History & Culture

In an age where our attention is pulled in so many different directions and it feels almost impossible to properly engage with anything, how do we truly notice what we...

The Rise of Cybercrime and the Fight to Keep Us Safe In a world, where cyber threats evolve daily, the line between hacker and hero is thinner than you think....

Stories from the Earth From the sacred stones of Stonehenge to the rose red city of Petra, from towering mountains to the smallest grains of sand, rocks have had a...

Translated by Eduardo Aparicio The Stories behind the Symbols A marvelous compendium of mathematical symbols and their fascinating histories Galileo famously wrote that the book of nature is written in...

In this frank, funny and meticulous book, a leading social scientist lays out the striking facts we know about racism, how we have uncovered them, and how we can start...

On Race, Space, and Time A radical new treatise on time, quantum physics, and racial justice from world-renowned artist and advocate Rasheedah Phillips of Black Quantum Futurism. Why do some...

How Contagion, Class and Captivity Shape Us, from Cholera to Covid-19 An original, revolutionary new social and scientific history, A History of the World in Six Plagues is a deeply...

An amusing history of crackpot ideas and why we love them A rollicking visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science. The Bermuda...

A Survival Guide to our Superpowered Future An urgent book on generative artificial intelligence exploring the risk and benefits looming in this seminal moment The debut of ChatGPT on November...

Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going A blueprint for a better future that offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society. Playing on...

A world-class scientist shares an expert insider view of how real medical science happens, and how teams of brilliant people tackled some of the worst diseases in the world. We...

What won’t we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied...

Where Stereotypes and Prejudices Come From - and the Science- Backed Method to Unravel Them For readers of Caste, Sapiens, and The Dawn of Everything, a page-turning deep-dive into how bias is learned-plus a...

Drawing on centuries of history and science, a prize-winning journalist upends our assumptions about migration revealing it not to be the story of our time, but an ancient, essential response...

The True Power of Women and the Science That Shows It Are women more nurturing than men? Are men more promiscuous than women? Are males the naturally dominant sex? And...

What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power An exuberant work of popular history: why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or serve the...

A Gripping History For the first time, this quirky and engaging history reveals the secrets of one of our most ancient social gestures. Strangers do it, friends do it, politicians...

In the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon — a clever and engaging look at materials, the innovations they made possible, and how these technologies changed us....

A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and their patient zeros), plus chapters on...

A memoir of life in the shadow of Alzheimer’s As a cardiologist, Sandeep Jauhar is trained to think logically to solve medical problems, but there are no miracle drugs to...

The extraordinary story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century. The solution of Fermat’s Last Theorem is the most important mathematical development of...

After a few billion years of bearing witness to life on Earth, of watching one hundred billion humans go about their day-to-day lives, of feeling unbelievably lonely, and of hearing...

A global history of mathematics and its unsung trailblazers This revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of mathematics is as entertaining as it is importantMathematics shapes almost everything we...

THE JOURNEY OF THE PIONEERS OF IMMUNOLOGY FROM SMALLPOX TO COVID-19 In December 2019 a new virus emerged, one that caused a global pandemic. Millions were infected. In the recesses...

‘By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for what it is: something more fragile that has had to be constantly...

The Return of Race Science Financial Times Book of the Year Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year Guardian Book of the Year New Statesman Book of the Year Where...