Houghton Mifflin, October 2004. Hardcover. One of the most dramatic wildlife stories of our times -- the ever-increasing presence of a wholly new species, literally part wolf, in every suburb, city, and backyard east of the Mississippi Catherine Reid left her hometown in western Massachusetts in the 1970s, when people..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2003. Hardcover. For millennia, lions, tigers and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 2150, big predators may only exist on the other side of..... More
Harper Perennial, February 2022. Paper Back. Updated with a New Foreword Medical writing at its finest.--David Oshinsky, author of Polio and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History Respected physician Paul Offit tells a fascinating story of modern medicine and pays tribute to one of the greatest lifesaving breakthroughs--vaccinations--and the..... More
Simon & Schuster, March 2021. Hardcover. A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a "compelling" (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution..... More
Beacon Pr, June 1995. Hardcover. Here and Nowhere Else is about fierce - and yet breaking - family ties and about one woman's search for a place on a farm that was for so long all she knew. Jane Brox writes of her family's small farm in New England's Merrimack..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, February 2022. Hardcover. When her twenty-five-year marriage suddenly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. But when she starts feeling physically sick, losing weight and sleep, she sets out in pursuit of rational explanation. She travels to the frontiers of the science..... More
Harvard University Press, 1980. Cloth. [6 & 1/2' x 9 & 1/2'} Brick red cloth covered boards with somewhat faded gold lettering along spine. Sticker residue to front pastedown. Tight binding. Mild edgewear to boards. Dustjacket is missing. Tight binding. Sixth printing of the fourth edition. [605 pp.]. More
Mariner Books, April 2000. Trade Paperback. Biologist, humanist, and bestselling author Richard Dawkins deeply examines the inherent beauty within modern scientific discoveries. "If any recent writing about science is poetic, it is this" (The Wall Street Journal). Did Newton unweave the rainbow by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as..... More
University of Arizona Press, August 1984. First Edition. Cloth. "What caused the extinction of so many animals at or near the end of the Pleistocene? Was it overkill by human hunters, the result of a major climatic change or was it just a part of some massive evolutionary turnover? Questions..... More
Harper Perennial, July 2002. Trade Paperback. In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell -- clear across England..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2011. Trade Paperback. "Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates..... 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
Basic Books, November 2021. Hardcover. "An arresting vision of this relentless natural world"--New York Times Book Review A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to survive on a fragile planet, we must understand and obey its iron laws Our species has amassed unprecedented knowledge of nature, which we have..... More
National Geographic, September 2017. Hardcover. In this eye-opening exposé, acclaimed health journalist and National Geographic contributor Maryn McKenna documents how antibiotics transformed chicken from local delicacy to industrial commodity--and human health threat--uncovering the ways we can make America's favorite meat safer again. What you eat matters--for your health, for the..... More
Simon & Schuster, May 2003. Trade Paperback. The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar and the atomic bomb. Together they changed the course of history. Legendary financier, philanthropist, and society..... More
Plume, June 2001. Trade Paperback. According to naturalist and bestselling author Lyall Watson, we all possess an anatomical feature that could be one of the most important keys to unraveling the mysteries of the human mind. Two tiny pits located inside the nostril, long thought to be vestigial, Jacobson's Organ..... More
Pilgrim Press, April 2021. Paper Back. To deny water is to deny life. Gonna Trouble the Water considers the sacred nature of water and the ways in which it is weaponized against non-white communities. With compelling contributions from scholars and activists, politicians and theologians, Gonna Trouble the Water de-centers the..... More
University of North Carolina Press, August 2017. Paper Back. Why has the American South--a place with abundant rainfall--become embroiled in intrastate wars over water? Why did unpredictable flooding come to characterize southern waterways, and how did a region that seemed so rich in this all-important resource become derailed by drought..... More
Imagen Mab, January 2004. Soft Cover. More
National Puzzlers' League, November 2006. Pamphlet. 32 page stapled pamphlet. {5 & 3/8' x 8 & 1/2'] Mild toning. Clean, sound, without markings. More
Penguin Books, January 2022. Paper Back. "Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. . . . Wilczek writes with breathtaking economy and clarity, and his pleasure in his subject is palpable." --The New York Times Book Review One of our great contemporary scientists reveals..... More
The New Press, July 2021. Hardcover. A beautiful and engaging guide to global warming's impacts around the world Our planet is in peril. Seas are rising, oceans are acidifying, ice is melting, coasts are flooding, species are dying, and communities are faltering. Despite these dire circumstances, most of us don't..... More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1953. Paper Back. Cover clean & bright. Tan stain inside first few pages. [187 pp. plus nine page list of avialble Anchor titles.]. More
Vintage Books USA, April 1991. Trade Paperback. A work of extraordinary erudition and clarity, The Farther Shore shows how technology has transformed civilization, and how it has profoundly altered the ways we perceive virtually everything. A brilliant illumination of what the human race has made of itself and the world..... More
Vintage, December 1996. Trade Paperback. Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides..... More
