Alice OutwaterAn environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of what needs to be done to save this essential natural resource.Water:...

Douglas R HofstadterDouglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity...

StevenCaseyA disturbing share of technological disasters are caused by incompatibilities between the way things are designed and the way people actually perceive, think, and act. Structurally sound aircraft plummet to...

Kristine C HarperWeather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern MeteorologyThe history of the growth and professionalization of American meteorology and its transformation into a physics- and mathematics-based scientific discipline.For...

David BeatyInvestigations into the causes of aircraft accidents have for decades focused on what happened and who did it - very rarely 'Why'? It is the question 'Why' that David...

Seymour M HershThe Soviet destruction in 9/1983 of 269 people aboard Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was one of the most upsetting crises of the Cold War era. The USA...

Diane MarelliThis volume is a thorough and practical resource book for tracing up to five generations of your family history - all without leaving your home.

Yuval Noah Harari   Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless other have conquered it: us.What makes us brilliant?What makes...

Author: Moshe GoldbergerSeptember 11 and You. by Rabbi Moshe Goldberger. How did this decade's most shocking event change your life? . September 11, one of the most shocking events to...

Manning Clarkn 1688 William Dampier found the aboriginal inhabitants on the west coast of New Holland "the miserablest people in the world… setting aside their human shape, they differ but...

Hywel Williams Covering nearly 2500 years, from 28 September 480 BC to 11 September 2001. Days that changed the world tells the stories of 50 days that truly made history.Included...

Prue SmithPrue Smith spent much of her childhood in South Africa but as soon as World War Two ended she moved to England. It was only after apartheid ended that...