A Million Years in a Day

A Million Years in a Day By Greg Jenner..

Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Niels Bohr, Einstein. Their insights shook our perception of who we are and where we stand in the world, and in their wak..

Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life is the autobiography of Eric Hobsbawm, a remarkable man who lived through some of the most trying and even..

In this landmark work, NEW YORKER columnist James Surowiecki explores a seemingly counter-intuitive idea that has profound implications. Decisions tak..

In this cauldron of great illusion, with the sun as fire, day-night as fuel; using months and seasons as stirrer, Time is cooking all beings – that is..

For much of the world, Iran’s 2009 summer of upheaval was an epic piece of theatre distantly observed. As citizens took to the streets in their millio..

When Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress declared victory over the bitter injustice of apartheid, some thought South Africa's future was ..

The relentless rise of Communism was the most momentous political development of the first half of the twentieth century. No political change has been..

How did the universe begin and how will it end? What happens to us when we die? Do intelligent beings exist elsewhere in our galaxy and beyond? The ..

Complete Verse..

Bill's own fascination with science began with a battered old schoolbook he had when he was about ten or eleven years old in America. It had an illust..