A groundbreaking book that transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns.Bjorn Lomborg [...]

First published in 1967, this work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology. Morris considers humans as being simply another animal species.

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It’s no secret that humans and apes share a host of traits, from the tribal communities we form to our irrepressible curiosity. We have a [...]

Physics for Future Presidents gives the reader the science behind the headlines—the tools of terrorists, the dangers of nuclear power and the reality of global [...]

This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. [...]

More than 98% of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. This is a survey of man's life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges [...]

Charles Darwin's seismic theory of evolution turned the Victorian world upside down, utterly rewrote our notions of life on earth, and is still attacked by [...]

Charles 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 [...]

Like Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach, and David Berlinski’s A Tour of the Calculus, Euclid in the Rainforest combines the literary with the mathematical to [...]

Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of the world. But starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to climb. Civilization [...]