Bloomsbury USA, December 2006. Paper Back. Long known for her insightful and thought-provoking political journalism, author Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial and increasingly urgent subject of global warming. In what began as groundbreaking three-part series in the New Yorker, for which she won a National Magazine Award in 2006..... 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

University Of Chicago Press,, Chicago:, January 1963. Reprint. Cloth. {5' x 7&3/4'} In edgeworn jacket with tears. Rubbing. 6th printing. Jade cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine and gold illustrated bird on front panel. Map of mexico (with indications of vegetation & climate) on front end pages. Tradition..... More

Atlantic Monthly Press, March 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Charles Darwin's foremost biographer, Janet Browne, delivers a vivid and accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human. A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of the Species profoundly shocked Victorian..... More

Back Bay Books, September 2001. Trade Paperback. By enquiring into the puzzle of sibling relations, Frank J. Sulloway pioneers a new view of how family affects individual development. He shows that birth-order is so fundamental to the family that it transcends gender, class and nationality. More

Riverhead Books, February 2007. Trade Paperback. A new form of strip mining has caused a state of emergency for the Appalachian wilderness and the communities that depend on it-a crisis compounded by issues of government neglect, corporate hubris, and class conflict. In this powerful call to arms, Erik Reece chronicles..... 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

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

Ecotrust, September 2010. First Edition. Oversize Softcover. Cache offers a fresh, hopeful perspective at a time when global economic, social, and environmental crises are growing. It is a compelling book for business people who wish to build businesses with more than the bottom line in mind, for conservationists who wish..... More

Faber and Faber, January 1973. Hardcover. dust jacket covered in mylar and appears to be in mostly very good condition with some slight shelf wear along bottom and top edges; perhaps some yellowing from age; slight yellowing of pages edges, though reading surfaces are bright; binding in good-to-fair condition, intact..... More

Harper, October 2001. Hardcover. In the mode of her esteemed bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman's new book, Cultivating Delight celebrates the sensory pleasures she discovers in her garden. Ackerman delights in her garden through all the seasons. Whether she is deadheading flowers or glorying in the..... More

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, March 2006. Hardcover. An argument for the urgent danger of global warming in a book that is sure to be as influential as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Known for her insightful and thought-provoking journalism, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial subject of global warming..... More