NONFICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Scholarly essays packed with closely reasoned arguments from the author and fellow academics, plus extensive historical analyses of thinkers from Aristotle to Spinoza to Malcolm Gladwell. Patient readers with a taste for philosophy will find that reading this book is a stimulating experience."
Why do some people behave honorably and others badly? This has been a core question since the dawn of philosophy, and Ravven (Religious Studies/Hamilton Coll.; co-editor:
Jewish Themes in Spinoza's Philosophy, 2002) discusses the possibilities.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 20, 2013
"An engaging nature/environment book that goes beyond simple-minded sloganeering."
The plights of polar bears, Lange's metalmark butterflies and whooping cranes frame this discussion of humankind's relations with the animal kingdom, the environment and itself.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"A top-notch biography of Oppenheimer to sit alongside Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin's American Prometheus (2006)."
A highly detailed examination of the life and times of Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), the man who ushered in the Atomic Age and played a leading role in putting American science on the map.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"An absorbing, persuasive reminder that science is not a direct march to the truth."
Astrophysicist and popular science writer Livio (
Is God a Mathematician?, 2009, etc.) delivers entertaining accounts of how five celebrated scientists went wrong.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"An absorbing, complex medical detective story."
Science writer Wapner uses the development of a successful cure for a once-fatal form of leukemia to illustrate the application of genetic engineering to the frontiers of current medical practice.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"You may say that he's a dreamer; celebrate him as a visionary, or dismiss this as futurist fantasy."
The moonwalking astronaut offers a passionate but not always persuasive manifesto encompassing space tourism and the inevitability of inhabiting Mars within a couple of decades.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"A page-turner in which each of the stories is different but compelling."
Freelance journalist Richards chronicles how five single women attempted to take charge of their own fertility.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"A crackerjack piece of science and technology writing."
A stimulating tour through current thinking about and future possibilities for nanotechnology, from one of its creators.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"An assortment of complex and interesting ideas, buried under the weight of too much jargon."
A sweeping look at why today's digital economy doesn't benefit the middle class and the ways that should change.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2013
"While personal-flight prototypes edge from pipe dream to purchase order, this well-documented history provides a satisfying substitution."
A sapid look into the historically futile attempts to develop a gravity-defying, single-person flying machine.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2013
"Mele's anecdotes from the Dean campaign are a genuine, historic glimpse into real changes wrought by the Internet, but these are mostly lost in uninteresting, uninspired discussions of changes our networked future might bring."
An exploration of the idea that our densely networked online future will spell the end for big institutions.
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INDIE
Released: May 1, 2013
"Extremely valuable content packaged to be readily absorbed."
