Is drug addiction really a disease? Is sexuality inborn and fixed or mutable? Science is where we often turn when we can't achieve moral clarity. In The Noble Lie, acclaimed and controversial...
Bestselling author David Ewing Duncan takes the ultimate high-tech medical exam, investigating the future impact of what's hidden deep inside all of us ...
PRAISE FOR LIGHT YEARS AND TIME TRAVEL ...
A splendid introduction to geology and paleontology for the lay reader. To compress Earth's history into a single, lucidly written volume is a major achievement. —Publishers Weekly, starred...
Everything mammals ever wanted to know about the theory of evolution-but were afraid to ask ...
Who names newly discovered planets? What exactly are black holes? Where are there the most earthquakes? When did the first Homo sapiens walk the earth? Why is the night sky dark? How does the fluoride...
The dramatic stories of ten historic feuds: How they altered the course of discovery-and shaped the modern world ...
An exciting, well-researched work, which should appeal to anyone with an interest in the nature and progress of the human race. ...
A scientific exploration of some of humanity's most puzzling questions: What is love? Why do we fall in (and out) of love? And why would we have evolved to feel something so weird, with so many...
A lively, fascinating biography of the father of quantum mechanics by the bestselling author of the science classic, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat ...
An accessible look at the mysteries that lurk at the edge of the known universe and beyond. The observable universe, the part we can see with telescopes, is incredibly vast. Yet recent theories...
The acclaimed author of In Search of Schrödinger's Cat searches for life on other planets ...