Bald Eagle
Haunts and Habits of a Wilderness Monarch
Written by Jon M. Gerrard and Gary R. Bortolotti

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: April 17, 1988
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-87474-451-4 (0-87474-451-2)

The Bald Eagle is a comprehensive description of the morphology, behavior, flight patterns, hunting, migration, nesting, development, and growth of bald eagles.

“A gold mine of information on the bald eagle. It is well written and discusses many aspects of the bald eagle’s life lacking or barely mentioned in other works.”–Audubon Naturalist... Read more >

'Isms & 'Ologies
All the movements, ideologies and doctrines that have shaped our world
Written by Arthur Goldwag

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27907-1 (0-307-27907-3)

From Platonism to New Historicism, humankind is constantly coming up with fresh schools of thought to help explain (or at least describe) the mysterious world around us. Here is the ultimate guide to over 450 of the most significant intellectual terms, movements, and religions that help shape the society we live... Read more >

The Future
Six Drivers of Global Change
Written by Al Gore

Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-9294-6 (0-8129-9294-6)

From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.

Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he... Read more >

Sizing Up the Universe
The Cosmos in Perspective
Written by J. Richard Gott and Robert J. Vanderbei

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0651-1 (1-4262-0651-8)

Sizing Up the Universe reveals an ingenious new way to envision the outsize proportions of space, based on the work of Princeton University professors Richard Gott and Robert Vanderbei. Using scaled maps, object comparisons, and space photographs, it demonstrates the actual size of objects in the cosmos –from Buzz Aldrin’s historic... Read more >

Deep Simplicity
Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
Written by John Gribbin

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: April 5, 2005
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6256-0 (1-4000-6256-X)

Over the past two decades, no field of scientific inquiry has had a more striking impact across a wide array of disciplines–from biology to physics, computing to meteorology–than that known as chaos and complexity, the study of complex systems. Now astrophysicist John Gribbin draws on his expertise to explore, in prose... Read more >

Embryogenesis
Species, Gender, and Identity
Written by Richard Grossinger
Illustrated by Phoebe Gloeckner and Jillian O'Malley

Format: Hardcover, 952 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: April 28, 2000
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 978-1-55643-359-7 (1-55643-359-X)

Embryogenesis completes an ethnographer's 22-year study of the origins and boundaries of the universe. Echoing Sheldon Nuland's How We Die, Sogyal Rinpoche's Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, and many other sources, this book makes the vital link between science and religion as it discusses the evolution of the species. Touching... Read more >

Primate Taxonomy

Written by Colin Groves

Format: Hardcover, 350 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: April 17, 2001
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 978-1-56098-872-4 (1-56098-872-X)

In this book, Colin Groves proposes a complete taxonomy of living primates, reviewing the history and practice of their classification and providing an up-to-date synthesis of recent molecular and phylogenetic research. He contends that the taxonomic designation of individual species is the starting point for conservation, and that the taxonomy of... Read more >

Adventures from the Technology Underground
Catapults, Pulsejets, Rail Guns, Flamethrowers, Tesla Coils, Air Cannons, and the Garage Warriors Who Love Them
Written by William Gurstelle

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Potter Style
On Sale: January 23, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-35125-8 (0-307-35125-4)

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Whoosh Boom Splat
The Garage Warrior's Guide to Building Projectile Shooters
Written by William Gurstelle

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Potter Style
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-33948-5 (0-307-33948-3)

Whoosh Boom Splat is the hands-on, follow-up to Adventures from the Technology Underground. From the spud gun and the larger potato cannon (both powered by air), to the ancient catapult, the Yagua Blowpipe to the Marshmallow Shooter and the always-popular Pulsejet, Gurstelle walks the reader through each machine's historical origins... Read more >

Staying Healthy with Nutrition, rev
The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine
Written by Elson Haas and Buck Levin

Format: Trade Paperback, 944 pages
Publisher: Celestial Arts
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 978-1-58761-179-7 (1-58761-179-1)

The 21st-century edition of this groundbreaking work by Dr. Elson Haas with Dr. Buck Levin presents the most current health and nutrition information available in an easy-to-use format with a friendly, engaging tone. Decades of practical experience and scientific research are compiled into one encyclopedic volume that features newly expanded chapters... Read more >

The Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New Dimension
Einstein Adds a New Dimension
Written by Joy Hakim

Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: November 1, 2007
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-162-4 (1-58834-162-3)

Joy Hakim’s The Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New Dimension brings us to the recent past and the groundbreaking discoveries made in it: the quantum world, the theory of relativity, and nuclear physics. These discoveries created our modern world, from solar-powered calculators to cell phones to global positioning systems and... Read more >

The Story of Science: Newton at the Center
Newton at the Center
Written by Joy Hakim

Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: November 1, 2005
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-161-7 (1-58834-161-5)

In volume two, students will watch as Copernicus’s systematic observations place the sun at the center of our universe–to the dismay of establishment thinkers. After students follow the achievements and frustrations of Galileo, Kepler, and Descartes, they will appreciate the amazing Isaac Newton, whose discoveries about gravity, motion, colors, calculus, and... Read more >

Wisdom
From Philosophy to Neuroscience
Written by Stephen S. Hall

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38968-8 (0-307-38968-5)

We all recognize wisdom, but defining it is more elusive. In this fascinating journey from philosophy to science, Stephen S. Hall gives us a penetrating history of wisdom, from its sudden emergence in the fifth century B.C. to its modern manifestations in education, politics, and the workplace. Hall’s bracing exploration of... Read more >

Eating in the Dark
America's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food
Written by Kathleen Hart

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72498-5 (0-375-72498-2)

Most Americans eat genetically modified food on a daily basis, but few of us are aware we’re eating something that has been altered. Meanwhile, consumers abroad refuse to buy our engineered crops; their groceries are labeled so that everyone knows if the contents have been modified. What’s going on here? Why... Read more >

Black Holes and Baby Universes
And Other Essays
Written by Stephen Hawking

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: September 1, 1994
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-37411-7 (0-553-37411-7)

This book is a collection of fascinating and illuminating essays, and a remarkable interview broadcast by the BBC on Christmas Day, 1992. The fourteen pieces reveal Hawking variously as the scientist, the man, the concerned world citizen, and-always-the rigorous and imaginative thinker. Hawking's wit, directness of style, and absence of pomp... Read more >

A Brief History of Time

Written by Stephen Hawking

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: September 1, 1998
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38016-3 (0-553-38016-8)

Introduction by Carl Sagan. Hawking's classic A Brief History of Time expertly guides students to the supreme questions of the nature of physics, time and the universe: Was there a beginning of time? Will there be an end? Is the universe infinite? Is it possible to unite all branches of physics?... Read more >

A Brief History of Time
And Other Essays
Written by Stephen Hawking

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: September 1, 1998
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-10953-5 (0-553-10953-7)

Introduction by Carl Sagan. Hawking's classic A Brief History of Time expertly guides students to the supreme questions of the nature of physics, time and the universe: Was there a beginning of time? Will there be an end? Is the universe infinite? Is it possible to unite all branches of physics?... Read more >

The Grand Design

Written by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38466-6 (0-553-38466-X)

When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent “grand design” of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motion—or does science offer another explanation? In this startling and lavishly illustrated book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard... Read more >

Science Matters
Achieving Scientific Literacy
Written by Robert M. Hazen and James Trefil

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45458-4 (0-307-45458-4)

Knowledge of the basic ideas and principles of science is fundamental to cultural literacy. But most books on science are often too obscure or too specialized to do the general reader much good.

Science Matters is a rare exception-a science book for the general reader that is informative enough to be a... Read more >

Red Fox
The Catlike Canine
Written by J. David Henry

Format: Trade Paperback, 174 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: June 17, 1996
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-56098-635-5 (1-56098-635-2)

In this engaging introduction to the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), J. David Henry recounts his years of field research on this flame-colored predator. With its catlike whiskers, teeth, and paws, as well as vertical-slit pupils, the North American red fox not only resembles but often behaves like a feline, especially when... Read more >

Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity
Standard Methods for Amphibians
Edited by Ronald Heyer, Maureen A. Donnelly, Mercedes Foster and Roy Mcdiarmid

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: February 17, 1994
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 978-1-56098-284-5 (1-56098-284-5)

Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of standard methods for biodiversity sampling of amphibians, with information on analyzing and using data that will interest biologists in general.

In this manual, nearly fifty herpetologists recommend ten standard sampling procedures for measuring and monitoring amphibian and many... Read more >

The Ingenuity Gap
Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable Future
Written by Thomas Homer-Dixon

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 13, 2002
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71328-6 (0-375-71328-X)

Despite all of society’s advances, our problems proliferate. Wars abound, environmental degradation accelerates, economies topple overnight, and pandemics such as AIDS and tuberculosis continue to spread. The Internet and other media help to disseminate knowledge, but they’ve also created an “info-glut” and left us too little time to process it. What’s... Read more >

The End of Science

Written by John Horgan

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: May 5, 1997
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-06174-1 (0-553-06174-7)

Available in an economical paperback edition, The End of Science has set off a firestorm of debate since its hardcover publication in 1996. John Horgan's thesis-that we are near (or, in some areas have already reached) the limits of empirical investigations in understanding, interpreting, and assimilating the "truths" about our universe-challenges... Read more >

Mother Nature
Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
Written by Sarah Hrdy

Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-40893-8 (0-345-40893-4)

~Library Journal Best Book of 1999~

Maternal instinct--the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that mothers lavish on their children--has long been assumed to be an innate, indeed defining element of a woman's nature. But is it? In this provocative, groundbreaking book, renowned anthropologist (and mother) Sarah Blaffer Hrdy shares a radical new vision... Read more >

The GigaLaw Guide to Internet Law
The One-Stop Legal Resource for Conducting Business Online
Written by Doug Isenberg

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 22, 2002
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-9198-7 (0-8129-9198-2)

Advance praise for The GigaLaw Guide to Internet Law

"An excellent introduction for beginner and expert alike."—Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School

“I read this book from cover to cover. The examples of case law are of enormous illustrative value. Some of them will raise your blood pressure (well, mine went up several... Read more >