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Featured in the 2018 movie Science Fair! A National Science Teachers Association Best STEM Book of 2017.

Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help us understand why there is so much irrationality in the world?

The instant New York Times bestseller "Expert storytelling . . .

By the world-renowned seismologist, a riveting history of natural disasters, their impact on our culture, and new ways of thinking about the ones to come Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes,

In this inspiring coming-of-age memoir, a world-renowned astrophysicist emerges from an impoverished childhood and crime-filled adolescence to ascend through the top ranks of research physics.

A masterful, timely, fully authorized biography of the great and hugely influential biologist and naturalist E. O.

Before Isaac Newton became the father of physics, an accomplished mathematician, or a leader of the scientific revolution, he was a boy living in an apothecary's house, observing and experimen

This damning account examines the forces that have hijacked progress on climate change and offers a bold vision of what it will take, politically and economically, to face the existential threat of

Did you know that cars can run on french-fry grease or that human poop can be used to provide power to classrooms?

This collection of essays on the cosmos from the nation's best-known astrophysicist covers everything from astral life at the frontiers of astrobiology to the movie industry's feeble efforts to get

When the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood, Americans rallied behind this extraterrestrial underdog.

Alan Lightman explores the emotional and philosophical questions raised by discoveries in science, focusing on the human condition and the needs of mankind.

Adam Rogers reveals alcohol as a miracle of science, going deep into the pleasures of making and drinking booze--and the effects of the latter.

Our true origins are not just human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic.

Beth A. Robertson resurrects the story of a group of men and women who sought to transform the seance into a laboratory of the spirits and a transnational empirical project.