Random Universe
How Models and Probability Help Us Make Sense of the Cosmos
ISBN: HB: 9780300250503,
Yale University Press,
November 2025
288 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 28 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 28 black&white illus.
An award-winning astrophysicist looks at how the understanding of uncertainty and randomness has led to breakthroughs in our knowledge of the cosmos.
All of us understand the world around us by constructing models, comparing them to observations, a...
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Cannabis
A Natural History
ISBN: HB: 9780300270945,
Yale University Press,
November 2025
352 pp., 22,8x17,7 cm, 76 black&white illus.
352 pp., 22,8x17,7 cm, 76 black&white illus.
The definitive story of cannabis, from its evolution and biological quirks to its role in human history.
In this entertaining natural history, Rob DeSalle provides a glimpse into the biological world through the lens of the marijuana plant. A close...
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Little History of the Earth
New Edition
ISBN: HB: 9780300246148,
Yale University Press,
October 2025
288 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 40 black&white illus.
288 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 40 black&white illus.
A lively account of the history of our planet, from its earliest origins to the present day, told through the major geological changes and scientific breakthroughs.
Where has our planet come from, and what lies beneath its surface? How have we come...
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Impossible Bomb
The Hidden History of British Scientists and the Race to Create an Atomic Weapon
ISBN: HB: 9780300284881,
Yale University Press,
August 2025
480 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 16 illus., 10 figures, 6 maps
480 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 16 illus., 10 figures, 6 maps
The remarkable story of the forgotten British scientists who enabled the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.
Atomic weaponry is widely understood as a story of American scientific achievement - but scientists working in Britain played a vi...
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As If Human
Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
ISBN: PB: 9780300283372,
ISBN: HB: 9780300268294,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
272 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
272 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being.
Intelligent machines present us every day with urgent ethical challenges. Is the facial recognition softwa...
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Beastly Britain
An Animal History
ISBN: HB: 9780300264470,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
320 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm, 32 colour illus., 10 figures
320 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm, 32 colour illus., 10 figures
The remarkable history of Britain and its animals, told through ten iconic species.
Have you ever wondered why we count sheep to get to sleep? Or where the phrase "red herring" comes from? Across British history, animals have been written about in...
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Little History of Mathematics
New Edition
ISBN: HB: 9780300273731,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
304 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 40 black&white illus.
304 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 40 black&white illus.
A lively, accessible history of mathematics throughout the ages and across the globe.
Mathematics is fundamental to our daily lives. Science, computing, economics - all aspects of modern life rely on some kind of maths. But how did our ancestors th...
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Little History of Science
New Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300283211,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
272 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
272 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
A lively and engaging introduction to the progress of science over the ages.
Science is key to understanding the infinite distances of space, the tiniest living organisms body and the history of our planet. From Hippocrates and Aristotle to Isaac Ne...
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In Praise of Floods
The Untamed River and the Life It Brings
ISBN: HB: 9780300278491,
Yale University Press,
February 2025
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 48 black&white illus.
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 48 black&white illus.
James C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit.
Rivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change; they shift their channels; they forge new routes to the sea...
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Walking Europe's Last Wilderness
A Journey through the Carpathian Mountains
ISBN: HB: 9780300253542,
Yale University Press,
February 2025
400 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 15 colour illus., 5 maps
400 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 15 colour illus., 5 maps
An evocative voyage through the Carpathian mountain range and its threatened landscape, peoples, and history.
The Carpathian Mountains of Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine are Europe's last true wilderness. A landscape of great spruce and beec...
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