"I must have interrupted Melinda a dozen times to read to her passages that made me laugh out loud... The adventures she recounts are mostly inside her head, where we hear and see the kind of inner thoughts most of us are too timid to let out in public. Despite her book’s title,... Read more
"I must have interrupted Melinda a dozen times to read to her passages that made me laugh out loud... The adventures she recounts are mostly inside her head, where we hear and see the kind of inner thoughts most of us are too timid to let out in public. Despite her book’s title,... Read more
Filled with clever thought experiments and jaw-dropping facts, The Magic of Reality explains a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena:
How old is the universe?
Why do the continents look like disconnected pieces of a jigsaw puzzle?
What causes... Read more
Filled with clever thought experiments and jaw-dropping facts, The Magic of Reality explains a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena:
How old is the universe?
Why do the continents look like disconnected pieces of a jigsaw puzzle?
What causes... Read more
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed... Read more
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed... Read more
xkcd: volume 0 is the first book from the immensely popular webcomic with a passionate readership (just Google "xkcd meetup", you'll see!)
The artist selected personal and fan favorites from his first 600 comics. It was lovingly assembled from high-resolution original... Read more
xkcd: volume 0 is the first book from the immensely popular webcomic with a passionate readership (just Google "xkcd meetup", you'll see!)
The artist selected personal and fan favorites from his first 600 comics. It was lovingly assembled from high-resolution original... Read more
In this bold, fascinating book, Eula Biss addresses our fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what may be in our children's air, food, mattresses, medicines, and vaccines. Reflecting on her own experience as a new mother, she suggests that we cannot immunize our children, or... Read more
In this bold, fascinating book, Eula Biss addresses our fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what may be in our children's air, food, mattresses, medicines, and vaccines. Reflecting on her own experience as a new mother, she suggests that we cannot immunize our children, or... Read more
Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to full rather than to... Read more
Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to full rather than to... Read more
Should We Eat Meat? is a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination and critique of meat consumption by humans, throughout their evolution and around the world.
Setting the scene with a chapter on meat’s role in human evolution and its growing influence during the... Read more
Should We Eat Meat? is a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination and critique of meat consumption by humans, throughout their evolution and around the world.
Setting the scene with a chapter on meat’s role in human evolution and its growing influence during the... Read more