Biological Sciences

In 2014, California suffered the largest and deadliest outbreak of pertussis, also known as whooping cough,” in more than fifty years. This tragedy was av...

The Author Relates How His Own Study Of Memory Converged With Four Distinct Disciplines To Give Rise To The Development Of A New Science Of The Mind That Ha...

Co-founder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post Arianna Huffington shows how our cultural dismissal of sleep as time wasted compromises our health an...

The Heartrending Story Of A Midcentury American Family With Twelve Children, Six Of Them Diagnosed With Schizophrenia, That Became Science's Great Hope In T...

When Susan Lucci And All My Children Were Introduced To The World In 1970, American Television Changed Forever. Susan’s Character, The Beautiful, Spirited, ...

An introduction to the world of gene cloning assumes almost no background knowledge. Its widely admired clarity, extesnive illustrations, and solid referenc...

Unrivaled in its breadth and visual impact, this unique guide sets out to illustrate, describe, and explain the incredible range of creatures that make up t...

a Work Of Enormous Breadth, Likely To Pleasantly Surprise Both General Readers And Experts.—new York Times Book Review david Futrelle to Those Outside The...

Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks—the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our ...

'grunt' Tackles The Science Behind Some Of A Soldier's Most Challenging Adversaries -- Panic, Exhaustion, Heat, Noise -- And Introduces Us To The Scientists...

With Quirky Charm, Rising Science Star Giulia Enders Explains The Gut's Magic, Answering Questions Like: Why Does Acid Reflux Happen? What's Really Up With ...

Huston Smith, The Author Of The Classic Bestseller The World's Religions, Delivers A Passionate, Timely Message: The Human Spirit Is Being Suffocated By The...

Winner of two first place AJN Book of the Year Awards!This award-winning resource uniquely integrates national goals with nursing practice to achieve safe, ...

Meet the ladies: a flock of smart, affectionate, highly individualistic chickens who visit their favorite neighbors, devise different ways to hide from fox...

In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and an eccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reader onto...

This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by ...

New York Times bestseller Cameron Diaz follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller, The Body Book, with a personal, practical, and authoritative guide that...

From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes more incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA. In The Dis...

Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says ac...

Product Description Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals ac...

This delightful little nature guide for young children is all about discovering the many insects, spiders, and other creatures―aka BUGS!―that creep, cra...

World According to BobCategories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

It is a wicked disease that robs its victims of their memories, their ability to think clearly and ultimately their lives. For centuries, those afflicted b...

From One Of The Most Significant Neuroscientists At Work Today, A Pathbreaking Investigation Of A Question That Has Confounded Philosophers, Psychologists, ...

This rich and beautiful book takes readers from tropical forests to deserts, and from alpine mountains to English country gardens as it tours the most mag...

A precise scientific exploration of the differences between boys and girls that breaks down damaging gender stereotypes and offers practical guidance for p...

Peter J. Bowler's comprehensive, fascinating account of the history of evolutionary theories introduces specialist and nonspecialist alike to one of the mos...

“[This] book will convince you that forgetting helps you remember and distractions can make you more creative.” —Adam Grant, New York Times bestsellin...

In Transcend, famed futurist Ray Kurzweil and his coauthor Terry Grossman, MD, present a cutting edge, accessible program based on the vanguard in nutrition...

Don't let emotions—your own, or someone else's—control your life! Feeling extreme emotion is part of being human. We may feel overwhelming joy at the b...

"A fascinating account of inner and outer exploration and discovery in one of the last remote regions of the world - sharp-eyed, insightful, candid, and we...

A bestseller in Canada and Australia, this is the incredible story of a woman who struggled with severe learning disabilities, built herself a better brain...

A Groundbreaking Narrative Exploration Of The Human Immune System--the Key To Human Health And Longevity--from The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Jou...

What happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? Do we control our emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How ...

World-class pediatric surgeon, social scientist, and best-selling author of Thirty Million Words Dr. Dana Suskind returns with a revelatory new look at the ...

From Roger Rosenblatt, author of the bestsellers Making Toast and Unless It Moves the Human Heart, comes a moving meditation on the passages of grief, the ...

Hailed As A Masterpiece By Scientific American And As The Greatest Of All Entomology Books By Science, Bert Holldobler And Edward O. Wilson's Monumental Tre...

From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests--from his passion for fe...

The remarkable story of an ordinary man who was transformed when a traumatic injury left him with an extraordinary giftNo one sees the world as Jason Padge...

From New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned doctor and geneticist Francis Collins, a book that will forever change how you think about your ...

Roach Shows How And Why Sexual Arousal And Orgasm Can Be So Hard To Achieve And What Science Is Doing To Make The Bedroom A More Satisfying Place. The Sausa...

From the author of the bestselling ESCAPING FROM EDEN and THE SCARS OF EDEN...\Ancient stories from around the world describe entities which today we would ...

Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants...

In 97 Orchard, Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York's Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth century...

This is the most complete and authoritative reference book about the birds of North America -- up to date and in field-guide format. The Birder's Handboo...

From the award-winning NPR religion correspondent comes a fascinating investigation of how science is seeking to answer the question that has puzzled human...

An astonishing window into the inner world of plants, and the cutting-edge science in plant intelligence. Decades of research document plants' impressive ...

Long acclaimed as the definitive introductory botany text for majors, Biology of Plants is especially known for its comprehensive coverage and its magnif...