From award-winning author Benjamin Percy comes an explosive, breakout speculative thriller in which a powerful new metal arrives on Earth in the wake of a meteor shower, triggering a massive new 'gold rush' in the Midwest and turning life as we know it on its head. The first of a cycle of novels set in a shared universe.

Organized by 50 of the most essential questions about color across a variety of fields--physics, chemistry, biology, technology, and psychology--this book examines how and why we see color; how color relates to light; what the real primary colors are; how biology, language, and culture affect the colors that we see; and much more.

The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved . . . and is still evolving.

A personal investigation into the history that surrounds us, from the historian and award-winning author of The Hidden Ways

An original and revelatory journey through the three-billion-year history of slime - a substance upon which we and our world depend.

Time travel is a familiar theme of science fiction, but is it really possible?

A mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science.

The great genius of modern physics explains why quantum theory makes perfect sense

A complete introduction to the heavens through the tales of these 21 key stars.