Scientists answer seventy-five questions pertaining to the natural world, ranging from whether earthquakes are predictable to why whales sing. Each question features an accompanying illustration.

The inspirational bestseller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our WHY Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time—with more than 56 million views and counting. Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the WHY of their organization. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, and these ideas remain as relevant and timely as ever. START WITH WHY asks (and answers) the questions: why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers had little in common, but they all started with WHY. They realized that people won't truly buy into a product, service, movement, or idea until they understand the WHY behind it. START WITH WHY shows that the leaders who have had the greatest influence in the world all think, act and communicate the same way—and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence "Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality -- the study of cause and effect -- on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why.

Following the devastation of World War III, nuclear radiation has spawned magic, ranging from nuisance koppa oni plaguing the Golden Gate to masters of the elements. It falls to the FBI's supernatural quads and their supervisors to protect those who can't protect themselves. But when a mysterious force storms through a busy shopping center and fells everyone in its wake, Olivia Abrams and her team of special ops must find who is behind the attack and why before the entirety of San Francisco succumbs to its powers.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Plotting Change is the first issue of the new journal from drug policy think tank Volteface, bringing together a series of innovative reports published by the organisation over the past two years. Through its exploration of five key areas, the journal provides extensive analysis of current government policy around cannabis in the UK, whilst proposing alternatives designed to stimulate a thought-provoking, new debate on the subject. An essential tool for policy-makers, researchers and students, the issues raised by these reports are rarely examined and have been addressed head-on, resulting in a journal that makes for an insightful, accessible and nuanced read.

Sean Rooney, psychosleuth, and his wife Jackie Kaminski move to the highlands of Scotland to escape the past, but has the past caught up with them, when their young son, Calum, is tragically murdered. Set in the north-west coast of Scotland in the village of Storaig, with a population of two hundred souls - where murder is unheard of. When the formal police investigation is shown to be fatally flawed, Rooney decides to pursue his son's killer. His search takes him back to Glasgow, where, as crime lord The Father he made many enemies. Can Rooney and The Family do Glasgow a favour and 'set aboot' them? In The Son the plot is thick, the pursuit is tortuous and the payoff is terrifying.