An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
After returning to Earth following three remarkable spaceflights, Colonel Chris Hadfield shares his captivating memoir An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth. With almost 4,000 hours spent in space, Hadfield reveals not only extraordinary stories from his life as an astronaut but also invaluable lessons on making the impossible a reality, all with a fresh afterword exclusive to this edition....Paperback$2299Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowSoundings
Beautiful . . . Justifies its place alongside nature writing classics such as H is for Hawk β NEW STATESMAN Wonderful ... both frank and fearless β TELEGRAPH BEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF THE YEAR Fascinating β GUARDIAN TOP TEN NATURE MEMOIRS From Mexico to the Arctic ice, grey whale mothers swim with their calves. Following them, by bus, train and...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowExact Thinking in Demented Times
Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and the endeavours of Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert to establish the fundamental rules of mathematics inspired some of the most brilliant minds of their generation to convene in post-World War I Vienna. This assemblage, known as the Vienna Circle, consisted of intellectual giants like Kurt GΓΆdel and Rudolf Carnap, who sought to advance the...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowBattle for the Bird
On October 28th, hours after completing a $44 billion takeover of Twitter, Elon Musk tweeted to his millions of followers, "The bird is freed." Musk's takeover of Twitter was one of the most audacious and remarkable deals in tech history. The Battle for Twitter takes readers back to the very beginning and explores how we reached this point. It examines...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Wright Brothers
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough offers readers an enthralling account of the incredible journey undertaken by two pioneering brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, whose groundbreaking achievements would forever change human history. On a brisk December day in 1903, amidst the sandy dunes of North Carolina's Outer Banks, these unassuming bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio, launched the world's first powered,...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowSpaceman
Spaceman by Mike Massimino is a compelling memoir that takes readers on an extraordinary journey from the dreamscape of childhood fantasies to the curtains of outer space. It chronicles Massimino's evolution from a six-year-old entranced by Neil Armstrong's iconic moonwalk to a tenacious individual determined to break through NASA's barriers and actualize his aspirations. Massimino's path was fraught with challenges....Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowFermatβs Last Theorem
The extraordinary story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century. The solution of Fermatβs Last Theorem is the most important mathematical development of the 20th century. In 1963, a schoolboy browsing in his local library stumbled across the worldβs greatest mathematical problem: Fermatβs Last Theorem, a puzzle that every child can understand but...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowCritical
Immerse yourself in the gripping world of intensive care medicine with Critical by Dr. Matt Morgan, a poignant exploration of the highs and lows experienced within the ICU. In Critical, Dr. Matt Morgan takes readers on an unforgettable journey through the intensive care unit, sharing the deeply personal stories of the patients who have touched his life. The narrative elegantly...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Impossible Man
A Guardian Best Science Book of the Year The first biographyβ'a stunning achievement' (Kai Bird, American Prometheus)βof the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose. When he was six years old, Roger Penrose discovered a sundial in a clearing near his house. Through that machine made of light, shadow, and time, Roger glimpsed a "world behind the...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Examined Illness
A visceral personal memoir of being seriously unwellβand the consolations of philosophy during sickness. Being a patient is part of being alive. Disease and serious illness often strike randomly, and when they do, we quickly become subject to the impersonal forces of biochemistry and pharmacology. We rarely think about sickness beforehand and are often totally unprepared for it when it...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableOut 24 Sep 2026Pre-orderAfter Shock
In this powerful follow-up to her bestselling memoir, In Shock, a doctor asks: What does it truly mean to heal? In the aftermath of her own critical illness, physician and writer Dr. Rana Awdish finds herself oddly estranged from her own body. Medicine has conditioned her to view sick bodies as broken objects, not as sites of meaning, mystery, and...Hardback$6900Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-orderThe Big Hop
The powerful true story of the first flight across the Atlantic - and of the ordinary heroes who risked their lives to race in pursuit of progress. A non-stop flight across the Atlantic might seem routine today. But it is only possible because of those who went first. Vivid and compelling - John Lancaster A delectable serving of escapist nostalgia...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-orderSleuth-Hound
From the bestselling author of The Butchering Art and The Facemaker comes the astonishing true story of Joseph Bell, the Scottish surgeon whose extraordinary talent for detection inspired Sherlock Holmes. Edinburgh, 1878. A medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle squeezes into the Royal Infirmary's packed operating theatre, hoping to catch a glimpse of the celebrated professor whose uncanny powers of...Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableOut 27 Oct 2026Pre-orderThe Scientific Legacy of Har Gobind Khorana
This book is the only scientific biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Indian American chemist, Har Gobind Khorana. It begins with the story of Khorana's origins in poverty in rural India and how he managed to emerge from that to be trained in chemistry in Britain and Switzerland before immigrating to Canada and the United States. Science was the dominant focus...Paperback$11500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThere Is Life After the Nobel Prize
One day in 1996, the neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel took a call from his program officer at the National Institute of Mental Health, who informed him that he had been awarded a key grant. Also, the officer said, he and his colleagues thought Kandel would win the Nobel Prize. "I hope not soon," Kandel's wife, Denise, said when she heard...Paperback$3199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksSurgeon on the Edge
Surgeon on the Edge is a literary memoir about the cost of becoming a surgeon and the even greater cost of leaving. Frances Mei Hardin, MDβa former ENT surgeon turned writer and entrepreneurβinvites readers into the interior life of modern medical training: the devotion, the brutality, the prestige, and the quiet unraveling that happens when a person learns to outrun...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksCut Open
Leadership Lessons Surgery Never Taughtβthe Nonclinical Skills That Save Careers Surgeons and health care professionals are trained to fix the human body, but they are poorly prepared for the nonclinical realities that accompany their careersβcomplications, harsh criticism, difficult personalities, leadership failures, and the silent weight of moral injury. Most try to push through by imitating senior colleagues who were never...Paperback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksCut Open
Leadership Lessons Surgery Never Taught-the Nonclinical Skills That Save Careers Surgeons and health care professionals are trained to fix the human body, but they are poorly prepared for the nonclinical realities that accompany their careersβcomplications, harsh criticism, difficult personalities, leadership failures, and the silent weight of moral injury. Most try to push through by imitating senior colleagues who were never...Hardback$8400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe 50 Greatest Scientists
In this beautifully illustrated hardback, Jon Balchin explores the achievements of 50 of history's greatest scientists, showcasing their profound impact on our understanding of the cosmos and the natural world. Featuring luminaries like Einstein, Hubble, Franklin, and Hawking, this book demonstrates how their work has shaped our lives, advanced medicine, and unravelled the complexities of nature and humanity. With stunning...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 weekJ. Robert Oppenheimer
This captivating biography delves into the pioneering work of J. Robert Oppenheimer, from his early scientific achievements to leading the Manhattan Project and his complex legacy as the mind behind the atom bomb. The brilliant theoretical physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, is now known primarily for his work on the development of the atomic bomb from 1942-45 at Los Alamos in...Paperback$2399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 weekA History of Women in Astronomy and Space Exploration
The first history of women astronomers in English to cover individuals from antiquity to the modern day. Features 30 in-depth biographies and 99 brief portraits of women astronomers, space explorers, and astrophysicists. For the last four hundred years, women have played a part far in excess of their numerical representation in the history of astronomical research and discovery. It was...Hardback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 weekRedfield's Warning
They ignored young army virologist Robert Redfield when he warned Americans that the sexually transmitted HIV virus affected heterosexual women and men just as it did gay men. They ignored Redfield when he called for the importance of early diagnosis for HIV infection. They ignored Redfield for a decade when he warned Americans that the country was not prepared for...Hardback$7700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksHell Days
When I think of my hell days, I think of crime scenes. Familiar sites, made uncanny with violence. In the fluorescent tedium of a call centre in 2018, acclaimed novelist Laura Elizabeth Woollett finds herself meticulously plotting her own death. Until her period arrives, and equilibrium with it. After years of dismissing these monthly turns, she's diagnosed with premenstrual dysphoric...Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableOut 1 Sep 2026Pre-orderThe Traveller
An inspiring biography of the remarkable naturalist, explorer and revolutionary, by the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature. George Forster was a man out of timeβhe journeyed to the far reaches of the known world and challenged the worldviews of eighteenth-century Europe with radical ideas about equality and freedom. Celebrated during his lifetime, he knew Goethe, Benjamin Franklin, Mary...Hardback$10000Unit price /UnavailableOut 1 Sep 2026Pre-orderThe Lifesavers
The remarkable true story of the trailblazing men and women of Britain's blood transfusion service in World War Two. The Lifesavers were a little-known band of men and women at the forefront of groundbreaking battlefield care in the Second World War. As part of a new and pioneering service, unconventional and iconoclastic, they pushed and pulled blood from hundreds of...Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableOut 22 Sep 2026Pre-orderThe Incredible Afterlives of Dr. Stevenson
The untold story of an iconoclastic scientist: a psychiatrist who dedicated his career to documenting consciousness after death. While Ian Stevenson (1918β2007) was an academic psychiatrist with a serious demeanour, right down to his three-piece suits and wingtip shoes, he made his name researching an unusual topic for a behavioural scientist: the afterlife. For over four decades, Stevenson travelled the...Hardback$7400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksBuild
An unorthodox guide to making things worth making, from "the father of the iPod and iPhone" and the creator of Nest. The New York Times Bestseller. An unorthodox guide to making things worth making, from "the father of the iPod and iPhone" and the creator of Nest. Everyone deserves a mentor. For every career crisis, every fork in the road,...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHidden Figures
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female...Paperback$8600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksAutobiography of a Face [Thirtieth Anniversary Edition]
βSo many memoirs make you feel that you've been sealed up inside a wall with a monomaniac. A really good one, like Autobiography of a Face, makes you feel there is more to ask and learn. You are not just seeing the writer; you are not trying to see yourself. You are seeing the world in a different way.β--Margo Jefferson...Paperback$5200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksWhy Fish Don'T Exist
A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post NPR Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A "remarkable" (Los Angeles Times), "seductive" (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don't Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, andβpossiblyβeven murder.β "At one point, Miller dives into the ocean into a school of fish...comes...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks"What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
Like the "funny, brilliant, bawdy" (The New Yorker) Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, this bookβs many storiesβsome funny, others intensely movingβdisplay Richard P. Feynmanβs unquenchable thirst for adventure and unparalleled ability to recount important moments from his life. Here we meet Feynmanβs first wife, Arlene, who taught him of loveβs irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed...Paperback$4600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Innovators
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the Internet.Paperback$5700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksMountains Beyond Mountains
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER β’ 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new foreword by the author β’ β[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.β β USA Today βIf any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishmentβs thinking about health care for the destitute, it is...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksEverything Happens for a Reason
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER β’ βA meditation on sense-making when thereβs no sense to be made, on letting go when we canβt hold on, and on being unafraid even when weβre terrified.β β Lucy Kalanithi NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian...Paperback$5200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksDoppelganger
A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner of the Women's Prize for NonfictionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER National Indie Bestseller A New York Times notable book of 2023Vulture's #1 book of 2023One of Slate's ten best books of 2023A Guardian best ideas book of 2023One of Time's ten best books of 2023Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksBrain on Fire (10th Anniversary Edition)
An anniversary edition of the award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity--with a new note to readers by the author. When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and...Paperback$5200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksBetween Two Kingdoms
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER β’ A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young womanβs journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into βnormalβ lifeβfrom the founder of The Isolation Journals and a subject of the Netflix documentary American Symphony. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post,...Paperback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksL.A. Coroner
"Choi's true-crime biography adds much-needed detail and perspective to Noguchi's unusual and compelling story." -Booklist L.A. Coroner is a gripping true crime biography of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the controversial "Coroner to the Stars," who performed the autopsies of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Natalie Wood, and hundreds of other notable personalities. Choi, an award-winning historian and professor, deftly blends Los...Hardback$7100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksJourneys to the Nearby
Inspired by the adventures of world travellers but unwilling to rack up her fossil fuel consumption, Elspeth sets out with a deep curiosity to explore the world that exists in her own garden. Told over the course of four seasons, Journeys to the Nearby is inspired by the beauty in the small moments of discovery. After spending the winter holidays...Paperback$5200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksFast, Faster, Fastest
The authorised biography of a polymath racecar engineer. This biography of Bill Sadler tells the story of an innovator who set the racing world astir with his boldly inventive cars. His original creationsβincluding the Formula Libre and the Sadler Mark Vβbrought him racing victories at tracks such as Watkins Glen and the Brighton Speed Trials throughout the 1950s and early...Hardback$20999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksBanks
Lust, science, adventure β Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery The extraordinary life of one of the world's most famous and notorious adventurers Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped by his obsession with the natural world and his lust for scientific...Hardback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Art of Curiosity
Fifty of the worldβs most creative people share their stories, their inspirations, and their unique takes on science and education, all inspired by the Exploratorium science museum. What do music visionary Brian Eno, kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen, science writer Mary Roach, Mythbuster Adam Savage, and Pulitzer-winning journalist Thomas Friedman have in common? They are all game-changers: scientists, artists, entertainers, and...Hardback$7900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksAn Expert Witness
From Britain's best-known forensic scientist, a book that explains what forensic science is, how it evolved and, through a series of landmark cases, the shocking truth about where it is headed. The relationship between law enforcement, science and the legal system is a complicated one. When it works well, it makes compelling television. Equally, when it does not work well,...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableOut 13 Oct 2026Pre-orderIngenious
Benjamin Franklin was one of the preeminent scientists of his time. Driven by curiosity, he conducted cutting-edge research on electricity, heat, ocean currents, weather patterns, chemical bonds, and plants. But today, Franklin is remembered more for his political prowess and diplomatic achievements than his scientific creativity. In this incisive and rich account of Benjamin Franklin's life and career, Richard Munson...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksSmall
As a paediatric surgeon, Catherine Musemeche operates on the smallest of human beings, manipulates organs the size of walnuts, and uses sutures as thin as hairs to resolve matters of life or death. Working in the small space of a premature infant's chest or abdomen allows no margin for error. It is a world rife with emotion and risk. Small...Hardback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksBanneker
The brainchild of Daniel Alexander Payne Murray, Banneker: The Afro-American Astronomer was first conceived after Murray discovered what he found to be a beautifully written letter to Thomas Jefferson by a then unknown writer of colour. Aided in his research by Will A. Allen, the pair discovered the man to be one Benjamin Banneker, a mathematician and astronomer. An extraordinary...Paperback$4600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksVera Rubin
The first biography of a pioneering scientist who made significant contributions to our understanding of dark matter and championed the advancement of women in science. One of the great lingering mysteries of the universe is dark matter. Scientists are not sure what it is, but most believe it's out there, and in abundance. The astronomer who finally convinced many of...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksStephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21 and was expected to live for only another two years. He went on to write books and deliver public lectures right up until his death at the age of 76 in 2018. Hawking achieved commercial success with several works of popular science in which he discusses his...Paperback$1500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksWhy Fish Don't Exist
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 When Lulu Miller's relationship falls apart, she turns to an unlikely figure for guidanceβthe 19th-century naturalist, David Starr Jordan. Pouring over his diaries, Lulu discovers a man obsessed with nature's hidden order, devoted to studying shimmering scales and sailing the world in search of new species of fish. After the 1906 San...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksIlluminating Natural History
This book explores the life and work of the 18th-century English artist, explorer, naturalist, and author Mark Catesby (1683β1749). During Catesbyβs lifetime, science was poised to shift from a world of amateur virtuosi to one of professional experts. He worked against a backdrop of global travel that incorporated collecting and direct observation of nature. Catesby spent two prolonged periods in...Hardback$9599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksEmerson, the Stoics, and Me
βThis is a beautiful book, full of ideas that could help restore Americaβs genius for freedom and promise.β βThomas Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Care of the Soul A lifelong Emersonian scholar, teacher, and spiritual seeker reveals how American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emersonβs twelve essential teachings hold the answer to living an authentic and fulfilling life, one that...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Girl on the Roof
Nine decades, one life - a remarkable memoir by an Australian living treasure. The Girl on the Roof by Valerie Brown introduces us to a bookish, rebellious child who had made an important discovery when she escaped to the roof of her large family home. As she watched the activities of her family down below, she found that they did...Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksNeil Armstrong
Much has been written about Neil Armstrong, America's modern hero and history's most famous space traveller. Yet, shy of fame and never one to steal the spotlight, Armstrong was always reluctant to discuss his personal side of events. Here for the first time is the story of Neil's life of flight, shared for five decades with his trusted friend Jay...Paperback$6800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThree Minutes for a Dog
Contrary to popular belief Polio is not extinct. This is the true story of an indomitable spirit afflicted with unimaginable physical and psychological challenges. Paul Alexander's life is a saga that started in 1946 and has been profoundly shaped by the Polio epidemic of the early 1950's. Survivors of the 1950's Polio Epidemic in America are rare. Polio victims, like...Paperback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksDizzy
"An arresting new memoirβ¦." β Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air Beverly Donofrio, author of Riding in Cars with Boys, says "Dizzy is a testament to the power of hope. Weaver's courage and strength are so inspiring they encourage the same in the reader.Β If all of that isn't enough, the beauty and agility of the prose may make you regret...Paperback$5895Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksBeyond the Boundaries The Life & Times of Dr. Jeff The Rocky Mountain Vet
Come and listen to a story 'bout the Rocky Mountain Vet, A man named Jeff whom you won't soon forget. He spends his life helping animals in need, Fighting overpopulation of pets along with corporate greed, Through spay/neuter, that is. Affordable vet care. From a mobile clinic start-up to his popular TV show, Dr. Jeff blazes a path for anyone...Paperback$7100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Couch, the Clinic, and the Scanner
Over the past several decades, psychiatry has undergone radical changes. After its midcentury heyday, psychoanalysis gave way to a worldview guided by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, which precisely defined mental disorders and their treatments; more recently, this too has been displaced by a model inspired by neuroscience. Each of these three dominant models overturned the previous era's assumptions, methods,...Hardback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksMyriad, Microscopic and Marvellous
The pioneering Dutch microbiologist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek uncovered hidden worlds of minuscule life. With his ingenious, self-made microscopes, he observed inconceivably tiny creatures and structures everywhereβin well water, sperm, pimples and many other unlikely things besides. In the seventeenth century, his discoveries opened the door to realms previously unseen, making him a renowned researcher. Myriad, Microscopic and Marvellous explores Van...Hardback$7100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksHeartbreak
When her twenty-five-year marriage suddenly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. But when she starts feeling physically sick, losing weight, and sleep, she sets out in pursuit of a rational explanation. She travels to the frontiers of the science of "social pain" to learn why heartbreak hurts so muchβand why so much of the conventional wisdom...Hardback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksThe Dodge Brothers
At the start of the Ford Motor Company in 1903, the Dodge Brothers supplied nearly every car part needed by the up-and-coming auto giant. After fifteen years of operating a successful automotive supplier company, much to Ford's advantage, John and Horace Dodge again changed the face of the automotive market in 1914 by introducing their own car. The Dodge Brothers...Hardback$9900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksCrude Justice
One day in the small Mississippi town of Laurel, a 26-year-old expectant mom named Karen Street sat down at the edge of her bathtubβand felt her hip split in two. The episode was so bizarre it wasn't until later, after she saw the doctor, that she realized her bone disease was almost certainly linked to her father-in-law's business. Winston Street...Paperback$6600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksFloating in the Deep End
For the decade of my father's illness, I felt as if I was floating in the deep end, tossed by waves, carried by currents, but not drowning, writes Patti Davis in this searingly honest and deeply moving account of the challenges involved in taking care of someone stricken with Alzheimer's. When her father, the fortieth president of the United States,...Hardback$5099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDr Chizhevsky's Chandelier
A work of experimental nonfiction that spotlights the so-called Undesirables of recent history, forced into martyrdom and infamy. Daniel Elkind's hybrid-genre debut, Dr Chizhevsky's Chandelier, is a nonfiction experiment that tells the story of A.L. Chizhevsky, the inventor and father of the field of heliobiology, whoβlike his hero Galileoβwas punished for daring to suggest that human history revolved around the...Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksA Woman Among Wolves
A debut memoir from one of the first women biologists in the United States to study wild wolves in their natural habitat β a story of passion, resilience, and determination. Called the Jane Goodall of wolves, world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane Boyd has spent four decades studying and advocating for wolves in the wilds of Montana near Glacier National Park. When...Paperback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksBush Doctor
Damien is convinced that this is the best job anywhere: beautiful skies, red earth, dramatic landings, treating families in remote communities. At a tiny, isolated hospital in central Australia, a paramedic arrives with a joey for babysitting, police help to bring in two men from a car crash, and a young man with heart failure doesn't want a transplant -...Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksChallenger
Winner of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction - Winner of the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize - Shortlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction - A New York Times Notable Book of 2024 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Stunning...A heart-pounding thriller...Challenger is a remarkable book." --The Atlantic - "Devastating...A universal story that transcends...Paperback$5800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksTrue Color
A kaleidoscopic journey through the secret history of hues-and the story of the obsessive genius behind the definitions of colors we use today, from the beloved author of Word by Word A kaleidoscopic journey through the secret history of hues-and the story of the obsessive genius behind the definitions of colors we use today, from the beloved author of Word...Hardback$7400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksSource Code
The bestselling origin story of one of our most transformative business leaders and philanthropists Everyone is programmed a bit differently. Source Code tells the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today. Taking us back to his beginnings, Gates describes with candour his childhood in Seattle, the centrality of family - his close relationship with his...Paperback$3200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLessons From a Lifetime
This keepsake collection, featuring tributes from Margaret Atwood and Neil Young, captures the essence of a revolutionary life as it celebrates the legacy of environmental icon David Suzuki.Across his 90 years on planet Earth, David Suzuki has inspired generations of his followers to fight for environmental and social causes with courage and conviction. In Lessons From a Lifetime, Suzuki shares...Hardback$7100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksAlive
A profound and provocative journey through the human body, from the Sunday Times bestselling writer, broadcaster and surgeon. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LIVE IN A BODY? For Gabriel Weston, there was always something missing from the anatomy she was taught at medical school. As she became a surgeon, a mother, and ultimately a patient, she found herself grappling with...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksA History of France in 21 Women
LibertΓ©, Γ©galitΓ©, sororitΓ©! French women have always had so much more to say than βlet them eat cakeβ! Whether kicking the English out of OrlΓ©ans, marching on Versailles, or running messages for the French resistance, their stories of courage, creativity, and genius have long defined French history. Unveiling the lives of twenty-one women who changed the course of French history,...Hardback$6800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksGood Soil
A profound meditation on nature, heritage, and belonging, from an accomplished journalist who left New York City for life on a working farm A profound meditation on nature, heritage, and belonging, from an accomplished journalist who left New York City for life on a working farm "I needed this book. I think you need it, too."-Maggie Smith, New York Times...Hardback$6499Elsewhere:$7500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Impossible Man
A Guardian Best Science Book of the Year The first biography - 'a stunning achievement' (Kai Bird, American Prometheus) - of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose. When he was six years old, Roger Penrose discovered a sundial in a clearing near his house. Through that machine made of light, shadow, and time, Roger glimpsed...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksIf I Am Right, and I Know I Am
In the 1930s, the pioneering Danish scientist Inge Lehmann (1888-1993) made a groundbreaking discovery about the nature of Earth. Analyzing data from earthquakes, she determined that the heart of the planet is a solid inner core. Her discovery overturned the widely accepted theory of the core being fluid, but she trusted her calculations: "If I am right, and I know...Hardback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksCollisions
Nobel Prizeβwinning experimental physicist Luis W. Alvarez (1911β1988) began his storied career developing the atomic bomb and went on to conduct groundbreaking work on the building of the ancient Egyptian pyramids, the assassination of JFK, and the extinction of the dinosaurs. One of the preeminent scientists of the twentieth century, Alvarez was as obstinate as he was brilliant. He testified...Hardback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksOn the Future of Species
Visionary and exhilarating ... A work of astonishing scope and imagination β Tim Coulson The book we need right now ... Essential reading β Tom Ellis A brilliantly crafted, sweeping exposition with profound insights β Tim White Imagine a future where we grow houses rather than build them. Where smartphones are living, clothing has opinions, and all human knowledge fits...Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$3899Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid SeptemberDrawing the Line
The second edition of Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America updates Edwin Dansonβs definitive history of the creation of the Mason-Dixon Line to reflect new research and archival documents that have come to light in recent years. Features numerous updates and revisions reflecting new information that has emerged about surveyors Charles Mason...Paperback$6299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksAmerican Journey
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