One of the most influential economists of the decade boldly argues that just about everything you’ve heard about food is wrong.

Demonstrating that the sources of morality, religion, and the creative arts are fundamentally biological in nature, this book presents us with the clearest explanation ever produced as to the origin of the human condition and why it resulted in our domination of the Earth’s biosphere.

This book goes on to detail how religion and science are fundamentally incompatible in several areas: the origin of the universe and its physical parameters, the origin of complexity, holism versus reductionism, the nature of mind and consciousness, and the source of morality.

This book explores one of the striking anomalies of American culture: its love/hate relationship with eating and the particularly perplexing choices that humans have to make about the food they eat because they can eat everything.

In this book, celebrated mathematician Ian Stewart uses a 17 mathematical equations to explore the vitally important connections between math and human progress.

Leonhard Euler’s polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects, from soccer balls and gemstones to giant all-carbon molecules – and yet this formula is so simple it can be explained to a child.

This book argues that boredom is actually one of our most common and constructive emotions and is an essential part of the human experience.