Paul Davies How did life begin? Did it start here, by blind chance or by necessity, or was Earth seeded by extraterrestrial visitors? (And, if so, how did they arise?)...

New Horizons Who are we? Where did we come from? What makes us human? The whole puzzle of our early life on earth is gradually being pieced together from fragments...

Steven WeinbergA Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened at the very beginning of the universe, and how we know, in this popular science classic.Our universe has been growing for nearly...

Joe Schwarcz Dr. Joe Schwarcz breaks down the fascinating chemistry all around us in this intriguing look at everyday science From pesticides and environmental estrogens to lipsticks and garlic, the...

NE Genge THE ULTIMATE READERS’ GUIDE TO THE ART OF FORENSICS! An intrepid investigator crawls through miles of air conditioning ducts to capture the implicating fibers of a suspect’s wool...

Katherine Ramsland The CBS television show, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, has captured audiences - and ratings - with its unflinchingly realistic details of forensic science, tools, and technology. This fascinating new...

Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, Hitchens Forward by Stephen Fry At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the heralds of religion's unraveling—Christopher...

Siddhartha Mukherjee** NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER **The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The...

Bill McKibben Our most widely respected environmental writer brings together the essential voices on global warming, from its 19th-century discovery to the present. What is happening to our planet? And...

Richaed Dawkins   Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist, sets out to pull down all the principles that organized religion is based on, arguing against the existence of a personal god...

Kevin NelsonWhy do people have near-death experiences? Are there physical explanations for those out-of-body sensations and tunnels of light? And what about moments of spiritual ecstasy? If Buddha had been...

Bernard HaischOn the one hand, we have traditional science, based on the premises of materialism, reductionism, and randomness, with a belief that reality consists solely of matter and energy, that...