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While going through a divorce, documentary filmmaker Katinka Blackford Newman took an antidepressant. She went into...  Read More >>

An in-depth survey of the evolving science of bio-enhancement: where we are now and how to deal with it.  Read More >>

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More surprising science and fascinating facts from the million-selling New Scientist series.  Read More >>

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From the phenomenal New Scientist series, with over 2,500,000 copies sold Every year, readers send in thousands...  Read More >>

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Presents what you need to know about modern physics, the universe and our place in the world in seven lessons. In...  Read More >>

Wondrous Truths answers two questions about the steep rise of theoretical discoveries around 1600: Why in the European...  Read More >>

The book gives a non-mathematical account of Bell's upbringing in Belfast and his education. It describes his major...  Read More >>

Ian Waterman lost all sense of movement below the neck over forty years ago. Unable to move, he felt disembodied...  Read More >>

Describes the geologic origin and scenery of Mount Desert Island, Maine, the home of Acadia National Park This...  Read More >>

Rise of the Machines makes a singular and significant contribution to the advancement of our clearer understanding...  Read More >>

This book of thoroughly engaging essays from one of today's most prodigious innovators provides a uniquely personal...  Read More >>

It is these surveys of discovery that are the subject of this book. In the first few chapters the author discusses...  Read More >>

A neuroscientist's delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous, entirely fallible gray matter.  Read More >>

Due to pressures on land for development, savannas are at the forefront of research and conservation concerns. Here,...  Read More >>

Lynne Kelly has discovered that a powerful memory technique used by the ancients can unlock the secrets of the Neolithic...  Read More >>

In The Internet Revolution in the Sciences and Humanities, Alan G. Gross and Joseph E. Harmon capture and analyze...  Read More >>

Astronomy is experiencing a golden age, with a new generation of innovative telescopes yielding a flood of information...  Read More >>

The author describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his...  Read More >>

"In this ""unorthodox but enlightening book"" (Wall Street Journal), renowned developmental neuroscientist Marc...  Read More >>