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The God Delusion
Random House Group Ltd 2009; US$ 12.00The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical. While Europe is becoming increasingly... more...
A Universe from Nothing
Atria Books 2012; US$ 15.00?WHERE DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM? WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE IT? WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING? AND FINALLY, WHY IS THERE SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING?? Now with color illustrations throughout. Lawrence Krauss?s provocative answers to these and other timeless questions in a wildly popular lecture now on YouTube have attracted almost a million viewers.... more...
The Botany of Desire
Random House Publishing Group 2001; US$ 16.00The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore?s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca... more...
The Road to Maxwell's Demon
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 76.00A philosophical perspective to statistical mechanics for graduate students and researchers in the foundations and philosophy of physics. more...
Philosophy of Science
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 37.95Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg?s updated and substantially revised Third Edition of Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction . Weaving together lucid explanations and clear analyses, the volume is a much-used, thematically oriented introduction... more...
The Moral Landscape
Transworld 2011; US$ 13.34Sam Harris's first book, The End of Faith , ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people - from religious fundamentalists to nonbelieving scientists - agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the subject of human values. Indeed, our failure to address questions of meaning... more...
The Greatest Show on Earth
Random House Group Ltd 2009; US$ 12.00Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species , shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke but he would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all... more...
Reinventing Discovery
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 19.95In Reinventing Discovery , Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. There are many books about how the internet is changing business... more...
Physics of the Future
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableBased on interviews with over three hundred of the world's top scientists, who are already inventing the future in their labs, Kaku-in a lucid and engaging fashion-presents the revolutionary developments in medi?cine, computers, quantum physics, and space travel that will forever change our way of life and alter the course of civilization itself.... more...
God and the Atom
Prometheus Books 2013; US$ 12.99This history of atomism, from Democritus to the recent discovery of the Higgs boson, chronicles one of the most successful scientific hypotheses ever devised, making the case that in the final analysis, atoms and the void are all that exists. Originating separately in both ancient Greece and India, the concept of the atom persisted for centuries,... more...









