Science and Technics

You Are Here

by Christopher Potter

You Are Here is a dazzling exploration of the universe and our relationship to it, as seen through the lens of today's most cutting-edge scientific thinking. Here, for the first time in a single span, is the...

Passions and Tempers

by Noga Arikha

The humours—blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler—were substances thought to circulate within the body and determine a person's health, mood, and character. For example, an excess of black bile was considered...

A New Human

by Mike Morwood & Penny Van Oosterzee

In October 2004, a team of Australian and Indonesian anthropologists led by Mike Morwood and Raden Pandji Soejono stunned the world with their announcement of the discovery of the first example of a new species...

Flotsametrics and the Floating World

by Curtis Ebbesmeyer & Eric Scigliano

Pioneering oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer unravels the mystery of marine currents, uncovers the astonishing story of flotsam, and changes the world's view of trash, the ocean, and our global environment.

Curtis...

The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope

by Ronald Florence

Almost a half-century after is completion, the 200-inch Palomar telescope remains an unparalleled combination of vast scale and microscope detail. As huge as the Pantheon of Rome and as heavy as the Statue of...

Clone: The Road To Dolly, And The Path Ahead

by Gina Kolata

The birth of Dolly -- the world's first clone -- placed in our hands the secret of creation. Few discoveries have so altered our notion of what it means to be human, or presented such a Gordian knot of ethical,...

Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are

by Steven R. Quartz & Terrence J. Sejnowski

This exciting, timely book combines cutting-edge findings in neuroscience with examples from history and recent headlines to offer new insights into who we are. Introducing the new science of cultural biology,...

What Have You Changed Your Mind About?

by John Brockman

Even geniuses change their minds sometimes.

Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online intellectual salon, recently asked 150 high-powered thinkers to discuss their most telling missteps and reconsiderations:...

Cosmic Adventure

by Bob Berman

Have you ever wondered what happened before the Big Bang, or how we would colonize Mars, or what an alien invasion might really be like? Astronomer Bob Berman has, and in Cosmic Adventure, a collection of twenty-six...

The One Hundred

by Nina Garcia

"Simply put, these items make me feel classic. And there is no substitute for feeling this way. Ever."

In the wildly popular The Little Black Book of Style, fashion authority Nina Garcia showed women how to think...

The Hungry Scientist Handbook

by Patrick Buckley & Lily Binns

Inventive, (mostly) edible DIY gadgets and projects guaranteed to captivate

The Hungry Scientist Handbook brings DIY technology into the kitchen and onto the plate. It compiles the most mouthwatering projects...

Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys

by Rob Dunn

Biologists and laypeople alike have repeatedly claimed victory over life. A thousand years ago we thought we knew almost everything; a hundred years ago, too. But even today, Rob Dunn argues, discoveries we...

Dark Cosmos

by Dan Hooper

The twentieth century was astonishing in all regards, shaking the foundations of practically every aspect of human life and thought, physics not least of all. Beginning with the publication of Albert Einstein's...

Lonely Planets

by David Grinspoon

It's been nearly four decades since Carl Sagan first addressed the general public from a scientist's perspective, confronting the possibility of extraterrestrial life. We've learned a lot in those years, and...

Blame It on the Rain: How the Weather has Changed History

by Laura Lee

An amazing, enlightening, and endlessly entertaining look at how weather has shaped our world.

Throughout history, great leaders have fallen, the outcomes of mighty battles have been determined, and the tides...

Better Off

by Eric Brende

What happens when a graduate of MIT, the bastion of technological advancement, and his bride move to a community so primitive in its technology that even Amish groups consider it antiquated?

Eric Brende conceives...

Becoming a Tiger: The Education of an Animal Child

by Susan Mccarthy

From the co–author of the New York Times bestseller When Elephants Weep comes a book that uses true stories backed by scientific research to explore the way young animals discover their worlds and learn how...

Head Case

by Dennis Cass

When journalist Dennis Cass was nineteen years old his stepfather, Bill, suffered from a psychotic break. Cass tried to commit him to a mental institution only to watch Bill escape from a cab en route to a Harlem...

"Live from Cape Canaveral"

by Jay Barbree

Some fifty years ago, while a cub reporter, Jay Barbree caught space fever the night that Sputnik passed over Georgia. He moved to the then-sleepy village of Cocoa Beach, Florida, right outside Cape Canaveral,...

How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do

by Sharon Moalem

Why are women biologically driven to find Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome?

Can more sex help ensure a safe pregnancy?

What effect does pornography have on a man's fertility?

In this compelling follow-up to the New...