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Join "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.An Instant New York Times Bestseller#1 Los Angeles Times BestsellerLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for...
New York Times BestsellerLonglisted for the Baillie Gifford PrizeShortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year“A fearless investigation into how we have become hooked.” —Financial TimesA manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body.It’s...
The Nobel Prize winner offers "an ideal introduction to the theories of special and general relativity" in clear, comprehensible language(Nature). A renowned mathematician and philosopher, and as well as recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bertrand Russell was...
Winner of 2014 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Best Young Adult Science BookLonglisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardOne of Nature's Summer Book PicksOne of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring 2013 Science BooksFor centuries, we've toyed with our...
In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been...
Discover the fascinating stories behind 300 species of fungi and understand the world of mushrooms like never before!Did you know that fungi put the fizz in champagne and the flavor in chocolate? Fungi is everywhere we look: in a forest, under the sea, and in the...
"Explores a dimension of synesthesia long encountered in reports of synesthetes: its relation to mystical and artistic vision . . . fascinating accounts." —Patricia Lynne Duffy, author of Blue Cats and Chartreuse KittensWhat does blue taste like to you?A violinist...
"For the lover of all things lepidopterous, The Book of Caterpillars is a beautifully curated collection and guide to 600 species from around the globe." —The American Biology TeacherWhile most of us picture caterpillars as cute fuzzballs munching on leaves, there is...
One of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes...
Deceit, lying, and falsehoods lie at the very heart of our cultural heritage. Even the founding myth of the Judeo-Christian tradition, the story of Adam and Eve, revolves around a lie. We have been talking, writing and singing about deception ever since Eve told God,...