A vision of cosmic carnage from this invigorating astromagician. This time he squeezes into the eye of a black hole, slips beyond its horizon and then on into the dense, dense darkness where... read more
Humane and witty ruminations on science, history, philosophy and politics by the bestselling physicist: Dante's universe, Nabokov's butterflies, Einstein's errors, etc.
Weather-beaten and remote, Helgoland is the treeless North Sea island to which 23-year old Werner Heisenberg fled to relieve his hay fever symptoms. Upon it he devised the theory of quantum ... read more
Natural selection and the table, served as a meal of several courses... beginning with oysters. Who knew of the role of mussels in the exodus of our ancestors from Africa? A fascinating and ... read more