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  • Invention and Innovation

    A Brief History of Hype and Failure

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    Tour the history of human invention—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts—in this history book from the New York Times-bestselling author of How the World Really Works.A BILL GATES RECOMMENDED BOOK: “Every Smil book that I own is marked up with lots of notes that I take while reading. Invention and Innovation is no exception.”The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil, author of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Lamarck's Revenge

    How Epigenetics Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution's Past and Present

    by Peter Ward ...
    A riveting explanation of epigenetics, offering startling insights into our inheritable traits.In the 1700s, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck first described epigenetics to explain the inheritance of acquired characteristics; however, his theory was supplanted in the 1800s by Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection through heritable genetic mutations. But natural selection could not adequately ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Catalyst

    RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets

    **Exploring the most transformative breakthroughs in biology since the discovery of the double helix, a Nobel Prize–winning scientist unveils the RNA age."Lively and entertaining.…Biology will never be the same." —Adrian Woolfson, Wall Street JournalAn Economist Best Book of the Year**For over half a century, DNA has dominated science and the popular imagination as the “secret of life.” But over ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Rise and Reign of the Mammals

    A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

    By the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a "brilliant" and "beautifully told" new natural history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to us[New Scientist; The Times UK]National Bestseller • Top 10 Nonfiction of the Year: Kirkus • Best Science Book of the Year: The Times UKWe humans are the inheritors of a dynasty ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • What If? 10th Anniversary Edition

    Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

    A special 10th anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd—revised and annotated with brand-new illustrations and answers to the most absurd hypothetical questions you never thought to ask.Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Light Eaters

    How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New Yorker’s Best Books of 2024 • TIME’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 • New York Magazine’s 10 Best Books of the Year • Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2024 • Smithsonian’s 10 Best Science Books of the Year • A Best Book of the Year: Boston Globe, Scientific American,New York Public Library, Chri... ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

  • 編劇,我想當個好人:《良善之地》、《荒唐分局》知名編劇,帶你經歷一場政治不一定正確的道德思辨之旅。

    How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

    Translated by 王啟安 ...
    Series series 亞當斯密
    亞馬遜、紐約時報、出版者週刊、今日美國報、華爾街日報席捲各大暢銷榜的現象級話題作品政治不正確版《正義:一場思辨之旅》看作者用最幽默寫意的敘述方式,帶領讀者看透人生中各種最難跨過的道德難題你很想用自己的方法對世界釋出善意,但世界毫不留情地打你的臉。而且,我們每天要做的事情已經夠多了,誰又有那個時間、金錢、精力去思考道德呢?  劇透!你可以用輕鬆詼諧的角度,來重新思考艱澀難懂的道德問題。  ✭你是不是永遠搞不清楚,在經典的「列車問題中」,你到底要直接把五個人撞死、拉起操縱桿故意殺掉另一個人,還是把強壯的唐恩推到軌道上,來救那五個人?  ✭身為披薩店老闆,你是否應該為了讓某人得到好處與更多的喜悅,而停止生產正常(好吃的)披薩,然後把時間全部拿來做夏威夷(違反自然定律的)披薩呢?  ✭是否有任何一個一體適用的理論,可以解釋何謂「好」人或「壞」人呢?  《良善之地》、《荒唐分局》知名編劇 ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

  • The Gulag Archipelago

    The Authorized Abridgement

    The official, one-volume edition, authorized by Solzhenitsyn"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" —TimeThe Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature and a landmark of Russian history, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum."It is impossible to name a book that ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • 反智:不願說理的人是偏執,不會說理的人是愚蠢,不敢說理的人是奴隸

    The Irrational ApeWhy Flawed Logic Puts us all at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World

    Translated by 楊玉齡 ...
    Series series 科學自然
    識破迷惑人心的把戲、似是而非的話術理性並非本能,理智需要鍛鍊《反智》蒐羅了常見的推理謬誤、邏輯缺陷、數字迷思、偏見和陰謀論,以當今社會的著名事件和近代歷史的精采故事為例,告訴我們如何識破種種迷惑人心的把戲、似是而非的話術,以及如何建立分析性思考的能力。你覺得下面這個三段論,有沒有問題呢?前提一:人皆不免一死。前提二:蘇格拉底不免一死。結 論:因此,蘇格拉底是人。如果你覺得完全沒問題,那麼我們把「人」換成「狗」,重寫如下:前提一:狗皆不免一死。前提二:蘇格拉底不免一死。結論 :因此,蘇格拉底是狗。看得出來問題出在哪裡嗎?我們再舉兩個同樣類型的... ... Read more

    $14.25 USD

  • Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2

    The Pillars of Civilization

    Series Book 2 - Sapiens: A Graphic History
    The ebook is designed to be read on devices with large color displaysThe Kindle edition is incompatible with iOS. See below for a list of supported devices.This second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari’s #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution—when humans fell into a trap we’ve yet to escape: working harder and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • A Crack in the Edge of the World

    America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

    The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive ... Read more

    $14.09 USD

  • Everything Is Tuberculosis

    The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

    by John Green ...
    **#1 New York Times bestseller • #1 Washington Post bestseller • #1 Indie Bestseller • USA Today BestsellerJohn Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.**AN ACCLAIMED BEST BOOK OF 2025: NPR, Scientific American, Science News, Booklist, BookPage, Chicago Sun ... Read more

    $12.69 USD

  • Fast Food Nation

    The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe jaw-dropping exposé on how America's fast food industry has shaped the landscape of America.**This fascinating study reveals how the fast food industry has altered the landscape of America, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and transformed food production throughout the world. Eric Schlosser inspires readers to look beneath the ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Power of Life

    The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

    **A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2026“A truly remarkable achievement.” —Jill Lepore“A gorgeous story of human nature and animal behavior—and of the way science itself evolves.” —Dava SobelThe tumultuous life and radical science of a revolutionary thinker, and the history of an idea that changed the world**In the early nineteenth century, the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed the first ... Read more

    Was $14.29 USD Now $2.33 USD

  • The Worst Hard Time

    The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

    by Timothy Egan ...
    In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story of the Dust Bowl rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.The dust storms that terrorized America’s High Plains during the Great Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy ... Read more

    $12.19 USD

  • Alchemy

    The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life

    **HOW DOES MAGIC HAPPEN?The Ogilvy advertising legend—“one of the leading minds in the world of branding” (NPR)—explores the art and science of conjuring irresistible products and ideas."Sutherland, the legendary Vice Chairman of Ogilvy, uses his decades of experience to dissect human spending behavior in an insanely entertaining way. Alchemy combines scientific research with hilarious stories and ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • The Great Mortality

    An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

    by John Kelly ...
    “Powerful, rich with details, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose among us.” — Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic BombThe Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern.The ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • 細胞之歌:探索醫學和新人類的未來

    The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

    「我們終歸要回到細胞」我們得要了解細胞,才能了解人體。我們需要它們,才能了解醫學。但最基本的是,我們需要細胞的故事,來講述生命和我們自己的故事。普立茲獎得主、《萬病之王》《基因》作者——辛達塔.穆克吉最新作品,本書是一部生命基石的歷史,交織了他擔任醫師的生涯。《細胞之歌》融合了尖端研究、無可挑剔的嚴謹學術、勇敢無畏的報導,和流暢優美的散文,形成百科全書式的研究,讀起來就如文學作品般扣人心弦。~《歐普拉日報》(Oprah Daily)◆ 2023年美國PROSE Awards生物與生命科學卓越獎◆ 2023年肖托誇獎◆《經濟學人》、《歐普拉日報》、紐約公共圖書館等評為《紐約時報》著名圖書和年度最佳書籍本書談的是細胞的故事,是發現包括人類在內,所有生物體都是由這些「基本粒子」構成的記述。這是關於這些自主的生命單位——組織、器官和器官系統合作,有條不紊地累積,能夠促成深奧形式的生理功能:免疫 ... Read more

    $15.07 USD

  • Lab 257

    The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory

    Strictly off limits to the public, Plum Island is home to virginal beaches, cliffs, forests, ponds -- and the deadliest germs that have ever roamed the planet. Lab 257 blows the lid off the stunning true nature and checkered history of Plum Island. It shows that the seemingly bucolic island in the shadow of New York City is a ticking biological time bomb that none of us can safely ignore.Based on ... Read more

    $12.19 USD

  • Atlantic

    Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

    "Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean ... Read more

    $14.09 USD

  • Cosmos

    by Carl Sagan ...
    Renowned astronomer Carl Sagan’s classic bestseller that “dives into the past, present, and future of science, dealing with the mind-staggering enormity of the cosmos in which we exist” (Associated Press)—with an Introduction by Ann Druyan and a Foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson“Sagan dazzles the mind with the miracle of our survival, framed by the stately galaxies of space.”—CosmopolitanTHE ... Read more

    Was $9.59 USD Now $5.99 USD

  • Apocalypse

    How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures

    by Lizzie Wade ...
    A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book of May 2025 • A Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated History Book of the Year • A The Millions Most Anticipated Spring Book of the YearA richly imagined new view on the great human tradition of apocalypse, from the rise of Homo sapiens to the climate instability of our present, that defies conventional wisdom and long-held stories about our deep past to reveal how ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

  • Human Nature

    Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet

    by Kate Marvel ...
    A Scientific American Best Book of the YearA captivating exploration of climate change that uses nine different emotions to better understand the science, history, and future of our evolving planetScientist Kate Marvel has seen the world end before, sometimes several times a day. In the computer models she uses to study climate change, it’s easy to simulate rising temperatures, catastrophic ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

  • The Infinity Machine

    Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence

    **An Instant New York Times Bestseller • One of NPR's Best Books of the Year • Nominated for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearFrom one of our leading chroniclers of the intersection of innovation and capitalism, a landmark reckoning—based on unprecedented access—with one of the world’s most brilliant and driven tech visionaries, and his game-changing company**Even by the standard of a ... Read more

    $14.29 USD