Scribner, October 2022. Hardcover. Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences! Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more! In The Song of..... More
Scribner, September 2022. Hardcover. *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Literary Hub!* *A 2022 NBCC Awards Nonfiction Finalist and a 2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist* From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx, this riveting deep dive into the history of our wetlands..... More
Harper Perennial, May 2018. Trade Paperback. Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. #1 New York Times Bestseller The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, now available as a beautifully packaged paperback From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation..... More
William Morrow, February 2023. Hardcover. The never-before-told story of NASA's 1978 astronaut class, which included the first American women, the first African Americans, the first Asian American, and the first gay person to fly to space. With the exclusive participation of the astronauts who were there, this is the thrilling..... More
American College of Physicians, September 2007. Paper Back. Organized by topic and thoroughly indexed, this elegant new leather-bound deluxe edition expands ACP Press' perennial bestseller to include never-before-published photographs, 50 new quotes, and several new essays. The deluxe edition also has a gold-stamped cover, splendid end papers, and a page-marking..... More
Picador, January 2011. Trade Paperback. The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist. We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2007. Trade Paperback. Before slim laptops that fit into briefcases, computers looked like strange, alien vending machines. But in the most staggering burst of technical invention by a single person in high-tech history (BusinessWeek) Steve Wozniak invented the first true personal computer. Wozniak teamed..... More
Scribner Book Company, February 2007. Trade Paperback. In 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts was introduced to the world -- twenty-nine men and six women who would carry NASA through the most tumultuous years of the space shuttle program. Among them was USAF Colonel Mike Mullane, who, in..... More
Penguin Books, June 2019. Oversize Softcover. The instant New York Times bestseller! A Wall Street Journal Best Science Book of the Year! A Popular Science Best Science Book of the Year! From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilariously..... More
Bellevue Literary Press, February 2023. Paper Back. There is a wonderfully weird but real world out there, and we are a part of it. It is time for physics to take life seriously. Can we ever truly comprehend the universe before we fully understand consciousness and the wonders, and limits..... More
Grove Press, February 2023. Paper Back. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love from New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson "Talky, smart, anarchic and quite sexy," said Dwight Garner in the New York..... More
Oxford University Press, September 1983. Hardcover. Fourth printing; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy quarter cloth boards; Upper spine has been lightly bumped, ever so slightly dented; Mild staining present at outer edge text block (3-4 small dots); Text free of markings; Dust jacket un-worn, housed in protective mylar; An excellent copy..... More
University Alabama Press, January 1988. Hardcover. A study of the union of science and medicine in a particularly illustrative institutional setting Making Medical Doctors is not a conventional institutional history, but rather a study of the union of science and medicine in a particularly illustrative institutional setting. Its general subject..... More
Random House, June 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "thrilling" (The New York Times), "dazzling" (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong..... More
Weldon Owen, October 2018. Hardcover. A compelling, often hilarious and occasionally horrifying exploration of how modern medicine came to be! Wondering whether eating powdered mummies might be just the thing to cure your ills? Tempted by those vintage ads suggesting you wear radioactive underpants for virility? Ever considered drilling a...... More
Custom House, July 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. "THRILLING. ... Up-end[s] the Apollo narrative entirely." --The Times (London) A "brilliantly observed" (Newsweek) and "endlessly fascinating" (WSJ) rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, revealing why these extraordinary yet overshadowed missions--distinguished by the use of the revolutionary lunar roving vehicle--deserve to be..... More
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Scribner, September 2022. Hardcover. *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Literary Hub!* *A 2022 NBCC Awards Nonfiction Finalist and a 2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist* From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx, this riveting deep dive into the history of our wetlands..... More
Mariner Books, June 2020. Paper Back. "No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. In Slime, Ruth Kassinger gives this underappreciated group its due." -- Elizabeth Kolbert Say "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1956. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Reprinted by arrangement with G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., London. Mild shelf wear and slightly darkened spine. [266 pages plus four page list of Anchor titles then available.]. More
University of Chicago Press, February 2016. Paper Back. If offered the chance--by cloak, spell, or superpower--to be invisible, who wouldn't want to give it a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy voyeurism and the ability to conceal our own acts, but as desirable as it may seem..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2022. Hardcover. From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the world. In this revelatory work of science and social history, James Vincent dives into its..... More
Harper Voyager, July 2012. Trade Paperback. "An addictively satisfying, deeply amusing, dirty-ass masterpiece." --William Gibson "A sharp-edged urban fantasy, drenched in blood and cynicism, tipping its hat to Sam Peckinpah, Raymond Chandler, and the anti-heroes of Hong Kong cinema....A bravura performance." --San Francisco Chronicle "I couldn't put it down." --Charlaine..... More
Avery, September 2022. Hardcover. The instant New York Times bestseller By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing. In this revolutionary book, renowned..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 1996. Mass Market PaperBack. During the great ages of exploration "the longitude problem" was the greatest of scientific challenges. Lacking the ability to determine their longitude, sailors were literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Ships ran aground on rocky shores; those..... More
