The Books
Money For Nothing
A tale of how the modern idea of money came to be, born of the first great stock market boom, bubble, fraud and crash: The South Sea Bubble, a disaster in which, Isaac Newton (among many others) lost his shirt.
THE Hunt for vulcan
Part comedy of errors, part investigation of how science really works, told through the tale of a planet that ought to have exisetd, but didn’t. Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz writes “Thw Hunt for Vulcan is science writing at its best…This book is not just learned, passionate, and witt — it is profoundly wise."
Newton & the Counterfeiter
In 1695, Isaac Newton made a shocking career change, leaving Cambridge University, the site of his greatest discoveries, to move to London to take up the post of Warden of His Majesty's Mint. There he confronted a genius of another kind, the virtuoso counterfeiter, William Chaloner. The epic game of cat and mouse between the scientist and the criminal played out on the streets and in the courtrooms of London – and within a world being transformed by the ideas Newton himself had set in motion.
Einstein in berlin
This book covers eighteen years in the life of a man, Albert Einstein, and a city, Berlin, that were in many ways the defining years of the twentieth century. These were tumultuous times, seen through the life of one man who is at once witness to and an architect of his day--and ours.