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  • Periodic Tales

    A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc

    "Fascinating and beautiful . . . if only chemistry had been like this at school." —Matt Ridley, New York Times–bestselling author of Genome, in Prospect magazineLike the alphabet, the calendar, or the zodiac, the periodic table of the chemical elements has a permanent place in our imagination. But aside from the handful of common ones (iron, carbon, copper, gold), the elements themselves remain ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Ultimate Physics

    From Quarks to the Cosmos

    Narrated by William Hughes ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 5 min

    The fundamental outlines of the physical world, from its tiniest particles to massive galaxy clusters, have been apparent for decades. Does this mean physicists are about to tie it all up into a neat package? Not at all. Just when you think you’re figuring it out, the universe begins to look its strangest, and this audiobook illustrates how answers often lead to more questions and open up new ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fifty Things You Need to Know About World History

    by Hugh Williams ...
    What are the key 50 events you really need to understand to grasp the developments of our world?In this highly entertaining read Hugh Williams distils world history into an insightful overview. By selecting fifty key people, places, battles, objects and events, he casts a clear eye over the way the world has developed and how we live today.Injecting life into familiar historical landmarks as well ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    We the Corporations

    How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

    by Adam Winkler ...
    Narrated by William Hughes ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 31 min

    In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal rights and transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital.Corporations—like minorities and women—have had a civil rights movement of their own and now possess nearly all the same rights as ordinary people. Uncovering the deep historical roots of Citizens ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Defender

    How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America; from the Age of the Pullman Porters to the Age of Obama

    Narrated by William Hughes ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 8 min

    Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great Migration, and focused the electoral power of black America. Robert S. Abbott founded the Defender in 1905, smuggled hundreds of thousands of copies into the most isolated communities in the segregated South, and was dubbed a “Modern Moses,” becoming one of the first black millionaires in the process. His ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL

    Building Effective Database-Driven Web Sites

    There are many reasons for serving up dynamic content from a web site: to offer an online shopping site, create customized information pages for users, or just manage a large volume of content through a database. Anyone with a modest knowledge of HTML and web site management can learn to create dynamic content through the PHP programming language and the MySQL database. This book gives you the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Dutch Light

    Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe

    Series series
    'Enchanting to the point of escapism.' – Simon Ings, Spectator'Hugh Aldersey-Williams rescues his subject from Newton's shadow, where he was been unjustly confined for over three hundred years.****' – Literary ReviewFilled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens’s remarkable life and career, but it is also nothing less than th... ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Fifty Things You Need To Know About British History

    by Hugh Williams ...
    What are the 50 key events you need to understand to grasp British history?If you could choose the 50 things that define British history, events of significance not only in themselves, but in their importance to wider themes running through our past, what would they be? Hugh Williams has made that selection, and the result is a fascinating overview of Britain’s past.He refines British history into ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Panicology

    Two Statisticians Explain What's Worth Worrying About (and What's Not) in the 21st Century

    Are you afraid you might succumb to bird flu? Worried that a life of poverty awaits you in old age? Concerned that you might not be having as much sex as the French? Anxious that our planet is under threat from climate change or a collision with an asteroid? If any, or all, of these things worry you, you're not alone. Anxiety is a part of modern life. But why? We're living longer, safer, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Going Broke, Updated Edition

    Why Americans (Still) Can’t Hold On to Their Money

    by Stuart Vyse ...
    Narrated by William Hughes ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 10 min

    Over the last four decades, debt, bankruptcy, and home foreclosures have risen to epidemic levels, and the personal savings rate has sunk dangerously low. Why, in the richest nation on Earth, can’t Americans hold on to their money?First published in 2008, Stuart Vyse’s Going Broke described the epidemic of personal debt that existed in the years leading up to the Great Recession, and anticipated ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Six-Day War

    The Breaking of the Middle East

    by Guy Laron ...
    Narrated by William Hughes ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 28 min

    One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War unfolded, but little has been done to explain why the conflict happened at all. As we approach its fiftieth anniversary, Guy Laron refutes the widely accepted belief that the war was merely the result of regional friction, revealing the crucial roles played by American and Soviet ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tide

    The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth

    “Superb. . . . A gently studious Bill Bryson crossed with an upbeat and relaxed WG Sebald.”—James McConnachie, Sunday Times (UK)Half of the world’s population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. But the tide rises and falls according to rules that are a mystery to almost all of us. In The Tide, celebrated science writer Hugh Aldersey-Williams weaves together centuries of ... Read more

    $13.69 USD