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In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine
One of "The Most Fascinating Books WIRED Read in 2020""One part science book, one part historical narrative, one part memoir . . . harrowing and in...
View full detailsHavana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution
In modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere—old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars & flickering neon signs speak ...
View full detailsA Short History of World War I
World War I was a bloodletting so vast and unprecedented that for a generation it was known simply as the Great War. Casualty lists reached unimagi...
View full detailsThe Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
A New York Times bestsellerThe definitive account of the infectious diseases threatening humanity by Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalis...
View full detailsWho's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
“Big questions are Gazzaniga’s stock in trade.”—New York Times“Gazzaniga is one of the most brilliant experimental neuroscientists in the world.”—T...
View full detailsGirls at War and Other Stories
Twelve stories by the internationally renowned novelist which recreate with energy and authenticity the major social and political issues that conf...
View full detailsThe Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future
'A fascinating and delightfully written book about some very smart people who may not, or may, be about to transform humanity forever' JON RONSON'B...
View full detailsSeven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
From the author of How Emotions Are Made, a myth-busting primer on the brain in the tradition of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics fo...
View full detailsThe Trouble With Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet
What is gravity? Nobody knows—and just about nobody knows that nobody knows. How something so pervasive can also be so mysterious, and how that mys...
View full detailsOn Getting Better
On Getting Better is a thoughtful and compact book about self-improvement from Britain’s leading psychoanalyst, author of Missing Out and On Kindne...
View full detailsOn Wanting to Change
From the UK’s foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.We live in a world in which we are inv...
View full detailsSensational: The Hidden History of America's “Girl Stunt Reporters”
"A gripping, flawlessly researched, and overdue portrait of America’s trailblazing female journalists. Kim Todd has restored these long-forgotten m...
View full detailsGreat State: China and the World
Now in paperback“A dizzying and exhilarating journey. . . . Understanding how China sees itself and how it justifies its actions is critical to und...
View full detailsThe Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars
A Best Book of 2020 (NPR)A Best Book of 2020 (The Economist)A Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020 (Smithsonian)A Best Science and Technology Book of ...
View full detailsTo Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
#1 New York Times BestsellerFox News Channel’s Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant"To Rescue the Republic is nar...
View full detailsBiology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
Following in the fashion of Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Medawar, one of the world's leading scientists examines how "pure science" is in fact shape...
View full detailsWe Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way.So...
View full detailsFilthy Animals
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE STORY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZENAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY USA TODAY, NPR, VULTURE,...
View full detailsThe Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
The path to progress in Africa lies in the surprising and innovative solutions Africans are finding for themselves.“A hopeful narrative about a con...
View full detailsAnimal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book
From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultra-processed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species and points the...
View full detailsRationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“In our uncertain age, which can so often feel so dark and disturbing, Steven Pinker has distinguished himself as a voice ...
View full detailsThe Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
“An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one.” ―Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post“The Free...
View full detailsGrayson
Don’t believe in interspecies communication? Grayson, author [Lynne] Cox’s moving memoir about the lost baby whale she encountered when she was 17,...
View full detailsCome Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and want...
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