The Fabric of the Cosmos
Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
Written by Brian Greene
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $16.95
From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists and author the Pulitzer Prize finalist
The Elegant Universe, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.
Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most...
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Good Calories, Bad Calories
Written by Gary Taubes
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $12.99
For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet despite this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates, like...
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Toms River
A Story of Science and Salvation
Written by Dan Fagin
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $28.00
“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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Science Set Free
10 Paths to New Discovery
Written by Rupert Sheldrake
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $26.00
The bestselling author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home offers an intriguing new assessment of modern day science that will radically change the way we view what is possible.
In
Science Set Free (originally published to acclaim in the UK as
The Science Delusion), Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the...
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Use Your Brain to Change Your Age
Secrets to Look, Feel, and Think Younger Every Day
Written by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2013
Price: $16.00
From the bestselling author and PBS star, a brain healthy program to turn back the clock, and keep your mind sharp and your body fit.
For more than 20 years, Dr. Daniel Amen has been helping people look and feel young, healthy, and vibrant with his brain healthy strategies. Now, he shares...
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Isaac's Storm
A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Written by Erik Larson
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2000
Price: $15.95
National BestsellerSeptember 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in...
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Hallucinations
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $13.99
Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing?
Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. People with migraines...
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The Information
A History, A Theory, A Flood
Written by James Gleick
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $16.95
A New York Times Notable Book
A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year
Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and...
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Cosmos
Written by Carl Sagan
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2011
Price: $7.99
This visually stunning book with over 250 full-color illustrations, many of them never before published, is based on Carl Sagan’s thirteen-part television series. Told with Sagan’s remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting,
Cosmos is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up...
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