Научная литература

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first...
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each p...
Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through...
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves—by an eminent theore...
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize–winning author Douglas Hofstadter and...
Nothing: Surprising Insights Everywhere from Zero to Oblivion
Incredible discoveries from the fringes of the universe to the inner workings of our minds—all from...
Proof: The Science of Booze
Named a Best Science Book of 2014 by Amazon, Wired, the Guardian, and NBC Winner of the 2014 Gourma...
The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe
William Shakespeare lived at a remarkable time—a period we now recognize as the first phase of the S...
Question Everything: 132 science questions - and their unexpected answers
The dazzling new collection of scientific questions and answers from New Scientist magazine The l...
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. In the 1940s and 50s, when...
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian s...
Остров знаний
Человеку свойственна тяга к знаниям, но все, что доступно нашим наблюдениям, – это лишь крошечная ча...
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, s...
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
How a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality. Forty years ago,...
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athleti...