Popular Science
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
Hardback
A history of shells and the creatures that make them, revealing their outsized role in human affairs and what they have to tell us about the changing oceans.
American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
Hardback
This nineteenth-century celestial drama will enthral readers as a coast-to-coast total solar eclipse plunges America into darkness.
Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose
Hardback
How our once-helpful instincts got hijacked by our garish modern world.
The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory
Hardback
A guide to the best science writing, which tells the centuries-long story of our striving to understand the world.
Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution
Paperback
"Fresh…solid…full of suspense and intrigue." —Publishers Weekly