Greystone Books, October 2023. Hardcover. With the whimsy and heart of The Soul of an Octopus and the surprising details of the very best science writing, The Curious World of Seahorses brilliantly captures the ocean's most charismatic and mysterious inhabitant. "When God created the seahorse," says one marine biologist, "he..... More
Flambeau Publishing Company, 1953. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in clean jacket with slight user wear. Pine green cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Mild edgewear bottom of boards with one sound bump front panel at bottom. Tanning/foxing at gutters of end papers, as well as margins of front..... More
Bantam, April 2023. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Stephen Hawking's closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar's final thoughts on the cosmos--a dramatic revision of the theory he put forward in A Brief History of Time. "This superbly written book offers insight into an extraordinary individual, the creative process, and..... More
Mariner Books, August 2023. Hardcover. "The world's leading alien hunter" -- New York Times Magazine From acclaimed Harvard astrophysicist and bestselling author of Extraterrestrial comes a mind-expanding new book explaining why becoming an interstellar species is imperative for humanity's survival and detailing a game plan for how we can settle..... 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
Bloomsbury Publishing, October 2023. Paper Back. A captivating exploration into the secretive and sensuous world of truffles, the elusive food that has captured hearts, imaginations, and palates worldwide-now in paperback. The scent of one freshly unearthed white truffle in Barolo was all it took to lead Rowan Jacobsen down a...... More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2023. Hardcover. All of Earth's oceans, from the equator to the poles, are a single engine powered by sunlight, driving huge flows of energy, water, life, and raw materials. In The Blue Machine, physicist and oceanographer Helen Czerski illustrates the mechanisms behind this defining..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2023. Paper Back. Inside our heads we carry around an infinite and endlessly unfolding map of the world. Navigation is one of the most ancient neural abilities we have--older than language. In Dark and Magical Places, Christopher Kemp embarks on a journey to discover..... More
The Experiment, October 2023. Paper Back. "Generation Dread is a vital and deeply compelling read."--Adam McKay, award-winning writer, director, and producer (Vice, Succession, Don't Look Up) "Read this courageous book."--Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything "Wray shows finally that meaningful living is possible even in the face of that..... More
Basic Books, August 2023. Hardcover. A leading developmental biologist argues that cells, not DNA, hold the key to understanding life's past and present?? What defines who we are? For decades, the answer has seemed obvious: our genes, the "blueprint of life." In The Master Builder, biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias argues..... More
The Annex, 1978. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Pale blue cardstock for cover with tanned margins and spine. NO TEXT ON SPINE. Sound binding. Clean interiors. {146 pages]. More
PublicAffairs, September 2023. Hardcover. In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows us the conditions on Earth that allowed humans not only to exist but thrive, and how they are imperiled if we veer off course. For the..... More
Bloomsbury Publishing, September 2023. Hardcover. "Exquisite."-DAVID WALLACE-WELLS "At once an elegy and an exhortation."-ELIZABETH KOLBERT "A book that goes deeper than any before into the meaning of the climate breakdown for all the rest of creation."-BILL McKIBBEN "Celebratory and heartbreaking."-DAVID GEORGE HASKELL A revelatory exploration of climate change from the..... More
The MIT Press, September 2023. Trade Paperback. An in-depth look at the urgent struggle to protect animals from harm, cruelty, injustice, extinction, and their greatest threat--us. Beloved dogs and cats. Magnificent horses and mountain gorillas. Curious chickens. What do we actually do to protect animals from harm--and is it enough..... More
Penguin Books, September 2011. Trade Paperback. This is a fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling feline behaviour bible. Thanks to her regular appearances in the media and at veterinary conferences and humane organizations, most cat owners already recognize Pam Johnson-Bennett as the authority on all things feline. Over..... More
St. Martin's Griffin, March 2011. Trade Paperback. "Read it, please. Straight through to the end. Whatever else you were planning to do next, nothing could be more important." --Barbara Kingsolver Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those..... More
Three Rivers Press (CA), March 1993. Trade Paperback. A trained zoologist who has made a spectacularly successful career explaining why animals do the amazing things they do now considers the cat in myth and history and answers questions he received from cat owners after the hardcover publication of the bestselling..... More
Signet, April 1969. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Clean sound mass market paperback with slightly darkened spine. [269 pages]. More
Signet, April 1969. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Clean & sound, mass market paperback. First Signet paperback. [248 pages]. 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
MIT Press, February 2004. Trade Paperback. The intellectual and human story of a mathematical proof that transformed our ideas about mathematics. In 1824 a young Norwegian named Niels Henrik Abel proved conclusively that algebraic equations of the fifth order are not solvable in radicals. In this book Peter Pesic shows..... More
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, January 1997. Trade Paperback. More
Mariner Books, May 2022. Paper Back. The Appalachian Trail is America's most beloved trek, with millions of hikers setting foot on it every year. Yet few are aware of the fascinating backstory of the dreamers and builders who helped bring it to life over the past century. The conception and..... More
Vintage, January 2009. Trade Paperback. The paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the "fish with hands," tells a "compelling scientific adventure story that will change forever how you understand what it means to be human" (Oliver Sacks). By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands..... More
John Muir Reprint Series, January 2011. Trade Paperback. More
