Secondhand Popular Science Books

Professor Stephen Hawking is generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. Here, his phenomenal bestseller A Brief History of Time is illustrated to bring his theories...

From the bestselling author of 'Fermat's Last Theorem', 'The Code Book' is an enthralling history of codes and code-breaking from Egyptian puzzles to modern-day computer encryptions. Since humans began writing,...

_________________________*The OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD puzzle book, as featured in the Times, Daily Telegraph, BBC Radio 4, and BBC Breakfast, and a Guardian Book of the Year pick. Have YOU got what it...

Why are we more likely to fall in love when we feel in danger?Why would an experienced pilot disregard his training and the rules of the aviation industry, leading to...

We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we--the everyday people whose data powers AI--aren't actually in control...

Paulos offers a hillarious account of how the stock market both follows and defies mathematical principals. He offers an enagaing overview of everything from "betas" to the efficient market hypothesis.