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When her mother, Sarah Palin, became the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate in 2008, Bristol Palin was instantly propelled into the national spotlight, becoming the focus of intense public and n……続きを見る

Game of Shadows meets Among the Thugs in this revelatory true-to-life crime thriller and expose involving greed, soccer corruption, an Asian crime syndicate, and the fixing of international soccer m……続きを見る

Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking aboutーand expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by. What should we be worried……続きを見る

A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable women in politics of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt. The daught……続きを見る

A riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by allーand a searing memoir of drugs, sex, and old school R&B from the wife of legen……続きを見る

In this smart, playful, and provocative book, one of today’s most original business thinkers argues that we underestimate the importance of romance in our lives and that we can find it in and throug……続きを見る

"Deserves a spot next to Fast Food Nation and To Kill a Mockingbird in America’s high school curriculums. To say it may save lives is self-evident.” ーNew York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice) NE……続きを見る

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“Bracingly intelligent, lucid, balancedーwitty, too. . . . A scrupulous and charming look at our modern understanding of genes and experience.” ー Oliver Sacks Armed with extraordinary new discoveri……続きを見る

At the height of the Cold War, America’s most elite aviators bravely volunteered for a covert program aimed at eliminating an impossible new threat. Half never returned. All became legends. From New……続きを見る

Languageーin its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meaningsーis a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination ……続きを見る

Now a documentary on CBS All Access. Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Warsーa mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles the his……続きを見る

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This unique volume contains a tribute to Lord Patrick M S Blackett through the testimony of Professor Antonino Zichichi, who was one of Blackett's pupils in the experiment at the Sphinx Observatory,……続きを見る

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Science in the Public Sphere presents a broad yet detailed picture of the history of science popularization from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. Global in focus, it provides an original……続きを見る

"A breakthrough book. In a world of increasingly specialized knowledge, it takes a particular gift and some stubbornness to cut across the fields of neuroscience, psychiatry, philosophy and psycholo……続きを見る

A history of science distilled into 100 notable experiments – epic moments that have fuelled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond. The history of science is a fascinating and long one,……続きを見る

For centuries, laymen and priests, lone thinkers and philosophical schools in Greece, China, the Islamic world and Europe reflected with wisdom and perseverance on how the natural world fits togethe……続きを見る

From an environmental journalist and mother of two young breast-fed children comes this searing, insightful look into the breastfeeding controversy and puts “common knowledge” about this most natura……続きを見る

The newest addition to John Brockman’s Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world’s leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theoristsーincluding Richard Dawkins, Edw……続きを見る

Beginning in 1925, when at twenty-three she embarked on her first field work in Samoa, Mead sent family and friends these letters from the field “to make a little more real for them” the exotic worl……続きを見る

"Monumental." --New York Times Book Review NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a ……続きを見る

Recent scholarship has challenged the assumption that military commanders during the First World War were inflexible, backward-looking and unwilling to exploit new technologies. Instead a very diffe……続きを見る

This book studies how doctors responded to - and helped shape - deep-seated fears about nervous degeneracy and population decline in France between 1750 and 1850. It uncovers a rich and far-ranging ……続きを見る

The industrialization of food preservation and processing has been a dramatic development across Europe during modern times. This book sets out its story from the beginning of the nineteenth century……続きを見る

Why is the number seven lucky--even holy--in almost every culture? Why do we speak of the four corners of the earth? Why do cats have nine lives (except in Iran, where they have seven)? From literat……続きを見る

What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In th……続きを見る