Marie Curie - Forskaren som sprängde gränser "Marie och Pierre gick ofta tillbaka till laboratoriet på kvällarna. Marie älskade stunden då hon och Pierre stod i mörkret på tröskeln till sitt skjul. Då strålade innehållet i provrör, skålar och andra…
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A definitive document of a world in transition: I won't be alone in returning to it for clarity and consolation for many years to come." --Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion A New York…
Juli 1897. Ingenjör Andrées expedition ger sig iväg i en vätgasballong med riktning Nordpolen. En djärv idé, chanslös från start. Snart befinner sig tre män, med minimala kunskaper om arktiska förhållanden, mitt i en vit mardröm. I trettiotre år und…
* INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Stunning...heartrending...this year's When Breath Becomes Air." --Nora Krug, The Washington Post "Beautiful and haunting." --Matt McCarthy, MD, USA TODAY "Deeply affecting...simultaneously heartbreaking and fun…
"Stunning...heartrending...this year's When Breath Becomes Air." --Nora Krug, The Washington Post "Beautiful and haunting." --Matt McCarthy, MD, USA TODAY "Deeply affecting...simultaneously heartbreaking and funny." --People (Book of the Week) "Vivi…
New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 A New York Times Notable Book The #1 New York Times bestseller. A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbindi…
A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five New York Times best sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic expe…
"Conveys the mysteries of trauma in a way that is unsurpassed in the literature . . . This is the most important book on the subject to come out in this century." --Times Literary Supplement "Compulsively readable." --Los Angeles Times Post-trauma…
A prize-winning biography of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon, the neglected architect of the Information Age.
In 1660, at the age of thirteen, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) began her study of butterfly metamorphosis-years before any other scientist published an accurate description of the process. Later, Merian and her daughter ventured thousands of mile…
DNA. The double helix; the blueprint of life; and, during the early 1950s, a baffling enigma that could win a Nobel Prize. Everyone knows that James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helix. In fact, they clicked into place the last piec…
Eva F. Dahlgren har gjort en fascinerande resa i spåren efter sin farfar, professor K V Ossian Dahlgren, som hon såg upp till i sin barndom. Hon visste inte då, att han pläderade för att man skulle bevara den nordiska rasen genom att skaffa många lå…
In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi. Straddling the ages of classical physics and quantum mechanics, equally at ease with th…
In his sophomore year of college, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. But the site caught on like wildfire, and soon students nationwide were on Facebook. Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from Zucker…
"A fascinating, well-documented biography." --New York Times Book Review "A monumental effort." --New York Review of Books "An excellent piece of science writing...Cassidy does not so much exculpate Heisenberg as explain him, with a transparency tha…
A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem-solving to present-day problems. A self-professed "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist," the inventor Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was undoubtedly a visionary. Fuller's creat…
Did the Universe start with a Big Bang? Is light a wave, a particle - or both? Are we the cause of global warming?Science has made it possible to comprehend the world we live in and the theoretical multiverses beyond, offering technological advances…
In the spirit of Oliver Sacks Awakenings and Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Dr. Eric Manheimer's TWELVE PATIENTS is a memoir from the Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital that uses the plights of twelve very different patien…
A "remarkable" (Los Angeles Times), "seductive" (The Wall Street Journal) debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why Fish Don't Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and--possibly--even murder. "At…
Everyone gets to be a patient sooner or later. Almost everyone has some experience of being misunderstood by doctors; encounters with difficult doctors; of relationships burdened with mutual bafflement, hostility and pain.Every doctor is haunted by…
Everyone is a patient sooner or later. Almost everyone has some experience of being misunderstood by doctors; encounters with difficult doctors; of relationships burdened with mutual bafflement, hostility and pain.Every doctor is haunted by memories…
South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing th…
Kurt Gödel var det plågade geniet vars visioner skakade det matematiska resonemangets stabilitet. Priset för att förändra matematiken i grunden var en balansgång på galenskapens rand.Rebecca Goldstein, prisbelönt författare och filosof, ger läsaren…
In this revelatory memoir, doctor Cynthia Li shares the truth about her struggle with a disabling autoimmune illness, the limitations of Western medicine, and what sufferers need to know to truly begin healing-mind, body, and spirit.Cynthia Li had i…
The inspiration behind ITV's hit family drama, The Durrells.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a t…
A Beautiful Mind is Sylvia Nasar's award-winning biography about the mystery of the human mind, the triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love.At the age of thirty-one, John Nash, mathematical genius, suffered a devastating bre…
Några ord av och om författaren Jag har jagat björn, landat på floderna Ganges och Brahmaputra, korsat Atlanten 33 gånger, men en självbiografi, det har jag däremot aldrig skrivit./J-O Holmström Författaren John-Olof Holmström har en bredd på sitt f…
To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who "does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected." The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the maki…
This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who wo…
This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who wo…
* Now a major film starring Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave* A clear-sighted and unflinching memoir of an eighteen-year-old girl about her two year stay in a psychiatric hospital for depression
'What a remarkable book this is; tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life, and with the love of life. It brought me often to laughter and - several times - to tears' Robert Macfarlane From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Yo…
'A magnificent, tender book' Independent 'Her words are brimful of love, grace and kindness' Guardian 'She writes with a tender, lyrical beauty' Sunday Times From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Your Life in My Hands comes this vibrant, t…
Det här är en bok som innehåller ytterst få siffror. Istället handlar den om möten med människor som öppnat mina ögon.Hans RoslingDet var fakta som hjälpte honom att förklara hur världen fungerar. Men det var nyfikenhet och engagemang som gjorde Han…
The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. This incredible discovery was sulfa, the first antibiotic. In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas H…
I den första biografin som utgår från människan Emanuel Swedenborg tecknar Ernst Brunner med historisk noggrannhet och hängiven inlevelse en levande och delvis ny bild av den kontroversielle vetenskapsmannen, bibeltolkaren, teosofen och hans tid.Und…
'Lucid, calm, informed, directly helpful in trying to think about where we are now... The literature of the time after begins here'Evening Standard 'Taking a breather from bewildering statistics and terrible tales of contagion to read Giordano's bo…
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure.
The author of the massively bestselling Steve Jobs biography writes the whole history of the digital age
Läkaren och författaren Axel Munthe (1857-1949) är för den breda allmänheten främst känd som drottning Victorias läkare och för Boken om San Michele (1930), som översatts till ett fyrtiotal språk och gjort Munthe till en av de mest lästa svenska för…
A monument to the men who battled to beat the Russians into space, The Right Stuff is a voyage into the mythology of the American space program, and a dizzying dive into the sweat, fear, beauty and danger of being on the white-hot edge of history in…
As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears. With curiosity and morbid humour, Doughty introduces us…
An eye-opening, entertaining and thought-provoking account of a mortician's journey around the world to discover how other cultures care for their dead --- 'Think Bill Bryson doing an underworld special' THE TIMES
The SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING, award-winning and candid insight into the life and work of a modern neurosurgeon - its triumphs and disasters. 'An astonishing glimpse into this stressful career' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Polarforskaren Johan Gunnar Andersson kom 1914 att bli rådgivare åt Kinas regering. Tillsammans med ledande kinesiska vetenskapsmän tog han upp jakten med stormakterna om att lösa dåtidens stora gåtor om landets naturhistoria och arkeologi. För att…
Liemannen själv sitter på hjärtkirurgens axel en hand som slinter och en människa dör. Balansen mellan liv och död är skör, och hjärtkirurgen utför sitt jobb på en spänd lina mellan dem. I operationsrummet finns det ingen tid att tveka. Det handlar…
The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Into this crisis stepped W…
In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical pro…
In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, w…
Niels Bohr, who pioneered the quantum theory of the atom, had a broad conception of his obligations as a physicist. They included not only a responsibility for the consequences of his work for the wider society, but also a compulsion to apply the ph…
NHS frontline - gripping memoir from the brain surgeon and No.1 bestselling author of DO NO HARM. 'Superb' DAILY TELEGRAPH
Upptäckare och bortglömda I Nobelprisets skugga presenterar ett antal av de forskare som tillsammans format den moderna utvecklingen inom medicinområdet. Gösta Gahrton berättar i denna yrkesmemoar hur han själv under många år varit en aktiv del av d…
A significant and eagerly anticipated memoir from one of the world's leading therapists.
'Wonderful, compelling and as insightful about its subject and about the times he lived in as you could hope for. A fabulous read' Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for StoneIrvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In…
"Det här är en bok som innehåller ytterst få siffror. Istället handlar den om möten med människor som öppnat mina ögon." - Hans RoslingDet var fakta som hjälpte honom att förklara hur världen fungerar. Men det var nyfikenhet och engagemang som gjord…
Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848) var en av sin tids främsta kemister. Han fastställde principen för de oorganiska föreningarnas sammansättning, införde begreppet katalys och skapade det symbolsystem (C=kol, O=syre etc) som vi använder än i dag. Han inval…
