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…
Stephen Hawking har under årtionden fängslat läsare världen över med sina bästsäljande böcker där han beskriver universums mysterier. Han har fått miljoner människor att lockas av tankarna på Big Bang, svarta hål och universums uppkomst. Hans böcker…
If you loved Hidden Figures or The Rise of the Rocket Girls, you'll love Claire Evans' breakthrough book on the women who brought you the internet--written out of history, until now. "This is a radically important, timely work," says Miranda July, f…
An astonishingly candid insight into the life and work of a modern neurosurgeon - its triumphs and disasters. A SUNDAY TIMES bestseller, and shortlisted for the GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD and the COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD, as well as longlisted for the S…
Now a Netflix Film, Starring and Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor of 12 Years a SlaveWilliam Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had rea…
One of science's great unsung heroes, Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a prophet of the electronic age. His research laid much of the groundwork for modern electrical and communication systems, and his impressive accomplishments include development of t…
Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. While her husband and their toddler held down the home front, Judy threw herself into the fascinating world of de…
lisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis. Based on new archival sources, this is Freud's biography for the twenty-first century--a critical appraisal, at once sympathetic and impartial, of…
Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Short-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers Weekly A Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian "Warning: She spares no detail " --Erik Lar…
Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systemat…
Alfred Nobel är en av de mest berömda svenskarna genom tiderna. Nobel var kemist och uppfinnare och hans testamente gav oss Nobelpriset, som är världens mest kända pris. Alfred Nobel levde ett spännande liv under en händelserik tid i Europa. Boken s…
Once upon a time Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, just another nerdy Helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhood. Then he wrote a groundbreaking operating system and distributed it via the Internet -- for free. Tod…
Nnedi Okorafor was never supposed to be paralyzed. A college track star and budding entomologist, Nnedi's lifelong battle with scoliosis was just a bump in her plan - something a simple surgery would easily correct. But when Nnedi wakes from the sur…
Based on a National Magazine Award-winning article, this masterful biography of Hungarian-born Paul Erdos is both a vivid portrait of an eccentric genius and a layman's guide to some of this century's most startling mathematical discoveries.
My InventionsNikola Tesla's AutobiographyAt the age of 63 Tesla tells the story of his creative life.First published in 1919 in the Electrical Experimenter magazineTable of ContentsI.My Early LifeII.My First Efforts At InventionIII.My Later Endeavor…
Erwin Schroedinger was an Austrian physicist famous for his contribution to quantum physics. He won the Nobel Prize in 1933 and is best known for his thought experiment of a cat in a box, both alive and dead at the same time, which revealed the seem…
Elon Musk is an inspirational role model for young entrepreneurs, breaking boundaries and revolutionising the tech-world.
Henry Marsh, en av Englands mest framstående neurokirurger, berättar här om sin långa karriär. Han har under sina trettio år i yrket räddat mångas liv, men också ödelagt andras. Hans memoarer är upplagda som en rad fallstudier och tonen är omväxland…
Elämän ja kuoleman kysymykset. Jatkuva ihmisruumiin eritteiden tsunami. Surkeammat tienestit kuin sairaalan pysäköintimittarilla. 97 tunnin työviikko ja hei hei ystävät ja vapaa-aika. Sellaista on nuoren lääkärin elämä. Nämä salaiset päiväkirjamerki…
*Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize* One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting quest for a new form of matter. "A riveting tale of derring-do" (Nature), th…
Here is the remarkable life story of Benoit Mandelbrot, the creator of fractal geometry, and his unparalleled contributions to science mathematics, the financial world, and the arts. Mandelbrot recounts his early years in Warsaw and in Paris, where…
By the end of World War I, Albert Einstein had become the face of the new science of theoretical physics and had made some powerful enemies. One of those enemies, Nobel Prize winner Philipp Lenard, spent a career trying to discredit him. Their story…
I, WOZ offers readers a unique glimpse into the offbeat and brilliant but ethical mind that conceived the Macintosh. After 25 years avoiding the public eye, Steve Wozniak reveals the full story of the Apple computer, from its conception to his views…
Einstein and the Quantum reveals for the first time the full significance of Albert Einstein's contributions to quantum theory. Einstein famously rejected quantum mechanics, observing that God does not play dice. But, in fact, he thought more about…
Although Gerd Heinrich, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd Heinrich tried to distance himself from his "old-fashioned" father, becoming a hybrid: a modern, experimental biologist with a naturalist's sensibilities. In this extraordinar…
A portrait by one of America's first seven astronauts describes how he was first prevented from going into space due to a heart irregularity, his subsequent participation in NASA as a civilian, his own experiences in space, and his significant contr…
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…
From one of the best writers on science, a remarkable portrait of Isaac Newton. The man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith.
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and a guide to how innovation r…
The Core is a unique story from the top of the Formula 1 world, where Aki Hintsa, a Finnish F1 coach and a doctor, has for years guided drivers towards success, but more than anything, towards mental and physical wellbeing. Later, top managers and c…
Winner of the Neumann Prize for the History of Mathematics **Named a best book of the year by Bloomberg and Nature** **'Best of 2017' by The Morning Sun** "We owe Claude Shannon a lot, and Soni & Goodman's book takes a big first step in paying that…
An acclaimed biography of the Enlightenment's greatest mathematicianThis is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707-83), one of the greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists of all time. In this comprehensive and authoritativ…
* 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
The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentlehearted torturer -the agency's 'poisoner in chief.' As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He…
"EN AV 2017 ÅRS BÄSTA BÖCKER! 'Kvantastrologens handbok' är en underbar blandning av biografi och fysik som berättar hur en doktor på 1500-talet indirekt la grunden för kvantfysiken." /The Telegraph "Michael Brooks utomordentliga och egensinniga bok…
National Geographic Explorer and TED Prize-winner Dr. Sarah Parcak welcomes you to the exciting new world of space archaeology, a growing field that is sparking extraordinary discoveries from ancient civilizations across the globe. In Archaeology fr…
Like the "funny, brilliant, bawdy" (The New Yorker) "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" this book's many stories--some funny, others intensely moving--display Richard P. Feynman's unquenchable thirst for adventure and unparalleled ability to recoun…
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
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…
Isaac Newton (1643–1727) föddes i en värld av mörker, ovisshet och magi. Han saknade föräldrar, älskarinnor, vänner och grälade bittert med de framstående män som korsade hans väg. Han höljde sitt arbete i hemlighetsfullhet och lyckades upptäc…
"Fröjden Eder, I dödliga, över att en så ädel prydnad för människosläktet har funnits." Inskription på Isaac Newtons gravmonument. Isaac Newton (1642/3-1727) föddes i en värld av mörker, ovisshet och magi. Han saknade föräldrar, älskarinnor, vänner…
Han har över 7 000 barn men bara knappt sex är hans egna. Historien om mannen som blev en av de(m) som kom att revolutionera gynekologin och framför allt behandlingen av ofrivillig barnlöshet. En gång var han en liten gosse som alla andra individer…
From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, layin…
Discover this remarkable account of twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons from the New York Times bestselling author of Behave.'One of the best scientist-writers of our time' Oliver SacksBrooklyn-born Robert Sapolsky grew…
I Bekännelser - En neurokirurg berättar om liv och död fortsätter Henry Marsh historien om sitt yrkesliv. Han har gått i pension och lämnat sin tjänst som överläkare, lättad över att slippa verka i det brittiska sjukvårdssystemet som han är frustrer…
Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Tom Patterson, were vacationing in Egypt when Tom came down with a stomach bug. What at first seemed like a case of food poisoning quickly turned critical, and by the time Tom had been…
Inspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundamental rules of mathematics, some of the most brilliant minds of the generation came together in post-World War I Vienna to present the l…
Journalist Leander Kahney reveals how CEO Tim Cook has led Apple to astronomical success after the death of Steve Jobs in 2011. The death of Steve Jobs left a gaping void at one of the most innovative companies of all time. Jobs wasn't merely Apple…
'No other person who has flown in space has captured the experience so vividly' - New York Times Book Review In July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon. Fifty years later, it is still o…
Fredrik Sjoberg's Swedish bestseller about summer, islands and finding happiness in the little things. Every summer there are a number of nights, not many, but a number, when everything is perfect. The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the bi…
