The Science of Consequences
How They Affect Genes, Change the Brain, and Impact Our World
Written by Susan M. Schneider

Format: eBook
On Sale: December 11, 2012
Price: $12.99

Featuring illustrative human, pet, and wild-animal anecdotes, this book is a unique and fascinating introduction to a science that is truly epic in scope. Children quickly learn that actions have consequences. This elementary lesson is repeated again and again throughout adulthood as we adjust our behaviors according to the reactions they... Read more >

Use Your Brain to Change Your Age
Secrets to Look, Feel, and Think Younger Every Day
Written by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $11.99

THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH IS BETWEEN YOUR EARS.

A healthy brain is the key to staying vibrant and alive for a long time, and in Use Your Brain to Change Your Age, bestselling author and brain expert Dr. Daniel G. Amen shares ten simple steps to boost your brain to help you
live... Read more >

The Journey of Man
A Genetic Odyssey
Written by Spencer Wells

Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2012
Price: $11.99

Around 60,000 years ago, a man—genetically identical to us—lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up as the father of us all? What happened to the descendants of other men who lived at the same time? And why, if modern humans... Read more >

A Briefer History of Time

Written by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.99

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORS

The science classic made more accessible
• More concise • Illustrated

FROM ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT MINDS OF OUR TIME COMES A BOOK THAT CLARIFIES HIS MOST IMPORTANT IDEAS
 
Stephen Hawking’s worldwide bestseller A Brief History of Time remains a landmark volume in scientific writing. But for years...

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Pale Blue Dot
A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Written by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan

Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2011
Price: $13.99

"FASCINATING . . . MEMORABLE . . . REVEALING . . . PERHAPS THE BEST OF CARL SAGAN'S BOOKS."
--The Washington Post Book World (front page review)

In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around... Read more >

God and the Atom

Written by Victor J. Stenger

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $12.99

This history of atomism, from Democritus to the recent discovery of the Higgs boson, chronicles one of the most successful scientific hypotheses ever devised, making the case that in the final analysis, atoms and the void are all that exists. Originating separately in both ancient Greece and India, the concept of... Read more >

The Master Switch
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Written by Tim Wu

Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $13.99

In this age of an open Internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some ruthless monopoly or cartel. With all our media now traveling a single network, an unprecedented potential is building for centralized control over what... Read more >

Cracking the AP Biology Exam, 2013 Edition (Revised)

Written by Princeton Review

Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $12.99

If you need to know it, it’s in this book!

This eBook version of the revised 2013 edition of Cracking the AP Biology Exam has been optimized for on-screen viewing with cross-linked questions, answers, and explanations, and includes: 

   • 2 full-length practice tests with detailed explanations
   • An overview of the subject matter changes... Read more >

Empires of Light
Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Written by Jill Jonnes

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 19, 2003
Price: $13.99

In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless... Read more >

Darwin's Ghosts
The Secret History of Evolution
Written by Rebecca Stott

Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $12.99

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“[An] extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging book [about] the men who shaped the work of Charles Darwin . . . a book that enriches our understanding of how the struggle to think new thoughts is shared across time and space and people.”—The Sunday Telegraph (London)
 
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