An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our worldOne night in 1661, Nicholas Fouquet, a superintendent under Louis XIV, was arrested. His crime was peculiar: He had d
The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates the environmental and economic impact termites
Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingShort-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book PrizeA Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers WeeklyA Best History Book of 2017, The Guardi
The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates the environmental and economic impact termites
A sharp-eyed exploration of the promise and peril of having children in an age of genetic tests and interventionsIs screening for disease in an embryo a humane form of family planning or a slippery sl
How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can it actually feel an insect's tiny, spindly legs? And how do cherry blossoms know when to bloom? Can they actually remember the weather?For centurie
A full-color celebration of stunning visual illusions and the science behind themIn Champions of Illusion, Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde highlight the most mind-bending, mystifying imag
How Joseph Lister’s antiseptic revolution changed medicine foreverIn The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows in gripping
An epic, full-color visual journey through all scales of the universeInspired by the classic Powers of Ten—a film by Charles and Ray Eames, which was based on a book by Kees Boeke—the award-winning as
A thrilling tale of encounters with nature’s masters of biochemistryFrom the coasts of Indonesia to the rainforests of Peru, venomous animals are everywhere—and often lurking out of sight. Humans have
A New York Times Bestseller Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Know
The tools you need to master the toughest negotiations you'll ever face--those with your kidsAs every parent knows, kids are surprisingly clever negotiators. But how can we avoid those all-too-familia
A sharp-eyed guide to the promise and peril of having children in an age of genetic tests and interventionsIs DNA testing a triumph of modern medicine or a Pandora’s box of possibilities? Is screening
A mind-bending voyage to the frontiers of modern physics that will change the way we think about realityWhat is space? It isn't a question that most of us normally ask. Space is the venue of physics;
The revelatory and groundbreaking adventure into the 56-million-year history of the horseHorses have a story to tell, one of resilience, sociability, and intelligence, and of partnership with human be
A star science journalist with Parkinson's reveals the inner workings of this perplexing diseaseSeven million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson’s, and doctors, researchers, and patients continue
In Venomous, the molecular biologist Christie Wilcox investigates venoms and the animals that use them, revealing how they work, what they do to the human body, and how they can revolutionize biochemi
