Passionate Minds

Emilie du Châtelet was a fencer, gambler, brilliant mathematician and passionate lover. A true character out of Liaisons Dangereuses, she - and her close friend Voltaire - helped create the French Enlightenment...and the modern world

Electric Universe

This is something of a sequel to E=mc2, taking another powerful scientific idea, and tracing it through individual biographies. It shows electricity powering our civilization, and our minds. The book won the Royal Society's Aventis Prize, for science Book of the Year in 2006.

This book took a new, personal approach to explaining Einstein and his great equation. It touched a chord worldwide, and was published in 26 countries; it also was made into a full-scale PBS/Channel Four drama-documentary.

This book reached number four in America when it first came out, nearly 20 years ago, and has been in print ever since. It's an account of a totally ordinary day . . . looked at in a most unusual way.