Strand Bookstore

Former TIME journalist Eric Roston and current TIME senior editor Jeffrey Kluger explore how new science is shattering old (and sometimes ancient) ways of thinking about the world. Roston's The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat unifies far-flung parts of our ... (more)experience, "following the carbon" through its earthy, living and industrial cycles. In Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple), Kluger--author of Apollo 13--illustrates how the new science of simplexity challenges common intuition about how the world works, teasing out nature's beautiful logic.