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An entertaining and enlightening exploration of why waste matters. The Origin of Feces takes an important subject out of locker-rooms, potty-training manuals, and bio-solids managemen

An important and timely recipe for hope for humans and all forms of life

“This is a great book. It became a popular table game in the summer holidays with two teams competing with all your questions.

Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West brings together artists, activists, conservation groups, and scholars to illuminate the diverse issues surrounding water in Alberta.

The first mature and persuasive work to explain the process of natural selection.

Scientists have a reputation for being focused on their work and maybe even dull. But take another look.

From the moment radiation was discovered in the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents,

Using Christophe Galfard's considerable skills as a brilliant theoretical physicist and successful young adult author, this book employs the immediacy of simple, direct language to show us, not exp

With clear explanations of some of the most complex scientific endeavors in history, this book looks back at the atom's wild, secretive past and then toward its potentially bright future.

The latest volume in the bestselling series from Edge.org-dubbed "the world's smartest website" by The Guardian-brings together 206 of the world's most innovative thinkers to discuss the scientific

"There comes a time in the life of a subject when someone steps up and writes the book about it.

Kari Byron-former host of the wildly popular, iconic cult classic MythBusters-shows how to crash test your way through life, no lab coat required. Kari Byron's story hasn't been a straight line.

Alexandra Horowitz, the author of the lively, highly informative New York Times bestselling blockbuster Inside of a Dog, explains how dogs perceive the world through their most spectacular organ-th

The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human.

Science fiction becomes reality in this Jurassic Park-like story of the genetic resurrection of an extinct species-the woolly mammoth-by the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Th