Human Being: Reclaim 12 Vital Skills We’re Losing to Technology by Graham Lee
Category: Popular Science
Our increasing reliance on digital technology has had a profound impact on our own abilities as humans. What can we do about it? In a fascinating journey through history and science, Human Being offers an insightful and provocative survey of twelve vital skills we used to call upon as a species – from n ...Show more
Off the Edge Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill
Category: Popular Science
"A deep dive into the world of Flat Earth conspiracy theorists . . . that brilliantly reveals how people fall into illogical beliefs, reject reason, destroy relationships, and connect with a broad range of conspiracy theories in the social media age. Beautiful, probing, and often empathetic . . . An ins ...Show more
The UFO Cover-Up by Bill Fawcett
Category: Popular Science
Authors Lawrence Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood reveal in this fascinating, thought-provoking book, based on the government's own research and internal files, what they have learned about: UFO's as a threat to national security. UFO sightings at military bases in the United States, North Africa, and the ...Show more
Desiderata for Dog Lovers by Ehrmann Max
Category: Popular Science
Man’s best friend has always been a source of comfort and calm for owners--and that makes the combination of dogs and Desiderata such a superb match. Each phrase in the poem receives just the right accompanying image: a black Lab resting quietly on the beach illustrates "and remember what peace there ma ...Show more
Jam Tree Gully : Poems by John Kinsella
Category: Popular Science
In this daring new collection, Australia's preeminent environmental poet confronts the legacy of Thoreau's Walden. With Walden as his inspiration, John Kinsella moved with his family back to rural Australia, where he wrote the poems in this original collection exploring the nature of our responsibility ...Show more
The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Popular Science
Lamenting the loss of a gentle but passionate woman, the narrator drinks, yet somberly dwells on her name. A local raven, with the capacity to utter like a parrot a syllable or two, repeats "Lenore," and "Nevermore." The narrator, tired and broken, believes the raven might be sent by God or even by the ...Show more
Radical Technologies : The Design of Everyday Life by Adam Greenfield
Category: Popular Science
Everywhere we turn, our everyday experience is being overlaid and interrupted by startling new technologies. Today, we depend on the smartphone as an interface to an urban environment we share with autonomous drones and self-driving cars, even as we use augmented-reality applications to interact with th ...Show more
The Convergence: The Deepest Idea in the Universe by Peter Watson
Category: Popular Science
Convergence is a history of modern science with an original and significant twist. Various scientific disciplines, despite their very different beginnings, and disparate areas of interest have been coming together over the past 150 years, converging and coalescing, to identify one extraordinary master n ...Show more
Visual Aid: Stuff You've Forgotten, Things You Never Thought You Knew and Lessons You Didn't Quite Get Around to Learning by DRAUGHT ASSOCIATES
Category: Popular Science
WITH NEW & UPDATED STUFF! This updated version of Visual Aid provides the answers to the little questions in life in a simple colourful and engaging way. Which came first -- the telephone or the light bulb? Which is faster -- an ostrich or a moth? Who sits behind the clarinets and to the right of th ...Show more
The Crash Course - An Honest Approach to Facing the Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment by Chris Martenson
Category: Popular Science
Discover how and why the world's crises are interconnected and what you can do to prepare for the next one The world is experiencing a series of crises. In The Crash Course: An Honest Approach to Facing the Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment, Revised Edition, veteran executive and strategist ...Show more
Captured! the Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience (60th Anniversary Edition) - The True Story of the World's First Documented Alien Abduction by Stanton T. Friedman; Kathleen Marden; Bruce Maccabee (Foreword by)
Category: Popular Science
"The famous 1961 Betty and Barney Hill abduction by non-humans is taken apart, meticulously re-examined by Betty's niece Kathleen Marden and nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman, and reinforced by the pressure of facts." --Linda Moulton Howe, Emmy award-winning TV producer, reporter, and editor, Earthf ...Show more
The Perfect Bet by Adam Kucharski
Category: Popular Science
Gamblers have been trying to figure out how to game the system since our ancestors first made wagers over dice fashioned from knucklebones: in revolutionary Paris, the 'martingale' strategy was rumoured to lead to foolproof success at roulette; today, professional gamblers are using cutting-edge tec ...Show more