Life Sciences

From the author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Female Brain, here is the eagerly awaited follow-up book that demystifies...

Bestselling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and...

New Edition: With a new chapter addressing contemporary issues in end-of-life careA runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwi...

Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice has been called one of the greatest adventure stories ever told.As then-chief ethnobotanist for Conservation I...

Creativity is often considered an innate gift, not something that can be learned or optimized. In fact, there is an entire branch of science ...

Genomics has transformed the biological sciences. From epidemiology and medicine to evolution and forensics, the ability to determine an orga...

Lewis Thomass fascinating observations of the quirkiness of the worlds lifeforms cause the listener to ponder simultaneously a tiny organism ...

Everything from neurons to consciousness in the blink of an eye (which takes 300 milliseconds).Take a "fantastic voyage" through the whorls a...

From the bestselling author of The End of Nature comes a passionate plea to limit the technologies that could change the very definition of w...

Most people are familiar with the dodo and the dinosaur, but extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, with the result that nea...

Stuart Kauffman's latest book offers an explanation—beyond what the laws of physics can explain—of the progression from a complex...

“Strong on science but just this side of poetry.” —Nature An exploration of the principles, laws, and wonders tha...