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Confessions of a Sociopath
A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
An account of the author's life as a diagnosed non-criminal sociopath explains how her charisma and penchant for convincing lies enables her to influence and seduce others, offering insight into her system of ethics while advising readers on how to manage a relationship with a sociopath.
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Cows Save the Planet
And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
This book explains the role of soil in ecology and the economy, and reveals how treating soil in an environmentally sensitive way can bring about positive changes with respect to climate change, biodiversity loss, obesity, and other crises.
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The Honest Truth About Dishonesty
How We Lie to Everyone — Especially Ourselves
From Washington, D.C., to Wall Street, the classroom to the workplace, author and behavior economist Dan Ariely explores the question of dishonesty. He helps us understand why cheating is so prevalent and what we can do about it.
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Learning to Listen
A Life Caring for Children
The pediatrician shares the life-shaping experiences that inspired his career, from the Texas childhood during which he routinely cared for younger cousins to his revolutionary observations of newborn behavior.
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Out of Our Heads
Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
A noted philosopher and member of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Science examines flaws in current understandings about consciousness while proposing a radical solution that argues that consciousness must not be limited to the confines of the brain.
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The Astronaut Wives Club
A True Story
Describes what life was like for a group of military wives, including Annie Glenn, Rene Carpenter, Betty Grissom, and Louise Shepherd, who were thrust into the spotlight when their husbands became Mercury Seven astronauts.
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Monkey Mind
A Memoir of Anxiety
Daniel Smith documents his experiences with a kind of anxiety that results in panic attacks, bouts of insomnia and thoughts of "existential ruin." He shares insights into anxiety in today's world, and stories of sufferers to illustrate anxiety's intellectual history and influence.NPR Bestseller
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Permanent Present Tense
The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H.M.
Recounts the extraordinary story of a brain-damaged patient known as H. M, who, after a psychosurgical procedure in 1952 to alleviate his epilepsy stole his ability to form new memories, helped scientists to make considerable advances in the study of memory. 40,000 first printing.
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Daily Rituals
How Artists Work
From Beethoven to Woody Allen, from Leo Tolstoy to Charles Dickens and John Updike, here are artists on how they create (and avoid creating) their works. Writers, composers, painters, choreographers, playwrights, philosophers, caricaturists, comedians, poets, sculptors and scientists consider how they work in letters, diaries and interviews compiled and edited by Mason Currey.
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The Call of Everest
The History, Science, and Future of the World's Tallest Peak
Presents a historical survey of the world's tallest mountain, featuring accounts of famous climbs and tragedies, previously unpublished photographs, and scientific findings on the impact of climate change.
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Wave
Sonali Deraniyagala lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons in the 2004 Sri Lankan tsunami. In this searing, unflinching memoir, she allows herself to remember the life that she lost — and learns to balance that terrible loss with her need to keep her family alive in her heart.
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Give Me Everything You Have
On Being Stalked
A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, Give Me Everything You Have chronicles the author's harrowing ordeal at the hands of an obsessed former student whose campaign of hate mail, violently anti-Semitic online postings, and false public accusations were orchestrated to destroy his professional and personal life.
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Brilliant Blunders
From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
Draws on the careers of five renowned scientists including Charles Darwin, William Thomson, Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein to reveal the important roles of their mistakes in advancing science, from Pauling's error in his model of DNA molecule structure to Hoyle's dismissal of the "Big Bang" theory.
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How Animals Grieve
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A Tear at the Edge of Creation
A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe
A physics and philosophy professor challenges modern beliefs about the definable nature of the cosmos, arguing that all things exist because of random imperfections, primordial asymmetries and outright accidents, in a report that also cites the importance of caring for the planet.
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Darwin's Ghosts
The Secret History of Evolution
Evolution was not discovered single-handedly, Rebecca Stott argues, contrary to what has become standard lore, but is an idea that emerged over many centuries, advanced by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on nature's extraordinary ways, and who had the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy.
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The Savior Generals
How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost-From Ancient Greece to Iraq
Traces the stories of Themistocles, Belisarius, William Tecumseh Sherman, Matthew Ridgway, and David Petraeus, evaluating their pivotal military roles and the controversies that marked their careers.
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Mission To Mars
My Vision for Space Exploration
The history-making astronaut, aerospace engineer and respected advocate for space colonization outlines a plan for taking humans to Mars within the next quarter century. The book poses business-specific arguments, while outlining practical strategies for travel and planetary homesteading.
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Ask Wendy
Straight-up Advice for All the Drama in Your Life
Drawn from her popular "Ask Wendy" segment, the outspoken host of The Wendy Williams Show tells it like it is in this collection of womanly wisdom that is filled with advice on everything from relationships, parenting, body image, beauty and more. 100,000 first printing.
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Louder Than Words
The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning
Describes how meaning is conveyed and processed in the mind, answering questions about how people can understand information about things they have never seen in person and why they move their hands and arms when they speak.
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New York City of Trees
With photographs and narratives, Benjamin Swett tells the stories of 60 trees, in all five of New York City boroughs.
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The Anatomy of Violence
The Biological Roots of Crime
A leading criminologist who specializes in the neurological and biosocial bases of antisocial and violent behavior draws on a wide range of new scientific research to explain how brain impairments that control the experiences of fear, decision-making and empathy can render people more likely to engage in criminal activity. 30,000 first printing.
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Time Reborn
From the Limits of Physics to the Future of the Universe
A theoretical physicist describes his new approach for thinking about the reality of time and explains his theory about the laws of physics not being timeless but rather capable of evolving.
