Mariner Books imprint: 1531 books
Break Through
Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Two of Time magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment” reject the status quo of liberal politics and offer a bold vision for addressing climate change.
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus triggered a firestorm of controversy with their self-published essay “The Death of Environmentalism,”...
Unweaving the Rainbow
Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2000
**From the New York Times–bestselling author of Science in the Soul. “If any recent writing about science is poetic, it is this” (The Wall Street Journal).
Did Sir Isaac Newton “unweave the rainbow” by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as John Keats contended? Did he, in other...
The Canon
A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2008
The New York Times bestseller that makes scientific subjects both understandable and fun: “Every sentence sparkles with wit and charm.” —Richard Dawkins
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times science journalist and bestselling author of Woman, this is a playful, passionate guide...
The Answer to the Riddle Is Me
A Memoir of Amnesia
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
“A deeply moving account of amnesia that . . . reminds us how we are all always trying to find a version of ourselves that we can live with.” —Los Angeles Times
On October 17, 2002, David MacLean “woke up” on a train platform in India with no idea who he was or why he was there. No...
Through a Window
My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
The renowned British primatologist continues the “engrossing account” of her time among the chimpanzees of Gombe, Tanzania (Publishers Weekly).
In her classic, In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall wrote of her first ten years at Gombe. In Through a Window she continues the story, painting...
by Tom Shachtman
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2000
“A lovely, fascinating book, which brings science to life.” —Alan Lightman
Combining science, history, and adventure, Tom Shachtman “holds the reader’s attention with the skill of a novelist” as he chronicles the story of humans’ four-centuries-long quest to master the secrets...
by José Saramago
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 1996
A “marvelously amusing” political fable in which part of the European continent breaks off and drifts away on its own (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
A Nobel Prize winner who has been called “the García Márquez of Portugal” (New Statesman) chronicles world events on a human scale...
Activation of Energy
Enlightening Reflections on Spiritual Energy
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 1972
The renowned Jesuit thinker explores science, theology, and the course of human evolution.
Following in the footsteps of his earlier works, this collection of essays from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin brings greater clarity to the stunning potential of human energy if it is properly channeled,...
A Devil's Chaplain
Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2004
Essays on morality, mortality, and much more from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion.
This early collection of essays from renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is an enthusiastic declaration, a testament to the power of rigorous scientific...
Remarkable Creatures
Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
National Book Award Finalist: A biologist’s “thoroughly enjoyable” account of the expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet (Publishers Weekly).
Not so long ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark,...
The Dolphin in the Mirror
Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
This scientific memoir by an aquarium researcher “illuminate[s] the world of the dolphin’s amazing intelligence and playfulness.” —Temple Grandin
“One comes away from Reiss’s book agreeing that ‘dolphins are among the smartest creatures on the planet’ and that they merit not...
The Edge of Physics
A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
A tour of the exotic and remote outposts where scientists seek answers to the great mysteries: “A thrilling ride around the globe and around the cosmos.” —Sean Carroll, author of From Eternity to Here
In The Edge of Physics, a science writer journeys to the ends of the Earth—visiting...
Life Everlasting
The Animal Way of Death
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
An enlightening look at animal behavior and the cycle of life and death, from “one of the finest naturalists of our time” (Edward O. Wilson).
When a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his “green burial” at Bernd Heinrich’s hunting camp in Maine, it inspired...
The Homing Instinct
Meaning & Mystery in Animal Migration
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
“A noted naturalist explores the centrality of home in the lives of humans and other animals . . . A special treat for readers of natural history” (Kirkus Reviews).
Every year, many species make the journey from one place to another, following the same paths and ending up in the same places....