Science

Getting a good night's sleep has never been more important. How long we sleep and the quality of sleep that we are able…

While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have…

Drawing on the work of a wide range of thinkers from Georges Bataille to Donna Haraway, Pettman explores the…

From walking’s evolutionary origins, traced back millions of years to life forms on the ocean floor, to new findings…

Two powerful phenomena are simultaneously unfolding on Earth: the rise of the climate movement and the rise of women and…

It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that evolution, biology, and our destinies as humans are all about…

This book will help young readers ages 9-14 develop talents and learn to be imaginative, creative and determined. The…

Rana el Kaliouby is a rarity in both the tech world and her native Middle East: a Muslim leader and CEO, a woman in…

A science book like no other, The Where, the Why, and the How turns loose 75 of today's hottest artists onto life's vast…

In this international bestseller, renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Daniel Kahneman,…

As of 2018, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office had granted its ten millionth patent. But with over 500,000 applications…

Raising kids is challenging enough: potty training, making sure they sleep through the night, getting them to school on…

This book traces the stories of extinct creatures through their remains and their impact, featuring striking artworks…

Protecting wild animals and preserving the environment are two ideals so seemingly compatible as to be almost…

2,000 years ago, Euclid of Alexandria devised a strategy for measuring and mapping the world using spheres, cones,…

This book by a NASA educator examines 100 objects, from Stonehenge to Sputnik and beyond, that shaped what we know and…

Good Thinking is a grand tour of irrational thinking from across the world and throughout history, including the…

Gardeners are inherently curious. They make note of a plant label in a botanical garden and then go home to learn more.…

Lynn Brunelle, four-time Emmy Award-winning writer for the television series Bill Nye the Science Guy, describes her…

Spite seems utterly useless. You don't gain anything by hurting yourself just so you can hurt someone else. So why…

A journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos and a call for a more just practice of science from one of…

As more and more people are becoming aware of the inhumane conditions of factory farming, this book offers a solution…

Can machines really think? Or is the human mind itself just a complicated computer program? This uniquely illustrated…

Jonathan Miller explains Dawrin's life and his significant impact on biology through his rational foundation for modern…

Evolutionary psychologists are drawing on biology and varied fields like anthropology and primatology to create a…

This classic text is a brief and readable introduction for the general reader on one of the complicated, and easily…

A tree that sheds poison daggers. A glistening red seed that stops the heart. A shrub that causes paralysis. A vine that…

Managing pain and figuring out how it works can be difficult to navigate. In the words of Virginia Woolf, "Let a…