The Invisible Rainbow
"The story of the invention and use of electricity has often been told before, but never from an enviromnental point of ...
The Rules of Contagion
Why do some ideas take off - and others fail to spread? Why are some diseases predictable, and others swamped in uncerta...
Plague of Corruption
#1 on Amazon Charts, New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller—Over 100,000 Copies in Print!“Kent Heckenli...
What Doesn't Kill Us by Scott Carney
A New York Timesbestseller and a Book of the Year for the Evening Standardand The Times. Is getting a little less comfor...
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
Author and licensed mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decompositi...
Letters from an Astrophysicist
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Join the galactic conversation on the biggest issues in the universe, from the 'most ...
The Body by Bill Bryson
'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts into an entertaining and nutritious book..where Byrson really shi...
(Download PDF) Brief Answers to the Big Questions
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Effortlessly instructive...
How Emotions Are Made
By the deepest thinker about this topic since Darwin' Daniel Gilbert, author of the bestseller Stumbling on Happiness'Fa...
The Gene : An Intimate History
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author draws on his scientific knowledge and research to describe the magisterial history of ...
The Selfish Gene
The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential to...
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
These seven 'short lessons' guide us through the scientific revolution that shook physics in the 20th century and still ...
Superintelligence
The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities tha...
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
“This book is a breakthrough, a lyrical, powerful, science-based narrative that actually shows us how to get better (m...
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty...
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours in space. During thi...
The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton
It has been ten years since the publication of The Biology of Belief, Bruce Lipton's seminal book on the relationship be...
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82...
What If? by Randall Munroe
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you proba...
You Are the Placebo : Making Your Mind Matter
Throughout history, many cultures have experienced the effects of verifiable healings, along with hexes, curses, witchcr...
A Mind for Numbers
The companion book to COURSERA®'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn"Whether you are a st...
The Power of Habit
In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of s...
Free Will by Sam Harris
A BELIEF IN FREE WILL touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, r...
Moonwalking with Einstein
In 'Moonwalking with Einstein', Foer draws on research, the cultural history of memory and the techniques of 'mental ath...
The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts th...
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
When Dr Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet in an Àqua Detox' footbath, releasing her toxins into t...
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The very book I have been looking for most of my life... Bryson wears his knowledge with aplomb and a lot of very good j...
The Cosmic Serpent
Whilst living amongst Peruvian Indians, anthropologist Jeremy Narby learned of their phenomenal knowledge of plants and ...
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, b...
A Brief History of Time
This app/book version of Hawking's famous laymen book is just an amazing piece of learning. This makes much more accessi...