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  • Thermodynamic Weirdness

    From Fahrenheit to Clausius

    by Don S. Lemons ...
    Thermodynamics has never been easier to understand than in this non-mathematical account revealing the simplicity, principles, and key players of this fascinating branch of physics.Students of physics, chemistry, and engineering are taught classical thermodynamics through its methods—a “problems first” approach that neglects the subject’s concepts and intellectual structure. In Thermodynamic ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Hidden Reality

    Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

    by Brian Greene ...
    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 our universe may be but one among many parallel universes populating a vast ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Code Girls

    The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

    by Liza Mundy ...
    The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times) book that "shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history" (Denver Post).Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Outlandish

    Walking Europe’s Unlikely Landscapes

    by Nick Hunt ...
    In Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that shouldnot be there, wildernesses found in Europe yet seemingly belonging to far-off continents:a patch of Arctic tundra in Scotland; the continent's largest surviving remnant of primevalforest in Poland and Belarus; Europe's only true desert in Spain; and the fathomlessgrassland steppes of Hungary.From snow-capped ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Do Polar Bears Get Lonely

    And 101 other intriguing science questions

    by New Scientist ...
    Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? is the third compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly.Following the phenomenal success of Does Anything Eat Wasps? (2005) and the even more spectacularly successful Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? (2006), Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? includes a bumper crop of wise and wonderful ... Read more

    $9.99 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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  • Midnight in Chernobyl

    The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

    A New York Times Best Book of the YearA Time Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence WinnerOne of NPR’s Best Books of 2019Journalist Adam Higginbotham’s definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster—and a powerful in... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD $3.99 USD

  • 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 $2.99 USD

  • A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain

    **Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardRiveting stories of the brain on the brink, from an acclaimed cognitive neurologist.**Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here are gripping accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • A Brief History of Intelligence

    Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

    by Max Bennett ...
    “I found this book amazing. I read it through quickly because it was so interesting, then turned around and read much of it again.”—Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow“I've been recommending A Brief History of Intelligence to everyone I know. A truly novel, beautifully crafted thesis on what intelligence is and how it has developed ... Read more

    $17.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Call of the Reed Warbler

    A New Agriculture, A New Earth

    by Charles Massy ...
    “Charles Massy has written a definitive masterpiece that takes its place along with the writings of Aldo Leopold, Wendell Berry, Masanobu Fukuoka, Humberto Maturana, and Michael Pollan. No work has more brilliantly defined regenerative agriculture and the breadth of its restorative impact upon human health, biodiversity, climate, and ecological intelligence." --Paul HawkenIn Call of the Reed ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Systems Thinker

    The Systems Thinker Series, #1

    Series Book 1 - The Systems Thinker Series
    The second edition is now available!Find the optimal solutions to your problems. Gain a deep understanding of the "what, why, how, when, how much" questions of your life.Become a Systems Thinker and discover how to approach your life from a completely new perspective.What is systems thinking? Put it simply, thinking about how things interact with one another.Why should this matter to you? Because ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Genome

    The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

    by Matt Ridley ...
    “Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual differences, and even intelligence. . . . . He addresses not only the ethical quandaries faced by contemporary scientists but the reductionist danger in equating inheritability with inevitability.” — The New YorkerThe genome's been mapped. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Cosmos

    by Carl Sagan ...
    RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOXCosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Ultralearning

    Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

    Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller.Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Buffalo Creek Disaster

    How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought s uit against the coal company--and won

    The "suspenseful and completely absorbing story" (San Francisco Chronicle) of how survivors of the worst coal-mining disaster in history triumphed over corporate irresponsibility—written by the young lawyer who took on their case and won.One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How To

    Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

    AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**“How To will make you laugh as you learn…With How To, you can't help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of humanity's effort to comprehend it. If you want some lightweight edification, you won't go wrong with How To.” —CNET“[How To] has science and jokes in it, so 10/10 can recommend.” —Simone Giertz... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Being You

    A New Science of Consciousness

    by Anil Seth ...
    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Best Book of 2021—***Bloomberg Businessweek;***A Best Science Book of 2021—***The Guardian;***A Best Science Book of 2021—***Financial Times;***A Best Philosophy Book of 2021—Five Books; A Best Book of 2021—The EconomistAnil Seth's quest to understand the biological basis of conscious experience is one of the most exciting contributions to twenty-first-century science ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • All We Can Save

    Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.“A powerful read that fills one with, dare I say . . . hope?”—The New York Times**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINEThere is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hallucinations

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The "poet laureate of medicine" (The New York Times) and author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat weaves together stories of mind-altering experiences to reveal what they tell us about our brains, our folklore and culture, and why the potential for hallucination exists in us all."Sacks has turned hallucinations from something bizarre and frightening into something ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Functional Anatomy of Movement

    An Illustrated Guide to Joint Movement, Soft Tissue Control, and Myofascial Anatomy-- For yoga teachers, pilates instructors & movement & manual therapists

    by James Earls ...
    A unique and comprehensive approach to functional anatomy through the lens of myofascial continuities, from the coauthor of Fascial Release for Structural BalanceWhether we describe them as anatomy trains, myofascial chains, meridians, or slings—insights into the interconnected nature of fascial tissue have had a profound impact on our understanding of anatomy.The concept of tensegrity—the idea ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Stand out of our Light

    Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy

    Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. As information becomes ever more plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce is our attention. In this 'attention economy', we ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Heat Wave

    A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

    The “compelling” story behind the 1995 Chicago weather disaster that killed hundreds—and what it revealed about our broken society (Boston Globe).On July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index—how the temperature actually feels on the body—would hit 126. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; records ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Red Alert!

    Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge

    What the world needs today is a good dose of indigenous realism, says Native American scholar Daniel Wildcat in this thoughtful, forward-looking treatise. Red Alert! seeks to debunk the modern myths that humankind is the center of creation. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus