The long history of one of physics' most enticing ideas: that the universe we know isn't the only one Our books, our movies--our imaginations--are obsessed with extra dimensions, alternate timelines…

Post-First World War, the Mediterranean Fleet found itself in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Sea of Marmora, the Black Sea and the Adriatic. The collapse of the Ottoman, Russian and Habsburg…

A guide to the myriad possibilities for cosmic apocalypse and inspired by the end of the millennium, science writer Paul Halpern tackles the fate of human civilization and our planet…

From Aristotle’s Physics to quantum teleportation, the story of the pursuit of causes that happen faster than the speed of light

Called by some a ‘Mediterranean Jutland,’ the Battle of the Otranto Straits involved warships from Austria, Germany, Italy, Britain, and France. This is the story of the largest naval engagement…

This is a Navy Records Society book.

Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrodinger were friends and comrades-in-arms against what they considered the most preposterous aspects of quantum physics: its indeterminacy. Einstein famously quipped that God does not play…

What can you remember of your childhood? Contributors to this book, who come from a number of different countries, go back as far as memory will take them.