History & Philosophy

Includes Material On Warts, Dna, Cloning, And Medical Economics. The Medusa And The Snail -- The Tucson Zoo -- The Youngest And Brightest Thing Around -- On...

Writing A Few Months Prior To Her Assassination, Bhutto Explores The Complicated History Between The Middle East And The West. She Traces The Roots Of Inter...

Terry Bradshaw -- Evander Holyfield -- Jerry West -- Byron Whizzer White -- Danielle Green -- Bill Yoast -- Joey Cheek -- Dwayne The Rock Johnson -- Dorothy...

Immersed In Radical Feminist Politics, Scientific Ingenuity, Establishment Opposition, And, Ultimately, A Sea Change In Social Attitudes, This Is The Fascin...

The act of reading is a miracle. Every new reader's brain possesses the extraordinary capacity to rearrange itself beyond its original abilities in order t...

Collects Writings From Several Leading Theoretical Physicists And Cosmologists That Offer An Overview Of Our Scientific Understanding Of The Universe As It ...

Theoretical physics is in trouble. At least that's the impression you'd get from reading a spate of recent books on the continued failure to resolve the 80-...

an Essential Resource For Any Believer, The New Answers Book Provides A Ready Defense Agains The Attacks Of Evolutionary Thought. An Impressive List Of Re...

Do a little armchair time-travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncharted uni...

The Author Of The Number-one New York Times Bestseller The Russia Hoax Picks Up Where That Book Ended With This Hard-hitting, Well-reasoned Examination Of T...

A fully illustrated edition of the international best-seller Longitude. The Illustrated Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the ...

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...

From The Tsunami In Sri Lanka To The War In Iraq To The Starvation In Niger And Ultimately To Hurricane Katrina In New Orleans And Mississippi, Cooper Gives...

In this first US edition, the author of the The Map That Changed the World portrays the 19th-century eruption of a Javanese volcano that still has global r...

The destruction of coral reefs around the world is not as straightforward as you might think. What directly causes the destruction is an epidemic of crown-...

About the Author\Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist and the author of the #1 bestselling Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, among other books. He is ...

The New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Rational Optimist And Genome Returns With A Fascinating, Brilliant Argument For Evolution That Definitively Dis...

"Howard Blum writes history books that read like thrillers."--New York Times A retired spy gets back into the game to solve a perplexing case--and reconci...

with Its Unique Combination Of Depth, Clarity, And Humor That Has Enchanted Millions, This Beloved Classic By Bestselling Author Gary Zukav Opens The Fasci...

The adventure spans the world from Stonehenge to astronomically aligned pyramids at Giza, from Mayan observatories at Chichen Itza to the atomic clock in W...

Genesis: The Evolution of Biology presents a history of the past two centuries of biology, suitable for use in courses, but of interest more broadly to evo...

if You Want To Play The Game, You've Got To Know The Rules. In His International Bestseller the Game, Neil Strauss Delved Into The Secret World Of Pick-u...

By G. Gamow; Illustrated By The Author And John Hookman. Includes Music.Categories: Science & Math PhysicsGravity

For lovers of facts, students of popular culture, history buffs, and science enthusiasts, the fascinating stories behind 500 everyday items, expressions, a...

Sidney Poitier is One of the Most Revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model...

Directing His Polemics Against The Pedantry Of His Time, Galileo, As His Own Popularizer, Addressed His Writings To Contemporary Laymen. His Support Of Cope...

Chronicles the history of America's secret counterterrorist unit, tells how members are recruited and trained, and explains its key role in the Iran hostage...

A thought-provoking and concise rebuttal to E.O. Wilson's Consilience In his best-seller Consilience, E.O. Wilson presented a blueprint for the reconciliat...

gene Kranz Was Present At The Creation Of America's Manned Space Program And Was A Key Player In It For Three Decades. As A Flight Director In Nasa's Missi...

“The F*ck It Diet is not only hilarious, it is scientifically and medically sound. A must read for any chronic dieter.” –Christiane Northrup, MD, New...

This book chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent the view of the Earth over the...

How do we understand the world? While some look to the heavens for intelligent design, others argue that it is determined by information encoded in DNA. S...

militant Atheism Is On The Rise. In Recent Years Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, And Christopher Hitchens Have Produced A Steady Stream Of Be...

Evaluates Theodore Roosevelt's Role In Launching Modern Conservationsim, Identifying The Contributions Of Such Influences As James Audubon And John Muir Whi...

Golda Meir was the first female head of state in the Western world and one of the most influential women in modern history. A blend of Emma Goldman and Ma...

#1 New York Times Bestseller?Peter Schweizer says that, in a quarter-century as an investigative journalist, this is the scariest investigation he has ever ...

Popular marriage counselor and seminar leader John Gray provides a unique, practical and proven way for men and women to communicate and relate better by a...

The Popular Comedian Traces Her Youth In Atlanta's Most Troubled Neighborhood At The Height Of The Crack Epidemic, Discussing Her Experiences With Petty Cri...

covering Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, The Various Branches Of Biology, And Geology, This Book Is The Perfect Introduction To The History Of Science. A C...

An Exhilarating History Of Humankind, Chronicling Thousands Of Years Of Trial And Error--but Mostly Error--in The Rise Of Civilization Modern Humans Have Co...

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet...

The Pleasure of Finding Things Outis a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard Feynman—from interviews and speeches to lectures and printe...

The PETERSON FIRST GUIDE TO FISHES features 220 common and conspicuous fishes of North America, with full-color illustrations and a clear, precise descrip...

A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them. -The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest living scientists-...

An Absorbing History Of Changing Views Of What Fossils Are And How They Contribute To An Understanding Of The History Of The Earth. Rudwick Makes Ample Use ...

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize “The future is in our hands as never before, and this book explains the stakes like no other.” — Georg...

A Manual For Survival And Success That Asks The Most Important Question Today's Leaders, In Any Industry, Can Ask Themselves: What Would Google Do? To Demon...

David Mendell. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [388]-406).Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels Graphic NovelsBiographies & History