Atlas of Human Anatomy

Michael Brooks

13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

Based on Brooks' popular article for "New Scientist," this work tackles the most hotly debated topics in science today, and shows how these conundrums are changing the way scientists approach their work and why these issues define science in the 21st century.

Jonathan Gray

64 Secrets Still Ahead of Us

64 ways in which an earlier forgotten science and technology was superior to our own. These are not merely ancient secrets-but knowledge way ahead of our own 21st century. Sixty-four ways in which an earlier, forgotten science and technology was superior to our own...today. You will learn of secret formulas that could revolutionize modern aviation, construction and medicine-advanced secrets our world once knew, and has forgotten. Discover how some geniuses of antiquity soared into inventions and plucked knowledge that our 21st century is just beginning to nudge. You may well ask, what else did they know, that we don't? Art techniques which we cannot copy...super micro technology...sub-ocean tunneling...invisibility...time viewing devices...lamps that never go out...WHAT NEXT

Stephen Hawking

A Brief History of Time

"A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic world--observations that have confirmed many of Hawking's theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book. Now a decade later, this edition updates the chapters throughout to document those advances, and also includes an entirely new chapter on Wormholes and Time Travel and a new introduction. It make vividly clear why "A Brief History of Time has transformed our view of the universe.