The Book Company: New Products - Science & Technology

Wild Islands

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:10:34 +0000

Wild Islands: How Ice Shapes Our Planet—and Us follows glaciologist and storyteller M Jackson across remote landscapes including South Georgia, Adak, Iceland, and Antarctica, where glaciers become a lens for exploring climate change, ecological recovery, memory, family, and transformation. ..

Price: $28.00

Invisible Rainbows (The Unseen Universe Beyond Our Senses)

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:34:45 +0000

‘This book will broaden your horizons ... We cannot hope to understand the diversity of the universe if we fail to accept the diversity of what it is to be a human being.’ — Robin Ince

What if the world around us is far richer than we can perceive?

In Inv..

Price: $18.95

Code Name Purple (A True Story of Courage, Love, and Madness in World War II)

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:31:19 +0000
The thrilling true story of the unlikely American codebreakers who cracked Japan’s top cipher machine, eavesdropped on Hitler, and helped win World War II.

In 1937, Japanese engineers invented Purple, a cipher machine capable of scrambling a message more than 500 quadrillion ways. It..
Price: $38.00

Entangled States (A Life According to Quantum Physics)

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:25:27 +0000

A young queer millennial physicist unveils some of the most mind-bending physics concepts in the universe—and uses them to illuminate their own fascinating life story

“I see physics everywhere,” Karmela Padavic-Callaghan writes. “It offers itself to me when I try to make sense of all..
Price: $19.95

Boundless (Life Lessons from a NASA Pioneer)

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:55:29 +0000
In this inspiring memoir, one of the first Black woman astronauts recounts her journey from the South Side of Chicago to the International Space Station—and the trials, setbacks, and triumphs that ultimately led her to opportunities out of this world.

Joan Higginbotham never set out ..
Price: $32.00

The Last Extinction (The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:02:47 +0000
The story behind Dr. Gerta Keller’s world-shattering scientific discovery that dinosaur extinction was NOT caused by asteroid impact, but rather by volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula, a discovery that highlights today’s existential threat of greenhouse gasses and climate change—and one ..
Price: $19.99

Smarter Than Us (Superintelligence and the Future of Humanity)

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:50:25 +0000

The Nobel Prize–winning "godfather of AI" delivers a landmark reckoning with the technology he helped create—and what humanity must do before it surpasses us.

Geoffrey Hinton is one of the architects of modern artificial intelligence. His pioneering work on neural networks laid the f..
Price: $32.00

Muskism (A Guide for the Perplexed)

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:14:29 +0000

Named a Most Anticipated Book by The New Yorker, The Financial Times, Kirkus Reviews, and Literary Hub

“An illuminating book that examines where Mr. Musk came from and the episodes that shaped his worldview. In many ways it is the inverse of Walter Isaacson’s authori..
Price: $20.00

Alan Turing and the Enigma Code (Secrets, Lies and Myths of Bletchley Park in World War II)

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:32:07 +0000

For decades, the story of Bletchley Park has occupied a powerful place in the public imagination: brilliant codebreakers, impenetrable secrecy, decisive intelligence, and a handful of iconic figures said to have changed the course of World War II. Yet the very secrecy that protected Britai..
Price: $39.95

The Last Good Day on the Internet (Finding Hope and Humanity in a Superhuman World)

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:49:23 +0000

Do you remember when the internet felt like a shared playground? When strangers around the world connected over the colour of a dress?
The Last Good Day on the Internet sees former foreign correspondent and tech entrepreneur Mark Little take us back to a time when the..
Price: $27.00