The overturning of Newtonian physics in the C20th by Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, et alia. Translated from the German.
Johann Doppelmayr published his Atlas Coelestis in 1742: here it is again, with all its plates and notes, with an excellent explanatory text. Comets, planets, moons, stars - this is a wonder... read more
How we might stabilise climate change and repair habitats and the environment, in consultation with geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists, engineers, economists, mathematicians, h... read more
The cleverness of crickets, crows, cockatoos: a fascinating study of the relationship between genes and behaviour. (The book is published in the US as some eagle-eyed readers will perceive).
Entertaining and intriguing - if the dear reader can be persuaded to overlook the fatuous and needy title and its horrid, self-promoting exclamation mark.
The reclusive Higgs posited the existence of his particle in a paper in 1964. It was 2012 before it was confirmed at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. A superb study of a scientist and his ... read more