Twelve, February 2022. Hardcover. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story--and fascinating mystery--of how humans migrated to the Americas. ORIGIN is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how they dispersed..... More
Island Press, May 2016. Trade Paperback. Cities are the world's future. Today, more than half of the global population--3.7 billion people--are urban dwellers, and that number is expected to double by 2050. There is no question that cities are growing; the only debate is over how they will grow. Will..... More
Beacon Press, March 2007. Trade Paperback. In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our most complete..... More
Picador, January 2011. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Bestseller In this bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it. The modern world has given us stupendous know-how. Yet avoidable failures continue to..... More
Thames & Hudson, April 2022. Hardcover. Everyone knows astronomers use telescopes to peer into distant space. But did you know that they also use them as time machines to look back into the past? In this fascinating and original book, world-renowned astronomer Paul Murdin lays out the entire history of..... More
One World, July 2021. Paper Back. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. "A powerful read that fills one with, dare I say . . . hope?"--The New York Times..... More
Dutton, November 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. "Delightfully horrifying."--Popular Science One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018 One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018 This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping..... More
Penguin Books, June 2005. Trade Paperback. "The Invisible Century" is an original look at two of the most important revolutions?and revolutionaries?of the modern era. This dual biography of Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud? and their parallel journeys of discovery that altered forever our understanding of the very nature of reality..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, March 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. The pioneering texts in quantitative history were written over two decades ago, but as a command of methodological context, computer experience, and statistical literacy have become increasingly important to the study of history, the need for an introductory text..... More
Back Bay Books, July 2014. Trade Paperback. The irresistibly engaging book that enlarges one's wonder at Tammet's mind and his all-embracing vision of the world as grounded in numbers (Oliver Sacks, MD). Thinking in Numbers is the book that Daniel Tammet, mathematical savant and bestselling author, was born to write..... More
University of California Press, September 2015. Trade Paperback. What do we think about when we think about human evolution? With his characteristic wit and wisdom, anthropologist Jonathan Marks explores our scientific narrative of human origins--the study of evolution--and examines its cultural elements and theoretical foundations. In the process, he situates..... More
Houghton Mifflin, March 1998. Hardcover. Taking the reader around the world, stopping in France to examine 30,000-year-old cave paintings, in Africa to see where our earliest ancestors left their bones, and in remote forests to spy on our closest relatives, the great apes, Tattersall keeps his focus on the big..... More
Basic Books (AZ), October 2001. Hardcover. At once a spirited defense of Darwinian explanations of biology and an elegant primer on evolution for the general reader, What Evolution Is has several audiences in mind: those scientists and nonscientists who accept evolutionary thinking but do not know exactly how it works..... More
Harper, August 2001. Hardcover. From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology.In 1793 William..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, January 1993. Hardcover. To one nineteenth-century scholar, their fierce, ridged brows were evidence of a "moral darkness" that set them irrevocably apart from human beings. Some commentators accused them of cannibalism. Yet by the 1970s the Neandertals were being hailed as "the first flower people" and praised..... More
Harper Perennial, September 2006. Trade Paperback. The universe has many secrets. It may hide additional dimensions of space other than the familier three we recognize. There might even be another universe adjacent to ours, invisible and unattainable . . . for now. Warped Passages is a brilliantly readable and altogether..... More
Belknap Press, March 1985. Trade Paperback. "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" was Haeckel's answer--the wrong one--to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny) and the evolution of species and lineages (phylogeny)? In this, the first major book on the subject in fifty years, Stephen..... More
Ballantine Books, March 1997. Trade Paperback. "A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought." ; *Los Angeles Times "POWERFUL . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality.... More
Simon & Schuster, June 1996. Trade Paperback. In this groundbreaking and very accessible book, Daniel C. Dennett, the acclaimed author of Consciousness Explained, demonstrates the power of the theory of natural selection and shows how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of our place in the universe..... More
Oxford University Press, January 1985. Paper Back. This biography illuminates the racial attitudes of an elite group of American scientists and foundation officers. It is the story of a complex and unhappy man. It blends social, institutional, black, and political history with the history of science. Octavo. Marginal darkening within..... More
Philosophical Library. Reprint. Hardcover. 12mo. {4' x 6 & 1/2'} In dustjacket with heavy tanning, especially of spine. Chipping to edges. One & one-half inch parallel closed tears bottom of front panel. Front flap is not clipped. Pale blue-grey paper covered boards with black lettering along spine & Philosophical Library..... More
Ecco Press, August 2014. Trade Paperback. New York Times bestselling author and renowned atheist and evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins delivers an intimate look into his own childhood and intellectual development, illuminating his path to becoming one of the foremost thinkers in modern science today "A memoir that is funny and..... More
Crown, April 2022. Paper Back. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? RECOMMENDED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND BILL GATES - SHORTLISTED FOR..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2022. Hardcover. In Different, world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal draws on decades of observation and studies of both human and animal behavior to argue that despite the linkage between gender and biological sex, biology does not automatically support the traditional gender roles in human..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2013. Trade Paperback. The next big human pandemic--the next disease cataclysm, perhaps on the scale of AIDS or the 1918 influenza--is likely to be caused by a new virus coming to humans from wildlife. Experts call such an event "spillover" and they warn us..... More
