Penguin Books, April 2017. Trade Paperback. - New York Times bestseller - The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world "At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution.....
Chicago Review Press, September 2014. Trade Paperback. To become a ninja master, you need discipline, a silent footstep, and an impressive personal arsenal. Author and toy designer John Austin provides step-by-step instructions on how to turn everyday household and office items into 37 different ninja weapons for the modern era.....
Penguin Books, May 2021. Trade Paperback. Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History and a New York Times Editors Choice Pick After reading Super Fly, you will never take a fly for granted again. Thank you, Jonathan Balcombe, for reminding us of the infinite marvels of everyday.....
The MIT Press, September 2022. Hardcover. From the very first moments of the universe to the birth of the first star, our solar system, and our planet: a physicist traces the known and the unknown. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the horizon of our knowledge about the universe.....
becker&mayer! Books, October 2018. Hardcover. Renowned ornithologist Les Beletsky introduces you to 250 birds of North America, brought to life with colorful illustrations and a digital audio player that provides each bird's distinctive song. Drawing from the collection of the world-renowned Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Bird.....
Notting Hill Editions, September 2019. Hardcover. "Patience, patience, because the great movements of history have always begun in those small parenthesis that we call 'in the meantime.'" --John Berger The last book that John Berger wrote was this precious little volume about time titled What Time Is It?, now posthumously.....
Harmony, August 2007. Trade Paperback. Since Dr. Brizendine wrote The Female Brain ten years ago, the response has been overwhelming. This New York Times bestseller has been translated into more than thirty languages, has sold nearly a million copies between editions, and has most recently inspired a romantic comedy starring.....
Custom House, January 2022. Trade Paperback. "Exceptionally absorbing and thrilling. ... Masterful." --Nature A "magnificent" (Scientific American), genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA's deep space mission to Europa, the Jovian moon where might swim the first known alien life in our solar system In the.....
Yale University Press, September 2013. Trade Paperback. A spirited volume on the great adventures of science throughout history, for curious readers of all ages Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always.....
Oxford University Press, December 2018. Trade Paperback. Originally published in 1951, The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world. Rachel Carson's ability to combine scientific insight with poetic prose catapulted her book to the top of The New York Times best-seller.....
University of Chicago Press, March 2021. Trade Paperback. For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of The Climate of History in a......
Rodale Books, January 2014. Hardcover. Scott Chaskey--working farmer, poet, and spiritual father of the community farming movement--considers the web of biodiversity and resilience at the heart of our cultural inheritance by masterfully weaving history, politics, botany, literature, mythology, and memoir into a beautiful and instructive book. It's hard to think.....
Oxford University Press, August 2016. Trade Paperback. The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution -.....
Barrons Educational Series, January 2021. Trade Paperback. Barron's Let's Review Regents: Earth Science--Physical Setting gives students the step-by-step review and practice they need to prepare for the Regents exam. This updated edition is an ideal companion to high school textbooks and covers all Physical Setting/Earth Science topics prescribed by the.....
TASCHEN, August 2022. Hardcover. Science and illustration have always walked hand in hand, and not only the scientific community but the general public as well have used images since early history to understand natural phenomena. Moreover, from Galileo to Einstein, our modern history has been written with the key support.....
Yale University Press, May 2019. Trade Paperback. A "learned and lively" (Wall Street Journal) history of archaeological adventure--with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe--for readers of all ages What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations.....
Abrams, November 2021. Hardcover. Birds of the world are portrayed in all their colorful glory by Tim Flach, the world's leading animal photographer Radiating grace, intelligence, and humor, and always in motion, birds tantalize the human imagination. Working for years in his studio and the field, Tim Flach has portrayed.....
Yale University Press, September 2019. Hardcover. A wide-ranging argument by a renowned anthropologist that the capacity to believe is what makes us human Why are so many humans religious? Why do we daydream, imagine, and hope? Philosophers, theologians, social scientists, and historians have offered explanations for centuries, but their accounts.....
Arcturus Publishing Limited, September 2013. Hardcover. Written in the 1850s by a young doctor, Henry Gray, Gray's Anatomy was the most comprehensive and accessible anatomy of its time. This beautifully produced slipcased volume contains the historic text of the second edition and all of Henry Vandyke Carter's masterly drawings. It.....
Little, Brown and Company, August 2022. Hardcover. San Francisco Chronicle bestseller - BOOKRIOT Best Books of the Year - Next Big Idea Book Club Best Science Books of the Year "I love the book, and everyone should read it." - Ryan Holiday "Undeniably entertaining." - The New York Times This.....
Princeton University Press, May 2022. Hardcover. A revelatory tale of how the human brain develops, from conception to birth and beyond By the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through trillions of interconnections to form a compact and breathtakingly.....
Workman Publishing Company, October 2013. Trade Paperback. In her inspiring New York Times bestseller Unlikely Friendships, Jennifer Holland introduced us to the heartwarming relationships that exist between animals of different species. Her stories struck a chord with thousands of readers, including Temple Grandin, who described the book as "amazing." Now.....
Viking, August 2022. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot tell us." --The Wall Street Journal "Stimulating . . . encourage[s] readers to push past well-trod assumptions [...] and have fun doing so." --Science Magazine From renowned physicist and creator.....
Harper Design, May 2020. Hardcover. An illustrated guide to 40 of the most well-known, surprising, notorious, mythical, and sublime non-human citizens of New York City, and love letter to its surprising ecological diversity. From refugee parrots and prodigal beavers to gorgeous Fifth Avenue hawks and vengeful groundhogs, Wild City tells.....
Avery, September 2006. Trade Paperback. James Kakalios explores the scientific plausibility of the powers and feats of the most famous superheroes -- and discovers that in many cases the comic writers got their science surprisingly right. Along the way he provides an engaging and witty commentary while introducing the lay.....