Hena Khan and David BorgenichtJoin the youngest crew of astronauts ever to make the trip to Mars! Faced with fearsome dangers and difficult decisions, your choices will determine your fate...

Kostas KampourakisWhat are genes? What do genes do? These questions are not simple and straightforward to answer; at the same time, simplistic answers are quite prevalent and are taken for...

Robert KursonShadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War IIIn the fall of 1991, in the frigid...

Duncan J WattsIn this Rremarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading...

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...

Author: Michael Lewis Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky...

Catherine O'Niell GraceIntroduces the world of visual illusion describing the workings of the eye-brain system and how different types of illusions occur.

Susan McGrathExplains how physics is involved in all aspects of our lives--through chapters on physics in fun, nature, home, and sports--and presents activities to demonstrate physical principles.

Wilbur Smith On a continent of breathtaking beauty and bitter suffering, two vastly different cultures clashed, mingled, and recoiled. Here, amidst mist-shrouded mountains and gold-studded plateaus, ancient tribesmen lived close...

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Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children, Society, and Performance in a PillLawrence H Diller, MDIn a book as provocative and newsworthy as Listening to Prozac and Driven to...

Eric Schlosser   DO YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU'RE EATING WHEN YOU TUCK INTO THAT JUICY BURGER?Britain eats more fast food than any other country in Europe. It looks good,...