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Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam

By Simon Swain (Professor of Classics, University of Warwick), George Boys-Stones (Lecturer in Classics, University of Durham), Jas Elsner (Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford), Antonella Ghersetti (Lecturer, Universita Ca'...

Beyond the Genius: Nobel Stories of Passion and Controversy in Science

By Virginia Shepherd, Charles Brau

Habitat, Economy and Society: A Geographical Introduction to Ethnology

By Cyril Daryll Forde

The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet

By Matthieu Ricard, Trinh Xuan Thuan

An Introduction to Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements

By John Robert Taylor

Conceptual Integrated Science

By Paul G. Hewitt

Evolving the Mind: On the Nature of Matter and the Origin of Consciousness

By A. Graham Cairns-Smith

The how and the why: An Essay on the Origins and Development of Physical Theory

By David Park

The World Within the World

By John D. Barrow

Little Friends: Student Book

By Susan Iannuzzi

The Dark Side of Technology

By Peter Townsend (Emeritus Professor of Experimental Physics in Engineering, Emeritus Professor of Experimental Physics in Engineering, Sussex University, UK)

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

By Greene, Brian

The Lazy Universe: An Introduction to the Principle of Least Action

By Jennifer Coopersmith (Honorary Research Associate, Honorary Research Associate, La Trobe University, Australia)

More than the Sum of the Parts: Complexity in Physics and Beyond

By Helmut Satz (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, University of Bielefeld)

Cognitive Biology: Dealing with Information from Bacteria to Minds

By Gennaro Auletta (Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome)

A Living Work of Art: The Life and Science of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

By A. J. Kox (Pieter Zeeman Professor of History of Physics, Emeritus, Pieter Zeeman Professor of History of Physics, University of Amsterdam), H. F. Schatz (Free-lance editor and translator, Free-lance editor and translator)

Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Systems: Complexity and Statistical Fluctuations. A Maximum Entropy Viewpoint

By Pier A. Mello (, Instituto de Fisica, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico), Narendra Kumar (, Director, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India)

Newton's Principia for the Common Reader

By S. Chandrasekhar (, University of Chicago)

Interference: The History of Optical Interferometry and the Scientists Who Tamed Light

By David D. Nolte (E. M. Purcell Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy)

Nonextensive Entropy: Interdisciplinary Applications

By Murray Gell-Mann (Professor, Professor, Sante Fe Institute), ConstantinoC. Tsallis (Professor, Brazilian Centre for Physics)

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Quantum Interpretations

By Olival Freire Jr (Full Professor of Physics and History of Physics, Full Professor of Physics and History of Physics, Universidade Federal da Bahia), Guido Bacciagaluppi (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Utrecht), Olivier Darrigo...

From Random Walks to Random Matrices

By Jean Zinn-Justin (Scientific Advisor, Scientific Advisor, Cea, Paris-Saclay)

It Keeps Me Seeking: The Invitation from Science, Philosophy and Religion

By Andrew Briggs (Professor of Nanomaterials, Professor of Nanomaterials, University of Oxford, UK), Hans Halvorson (Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University, USA), Andrew Steane (University Lecturer and Fellow, ...

John Stewart Bell and Twentieth Century Physics: Vision and Integrity

By Andrew Whitaker (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Queen's University Belfast)

The Physics of Foams

By Weaire, Hutzler

Life By the Numbers

By Devlin, Keith

Essentials of Econophysics Modelling

By Frantisek Slanina (Researcher, Researcher, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)

Why Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of Science

By E. Brian Davies (Department of Mathematics, King's college, London)

The Scientific Method: Reflections from a Practitioner

By Massimiliano Di Ventra (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego, USA)

Galileo Unbound: A Path Across Life, the Universe and Everything

By David D. Nolte (Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Dept of Physics, Purdue University, USA)