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This volume presents a new translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Books A and ¿ by Thomas Kjeller Johansen, accompanied by a detailed commentary and textual notes. The two opening books of Aristotle's work explore metaphysics or 'wisdom' as the study of first principles and explains why we should pursue it.

Entropy is an idea that is no less important than energy, but it is not widely understood. We are surrounded by free energy: what we value is energy that's not too polluted with entropy. This book explains how the concepts of energy and entropy were separated from one another over half a century.

In this Very Short Introduction, Paul Klenerman describes the immune system, and how it works in health and disease. In particular he focuses on the human immune system, considering how it evolved, the basic rules that govern its behaviour, and the major health threats where it is important.

Cicero was one of the leading figures at a time of great historical significance, the late Roman republic. This book presents a concise and accessible account of his life and work and shows connections between apparently disparate endeavours.

The speed of the expansion of the universe is governed by the Hubble constant. Discordance tells of its troubled 100-year history, from tentative steps to measure the distances of nearby stars to orbiting telescopes peering into the far reaches of space. But recent results hint at more trouble ahead: the 'Hubble tension'. The story is not over yet.

The destruction left by Nazi Germany was horrendous. Tobias Straumann tells the story of how, why, and to what extent 'Hitler's Debt' was 'paid' in the aftermath of WWII.