Random House, June 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong takes us on "a thrilling tour of nonhuman perception" (The New..... More
Vintage, June 2022. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest--a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on..... More
Random House, June 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong takes us on "a thrilling tour of nonhuman perception" (The New..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, April 2021. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "brilliant [and] entrancing" (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi--the great connectors of the living world--and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds..... More
Perseus (for Hbg), December 2000. Trade Paperback. For decades, neuroscientists, psychologists, and an army of brain researchers have been struggling, in vain, to explain the phenomenon of consciousness. Now there is a clear trail to the answer, and it leads through the dense jungle of quantum physics, Zen, and subjective..... 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
Harper Perennial, September 1988. Trade Paperback. "A collection of meditations like polished stones--painstakingly worded, tough-minded yet partial to mystery, and peerless when it comes to injecting larger resonances into the natural world."-- "Kirkus Reviews" "A collection of meditations like polished stones--painstakingly worded, tough-minded, yet partial to mystery, and peerless when..... More
Back Bay Books, August 2000. Trade Paperback. Since Einstein's time, a theory of everything -- one coherent mathematical model that would encompass all the forces and particles of nature -- has become the Holy Grail of physics, and its pursuit has resulted in some of the most extraordinary ideas in..... More
Random House Inc, April 2003. Trade Paperback. Here is bestselling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's tenth and final collection based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine--exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually thrilling journey into the nature of scientific..... More
Mariner Books, June 1999. Trade Paperback. An American Book Award finalist, Guy Murchie's The Seven Mysteries of Life embraces all the important information about everything humanity needs to know for continuance aboard planet Earth, or anywhere else in the universe (Buckminster Fuller). All life in all worlds--this was the object..... More
Milkweed Editions, September 2014. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller Named a Best Essay Collection of the Decade by Literary Hub As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the..... More
Milkweed Editions, October 2020. Hardcover. A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub A Book Riot "Favorite Summer Read of 2020" A Food Tank Fall 2020 Reading Recommendation Updated with a new introduction..... More
Peter Pauper, Undated (1960s). Hardcover. Decorative boards with cloth back in white dust jacket. Top edge of text block stained black. Woodcut illustrations by Aldren Watson. Bottom edge of boards rubbed. Jacket has very minor spotting and toning. More
Basic Books, September 1996. Trade Paperback. How did the replication bomb we call " Life" begin and where in the world or rather, in the universe, is it heading? Writing with characteristic wit and an ability to clarify complex phenomena (the "The New York Times" described his style as "..... More
W. W. Norton, September 1996. Trade Paperback. Twenty years after its original publication, The Blind Watchmaker, framed with a new introduction by the author, is as prescient and timely a book as ever. The watchmaker belongs to the eighteenth-century theologian William Paley, who argued that just as a watch is..... More
Harper Perennial, June 2022. Paper Back. Chan and Ridley write with an urgency...that inspires gripping depictions of what viruses are, how infectious-disease laboratories work and wonderfully lucid descriptions of bats. . . . They powerfully recount how dangerous pathogens can both leak from a lab and emerge in nature. (New..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2022. Hardcover. A New York Times Bestseller Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hit this one out of the park. --Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story..... More
Crown, September 1999. Hardcover. At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a...... More
Dover Publications, July 1997. Trade Paperback. A lucid and penetrating development of game theory that will appeal to the intuition . . . a most valuable contribution. -- Douglas R. Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach The foundations of game theory were laid by John von Neumann, who in 1928..... More
W. W. Norton, October 2006. Trade Paperback. What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that--the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug..... More
Penguin Books, May 2003. Trade Paperback. One of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of the most dangerous rapids known to man remains as fresh and exciting today as it was in 1874. The Exploration..... More
Zone Books, October 1992. Oversize Softcover. This volume of ZONE explores the ongoing convergence of what were once the distinct worlds of the machine and the organism. Incorporations, through essays, image-text projects, photographic dossiers, and philosophical and scientific articles, examines the increasing breakdown of the boundaries between biology and technology..... More
Holt McDougal, January 2020. Paper Back. Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of..... More
Storey Publishing, LLC, October 2021. Paper Back. With the surging interest in foraging for mushrooms, those new to the art need a reliable guide to distinguishing the safe fungi from the toxic. But for beginner foragers who just want to answer the question "Can I eat it?", most of the..... More
Harvard University Press, June 1957. Trade Paperback. For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today. Few episodes in the development of scientific theory show so clearly how the solution to a highly technical problem can alter..... More
