Science & Nature
100 Stars That Explain the Universe
by Florian Freistetter
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Our own Sun—a source of awe, myth, and mystery for untold generations of sky-gazers—is just one of roughly two hundred billion trillion stars. Together, they’re a window into the profoundest questions in physics—overturning, again and again, how we understand light, matter, time, … Continue reading

2024 Moon Calendar Card (40 pack)
by Kim Long
Cards | $140.00 US / $180.00 CAN

Sturdy and convenient 10” x 6.75” reference card Front: Lunar calendar with realistic moon images Back: Dates and times of every phase change, eclipse, apogee, and perigee Pack includes 40 copies (great for classrooms, scout troops, and more) This is … Continue reading

2024 Moon Calendar Card (5 pack)
Lunar Phases, Eclipses, and More!
by Kim Long
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Sturdy and convenient 10” x 6.75” reference card Front: Lunar calendar with realistic moon images Back: Dates and times of every phase change, eclipse, apogee, and perigee 5 copies you can keep or share This is the 42nd edition of … Continue reading

2025 Moon Calendar (40 pack)
Lunar Phases, Eclipses, and More!
by Kim Long
Cards | $160.00 US / $200.00 CAN

This is the forty-third edition of Kim Long’s classic Moon Calendar, the first of its kind and a fan favorite since 1982. With a graphic, at-a-glance 2025 lunar calendar on the front and easy-to-read, detailed data provided by the US … Continue reading

2025 Moon Calendar (5 pack)
Lunar Phases, Eclipses, and More!
by Kim Long
Cards | $20.00 US / $25.00 CAN

This is the forty-third edition of Kim Long’s classic Moon Calendar, the first of its kind and a fan favorite since 1982. With a graphic, at-a-glance 2025 lunar calendar on the front and easy-to-read, detailed data provided by the US … Continue reading

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
by Adam Rutherford
Hardcover | $25.95 US / $38.95 CAN

In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species—births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away—until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they … Continue reading

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
by Adam Rutherford
Paperback | $18.95 US / $24.95 CAN

In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species—births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away—until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they … Continue reading

A Field Guide to Clean Drinking Water
How to Find, Assess, Treat, and Store It
by Joe Vogel
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Clean drinking water may be the last thing we think about day to day—but it’s the first thing we need in an emergency. Now, survival expert and biologist Joe Vogel explains how to find, treat, and store safe drinking water—even … Continue reading

A Modern Dog’s Life
How to Do the Best for Your Dog
by Paul McGreevy
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What do dogs value? Why do they get so excited by their daily walks? And why may dogs of different breeds have different needs? Veterinarian, professor of animal behavior, and dog lover Dr. Paul McGreevy answers these questions and many … Continue reading

A Pocket History of Human Evolution
How We Became Sapiens
by Silvana Condemi, François Savatier
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Prehistory has never been more exciting: New discoveries are overturning long-held theories left and right. Stone tools in Australia date back 65,000 years—a time when, we once thought, the first Sapiens had barely left Africa. DNA sequencing has unearthed a … Continue reading

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
Learn the Lost Art of Making Sense
by Ali Almossawi, Alejandro Giraldo
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Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had, so he wrote An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments! This handy guide is here to bring the internet age a much-needed dose of old-school … Continue reading

An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language
Learn to Hear What’s Left Unsaid
by Ali Almossawi, Alejandro Giraldo
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Public discourse? More like public discord. The battle cries of our culture wars are rife with “loaded language”—be it bias, slant, or spin. But listen closely, or you’ll miss what Ali Almossawi finds more frightening still: words that erase accountability, … Continue reading

Anatomical Oddities
The Otherworldly Realms Hidden within Our Bodies
by Alice Roberts, Holly Dunsworth
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Did you know you have cobwebs in your head, hair in your lungs, and snails in your ears? In the world of anatomy, every name paints a picture: from the arachnoid mater, a brain membrane resembling a spider’s web, to the ciliated … Continue reading

Ask a Science Teacher
250 Answers to Questions You've Always Had About How Everyday Stuff Really Works
by Larry Scheckel
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We’ve all grown so used to living in a world filled with wonders that we sometimes forget to wonder about them: What creates the wind? Do fish sleep? Why do we blink? These are common phenomena, but it’s a rare … Continue reading

Atom Land
A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics
by Jon Butterworth
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Welcome to Atom Land, the impossibly small world of quantum physics. With award-winning physicist Jon Butterworth as your guide, you’ll set sail from Port Electron in search of strange new terrain. Each discovery will expand the horizons of your trusty … Continue reading

Atom Land
A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics
by Jon Butterworth
Paperback | $14.95 US / $19.95 CAN

Welcome to Atom Land, a subatomic realm governed by the laws of particle physics. Here, electromagnetism is a highway system; the strong force, a railway; the weak force, an airline. With award-winning physicist Jon Butterworth as your guide, you’ll set … Continue reading

Birding at the Bridge
In Search of Every Bird on the Brooklyn Waterfront
by Heather Wolf
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The Brooklyn Bridge once overshadowed a decaying industrial waterfront, but today it points the way to a new green oasis: Brooklyn Bridge Park. When avid birder Heather Wolf moved from tropical Florida to a nearby apartment, she wondered how many … Continue reading

Blue
The Science and Secrets of Nature’s Rarest Color
by Kai Kupferschmidt
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Blue is our favorite color globally—the darling of artists since the time of the pharaohs. So it’s startling to turn to the realms of nature and discover that “true” blue is truly rare. The sea and sky are blue, but … Continue reading

Calendario lunar 2024
Fases lunares, eclipses y más
by Kim Long
Cards | $17.50 US / $22.50 CAN

Tarjeta de referencia resistente y práctica de 10 x 6.75 pulgadas Al frente: calendario lunar con imágenes realistas de la Luna Al dorso: fechas y horas de cada cambio de fase, eclipse, apogeo y perigeo 5 copias que puede guardar … Continue reading

Calendario lunar 2025
Fases lunares, eclipses y más
by Kim Long
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Tarjeta de referencia resistente y práctica de 10 x 6.75 pulgadas Al frente: calendario lunar con imágenes realistas de la Luna Al dorso: fechas y horas de cada cambio de fase, eclipse, apogeo y perigeo 5 copias que puede guardar … Continue reading

Citizen Scientist
Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction
by Mary Ellen Hannibal
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Award-winning writer Mary Ellen Hannibal has long reported on scientists’ efforts to protect vanishing species, but it was only through citizen science that she found she could take action herself. As she wades into tide pools, spots hawks, and scours … Continue reading

Citizen Scientist
Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction
by Mary Ellen Hannibal
Hardcover | $25.95 US / $38.95 CAN

Here is a wide-ranging adventure in becoming a citizen scientist by an award-winning writer and environmental thought leader. As Mary Ellen Hannibal wades into tide pools, follows hawks, and scours mountains to collect data on threatened species, she discovers the … Continue reading

Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut
by Samantha Cristoforetti
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Two hundred days orbiting Earth on the International Space Station. Five years working and training with the aerospace community across the world. A lifetime of choices leading to the stars. These are the components of Samantha Cristoforetti’s dream, a dream … Continue reading

Dinosaurs—The Grand Tour
Everything Worth Knowing About Dinosaurs from Aardonyx to Zuniceratops
by Keiron Pim, Jack Horner
Hardcover | $24.95 US

We live in a golden age of paleontological discovery—the perfect time to dig in to the spectacular world of dinosaurs. From Aardonyx, a lumbering beast that formed a link between two and four-legged dinosaurs, to Zuniceratops, who boasted a deadly … Continue reading

Dinosaurs—The Grand Tour, Second Edition
Everything Worth Knowing About Dinosaurs from Aardonyx to Zuniceratops
by Keiron Pim, Jack Horner, Fabio Pastori
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We live in a golden age of paleontological discovery—on average, we find one new dinosaur species per week. The most fascinating among them take their place in this updated edition of Dinosaurs—The Grand Tour; from Aardonyx, a lumbering beast that … Continue reading

Engineering Eden
A Violent Death, a Federal Trial, and the Struggle to Restore Nature in Our National Parks
by Jordan Fisher Smith
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In the summer of 1972, 25-year-old Harry Eugene Walker hitchhiked away from his family’s northern Alabama dairy farm to see America. Nineteen days later he was killed by an endangered grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park. The ensuing civil trial, … Continue reading

Find More Birds
111 Surprising Ways to Spot Birds Wherever You Are
by Heather Wolf
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Seeing more birds than you ever imagined and witnessing exciting avian drama is possible—whether you’re on the go or in your own neighborhood, local park, or backyard. As Heather Wolf explains, it all comes down to how you tune in … Continue reading

Fire Making
The Forgotten Art of Conjuring Flame with Spark, Tinder, and Skill
by Daniel Hume
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If you ask outdoorsman Daniel Hume for the fastest, most practical way to start a fire, he’ll tell you: Use a match. But he probably won’t stop there. For Hume, conjuring flame is an art form, and seeking out the … Continue reading

Gender, Explained
A New Understanding of Identity in a Gender Creative World
by Diane Ehrensaft, Michelle Jurkiewicz
Hardcover | $28.95 US / $37.50 CAN

Gender as we used to know it is being upended, and no more dramatically than in the hands of the youngest generation—from children aged two to young adults just old enough to vote. There has been an explosion in the … Continue reading

Good Thinking
Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World
by David Robert Grimes
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In our ever-more-polarized society, there’s at least one thing we still agree on: The world is overrun with misinformation, faulty logic, and the gullible followers who buy into it all. Of course, we’re not among them—are we? Scientist David Robert … Continue reading

How Birds Work
An Illustrated Guide to the Wonders of Form and Function—from Bones to Beak
by Marianne Taylor
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How Birds Work goes beyond the typical field guide to show us not only what birds look like but why. Why do many owls have asymmetrical ear openings? (Hint: It helps them pinpoint prey; see page 40.) And why does … Continue reading

How Insects Work
An Illustrated Guide to the Wonders of Form and Function—from Antennae to Wings
by Marianne Taylor
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How Insects Work goes beyond the typical field guide to show us not only what insects look like but why. Arguably the most successful land animals—still going strong after five mass extinctions—insects have evolved a spectacular array of real-life superpowers … Continue reading

How Light Makes Life
The Hidden Wonders and World-Saving Powers of Photosynthesis
by Raffael Jovine
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It’s a clunky word for a miracle: Photosynthesis. But there’s no life on Earth without it. For biologist Raffael Jovine, it’s a consuming passion, a great unsung force of nature. He makes his case in How Light Makes Life, a … Continue reading

How to Argue With a Racist
What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
by Adam Rutherford
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Racist pseudoscience has become so commonplace that it can be hard to spot. But its toxic effects on society are plain to see—feeding nationalism, fueling hatred, endangering lives, and corroding our discourse on everything from sports to intelligence. Even well-intentioned … Continue reading

How to Argue With a Racist
What Our Genes Do (and Don’t) Say About Human Difference
by Adam Rutherford
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Race is not a biological reality. Racism thrives on our not knowing this. In fact, racist pseudoscience has become so commonplace that it can be hard to spot. But its toxic effects on society are plain to see: rising nationalism, … Continue reading

How to Change Minds About Our Changing Climate
by Seth B. Darling, Douglas L. Sisterson
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In our post-truth world, there’s only one place to turn to if we want to live in reality: science. And the research on climate change is clear: It’s real, it threatens us all, and human activity is the primary cause. … Continue reading

How to Love the Universe
A Scientist’s Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible World
by Stefan Klein
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How to Love the Universe is a new kind of science writing by an author truly enamored of the world around him. In ten short chapters of lyrical prose—each one an ode to a breathtaking realm of discovery—Stefan Klein uses … Continue reading

How to Love the Universe
A Scientist's Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible World
by Stefan Klein
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How to Love the Universe shows us how everyday objects and events can reveal some of the deepest mysteries in all of science. In ten eye-opening chapters of lyrical prose, Stefan Klein contemplates time, space, dark matter, and more, encouraging … Continue reading

How to Read a Tree
Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves
by Tristan Gooley
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Trees are keen to tell us so much. They’ll tell us about the land, the water, the people, the animals, the weather, and time. And they will tell us about their lives, the good bits and bad. Trees tell a … Continue reading

How to Read Nature
Awaken Your Senses to the Outdoors You've Never Noticed
by Tristan Gooley
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When most of us go for a walk, a single sense—sight—tends to dominate our experience. But when New York Times–bestselling author and expert navigator Tristan Gooley goes for a walk, he uses all five senses to “read” everything nature has … Continue reading

How to Read Water
Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea
by Tristan Gooley
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In his eye-opening books The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs and The Natural Navigator, Tristan Gooley helped readers reconnect with nature by finding direction from the trees, stars, clouds, and more. Now, he turns his attention to our most … Continue reading

How to Save the World for Just a Trillion Dollars
The Ten Biggest Problems We Can Actually Fix
by Rowan Hooper
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If we can come up with a trillion dollars to bail out banks, imagine what else we could do. Science journalist Rowan Hooper decided to find out, speaking with experts of all kinds about ten incredibly ambitious projects that— if … Continue reading

How to Speak Science
Gravity, Relativity, and Other Ideas That Were Crazy Until Proven Brilliant
by Bruce Benamran
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As smartphones, supercomputers, supercolliders, and AI propel us into an ever more unfamiliar future, How to Speak Science takes us on a rollicking historical tour of the greatest discoveries and ideas that make today’s cutting–edge technologies possible. Wanting everyone to … Continue reading

Humanimal
How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature—A New Evolutionary History
by Adam Rutherford
Hardcover | $25.95 US / $33.95 CAN

Evolutionary theory has long established that humans are animals: Modern Homo sapiens are primates who share an ancestor with monkeys and other great apes. Our genome is 98 percent identical to a chimpanzee’s. And yet we think of ourselves as … Continue reading

In Deep Water
The Anatomy of a Disaster, the Fate of the Gulf, and Ending Our Oil Addiction
by Bob Deans, Peter Lehner
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When Deepwater Horizon’s well blew out on April 20, 2010, the resulting explosion claimed eleven lives. Over the next two months, an estimated 200 million gallons of crude oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico, a haven of biodiversity and … Continue reading

Know It All
132 Head-Scratching Questions About the Science All Around Us
by New Scientist, Mick O'Hare
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New Scientist magazine’s beloved “Last Word” column is a rare forum for “un-Google-able” queries: Readers write in, and readers respond! Know It All collects 132 of the column’s very best Q&As. The often-wacky questions cover physics, chemistry, zoology and beyond: … Continue reading

Living Night
On the Secret Wonders of Wildlife After Dark
by Sophia Kimmig
Trade Paperback | $18.95 US / $24.95 CAN

When the sun has set, things get interesting with wild animals. Where people wait for buses during the day, a family of raccoons rummages through the trash can. Foxes and skunks search for food, fireflies send flashing signals to potential … Continue reading

Making Dogs Happy
A Guide to How They Think, What They Do (and Don’t) Want, and Getting to “Good Dog!” Behavior
by Paul McGreevy, Melissa Starling
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“Why does my dog do that?” It’s a question every dog owner has asked—whether their best friend is growling at an unseen foe, or rolling in an objectionable scent. Now, world-leading canine experts and fellow dog-lovers Melissa Starling and Paul … Continue reading

Monarchs of the Sea
The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods
by Danna Staaf
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Cephalopods, Earth’s first truly substantial animals, are still among us: Their fascinating family tree features squid, octopuses, nautiluses, and more. The inventors of swimming, cephs presided over the sea for millions of years. But when fish evolved jaws, cephs had … Continue reading

Most Wanted Particle
The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics
by Jon Butterworth, Lisa Randall (Foreword)
Hardcover | $24.95 US / $37.95 CAN

The discovery of the Higgs boson has brought us a giant step closer to understanding how our universe works. But before the Higgs was found, its existence was hotly debated. Even Peter Higgs, who first pictured it, did not expect … Continue reading

Most Wanted Particle
The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics
by Jon Butterworth, Lisa Randall (Foreword)
Paperback | $15.95 US / $23.95 CAN

Particle physics as we know it depends on the Higgs boson: It’s the missing link between the birth of our universe—as a sea of tiny, massless particles—and the tangible world we live in today. But for more than 50 years, … Continue reading

Mushrooming
An Illustrated Guide to the Fantastic, Delicious, Deadly, and Strange World of Fungi
by Diane Borsato, Kelsey Oseid
Paper Over Board | $24.95 US

An incredible diversity of fungi is flourishing all around us, not just in the forest but in parks, markets, and even museums. Once you know how to look, you can find mushrooms named after fairies and demons, mushrooms that look … Continue reading

Nerve
Adventures in the Science of Fear
by Eva Holland
Hardcover | $24.95 US

Frozen in terror during a mountain descent, award-winning journalist Eva Holland reaches her breaking point. Since childhood, she’s been gripped by two debilitating phobias: fear of losing her mother, and fear of heights. The worst has already happened: Eva’s mother … Continue reading

Nerve
Adventures in the Science of Fear
by Eva Holland
Paperback | $15.95 US

Since childhood, Eva Holland has been gripped by two debilitating phobias: fear of losing her mother and fear of heights. When the worst comes to pass with her mother’s sudden death in 2015, followed by an ice-climbing expedition that ends … Continue reading

Nineteen Reservoirs
On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City
by Lucy Sante, Tim Davis (Photographs)
Hardcover | $24.95 US / $32.95 CAN

From 1907 to 1967, a network of reservoirs and aqueducts was built across more than one million acres in upstate New York, including Greene, Delaware, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties. This feat of engineering served to meet New York City’s ever-increasing need … Continue reading

North Pole, South Pole
The Epic Quest to Solve the Great Mystery of Earth’s Magnetism
by Gillian Turner
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Why do compass needles point north—but not quite north? What guides the migration of birds, whales, and fish across the world’s oceans? How is Earth able to sustain life under an onslaught of solar wind and cosmic radiation? For centuries, … Continue reading

Nothing
Surprising Insights Everywhere from Zero to Oblivion
by New Scientist, Jeremy Webb
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It turns out that almost nothing is as curious—or as enlightening—as, well, nothing. What is nothingness? Where can it be found? The writers of the world’s top-selling science magazine investigate—from the big bang, dark energy, and the void to superconductors, … Continue reading

Nowhere Left to Go
How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth
by Benjamin von Brackel
Hardcover | $26.95 US / $34.95 CAN

As humans accelerate global warming while laying waste to the environment, animals and plants must flee to the margins: on scattered nature reserves, between major highways, or among urban sprawl. And when even these places become too hot and inhospitable, … Continue reading

Nursery Earth
The Hidden World of Baby Animals and the Amazing Ingenuity of Life
by Danna Staaf, Richard Strathmann (Foreword)
Paperback | $17.95 US / $23.50 CAN

It’s time to pay attention to baby animals. From egg to tadpole, chick to fledgling, they offer scientists a window into questions of immense importance: How do genes influence health? Which environmental factors support—or obstruct—life? Entire ecosystems rest on the … Continue reading

Nursery Earth
The Wondrous Lives of Baby Animals and the Extraordinary Ways They Shape Our World
by Danna Staaf, Richard Strathmann (Foreword)
Hardcover | $27.95 US / $36.50 CAN

It’s time to pay attention to baby animals. From egg to tadpole, chick to fledgling, they offer scientists a window into questions of immense importance: How do genes influence health? Which environmental factors support—or obstruct—life? Entire ecosystems rest on the … Continue reading

Patterns of the Universe
A Coloring Adventure in Math and Beauty
by Alex Bellos, Edmund Harriss
Paperback | $14.95 US / $19.95 CAN

Math is at the heart of many natural wonders and has an abstract beauty all its own—in the silhouette of a snowflake, the spiral seeds of a sunflower, and the symmetry of the Sri Yantra mandala. From the 4-D hypercube … Continue reading

Planet of the Ants
The Hidden Worlds and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors
by Susanne Foitzik, Olaf Fritsche
Paperback | $17.95 US / $23.50 CAN

Publisher’s note: Planet of the Ants was previously published in hardcover as Empire of Ants. Ants number in the ten quadrillions, and they have been here since the Jurassic era. Inside an anthill, you’ll find high drama worthy of a … Continue reading

Raised by Animals
The Surprising New Science of Animal Family Dynamics
by Jennifer L. Verdolin
Paperback | $15.95 US / $23.95 CAN

When it comes to family matters, do humans know best? Leading animal behaviorist Dr. Jennifer Verdolin argues otherwise in this eye-opening book. Welcome to the wild world of raising a family in the animal kingdom . . . sometimes shocking, … Continue reading

Sightlines
by Kathleen Jamie
Paperback | $14.95 US / $19.95 CAN

With her poet’s eye and naturalist’s affinity for wild places, Kathleen Jamie reports from the field in this enthralling collection of fourteen essays whose power derives from the stubborn attention she pays to everything around her. Jamie roams her native … Continue reading

Space Exploration—A History in 100 Objects
by Sten Odenwald, John Mather
Hardcover | $25.00 US / $33.00 CAN

Within the pages of this eclectic pop-history, scientist and educator Sten Odenwald at NASA examines 100 objects that forever altered what we know and how we think about the cosmos. From Sputnik to Skylab and Galileo’s telescope to the Curiosity … Continue reading

Stonehenge—A New Understanding
Solving the Mysteries of the Greatest Stone Age Monument
by Mike Parker Pearson
Paperback | $17.95 US / $26.95 CAN

Stonehenge stands as an enduring link to our prehistoric ancestors, yet the secrets it has guarded for thousands of years have long eluded us. Until now, the millions of enthusiasts who flock to the iconic site have made do with … Continue reading

Stonehenge—A New Understanding
Solving the Mysteries of the Greatest Stone Age Monument
by Mike Parker Pearson
Hardcover | $27.50 US

Despite its being one of prehistory’s most alluring landmarks, before the Stonehenge Riverside Project led by noted archeologist Mike Parker Pearson, only half of Stonehenge itself—and far less of its surroundings—had ever been investigated, and many records from previous digs … Continue reading

Supernavigators
Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way
by David Barrie
Hardcover | $25.95 US / $33.95 CAN

Animals plainly know where they’re going, but how they get there has remained surprisingly mysterious—until now. In Supernavigators, award-winning author David Barrie catches us up on the cutting-edge science. Here are astounding animals of every stripe: Dung beetles that steer … Continue reading

Supernavigators
Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way
by David Barrie
Paperback | $16.95 US / $21.95 CAN

Animals plainly know where they’re going, but how they know has remained a stubborn mystery—until now. Supernavigators is a globe-trotting voyage of discovery alongside astounding animals of every stripe: dung beetles that steer by the Milky Way, box jellyfish that … Continue reading

Survival of the Nicest
How Altruism Made Us Human and Why It Pays to Get Along
by Stefan Klein
Paperback | $15.95 US / $23.95 CAN

The phrase “survival of the fittest” conjures an image of the most cutthroat individuals rising to the top. But Stefan Klein, author of the #1 international bestseller The Science of Happiness, makes the startling assertion that altruism is the key … Continue reading

The Aliens Are Coming!
The Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe
by Ben Miller
Paperback | $15.95 US / $23.95 CAN

For millennia, we have looked up at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe, but in the last few years—as our probes begin to escape the solar system, and our telescopes reveal thousands of Earthlike planets—scientists … Continue reading

The Book of Humans
A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War, and the Evolution of Us
by Adam Rutherford
Paperback | $15.95 US / $21.00 CAN

In this new evolutionary history, geneticist Adam Rutherford explores the profound paradox of the human animal. Looking for answers across the animal kingdom, he finds that many things once considered exclusively human are not: We aren’t the only species that … Continue reading

The Elements We Live By
How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table
by Anja Røyne
Hardcover | $18.95 US / $24.95 CAN

Some elements get all the attention: glittering gold, radioactive uranium—materials we call “precious” because they are so rare. But what could be more precious than the building blocks of life—from the oxygen in our air to the carbon in all … Continue reading

The Field Guide to Knots
How to Identify, Tie, and Untie Over 80 Essential Knots for Outdoor Pursuits
by Bob Holtzman
Hardcover (Hidden Spiral) | $16.95 US / $21.95 CAN

The perfect knot can make any job quicker, easier, and safer—whether you need to build a shelter, tether a horse, rappel down a cliff, or moor a boat. In The Field Guide to Knots, veteran outdoorsman Bob Holtzman helps you: … Continue reading

The Gaming Mind
A New Psychology of Videogames and the Power of Play
by Alexander Kriss
Paperback | $15.95 US / $21.00 CAN

It’s the question on everyone’s mind, given teenagers’ captive attention to videogames and the media’s tendency to scapegoat them. It’s also—if you ask clinical psychologist Alexander Kriss—the wrong question. In his therapy office, Kriss looks at videogames as a window … Continue reading

The Hidden Life of Ice
Dispatches from a Disappearing World
by Marco Tedesco, Alberto Flores d’Arcais, Elizabeth Kolbert
Hardcover | $19.95 US / $25.95 CAN

Marco Tedesco is a world-leading expert on Arctic ice decline and climate change. In The Hidden Life of Ice, he invites us to Greenland, where he and his fellow scientists are doggedly researching the dramatic changes afoot. Following the arc … Continue reading

The Incredible yet True Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt
The Greatest Inventor-Naturalist-Scientist-Explorer Who Ever Lived
by Volker Mehnert, Claudia Lieb
Paper over Boards | $17.95 US / $23.50 CAN

Explorer. Naturalist. All-around genius. Lost hero of science. In his time, Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was world-famous. Why? He led one of the first major scientific expeditions into the South American rain forest and another into the wilds of Siberia. … Continue reading

The Longevity Code
Slow Down the Aging Process and Live Well for Longer—Secrets from the Leading Edge of Science
by Kris Verburgh
Paperback | $16.95 US / $21.95 CAN

Do you know exactly how and why you age? And what you can do— whatever your current age—to slow that process and have a longer, healthier life? In The Longevity Code, medical doctor Kris Verburgh illuminates the biological mechanisms that … Continue reading

The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs
Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals—and Other Forgotten Skills
by Tristan Gooley
Paperback | $17.95 US / $23.50 CAN

When writer and navigator Tristan Gooley journeys outside, he sees a natural world filled with clues. The roots of a tree indicate the sun’s direction; the Big Dipper tells the time; a passing butterfly hints at the weather; a sand … Continue reading

The Natural Navigator, Tenth Anniversary Edition
The Rediscovered Art of Letting Nature Be Your Guide
by Tristan Gooley
Paper over Boards | $18.95 US / $24.95 CAN

Before GPS, before the compass, and even before cartography, humankind was navigating. A windswept tree, the depth of a puddle, or a trill of birdsong could point the way home, and they still do—if you know how to look. With … Continue reading

The Nature Instinct
Relearning Our Lost Intuition for the Inner Workings of the Natural World
by Tristan Gooley
Hardcover | $24.95 US / $32.95 CAN

Readers of master outdoorsman Tristan Gooley have learned that the world is filled with clues to look for—we can use the Big Dipper to tell time, for example, and a budding flower to find south. But what about the innate … Continue reading

The Nature Instinct
Learn to Find Direction, Sense Danger, and Even Guess Nature’s Next Move—Faster Than Thought
by Tristan Gooley
Paperback | $16.95 US / $21.95 CAN

Master outdoorsman Tristan Gooley was just about to make camp when he sensed danger—but couldn’t say why. After sheltering elsewhere, Gooley returned to investigate: What had set off his subconscious alarm? Suddenly, he understood: All of the tree trunks were … Continue reading

The Philadelphia Chromosome
A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
by Jessica Wapner
Hardcover | $25.95 US

Philadelphia, 1959: A scientist scrutinizing a single human cell under a microscope detects a missing piece of DNA. That scientist, David Hungerford, had no way of knowing that he had stumbled upon the starting point of modern cancer research—the Philadelphia … Continue reading

The Philadelphia Chromosome
A Genetic Mystery, a Lethal Cancer, and the Improbable Invention of a Lifesaving Treatment
by Jessica Wapner
Paperback | $15.95 US / $21.00 CAN

Philadelphia, 1959: A scientist scrutinizing a single human cell under a microscope detects a missing piece of DNA. That scientist, David Hungerford, had no way of knowing that he had stumbled upon the starting point of modern cancer research— the … Continue reading

The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away
A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System
by Mike Vago
Hardcover | $16.95 US / $21.95 CAN

Quick: Picture the solar system. Do you see nine planets on tidy rings around the Sun? Then you have been lied to! It’s not without reason: We have to draw the solar system that way to fit it on a … Continue reading

The Science of Cleaning
Use the Power of Chemistry to Clean Smarter, Easier, and Safer—With Solutions for Every Kind of Dirt
by Dario Bressanini
Flexibind | $24.95 US / $32.95 CAN

Countless cleaning hacks for every kind of household dirt may vie for our attention, but how do we know which ones really work and which ones will only leave you with a sticky mess that doesn’t actually do the job? … Continue reading

The Secret World of Weather
How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop
by Tristan Gooley
Paperback | $17.95 US / $23.50 CAN

In this eye-opening trove of outdoor clues, acclaimed natural navigator Tristan Gooley shows us how, by “reading” nature as he does, you’ll not only detect what the weather is doing (and predict what’s coming), you’ll enter a secret wonderland of sights … Continue reading

The Shortest History of Our Universe
The Unlikely Journey from the Big Bang to Us
by David Baker, John Green (Foreword)
Paperback | $16.95 US / $21.95 CAN

In this thrilling history, David Baker captures the longest-possible time span—from the Big Bang to the present day—in an astonishingly concise retelling. His impressive timeline includes the “rise of complexity” in the cosmos and the creation of the first atoms; … Continue reading

The Story of the Universe in 100 Stars
by Florian Freistetter
Hardcover | $21.95 US / $28.95 CAN

With roughly 100 billion stars in the Milky Way alone, the cosmos is simply too vast for an unabridged tell-all. But here’s the next best thing: 100 stars—bright and faint, near and far, famous and obscure, long dead and as-yet … Continue reading

The Time Nature Keeps
A Visual Guide to the Cycles and Time Spans of the Natural World
by Helen Pilcher
Hardcover | $24.95 US / $32.95 CAN

Take a visual journey of discovery through the animal and plant kingdoms—and uncover the extraordinary rhythms of nature! Here are the answers to all kinds of curious questions, including: How long do eggs take to hatch? Do dogs really need … Continue reading

The Tristan Gooley Collection
How to Read Nature, How to Read Water, and The Natural Navigator
by Tristan Gooley
Hardcover | $59.99 US / $78.00 CAN

Clocks, compasses, GPS, and Google can only get us so far. In this special collection, lifelong wanderer and New York Times–bestselling author Tristian Gooley walks us through, book-by-book, the near-forgotten art of examining nature’s signs and patterns. Gooley begins to … Continue reading

Their Fate Is Our Fate
How Birds Foretell Threats to Our Health and Our World
by Peter Doherty
Ebook | $9.99 US / $11.99 CAN

At the heart of this book by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist and professor Peter Doherty is this striking observation: Birds detect danger to our health and the environment before we do. Following a diverse cast of bird species around the world—from … Continue reading

This Is Climate Change
A Visual Guide to the Facts—See for Yourself How the Planet Is Warming and What It Means for Us
by David Nelles, Christian Serrer
Hardcover | $14.95 US / $19.95 CAN

This Is Climate Change cuts straight to the facts, using infographics on every page to make the reality about our warming planet plain to see. How much do humans contribute to global warming? What do ever-more-frequent storms and floods mean … Continue reading

Too Big for a Single Mind
How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
by Tobias Hürter
Paperback | $18.95 US / $24.95 CAN

There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless cast of physicists—Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, and others—came together to uncover the quantum world, a concept so … Continue reading

Too Big for a Single Mind
How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
by Tobias Hürter
Hardcover | $30 US / $39 CAN

There may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless cast of physicists—Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and others—came together to uncover … Continue reading

Transit of Venus
1631 to the Present
by Nick Lomb
Paperback | $24.95 US / $37.95 CAN

A transit of Venus is one of the rarest and most historically significant planetary alignments—since the invention of the telescope in 1608, there have been only seven. A must-have for all sky-watchers, Transit of Venus is packed with scientific and … Continue reading

Visions of the Universe
A Coloring Journey Through Math's Great Mysteries
by Alex Bellos, Edmund Harriss
Paperback | $14.95 US / $19.95 CAN

For curious minds throughout history, math was truly an art. In Visions of the Universe, you can pick up right where Isaac Newton, Blaise Pascal, and other luminaries left off—by coloring 58 exquisite patterns inspired by great discoveries in math: … Continue reading

We Are All Stardust
Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk About Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want To Know
by Stefan Klein
Paperback | $14.95 US / $19.95 CAN

When acclaimed science writer Stefan Klein asks Nobel Prize– winning chemist Roald Hoffmann what sets scientists apart, Hoffmann says, “First and foremost, curiosity.” In this collection of intimate conversations with 19 of the world’s best-known scientists (including three Nobel Laureates), … Continue reading

What the Future Looks Like
Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries―and Reveal How Today’s Breakthroughs Are Already Shaping Our World
by Jim Al-Khalili
Paperback | $14.95 US / $19.95 CAN

Every day, scientists conduct pioneering experiments with the potential to transform how we live. Yet it isn’t every day you hear from the scientists themselves! Now, award–winning author Jim Al–Khalili and his team of top-notch experts explain how today’s earthshaking … Continue reading

Who’s Afraid of AI?
Fear and Promise in the Age of Thinking Machines
by Thomas Ramge
Paperback | $9.95 US / $12.95 CAN

At a breathtaking pace, artificial intelligence is getting better and faster at making complex decisions. AI can already identify malignant tumors on CT scans, give legal advice, out-bluff the best poker players in the world, and, with ever-increasing skill, drive … Continue reading

Wild Child
Nature Adventures for Young Explorers—with Amazing Things to Make, Find, and Do
by Dara McAnulty, Barry Falls
Hardcover | $22.95 US

Nature is all around us to see, hear, and touch—in the leafy woods, by the sparkling water, or simply out the window. What will you discover? A chattering jay hiding an acorn, a butterfly with camouflaged wings? Perhaps a brilliant red feather … Continue reading