A Short History of Nearly Everything
Written by Bill Bryson
Read by Bill Bryson
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 6, 2003
Price: $14.98
One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In
In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of...
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Demon-Haunted World
Science as a Candle in the Dark
Written by Carl Sagan
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2011
Price: $13.99
"A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought."
*Los Angeles Times
"POWERFUL . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality. . . Rich in surprising information and beautiful writing."
*The...
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Toms River
A Story of Science and Salvation
Written by Dan Fagin
Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $13.99
“A thrilling journey through the twists and turns of cancer epidemiology, Toms River is essential reading for our times. Dan Fagin handles topics of great complexity with the dexterity of a scholar, the honesty of a journalist, and the dramatic skill of a novelist.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Emperor of...
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The Female Brain
Written by Louann Brizendine, M.D.
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Price: $24.95
Every brain begins as a female brain. It only becomes male eight weeks after conception, when excess testosterone shrinks the communications center, reduces the hearing cortex, and makes the part of the brain that processes sex twice as large.
Louann Brizendine, M.D. is a pioneering neuropsychiatrist who brings together the latest...
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Pale Blue Dot
A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Written by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 8, 1997
Price: $16.00
"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...
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Evolution
Written by Jean-Baptiste De Panafieu
Photographed by Patrick Gries
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2011
Price: $45.00
Now updated and presented in a smaller format with fifteen new gorgeous photographs,
Evolution steps beyond the debate and presents the undeniable truth of Darwin's theory, showing through skeletons both obscure and commonplace, but always intriguing, the process by which life has transformed itself, again and again.
Here is a powerful pairing...
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