Actor and bestselling science writer Ben Miller takes readers to the cutting edge of one of the greatest questions of all: Is there life beyond Earth?  For millennia, we have looked up at the stars and wondered whether we are alone i...

“Fascinating . . . One of the most important stories in the history of science.”— Washington Post\r\n\r\nIn recent years, a handful of scientists has been racing to explain a disturbing aspect of our universe: on...

This groundbreaking book presents a new perspective on three of cosmology's essential questions: What came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? And what cosmic future awaits us?  Penrose shows how the exp...

Donald Zeyl's translation of Timaeus meets the highest standard of clarity and naturalness in English while achieving fidelity to the Greek. This new edition introduces contemporary readers to Timaeus by combining in one volume Zeyl...

Two controversial authors debate the nature and methods of science, its dogmas, and its future. Rupert Sheldrake argues that science needs to free itself from materialist dogma while Michael Shermer contends that science, properly con...

Today we know what no previous generation knew: the history of the universe and of the unfolding of life on Earth. Through the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we now have a detailed account of how ga...

A breakout bestseller in Italy,Genesis: The Story of How Everything Beganis a short, humanistic tour of theorigins of the universe, Earth, and life—drawing on the latest discoveries in physicsto explain the seven most signif...

This book is a science history and philosophy book about the conditions necessary in order for science to flourish. The book argues that only in Christian nations were the circumstances right for science to progress to the point it ha...

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