Oliver SacksDr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in...

William SouderIn the summer of 1995, a group of Minnesota children came upon a pond populated by frogs with nine legs, missing legs, a row of limbs fanning out from...

Bill BrysonIn Bryson's biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything...

Jon EntineA riveting scientific detective story crossed with a provocative and controversial re-examination of the meaning of race, ethnicity, and religion.Could our sense of who we are really turn on...

Radu VeroA unique blend of scientific and artistic insight. -- Airbrush Digest. A concise, easy-to-use volume. -- Library Journal. All the operations, techniques, and theories needed to create outstanding airbrush...

Dr Mike Goldsmith  Albert Einstein is the genius who invented e=mc². He is possibly the brainiest scientist in history—and the battiest! But did you know that Al's life was almost...

Stephen Jay GouldRanging as far as the fox and as deep as the hedgehog (the urchin of his title), Stephen Jay Gould expands on geology, biological determinism, "cardboard Darwinism," and...

Norman Cousins Anatomy of an Illness was the first book by a patient that spoke to our current interest in taking charge of our own health. It started the revolution...

Temple Grandin Why would a cow lick a tractor? Why are collies getting dumber? Why do dolphins sometimes kill for fun? How can a parrot learn to spell? How did...

Frank CloseOf all the mind-bending discoveries of physics--quarks, black holes, strange attractors, curved space--the existence of antimatter is one of the most bizarre. It is also one of the most...

Oliver Sacks This is an extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic, which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive...

Robert Burnham, Alan Dyer, Robert A Garfinkle, Martin George, Jeff Kanipe, David H LevyThis highly acclaimed, best-selling series takes field guides to a breathtaking new level. Filled with full-color maps,...