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  • Natural Wonders of the World

    Series series DK Wonders of the World
    Discover which of Earth's wonders should definitely make it onto your bucket list with this unparalleled survey of the world's natural treasures.Landscape photography combines 3D terrain models and other explanatory artworks to reveal what lies beneath the surface and how features form. To complete the all-around picture, the plants and animals that inhabit the environments are also included, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • You Are Here

    A Portable History of the Universe

    “A personal, brilliant, and often amusing account” of the universe and our place in it, and “an idiosyncratic, encyclopedic blitzkrieg of a book” (The Boston Globe).Here is the life of the universe, from quarks to galaxy superclusters and from slime to Homo sapiens. The universe was once a moment of perfect symmetry and is now 13.7 billion years of history. Clouds of gas were woven into whatever ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Genius Kitchen

    Over 100 Easy and Delicious Recipes to Make Your Brain Sharp, Body Strong, and Taste Buds Happy

    by Max Lugavere ...
    Series Book 3 - Genius Living
    USA TODAY BestsellerWALL STREET JOURNAL BestsellerCombining the dietary recommendations in his bestselling Genius Foods and the lifestyle recommendations of The Genius Life, Genius Kitchen features shockingly delicious, nutrient-packed recipes that will energize your mind, strengthen your body, and pave a path to health that you’ll feel with the first bite.Max Lugavere’s debut book Gen... ... Read more

    $21.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Secret Life of Plants

    A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man

    "Once in a while you find a book that stuns you. Its scope leaves you breathless. This is such a book." — John White, San Francisco ChronicleExplore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind, as uncovered by the latest discoveries of science. In this truly revolutionary and beloved work, drawn from remarkable research, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird cast light on the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Co-Intelligence

    Living and Working with AI

    by Ethan Mollick ...
    From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AISomething new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could do previously. Wharton professor Ethan ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Horse

    A Galloping History of Humanity

    From New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito, the incredible story of how the horse shaped human historyTimothy C. Winegard’s The Horse is an epic history unlike any other. Its story begins more than 5,500 years ago on the windswept grasslands of the Eurasian Steppe; when one human tamed one horse, an unbreakable bond was forged and the future of humanity was instantly rewritten, placing ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Devil's Gate

    Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy

    by David Roberts ...
    The little-known story of a deadly 1,300-mile trek by Mormon converts in 1856: “This compelling account of a major frontier catastrophe is hard to put down.” —BooklistIn 1856, led by the church’s second Prophet and new leader, Brigham Young, the Mormon faithful headed west to escape persecution. They arrived in what is now Utah the following year and established a new Zion in the wilderness. Nine ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Deep Utopia

    Life and Meaning in a Solved World

    by Nick Bostrom ...
    A greyhound catching the mechanical lure—what would he actually do with it? Has he given this any thought?Bostrom’s previous book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies changed the global conversation on AI and became a New York Times bestseller. It focused on what might happen if AI development goes wrong. But what if things go right?Suppose that we develop superintelligence safely, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Little Book of Aliens

    by Adam Frank ...
    “With wit and brio, Frank separates current nonsense about aliens from the serious and fascinating search for extraterrestrial life.” —Carlo Rovelli, New York Times bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on PhysicsFrom astrophysicist Adam Frank, a little book on the biggest questions in our search for extraterrestrial life, questions we stand ready to answer.Everyone is curious about life in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Reinventing Gravity

    A Physicist Goes Beyond Einstein

    A physicist presents a bold revision of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity that could represent “a paradigm shift not seen since Newton” (Publishers Weekly).Since the 1930s, physicists have noticed an alarming discrepancy between the universe as we see it and the universe that Einstein’s theory of relativity predicts. Galaxies spin so fast that, based on the amount of visible matter in them, they ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seven Days that Divide the World, 10th Anniversary Edition

    The Beginning According to Genesis and Science

    Now revised and updated--John Lennox's acclaimed method of reading and interpreting the first chapters of Genesis without discounting either science or Scripture.What did the writer of Genesis mean by "the first day?" Are the seven days in Genesis 1 a literal week or a series of time periods? If I believe that the earth is 4.5 billion years old as cosmologists believe, am I denying the authority ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • How Math Explains the World

    A Guide to the Power of Numbers, from Car Repair to Modern Physics

    “Explores the application of math to problem solving in the everyday. . . . [W]ill appeal to both casual and serious fans of math or physics.” —Publishers WeeklyIn How Math Explains the World, mathematician Stein reveals how seemingly arcane mathematical investigations and discoveries have led to bigger, more world-shaking insights into the nature of our world. In the four main sections of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ministry for the Future

    A Novel

    ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR**“The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem"If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein (Vox)**The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

    Series series Best American
    Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022.“What's most compelling about a scientific story is the way it challenges us to think about the concepts we take for granted,” writes guest editor Carl Zimmer in his introduction. The essays in this year’s Best American Science and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Dog's Life

    101 Stories about All the Ages and Stages of Our Canine Companions

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Dog’s Life honors all the memorable ages and stages of our lovable canine’s lives. Readers will laugh, cry, nod along with these heartwarming and inspiring stories.It’s a dog’s life. From puppyhood antics to the twilight years and saying goodbye, Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Dog’s Life captures the entire experience of living through the natural life cycle with our ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Is Math Real?

    How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths

    by Eugenia Cheng ...
    One of the world’s most creative mathematicians offers a new way to look at math—focusing on questions, not answersWhere do we learn math: From rules in a textbook? From logic and deduction? Not really, according to mathematician Eugenia Cheng: we learn it from human curiosity—most importantly, from asking questions. This may come as a surprise to those who think that math is about finding the one ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Swamp

    The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise

    “Brilliant.” —The Washington Post Book World * “Magnificent.” —The Palm Beach Post * “Rich in history yet urgently relevant to current events.” —The New RepublicThe Everglades i****n southern Florida were once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and Americans have launched the largest environmental project in history to try ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • More than a Glitch

    Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech

    When technology reinforces inequality, it’s not just a glitch—it’s a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world.The word “glitch” implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren’t just bugs in mostly functional machinery—what if they’re coded into the system itself? In the vein of heavy hitters ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Meet Your Dog

    The Game-Changing Guide to Understanding Your Dog's Behavior

    by Kim Brophey ...
    “Based on the latest findings in the field of canine cognition and behavior, this book is an invaluable resource.” —Hal Herzog, author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard To Think Straight About AnimalsEvery dog owner knows that along with the joy can come the stress and frustration of behavioral problems, which are expensive to diagnose and treat. Enter Kim Brophey, award ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Being Certain

    Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not

    You recognize when you know something for certain, right? You "know" the sky is blue, or that the traffic light had turned green, or where you were on the morning of September 11, 2001--you know these things, well, because you just do.In On Being Certain, neurologist Robert Burton challenges the notions of how we think about what we know. He shows that the feeling of certainty we have when we ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the 'Scientific Revolution.' New ideas and discoveries not only redefined what human beings believed, knew, and could do, but also forced them to redefine themselves with respect to the strange new worlds revealed by ships and scalpels, telescopes and microscopes, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • NEW KNOWLEDGE OF DOG BEHAVIOR

    Is it heredity or environment that shapes the dog? Researchers J.P. Scott and John L. Fuller, authors of Genetics and Social Behavior of the Dog, bred and cross-bred dogs in their quest to understand human heredity and behavior. Their research yielded a gold mine of data that Pfaffenberger turned into practical information for dog breeders and trainers. Learn about the critical stages of puppy ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inflamed Invisible

    Collected Writings on Art and Sound, 1976-2018

    by David Toop ...
    Series Book 2 - Goldsmiths Press / Sonics Series
    A rich collection of essays tracing the relationship between art and sound.In the 1970s David Toop became preoccupied with the possibility that music was no longer bounded by formalities of audience: the clapping, the booing, the short attention span, the demand for instant gratification. Considering sound and listening as foundational practices in themselves leads music into a thrilling new ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Wall of Birds

    One Planet, 243 Families, 375 Million Years

    A celebration of the diversity and evolution of birds, as depicted in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's magnificent 2,500-square-foot Wall of Birds mural by artist Jane Kim.Part homage, part artistic and sociological journey, The Wall of Birds tells the story of birds' remarkable 375-million-year evolution. With a foreword by John W. Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and full ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $1.99 USD