the twelfth century, Christians in Europe began to build a completely new kind of church - soa...