Most of us suspect that climate change is happening, but is it a terrible threat to our world or an exaggerated beat up? Or is it something in between - an issue that humanity must eventually face, but not yet? In this groundbreaking and essential new book, Tim Flannery argues passionately for the urgent need to address - NOW - the implications of a global climate change that is damaging all life on earth and endangering our very survival. This book is unimpeachable in its authority, deftly and accessibly written in its vision for what each of us can do to avoid catastrophe. It is a global call to arms, laying out plainly if not controversially what we know, what we think might happen, and what tools we have available to us to make a difference. The Weather Makers will change your life. It is a difficult subject and hard for people to evaluate dispassionately because it entails deep political and industrial implications, and because it arises from the very core processes of our civilisation's success. Right now our fate is in our hands, for we are the weather makers and we already possess the tools required to avoid catastrophic climate change.

What does it mean to be human? What differentiates us from our forefathers? In which direction is the human race headed? This innovative study attempts to answer these complicated questions and others.

Science is not born ready and perfect, a beautiful thing that rose from the foam of the ocean, but is the product of human beings who made mistakes, sweated, lied, stole the ideas of others, but sometimes received divine inspiration and discovered wonderful treasures. Felix Dotan describes the development of modern science and its principles in clear and fluent language, emphasizing the human aspect and accompanied by many stories and illustrations. In doing so, he presents the reader with a friendly science book that is accessible to all. The book begins with the dawn of chemistry and the nature of energy. From here, it moves on to deal extensively with the development of the theory of electricity and the great inventions that accompanied it. It then discusses the phenomena involved in the conduction of electricity in gases, X-rays, radioactivity, and the discoveries of elementary particles. The subsequent chapters deal with the structure of the atom and the nucleus, nuclear energy for the purposes of war and peace, and the future energy of thermonuclear fusion. The final chapter summarizes the fascinating discoveries of recent decades: neutron stars, exploding stars that radiate more energy in one second than the sun radiates in a million years, and black holes, mysterious structures whose existence has only been proven in recent years.

Readers of this book, other than those knowledgeable in new developments in microbiology, palethnology and biology, may find themselves surprised at the extent to which the entire biosphere is a single unit, a giant living combined system, one organism.

Many people suffered the trauma of mathematics in their childhood. Today they may discover its beauty. In the book A Journey in Abstract Worlds , the reader is presented, in a light and humorous way, with some of the principles of abstract thinking, and then bridges are drawn between it and tangible thinking. The relationship between mathematics and visual art is illustrated through the mathematical analysis of symmetrical paintings. The book is intended for open-minded people of all ages. There is no need for mathematical education beyond basic knowledge. Those with humanistic and artistic tendencies will be able to benefit from it just as much as those with realist tendencies. It was written from the point of view that mathematics is not only a useful and theoretical science, but also an art form that can bring pleasure to a wider audience than is usually exposed to it.