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Why We Love the Dogs We Do
How to Find the Dog That Matches Your Personality
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2000
A Dog's Best Friend
In Why We Love the Dogs We Do, Stanley Coren provides a foolproof guide to understanding which dog will make the best lifetime companion. He brings together his expertise in the fields of human psychology and animal behavior to provide a completely new approach to the dog/human...
Next American Nation
The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Are we now, or have we ever been, a nation?
As this century comes to a close, debates over immigration policy, racial preferences, and multiculturalism challenge the consensus that formerly grounded our national culture. The question of our national identity is as urgent as it has ever been...
Eagle Against the Sun
The American War with Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Historian Ronald H. Spector, drawing on declassified intelligence files, an abundance of British and American archival material, Japanese scholarship and documents, and the research and memoirs of scholars, politicians, and the military men, presents a thrilling narrative of American war in the Pacific.
Spector...
The Art of Learning
A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
In his riveting new book, The Art of Learning, Waitzkin tells his remarkable story of personal achievement and shares the principles of learning and performance that have propelled him to the top—twice.
Josh Waitzkin knows what it means to be at the top of his game. A public figure since...
by Ernest Becker
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's refusal...
The Language of God
A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
Does science necessarily undermine faith in God? Or could it actually support faith? Beyond the flashpoint debates over the teaching of evolution, or stem-cell research, most of us struggle with contradictions concerning life's ultimate question. We know that accidents happen, but we believe we are...
Bad Religion
How We Became a Nation of Heretics
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
As the youngest-ever op-ed columnist for the New York Times, Ross Douthat has emerged as one of the most provocative and influential voices of his generation. In Bad Religion he offers a masterful and hard-hitting account of how American Christianity has gone off the rails—and why it threatens to...
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The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
On February 1, 2003, the unthinkable happened. The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated 37 miles above Texas, seven brave astronauts were killed and America's space program, always an eyeblink from disaster, suffered its second catastrophic in-flight failure. Unlike the Challenger disaster 17 years...
The Story of Stuff
How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
A classic exposé in company with An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring, The Story of Stuff expands on the celebrated documentary exploring the threat of overconsumption on the environment, economy, and our health. Leonard examines the “stuff” we use everyday, offering a galvanizing critique...
The Moral Landscape
How Science Can Determine Human Values
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Sam Harris’s first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people—from religious fundamentalists to nonbelieving scientists—agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the subject of human values....
Horses Never Lie about Love
The Heartwarming Story of a Remarkable Horse Who Changed the World around Her
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The heartwarming true story of a woman and the horse who changed her life.
Jana Harris had always dreamed of having a horse farm, and she knew the horse on whom she could build her dreams the moment she saw her on a ranch in the Eastern Mountains of Washington State, where a herd had been corralled...
For the Love of Physics
From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge Of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
“YOU HAVE CHANGED MY LIFE” is a common refrain in the emails Walter Lewin receives daily from fans who have been enthralled by his world-famous video lectures about the wonders of physics. “I walk with a new spring in my step and I look at life through physics-colored eyes,” wrote one such...
Here's Looking at Euclid
A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Too often math gets a bad rap, characterized as dry and difficult. But, Alex Bellos says, "math can be inspiring and brilliantly creative. Mathematical thought is one of the great achievements of the human race, and arguably the foundation of all human progress. The world of mathematics is a remarkable...
Euclid's Window
The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to the latest notions of hyperspace. Here is an altogether new, refreshing, alternative history of math revealing how simple questions...