Science & Math

Habits aren't destiny. As Charles Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives....

A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....

Best-selling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and details what is needed to liberate ourselves....

Best-selling author Gretchen Rubin reveals the surprising truth about the four hidden personality types that drive everything we do....

More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer the question of why we do what we do....

From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the 12 technological imperatives that will shape the next 30 years and transform our lives....

A paradigm-changing examination of what truly motivates us and how to harness that knowledge to find greater satisfaction in our lives and our work....

Does free will exist? The question has fueled heated debates spanning from philosophy to psychology and religion. The answer has major implications....

Silicon Valley's leading intellectual and the founder of O'Reilly Media explores the upside and the potential downsides of our future - what he calls the "next economy"....

How will artificial intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society, and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology....

In The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain's wiring....

The Soul of a New Machine is an essential chapter in the history of the machine that revolutionized the world in the 20th century....

Prof Brian Cox and Robin Ince take the musings of the great and the good of British science, producing an insight into the multifaceted subjects involved in building a universe....

Published in 2017, the book begins with a memory that's fresh for listeners: the unexpected ascension of Donald Trump to the US presidency....

This work is an examination of Darwin's theory of evolution, in particular his belief in competition as the driving force behind human development....

You want to carry out the code that you have written in PowerShell, but how do you know that it is going to be carried out properly....

Psychedelic drugs are beginning to make a comeback. Research and medical trials are finally being restarted, and the results that are coming in are overwhelmingly positive....

In this insightful, witty book for curious listeners of all ages, Jay shares his favorite head scratchers and mind benders and settles pressing questions....