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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Hallucinations
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $11.99
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 Hidden Reality
Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
Written by Brian Greene
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $16.95
The bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos tackles perhaps the most mind-bending question in modern physics and cosmology: Is our universe the only universe?
There was a time when "universe" meant all there is. Everything. Yet, a number of theories are converging on the possibility that...
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The Drunkard's Walk
How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Written by Leonard Mlodinow
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.95
With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades and political polls are less reliable than we believe.
By showing us the true nature of...
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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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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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Fingerprints of the Gods
The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
Written by Graham Hancock
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: April 2, 1996
Price: $19.95
The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that was destroyed and obliterated from human memory. Four 8-page photo inserts.
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The Invisible Gorilla
How Our Intuitions Deceive Us
Written by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $15.00
Reading this book will make you
less sure of yourself—and that’s a good thing. In
The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, creators of one of psychology’s most famous experiments, use remarkable stories and counterintuitive scientific findings to demonstrate an important truth:
Our minds don’t work the way we think...
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Science Set Free
10 Paths to New Discovery
Written by Rupert Sheldrake
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $11.99
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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