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Beyond Weird

Alchemy - An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science

Flush with hundreds of illustrations, this book revisits the histories of chemistry, medicine, ideas, and culture through the lens of alc...

How Life Works - A User's Guide to the New Biology

The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It

From Bach fugues to Indonesian gamelan, from nursery rhymes to rock, music has cast its light into every corner of human culture. But why...

The Water Kingdom - A Secret of China

Flow. Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts

From the swirl of a wisp of smoke to eddies in rivers, and the huge persistent storm system that is the Great Spot on Jupiter, we see sim...

Critical Mass (How one thing leads to another)

Are there "natural laws" that govern the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves, just as there are physical laws that govern...

Universe of Stone - Chartres Cathedral and the Triumph of the Medieval Mind

Bright Earth - Art and The Invention of Color

H2O: A Biography of Water

The brilliantly told and gripping story of the most familiar - yet, amazingly, still poorly understood - substance in the universe: Water...

Bright Earth - The Invention of Colour

Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from? How have artists found new hues, and how have ...

The Man Who Broke Reality - Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics

Experimente - Versuch und Irrtum in der Wissenschaft

Wie groß ist die Erde? Was ist Licht und wie entsteht Wärme? Was hat es mit der Schwerkraft auf sich und wie funktioniert der genetische ...

Die Elemente - Entdeckung und Geschichte der Grundstoffe

Eine atemberaubende visuelle Reise zu den chemischen Bausteinen unseres Universums! Gold, Kupfer, Zinn und Silber ¿ hinter jedem Element ...

The Man Who Broke Reality - Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics

Made to Measure - New Materials for the 21st Century

Patterns in Nature - Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does