NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Uncontrolled Spread is everything you’d hope: a smart and insightful account of what happened and, currently, the best guide to what needs to be done to avoid a future pandemic." —Wall Street Journal ...

AI Superpowers is Kai-Fu Lee's New York Times and USA Today bestseller about the American-Chinese competition over the future of artificial intelligence.

Charles Townes invented the maser and the laser, and was a pioneer in the use of spectroscopic techniques to determine the atomic composition of stars. This is the memoir of a life devoted to scientific research.

. This is an important book that all who are interested in the emergence of quantum mechanics will want to read."—William Evenson, History of Physics Newsletter Winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Prize of the Journal of the History of Ideas ...

We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don’t know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity.

A seminal text in the history and philosophy of science, this new edition includes a new chapter, preface, and postscript by the author. Praise for The Whale and the Reactor, First Edition “Winner has performed a valuable service. . .

In this book, experts in the field—all of them with more than twenty years of experience—offer insights, advice, and concrete examples to guide practitioners in the art of defense systems analysis.

This fifth volume abridgement of Joseph Needham's monumental work is concerned with the staggering civil engineering feats made in early and medieval China.

The story of a man whose gifts and character set him in the path of history, The Ghost of the Executed Engineer is also a cautionary tale about the fate of an engineering that disregards social and human issues.

The Story of Taxol tells this story.