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Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
Judith Grisel · Doubleday
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, this is the authoritative and accessible guide to understanding drug addiction that we've been waiting for: clearly explained brain science and vivid personal stories combine to reveal how addiction happens and what can be done... |
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Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
John Brockman · Penguin Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, people who have been thinking about the field artificial intelligence for most of their careers, for an unparalleled round-table examination about mind, thinking, intelligence and what it means... |
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Europe: A Natural History
Tim Flannery · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From internationally bestselling author and celebrated scientist Tim Flannery, a history of Europe unlike any before: an ecological account of the land itself and the forces shaping life on it. In Europe: A Natural History, world-renowned scientist, explorer, and conservationist Tim Flannery... |
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Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
Randolph M. Nesse MD · Dutton
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide a much-needed new framework for making sense of mental illness.Why do I feel bad? There is real power in understanding our bad feelings. With his classic Why We Get Sick, Dr. Randolph... |
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Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side
Julia Shaw · Abrams Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our obsession with serial killers to violence in pop culture, we seem inescapably drawn to the stories of monstrous acts and the aberrant people who commit them. But evil, Dr. Julia Shaw argues, is all relative, rooted in our unique... |
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Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator
Gregory B. Jaczko · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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A shocking exposé from the most powerful insider in nuclear regulation about how the nuclear energy industry endangers our lives - and why Congress does nothing to stop it.Greg Jaczko never planned things to turn out this way. A Birkenstocks-wearing physics PhD, he had never heard of the Nuclear... |
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Antarctica's Lost Aviator: The Epic Adventure to Explore the Last Frontier on Earth
Jeff Maynard · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing voyage of the first solo crossing of Antarctica by the unlikeliest of arctic explorers.By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth... |
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Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
Darrell Bricker · Crown
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning journalist and leading international social researcher make the provocative argument that the global population will soon decline - and that immigration will be the key to prospering in this new social, political, and economic landscape For half a century, statisticians,... |
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