Science

Traveling to space can kill you in so many ways, and Paul Sutter vividly recounts a number of them here in full…

What exactly is the solar system? We've all learned the basics at school but do we really understand what we are seeing…

A small book with big ideas from today’s leading activists and artists. In this installment, youth activist Hannah…

Did you know that the equating of sex/gender is actually pretty new in terms of history? And that the biological…

Some elements get all the attention: glittering gold, radioactive uranium—materials we call “precious” because…

Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have pursued the perennial questions of how to be happy, how to be good, and how to be…

For Dr. Guy Leschziner’s patients, there is no rest for the weary in mind and body. Insomnia, narcolepsy, night…

The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul. "What happens…

"Men and women are just different!"  NOPE. Not according to science we aren't. This wickedly funny book lays out the…

What will happen if humanity makes contact with another civilization on a different planet? Have anthropologists fully…

On Being a Bear draws on history, legends, scientific studies, and Rémy Marlon’s 30 years of observing bears around…

Marco Tedesco is a world-leading expert on Arctic ice decline and climate change. In The Hidden Life of Ice, he invites…

A fun, easy-to-read guide to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Filled with illustrations, graphs, and comics,…

In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world with a radical theory – evolution by natural selection. One hundred and…

When you have depression, you feel like you’re stuck in a downward spiral. Nothing seems as enjoyable as it used to,…

Humans can become so obsessed over the most trivial of things. Take, for instance, the human penis. How did this…

Girls just want to have fun, especially when they're exploring the great outdoors! In this accessible, engaging, and…

Fact-filled, fun-filled, as interesting to parents as it is to kids, the How Come? series is the trusted source for…

From the author of Pain is Really Strange and Trauma is Really Strange, Steve Haines teases out the nuances of anxiety…

Real food matters and being able to recognize it empowers consumers to make smarter choices. Part cautionary tale, part…

The 2017 offering from Big Picture Press's Welcome to the Museum series, Botanicum, is a brilliantly curated guide to…

Polio, measles, mumps, rubella, typhoid, tetanus, chicken pox, hepatitis, the flu... let us count the ways that…

STDs have been shrouded in mystery and taboo for centuries, why do we know so little about our cooties? Most of us are…

From prehistoric times to dreams of a distant future, this thick graphic novel explains the history of allopathic or…

The shaper of the world around us—statistics. Its use allows us to better understand the world around us. However, the…

A trained psychologist and an acclaimed field guide team up to bring an objective look at crystal healing in this…

Particle physics explained in a rich metaphor, guiding readers through the fundamentals of subatomic particles, the…