Science:

Earth
An Intimate History
Written by Richard Fortey

Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $20.00

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Planetology
Unlocking the Secrets of the Solar System
Written by Tom Jones and Ellen Stofan

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $35.00

In a stunning and completely new view of the solar system, an astronaut and a geologist team up to investigate, through parallel views made possible by cutting-edge space technology, how the earth itself can help science unravel the mysteries of the heavens.

Noted planetary geologist Ellen Stofan and veteran astronaut Tom Jones... Read more >

Hot Air
Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge
Written by Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard and Nic Rivers

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $18.99

Here’s a clear, believable book for Canadians concerned about our situation — and it offers a solution.

It’s a brilliant mix. To “Canada’s best mind on the environment,” Mark Jaccard, who won the 2006 Donner Prize for an academic book in this area, you add Nic Rivers, a researcher who works with... Read more >

Cool It
The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Written by Bjorn Lomborg

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $14.95

A startling book that reshapes the debate about global warming and offers a moderate approach to meeting its challenges.

Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered—the Kyoto Protocol, for example—have a staggering potential cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, but, ultimately, will have little... Read more >

Earth
The Biography
Written by Iain Steward and John Lynch

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2008
Price: $35.00

After four and a half billion years, our planet is approaching old age—the perfect time to look back on an extraordinary life. In Earth: The Biography, renowned science writers Iain Steward and John Lynch use groundbreaking imagery and the latest scientific discoveries to tell the epic story of Earth’s birth, life... Read more >

Snowball Earth
The Story of a Maverick Scientist and His Theory of the Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life As We Know It
Written by Gabrielle Walker

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95

Did the Earth once undergo a super ice age, one that froze the entire planet from the poles to the equator? In Snowball Earth, gifted writer Gabrielle Walker has crafted an intriguing global adventure story, following maverick scientist Paul Hoffman’s quest to prove a theory so audacious and profound that it... Read more >

Cool It

Written by Bjorn Lomborg

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $14.95

A startling book that reshapes the debate about global warming and offers a moderate approach to meeting its challenges.

Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered—the Kyoto Protocol, for example—have a staggering potential cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, but, ultimately, will have little... Read more >

The Last Forest
The Amazon in the Age of Globalization
Written by Mark London and Brian Kelly

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2007
Price: $25.95

With a landmass larger than the continental U.S. west of the Mississippi and the richest diversity of plant and animal species on earth, the Amazon has always struck its explorers and would-be exploiters as infinite and largely impenetrable. For decades, anthropologists assumed that permanent human habitation was impossible–but they were wrong... Read more >

The Last Forest
The Amazon in the Age of Globalization
Written by Mark London and Brian Kelly

Format: eBook
On Sale: February 6, 2007
Price: $25.95

With a landmass larger than the continental U.S. west of the Mississippi and the richest diversity of plant and animal species on earth, the Amazon has always struck its explorers and would-be exploiters as infinite and largely impenetrable. For decades, anthropologists assumed that permanent human habitation was impossible–but they were wrong... Read more >

Berkeley Rocks
Building with Nature
Written by Jonathan Chester and Dave Weinstein

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2007
Price: $35.00

The Berkeley hills offer great natural beauty and sensitive landscape design that skillfully incorporates the architecture into the natural environment. In the early 20th century, architects inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement worked to integrate the hills' large outcrops of rock (known to geologists as Northbrae rhyolite) into the city's... Read more >

Earth
An Intimate History
Written by Richard Fortey

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $20.00

In Earth, the acclaimed author of Trilobite! and Life takes us on a grand tour of the earth’s physical past, showing how the history of plate tectonics is etched in the landscape around us.

Beginning with Mt. Vesuvius, whose eruption in Roman times helped spark the science of geology, and ending... Read more >

Snowball Earth
The Story of a Maverick Scientist and His Theory of the Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life As We Know It
Written by Gabrielle Walker

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2004
Price: $13.95

Did the Earth once undergo a super ice age, one that froze the entire planet from the poles to the equator? In Snowball Earth, gifted writer Gabrielle Walker has crafted an intriguing global adventure story, following maverick scientist Paul Hoffman’s quest to prove a theory so audacious and profound that it... Read more >