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Christopher Gill provides a new translation and commentary on the first half of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, and a full introduction to the Meditations as a whole. The Meditations constitute a unique and remarkable work, a reflective diary or notebook by a Roman emperor, that i…
Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites - such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly 4-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll e…
From building blocks to computers: models and modeling -- The game of life: a legendary cellular automaton -- Heads or tails: probability of an event -- Galton's board: probability and statistics -- Twenty questions: probability and information -- Snowflakes: the evolution of dy…
Schumacher, a leading figure in the ecology movement, sets out the philosophical underpinnings for his later book Small is Beautiful as he tackles the subject of Man, the World, and the Meaning of Living. He writes about man's relation to the world: man has obligations to other …
