Angus TrumbleIt has been said that supreme enlightenment is reflected in the holy smile of the Buddha. Yet, the Victorians thought of open-mouthed smiling as obscene, and nineteenth-century English and...

Roger McNamee"If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying our democracy, he would have howled with...

Dr Peter J D'AdamoEver wonder why one diet works for one person, but not for another? After decades of research, Dr. Peter D'Adamo has discovered the role one's blood type...

Carl SaganHow can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer...

Dava SobelThe tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of...

Alison Gopnik, PhD Andrew N Meltzoff, PhD Patricia K Kuhl, PhD This exciting book by three pioneers in the new field of cognitive science discusses important discoveries about how much...

Aharon Shemi and Danny Kerman

Richard PrestonA highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent...

Science MuseumEverything You Need to Know about Science is the perfect single-volume science encyclopedia for young children.More than 500 artworksArranged thematically into five chaptersIncludes information, amazing fact boxes, stories of...

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...

Ian Stewart Acclaimed writer and mathematician Ian Stewart's third miscellany of mathematical curios and conundrums.In Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart presents an enticing collection of...

Beverly BirchPublished January 1st 1997 by Hodder & Stoughton