Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface David Standish Beliefs in mysterious underworlds are as...

Yuval Noah HarariHumans today enjoy unprecedented levels of power and an increasingly god-like status. The great epidemics of the past – famine, plague and war – no longer control our...

Thomas L FriendmanHot, Flat, and Crowded: Why The World Needs A Green Revolution - and How We Can Renew Our Global FutureThomas Friedman's phenomenal The World is Flat helped millions...

Leonard Hayflick, Phd"How long can humans live? Is immortality possible? Just what is the aging process? The aging and inevitable death of the human body have inspired more myths and...

Sylvia A Johnson Describes the structure and purpose of leaves, the ways in which they change as part of the natural cycle of the seasons, and the process that creates...

Glenn MurphyPublished July 2nd 2015 by Pan MacMillan (first published July 4th 2008)

Michael Greger, MDHow Not To Diet: The Groundbreaking Science of Healthy, Permanent Weight LossDr. Greger hones in on the optimal criteria to enable weight loss, while considering how these foods...

James ReasonModern technology has now reached a point where improved safety can only be achieved through a better understanding of human error mechanisms. In its treatment of major accidents, the...

Pavel Novak, AIB Moffat, C Nalluri Hydraulic Structures demonstrates to the advanced undergraduate student the design of hydraulic structures in practice. It does this by explaining dam engineering, the design...

Michio Kaku   Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension   The first book-length exploration of the most exciting development in modern physics, the...

Douglas Hofstadter What do we mean when we say “I”? Can thought arise out of matter? Can a self, a soul, a consciousness, an “I” arise out of mere matter?...

Gould's final essay collection is based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine-exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually...