Overview :NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives,... Read More
Overview :"Merchants of Doubt should finally put to rest the question of whether the science of climate change is settled. It is, and we ignore this m... Read More
Overview :A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American popu... Read More
Overview :One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from--and how our selves can exist in the minds o... Read More
Overview :BEWARE THE HARE Is he or isn't he a vampire? Before it's too late, Harold the dog and Chester the cat must find out the truth about the ne... Read More
Overview :An elegant, text-only paperback edition of the New York Times bestseller that's been hailed as the definitive authority on...everything. Ric... Read More
Overview :Continuing his groundbreaking examination of our "Anthropocene Epoch," which he began with The Social Conquest of Earth, described by the Ne... Read More
Overview :In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vani... Read More
Overview :In this powerful critique, the esteemed historian and philosopher of science Evelyn Fox Keller addresses the nature-nurture debates, includi... Read More
Overview :Carl Sagan's prophetic vision of the tragic resurgence of fundamentalism and the hope-filled potential of the next great development in huma... Read More
Overview :The first comprehensive introduction to information theory, this book places the work begun by Shannon and continued by McMillan, Feinstein,... Read More
Overview :All life in all worlds -this was the object of the author's seventeen-year quest for knowledge and discovery, culminating in this book. In a... Read More
Overview :Named A Best Book of the Year by World MagazineThroughout his distinguished and unconventional career, engineer-turned-molecular-biologist D... Read More
Overview :The first comprehensive introduction to information theory, this book places the work begun by Shannon and continued by McMillan, Feinstein,... Read More
Overview :A penetrating exploration of the new physics, including time travel, quantum computers, and the multiverse - as referenced in the film "Aven... Read More
Overview :As a physicist, Alan Lightman has always held a scientific view of the world. But one summer evening, while looking at the stars from a smal... Read More
Overview :"Startling in scope and bravado." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world." --Los Angeles Times... Read More
Overview :Sam Harris's first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered th... Read More
Overview :"There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil."--Bill Gates An essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal... Read More