Larry J Siever, MD A leading psychiatrist provides a definitive study of the latest research into the brain and how it works, exploring a wide range of behavioral disorders, the...

Yuval Noah Harari From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power....

Buzz Aldrin Beloved American hero Buzz Aldrin reflects on the wisdom, guiding principles, and irreverent anecdotes he's gathered through his event-filled life—both in outer space and on earth—in this inspiring...

Robert WrightIn his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining...

Charles Perrow Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity...

Prof David Mirelman "Not for Profit" offers an inside look at the challenges and successes in transforming scientific discoveries into real world applications. Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science has become...

James Lovelock A fascinating new study from the originator of the Gaia Theory, “who conceived the first wholly new way of looking at life on earth since Charles Darwin” ( Independent )One of the world’s...

Richaed A MullerA monumental work on the flow of time, from the universe’s creation to “now,” by the best-selling author of Physics for Future Presidents.“Now” is a simple concept—you’re reading...

Annie Jacobsen Up to now, no one outside of official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the Pentagon. Second by...

Oliver Johnson Discover the fascinating world of numbers with Numbercrunch by Oliver Johnson. This comprehensive book explores 12 unique ways in which numbers shape our world, from mathematics and science...

Jon ElsterNuts and Bolts for the Social SciencesThis book is intended as an introductory survey of the philosophy of the social sciences. It is essentially a work of exposition that...

Homer HickamOctober Sky(Coalwood #1)The true story, originally published as Rocket Boys, that inspired the Universal Pictures film.It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small...