Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2022. Hardcover. Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant, animal, human, artificial--and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something..... More
Vintage, March 2010. Trade Paperback. The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in..... More
Worth Press Ltd, November 1999. Oversized Hardcover. More
Holt McDougal, January 1996. Trade Paperback. Michael J. Gelb reveals the methods behind Frederick Matthias Alexander's groundbreaking health exercise regimen in Body Learning: An Introduction to the Alexander Technique. The Alexander Technique is now recognized the world over as the most revolutionary and far-reaching method developed for maintaining the health..... More
Random House (NY), September 1992. Hardcover. The world's most celebrated team of science writers explores the origins of human life on Earth--a wonderfully entertaining and awe-inspiring excursion through more than a billion years of evolution. Beginning with a vivid account of Darwin and his theory of evolution, the authors set..... More
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Harvard Business School Press, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs. Frans Johansson's..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, 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..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2017. Trade Paperback. Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments..... More
St. Martin's Griffin, January 2010. Trade Paperback. Time surrounds us. It defines our experience of the world; it echoes through our every waking hour. Time is the very foundation of conscious experience. Yet as familiar as it is, time is also deeply mysterious. We cannot see, hear, smell, taste, or..... More
Pegasus Books, February 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. An illuminating and lively narrative of Charles Darwin's formative years and his adventurous voyage aboard the H.M.S. Beagle. The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career.--Charles Darwin Charles Darwin--alongside..... More
Metropolitan Books, October 2014. Hardcover. #1 New York Times Bestseller In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease..... More
Simon & Schuster, May 2008. Trade Paperback. By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of..... More
Perseus (for Hbg), October 2002. Trade Paperback. At once a spirited defense of Darwinian explanations of biology and an elegant primer on evolution for the general reader, What Evolution Is poses the questions at the heart of evolutionary theory and considers how our improved understanding of evolution has affected the..... More
Henry Holt and Co., February 2014. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and..... More
Crown, July 2021. Paper Back. "Sarah Stewart Johnson interweaves her own coming-of-age story as a planetary scientist with a vivid history of the exploration of Mars in this celebration of human curiosity, passion, and perseverance."--Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams WINNER OF THE PHI BETA KAPPA AWARD FOR SCIENCE -..... More
Bantam Dell Pub Group, October 2002. Oversized Hardcover. A set of two oversize hardcover books (one cloth, one leather) in a hard, glossy pictoral slipcase. Lavishly illustrated throughout. Very light shelf wear. More
Vintage, August 2000. Trade Paperback. From the bestselling author of The Devil in the White City, here is the true story of the deadliest hurricane in history. National Bestseller September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather..... More
Vintage, March 2017. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life--but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 2022. Hardcover. An engaging, accessible citizen's guide to the seven urgent changes that will really make a difference for our climate--and how we can hold our governments accountable for putting these plans into action. Dozens of kids in Montgomery County, Maryland, agitated until their school board..... More
One World, March 2022. Hardcover. The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare system that seems determined to leave them behind "Gripping . .... More
Simon & Schuster, September 2022. Hardcover. An engaging, accessible citizen's guide to the seven urgent changes that will really make a difference for our climate--and how we can hold our governments accountable for putting these plans into action. Dozens of kids in Montgomery County, Maryland, agitated until their school board..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, February 2021. Hardcover. The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every reader can understand. It is a...... More
Oxford Univ Pr, March 2006. Trade Paperback. Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology..... More
Prickly Paradigm Press, April 2003. Paper Back. The Companion Species Manifesto is about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, who are bonded in significant otherness. In all their historical complexity, Donna Haraway tells us, dogs matter. They are not just surrogates for..... More
