Typography, the art of designing printed words, was once the domain of an elite few artists but has become an area with which millions of people engage daily. T

Sample sections from the Very short introductions series are presented in this encapsulation of human knowledge.

Our extraordinary capacity to reason and solve problems sets us aside from other animals, but our evolved thinking processes also leave us susceptible to bias a

Canada is not one nation, but three: English Canada, Quebec, and First Nations. Yet as a country Canada is very successful, in part because it maintains nationa

How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? T