A biography of the Hungarian scientist who created the first ever programmable digital computer, and whose colleagues thought his brain was too inexplicably powerful to be entirely human.
"There's a hole in our universe, dear Liza, dear Liza..." A whizz around some cosmological complexities by a distinguished professor of physics who has the further honour of having a minor p... read more
Charles Foster is one of those rare people who seem to cram several lives into their own allotted span while the rest of us just about manage one... Adopting a sort of method-acting approach... read more
The light of reason is safe in the hands of Prof. Pinker, experimental cognitive scientist. He even manages to explain why we are surrounded by crack-pots, quacks and conspiracy theorists.
The controversial address to 3,500 psychoanalysts, at which he was booed off stage for asserting that the Academy needed to change their attitudes to gender.
Blaschka père et fils were from Bohemia but moved to Dresden, where they worked in glass from the mid-1800s to the 1930s, making intricate models of sea anemones, medusas, corals and starfi... read more
Professor Simard has spent a life-time in dendrological research, looking at the ways trees communicate and trade with one another that have been popularised in recent years by Peter Wohlle... read more
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
The author is a medical doctor and a poet: this book is both a meditation on art and life and a collection of snippets about the history of medicine. Written over twenty years, it moves effo... read more