A fascinating, thought-provoking journey into our built environment

Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and gyms. And yet, in many ways, the indoor world remains unexplored territory. For all the time we spend inside buildings, we rarely stop to...

Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world’s most elusive fish—the eel—and a reflection on the human condition

Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scientists and philosophers have, for centuries, been obsessed with what has become known as the...

"I regard him as right and compassionate on nearly every major issue." — Stephen Jay Gould

A radical argument about the root causes of climate change, The Closing Circle was progressive when it was written in 1971 and its message remains increasingly relevant today. Barry Commoner, the father of modern ecology, claims that production for profit creates...

A hymn to walking, the mechanical magic at the core of our humanity.

Walking upright on two feet is a uniquely human skill. It enabled us to migrate out of Africa and to spread as far as Alaska and Australia. Every day, we put one foot in front of the other—yet how many of us know how we do that, or appreciate the advantages it gives us?

Neuroscientist...

For thousands of years, we’ve found ways to scorch, scour, and sterilize our surroundings to make them safer. Sometimes these methods are wonderfully effective. Often, however, they come with vast unintended consequences—typically not truly understood for generations.
 
The Chemical Age tells the captivating story of the scientists who waged war on famine...

Chemistry is all about what's happening in the air, under the sea and ground, and inside every living thing — including you! With 46 pages of fun-to-color illustrations and fact-filled captions, children ages 8 to 12 can explore atoms and molecules, why carbon is so important, how our bodies break down food, what is causing global warming, and much more.

THE GODFATHER OF GREEN: AN ECO-SPIRITUAL MEMOIR shows one person finding his place over many years as an active participant in three major environmental movements, beginning with the first Earth Day in 1970, up to the present Climate Crisis. 

During that time, Jerry Yudelson actively studied meditation and mindfulness practices under the guidance of two...

Success is a slippery, fickle thing. How much is down to luck, being in the right place at the right time or knowing the right people, and how much to innate talent? Why are some people less successful than others? Taking as its frame of reference the stories of fifty inventors who lost out on the fame that their genius might otherwise have merited, The...

Parting and Enduring is a dialectical effort to understand some consequences of the principle of evolution that threaten the survival of mankind very clearly and directly.

Although it has become commonplace to say and hear that humanity faces global perils, we try to explain how true this actually is by identifying these dangers.

For instance, we believe that...

Brain science is at the dawn of a new era—and the technologies emerging as a result could forever alter what it means to be human. 

Welcome to what tech pioneer and inventor Tan Le calls “the NeuroGeneration.” It will blow your mind. 

The human brain is perhaps the most powerful and mysterious arrangement of matter in the known universe. New discoveries...

What is as unique as your fingerprints and more revealing than your diary? Hint: Your body is emitting them right now and has been every single day of your life. 

Brainwaves. 

Analyzing brainwaves, the imperceptible waves of electricity surging across your scalp, has been possible for nearly a century. But only now are neuroscientists becoming aware of...

THE SCIENCE OF DEFYING GRAVITY is a middle-grade STEM based fiction. 11 yr old Cassie films her life. She loves movies and dreams of becoming a movie director in space. When her plans to go to Space Camp are derailed by the closing of the plant her dad works for she must win a science fair to earn a scholarship to attend. Spunk, a caring teacher, an...

A timely overview of many recent, important scientific discoveries, providing insights into humanity's place in the universe.

Reflections on a Surprising Universe takes the reader beyond the headlines of the latest scientific breakthroughs, translating complicated topics into an understandable narrative. It covers a wide array of scientific developments in...

Free yourself from cosmological tyranny!

Everything started in a big bang? Invisible dark matter? Black holes? Why accept such a weird cosmos?

For all those who wonder about this bizarre universe, and those who want to overthrow the big bang, this handbook gives you 'just the facts': the observations that have shaped these ideas and theories.

While the big...

Sometimes solving climate change seems impossibly complex, and it is hard to know what changes we all can and should make to help.

This book offers hope. Drawing on the latest research, Mark Jaccard shows us how to recognize the absolutely essential actions (decarbonizing electricity and transport) and policies (regulations that phase out coal plants and...

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A stunning work of experiential reportage illuminating what fear does to us and how it’s key to both staying and...

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A therapist reveals the role of videogames in the lives of his patients, writing in the tradition of Oliver Sacks
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Sleep. Memory. Pleasure. Fear. Language. We experience these things every day, but how do our brains create them? 

Your Brain, Explained is a personal tour around your gray matter. Neuroscientist Marc Dingman gives you a crash course in how your brain works and explains the latest research on the brain functions that affect you on a daily basis.

You'll...