The year he graduated from college, 22-year-old Noah Strycker was dropped by helicopter in a remote Antarctic field camp with two bird scientists and a three months' supply of frozen food. His subjects: more than a quarter million penguins. Compact,…
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…
A Financial Times 'Best Thing I Read This Year' 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD Google. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consu…
The definitive biography of Tsien Hsue-Shen, the pioneer of the American space age who was mysteriously accused of being a communist, deported, and became,to America's continuing chagrin,the father of the Chinese missile program.
'An incredible odyssey' Financial Times 'Today I woke up on Earth. And I will fall asleep in space' In space the sun rises and sets 16 times a day. You fly over every sea, every mountain and desert, every city and every port. The most ordinary thing…
In space the sun rises and sets 16 times a day. You fly over every sea, every mountain and desert, every city and every port. The most ordinary things -- eating, sleeping, brushing your teeth or cutting your hair -- have to be relearned, until they…
12 children. 6 of them diagnosed with schizophrenia. Science's greatest hope in understanding the disease. ___________ *ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2020* *TIME 100 Must-Read Books Of 2020 Pick* *New York Times bestseller* *Selected as…
"Hidden Valley Road contains everything: scientific intrigue, meticulous reporting, startling revelations, and, most of all, a profound sense of humanity. It is that rare book that can be read again and again." -David Grann, author of Killers of the…
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
The gripping true story of a front-line trauma surgeon in the world's most dangerous war zones.
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…
Augustprisbelönade författaren och journalisten Ingrid Carlberg skriver den häpnadsväckande och osannolika berättelsen om mannen bakom historiens största pris: Alfred Nobel. Mannen som blev stenrik på sprängämnen, skrev poesi i hemlighet och drömde…
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…
* 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
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…
A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A "remarkable" (Los Angeles Times), "seductive" (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don't Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of lo…
A New York Times Science BestsellerWhat if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is…
"Extraordinary . . . This inspirational autobiography stands among the finest scientist memoirs." --New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice Meave Leakey's thrilling, high-stakes memoir--written with her daughter Samira--encapsulates her distingu…
Meave Leakey's thrilling, high-stakes memoir--written with her daughter Samira--encapsulates her distinguished life and career on the front lines of the hunt for our human origins, a quest made all the more notable by her stature as a woman in a hig…
With an introduction by author of The Tidal Zone, Sarah Moss Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without her knowledge - became a multimillion-dollar industry and…
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…
In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists, but for the determined Dorothea Bate this was the first step in an extraordinary career as a pioneering…
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes's dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement.
Albert Einstein betraktas som en av de smartaste människorna i historien. Med relativitetsteorin revolutionerade han vår syn på kosmos, och hjälpte oss att ta steget in i atomåldern. Trots detta var han i slutet av sitt liv i princip isolerad från d…
PLASTIKKIRURGENS RESAOm musik och skönhet, barn och kirurgiClaes LauritzenPLASTIKKIRURGENS RESAOm musik och skönhet, barn och kirurgiClaes LauritzenRedan som medicine kandidat sökte Claes Lauritzen upp den omtalade docenten Bengt Johanson som var ch…
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 definitive story of the Riemann Hypothesis, a fascinating and epic mathematical mystery that continues to challege the world. In 1859, Bernhard Riemann, a little-known thirty-two year old mathematician, made a hypothesis while presenting a paper…
"Stefan Krakowski berättar varmt och mycket respektfullt om alla dessa människor i svåra situationer." FolkbladetVad gör egentligen en psykiater på jobbet? I boken I psykiatrins tjänst möter vi en rad akut sjuka patienter. Hur ter sig symptomen och…
During the early twentieth century, the eccentric and brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla blazed the path that electrical development followed for many years to come. This fascinating illustrated record of Tesla's pioneering work gathers many of his mos…
This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes. It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that made the late Hans Rosling, author of worl…
A reporter uncovers the secrets behind the scientific scam of the century. The news breaks first as a tale of fear and pity. Doctors at a London hospital claim a link between autism and a vaccine given to millions of children: MMR. Young parents are…
William 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 read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small v…
'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…
"The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention." Visionary, pioneer, and eccentric genius, Nikola Tesla was the quintessential scientist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Two of his creations, the induction motor and…
Originally published in 1919 in Electrical Experimenter magazine, here are Nikola Tesla's reflections on his early years and work.
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 the alternating-current electrical syst…
Nikola Tesla (1857-1943) was a revolutionary Serbian scientist who forever changed the scientific fields of electricity and magnetism. His research laid much of the groundwork for modern electrical and communication systems, and his impressive accom…
An Unabridged Edition with All Chapters and footnotes to include: My Early Life - How Tesla Conceived the Rotary Magnetic Field - The Discovery of the Tesla Coil and Transformer, Gramme Dynamo etc.
Rakastetun luontodokumentaristin vetoomus planeettamme puolestaYksi elämä, yksi planeetta on aikamme tunnetuimman luonnontieteilijän Sir David Attenborough’n näkemys viisaamman tulevaisuuden turvaamiseksi, yhdessä luonnon kanssa.Brittiläinen D…
Alfred Nobel föds fattig i Stockholm. Familjen flyttar till Ryssland där lyckan äntligen vänder. Alfred börjar experimentera med sprängämnen, precis som sin far. Han satsar på sin uppfinning sprängolja och flyttar tillbaka till Stockholm. I det förs…
Although Einstein was the greatest genius of the twentieth century, many of his groundbreaking discoveries were blighted by mistakes, ranging from serious errors in mathematics to bad misconceptions in physics and failures to grasp the subtleties of…
Rarely does the world see as versatile a figure as Herbert Simon. A Nobel laureate in economics, he was an accomplished political scientist, winner of a lifetime achievement award from the American Psychological Association, and founder of the Depar…
"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…
MIES F1-MESTAREIDEN TAKANA KERTOO TARINANSA JA PALJASTAA MENESTYKSEN SALAISUUDENMika Häkkinen, Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Räikkönen, Sebastian Vettel... Aki Hintsa - Voittamisen anatomia on ainutlaatuinen tarina F1-maailman huipulta, jossa suomalainen Aki…
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile to human life. He describes…
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 d…
The autobiography of one of the greatest pilots in history
Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days doing what he loved: playing the piano, swimming, enjoying smoked salmon - and writing . . . As Dr Sac…
The gripping true story of a frontline trauma surgeon in the worlds most dangerous war zones.
An unforgettable true story, The Midwife is the basis for the hit PBS drama Call the Midwife At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The co…
J. B. S. Haldane's life was rich and strange, never short on genius or drama--from his boyhood apprenticeship to his scientist father, who first instilled in him a devotion to the scientific method; to his time in the trenches during the First World…
År 1679 lade Nils Celsius fram sin avhandling Astronomins grundläggande principer vid Uppsala universitet. Celsius text var vågad; han menade att det religiösa budskapet inte nödvändigtvis borde värderas högre än astronomisk kunskap på de punkter dä…
In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we must. A lyrical journey from hope to despair and back again, The First Cellexplores cancer from every ang…
In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we must. A lyrical journey from hope to despair and back again, The First Cell explores cancer from every an…
Ny, reviderad upplaga i mjukband. Gustaf Dalén är en av Sveriges mest omskrivna och beundrade uppfinnare. Småbrukarsonen från Stenstorp i Västergötland är den ende svenske företagsledare som har fått ett Nobelpris. Genom sina automatiska AGA-fyrar n…