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  • Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds

    A Bird Book for Adults

    An ornithology researcher reveals the amazing talents and personalities of common birds in this joyful celebration for backyard bird watchers and nature lovers.Some birdwatchers will hop the red-eye to Costa Rica if a rare species is reported to be in residence. Here, author Lyanda Lynn Haupt makes the argument for sticking close to home. She muses on the tarnished reputation of the starling, the ... Read more

    Was $11.59 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • On Call

    A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

    **#1 New York Times BestsellerThe memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents“An eventful autobiography [and] a classic American story…Gripping.”—The Washington Post“One of the most consequential and most prominent [careers] in American medicine in the ... Read more

    Was $5.29 USD Now $2.51 USD

  • American Prometheus (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMER

    THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER • "A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”—Christopher Nolan#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic ... Read more

    $2.51 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 Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

    And Other Clinical Tales

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    **THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NBC SERIES BRILLIANT MINDS • In his most extraordinary book, the bestselling author of Awakenings and "poet laureate of medicine” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients inhabiting the compelling world of neurological disorders, from those who are no longer able to recognize common objects to those who gain extraordinary new skills.“Oliver Sacks has ... Read more

    $2.51 USD

  • Careless People

    A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

    **#1 New York Times BestsellerA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, AP, THE ECONOMIST, SLATE, THE GLOBE AND MAIL,** SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, AND MORE!**“Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only does [Sarah Wynn-Williams] have the storytelling chops to unspool a gripping narrative; she al... ... Read more

    $16.69 USD

  • Plants of the Pacific Coast

    From Alaska to Oregon, including British Columbia and Washington

    This long-awaited successor to the bestselling Plants of Coastal British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest features over 700 trees, shrubs, wildflowers, ferns, horsetails and lycopods of the north Pacific coast of North America.The region, stretching from southeast Alaska to northwest Oregon, is characterized by humid forests, imposing mountains, muscular rivers, serene and stormy seas, and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Medical Apartheid

    The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book."[Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting, ... Read more

    Was $5.29 USD Now $2.33 USD

  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

    A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

    by Lori Gottlieb ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!“Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing.”—Katie Couric“This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book.”—Arianna Huffington, Founder, Huffington Post and Founder & CEO, Thrive Global“Wise, warm, smart, and funny. You must read this book.”—... ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

  • 社群帝國那些人:權力、貪婪,及迷失的夢想

    Careless People:A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

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    ★揭密臉書企業文化及審查亂象,美國國會舉行聽證會保護的話題之書!★我在臉書上班的故事,文筆諷刺幽默,《紐約時報》盛讚是商業版的《BJ單身日記》。★FB、IG、Threads、Messenger占了台灣人社群使用率的八成以上,關於Meta管理高層,你必須知道的真相。他們掌握的權力越大,他們的責任感卻越低!「政要的來來去去令我震驚不已,然而,你依然有辦法想像,馬克再繼續穩坐這個位置替世界領袖主持會議五十年,他將會見識這些人卸任,還有後繼好幾代跟隨他們腳步的領袖。他簡直就像英國女王一樣。」作者莎拉.溫-威廉絲曾經位處全球最具影響力的社群帝國——Facebook/Meta的核心。她將透過其經歷,以扣人心弦且充滿黑色幽默的敘述方式,講述幾個人漫不經心地將世界握在手中的故事,揭露這家科技巨頭之中真正發生的內幕。從幕前搭乘私人飛機前往各地出差、與世界各國領袖會面,到幕後令人瞠目結舌的厭女故事與雙標行為 ... Read more

    Was $12.85 USD Now $10.92 USD

  • Reader, Come Home

    The Reading Brain in a Digital World

    by Maryanne Wolf ...
    The author of the acclaimed Proust and the Squid follows up with a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf’s Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how ... Read more

    $12.19 USD

  • Whatever It Takes

    Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America

    by Paul Tough ...
    From the New York Times bestseller, "the most compelling and potentially the most important book on the problem of poverty in urban America in years." —Michael Pollan, #1 New York Times– bestselling author of How To Change Your MindWhat would it take?That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change ... ... Read more

    Was $17.29 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Everything Happens for a Reason

    And Other Lies I've Loved

    by Kate Bowler ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”—Lucy KalanithiNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE**Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a ... Read more

    $2.33 USD

  • 法槌下的仁慈:最暖法官如何用慈悲、尊重與理解扭轉人生

    Compassion in the Court: Life-Changing Stories from America's Nicest Judge

    慈悲、尊重與理解是一帖能改變人生、邁向成功與幸福的配方。✦ 最暖法官唯一與最後遺作 ✦✦ 法庭實境節目四度獲艾美獎提名,社群粉絲逾二千萬 ✦❝ 我的法袍下佩戴的不是徽章,而是一顆心。❞──法蘭克.卡普里歐法官◢◤從貧窮移民家庭、擠進法學院窄門、當上法官,到因實境節目爆紅的奇幻人生◢◤從小就晨起送牛奶扛家計,到成為慷慨助人的給予者;曾是接受審判的社會底層,到成為左右底層命運的法官。人生的轉折,可能來自某個相信你的人,而生命的最後法庭,將回顧我們曾為絕望者帶來的希望,以及為曾觸及的生命帶來的改變。小時候送牛奶,某個家庭指著他來教訓自己的小孩:別哭了,你不知道自己有多好命,你也可能淪落到像他在冰天雪地裡送牛奶。──讓他體認到,更好的物質生活也換不來一個關係緊密的家庭。也不要因一個人的貧窮而懲罰他,尤其當他還是個小孩。和老爸徹夜開了6小時的車,只為了目送軍隊裡的哥哥前往德國營地駐紮 ... Read more

    $10.64 USD

  • The Prosecutor

    One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice

    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • The “gripping” (The New York Times) true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after World War II to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past—from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Volunteer.“Compulsively readable . . . with liberal democracies once more imperiled and ... Read more

    Was $10.79 USD Now $2.33 USD

  • Gang Leader for a Day

    A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

    **A New York Times Bestseller"A rich portrait of the urban poor, drawn not from statistics but from vivid tales of their lives and his, and how they intertwined." —The Economist"A sensitive, sympathetic, unpatronizing portrayal of lives that are ususally ignored or lumped into ill-defined stereotype." —Finanical TimesForeword by Stephen J. Dubner, coauthor of** FreakonomicsWhen first-year graduate ... Read more

    $2.33 USD

  • Rise After Silence

    An ER Doctor and the Patients Who Healed Her

    From an ER physician and survivor of private violence comes a surprising, unflinching debut literary memoir that takes us behind the scenes of the emergency department-where her patients are wrestling with what feels unspeakable, and so is she.Told with dark humor and hard-won honesty, Dr. Anne Aspler brings readers into the chaotic world of emergency medicine-and the quieter, messier work of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Healthy Brain, Happy Life

    A Personal Program to to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better

    A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brain, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guide to improving your brain health—a blend of personal memoir, science narrative, and immediately useful takeaways that bring the human brain into focus as never before, revealing the powerful connection between exercise, learning, memory, and cognitive ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • And How Does That Make You Feel?

    Everything You (N)ever Wanted to Know About Therapy

    Psychotherapist Josh Fletcher takes us on a tour of the inner mind of a therapist—revealing a hilariously candid point of view on the therapeutic process, a practical guide to therapy, and maybe a few more cobwebs and dark corners than one might expect. It’s everything you ever wanted to know about therapy (and maybe a few things you didn’t).Trauma, heartbreak, anxiety, and mourning are all parts ... Read more

    $18.49 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

  • Going Further

    The Incomparable Clarence Thomas

    by Ted Cruz ...
    **INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Senator Ted Cruz, a timely, authoritative exploration of Clarence Thomas’s life, ideas, and lasting impact on constitutional law**For over three decades, Clarence Thomas has stood at the center of American law, enduring withering criticism and personal attacks while writing some of the most brilliant, accessible, transformational opinions in the Supreme ... Read more

    $12.69 USD

  • Poisoner in Chief

    Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

    The bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and ’60s.The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturer—the agency’s “poisoner in chief.” As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Conversations with RBG

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law

    by Jeffrey Rosen ...
    The New York Times BestsellerIn her own words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center.This remarkable book presents a unique portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on more than twenty years of conversations with Jeffrey Rosen, starting in the 1990s and ... Read more

    $10.39 USD

  • The Dirt

    Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

    NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL MOVIE STARRING MACHINE GUN KELLY, DANIEL WEBBER, DOUGLAS BOOTH, AND IWAN RHEON, DIRECTED BY JEFF TREMAINE.Celebrate thirty years of the world's most notorious rock band with the deluxe collectors' edition of The Dirt—the outrageous, legendary, no-holds-barred autobiography of Mötley Crüe. Fans have gotten glimpses into the band's crazy world of backstage scandals, celebrity ... Read more

    $12.79 USD