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Feynman

By Jim Ottaviani, illustrated by Leland Myrick First Second

Richard Feynman: physicist . . . Nobel winner . . . bestselling author . . . safe-cracker. In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents...

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Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	The Number Devil A Mathematical Adventure Hans Magnus Enzensberger; Illustrated by Rotraut Susanne Berner; Translated by Michael Heim A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book The international best-seller that makes mathematics a thrilling exploration. In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who...

Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	Emotions Revealed, Second Edition Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life Paul Ekman Holt Paperbacks “A tour de force. If you read this book, you’ll never look at other people in quite the same way again.”—Malcolm Gladwell Renowned psychologist Paul Ekman...

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The Believing Brain

From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths

Michael Shermer Times Books

Bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and...

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Trade Paperback : $12.00 Buy	How to Ace Calculus The Streetwise Guide Colin Adams, Abigail Thompson, and Joel Hass Times Books Written by three gifted—and funny—teachers, How to Ace Calculus provides humorous and readable explanations of the key topics of calculus without...

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Innumeracy

Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

John Allen Paulos; With a New Foreword by the Author Hill and Wang

Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated...

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The Viral Storm

The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age

Nathan Wolfe Times Books

Dynamic young Stanford biologist Nathan Wolfe reveals the surprising origins of the world's most deadly viruses, and how we can overcome catastrophic...

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Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	The Number Devil A Mathematical Adventure Hans Magnus Enzensberger; Illustrated by Rotraut Susanne Berner; Translated by Michael Heim A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book The international best-seller that makes mathematics a thrilling exploration. In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who...

Trade Paperback : $19.00 Buy	How to Ace the Rest of Calculus The Streetwise Guide, Including Multi-Variable Calculus Colin Adams, Abigail Thompson, and Joel Hass Times Books The sequel to How to Ace Calculus, How to Ace the Rest of Calculus provides humorous and highly readable explanations of the key topics of second and third...

Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	Emotions Revealed, Second Edition Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life Paul Ekman Holt Paperbacks “A tour de force. If you read this book, you’ll never look at other people in quite the same way again.”—Malcolm Gladwell Renowned psychologist Paul Ekman...

Hardcover : $55.00 Buy	The Fractal Geometry of Nature Benoit B. Mandelbrot Times Books Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, and lightening does not travel in a straight line. The complexity of nature's shapes differs in kind, not...

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Better

A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

Atul Gawande Picador

National Bestseller The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But...

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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	The Balance Within The Science Connecting Health and Emotions Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. Times Books Since ancient times humans have felt intuitively that emotions and health are linked, and recently there has been much popular speculation about this notion. ...

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Women Who Think Too Much

How to Break Free of Overthinking and Reclaim Your Life

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, Ph.D. Holt Paperbacks

“Groundbreaking research . . . Women Who Think Too Much tells why overthinking occurs, why it hurts people, and how to stop.” —USA Today ...

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Trade Paperback : $22.99 Buy	The Language of Mathematics Making the Invisible Visible Keith Devlin Holt Paperbacks "The great book of nature," said Galileo, "can be read only by those who know the language in which it was written. And this language is mathematics." In The...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Evolution The Story of Life on Earth Written by Jay Hosler; Art by Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon Hill and Wang An accessible graphic introduction to evolution for the most science-phobic reader Illustrated by the brilliant duo Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon, this...

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Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science

Jeff Meldrum Forge Books

In this landmark work on a subject too often dismissed as paranormal or disreputable, Jeffrey Meldrum gives us the first book on Sasquatch to be written by a...

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Cactus Hotel

Brenda Z. Guiberson; Illustrated by Megan Lloyd Henry Holt and Co.

It is another hot day in the desert. Birds and other animals scurry about looking for food. When they get tired, they stop to rest at a giant cactus. It is...

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Escape from Freedom Erich Fromm Holt Paperbacks If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of...

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The Stuff of Life

A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA

Written by Mark Schultz; Art by Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon Hill and Wang

Let’s face it: From adenines to zygotes, from cytokinesis to parthenogenesis, even the basics of genetics can sound utterly alien. So who better than an alien...

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Good Germs, Bad Germs

Health and Survival in a Bacterial World

Jessica Snyder Sachs Hill and Wang

Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic increases in the human life span; they have also unintentionally produced new health crises...

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The Believing Brain

From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths

Michael Shermer Times Books

Bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and...

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The Lady Tasting Tea

How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century

David Salsburg Holt Paperbacks

An insightful, revealing history of the magical mathematics that transformed our world. At a summer tea party in Cambridge, England, a guest states that...

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Getting the Love You Want, 20th Anniversary Edition

A Guide for Couples

With a New Afterword; Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. St. Martin's Griffin

REVISED AND WITH A NEW FOREWORD ARE YOU GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT? Originally published in 1988, Getting the Love You Want has helped millions of couples...

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