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

When legendary artist R. Crumb discovered the Bible to be “a text so great and so strange that it lends itself…

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

Meditations on death by poet and small town funeral director Thomas Lynch. This unique collection of essays gently,…

Swearing has a bad reputation among parents, teachers, and other authority figures, but guess what: it's actually really…

When you choose to smile, it often has positive effects on your own mood and social interactions. But some smiles happen…

How is personality correlated with preference for sweet or bitter foods? What genres of music best enhance the taste of…

The concept (and cover) may seem goofy, but this is actually a clever and well-written examination of class in the…

A helpful manual for would-be nonfiction authors. Learn to write effective non-fiction book proposals, tailor your…

Do you eat meat (or maybe your doctor's been telling you to) but feel qualms about the environmental and animal rights…

A family therapist explains how the use of genograms (family trees) can bring to light a family's history of…

A doctor talks about pets' emotional problems and how they relate to their humans. Contains lots of case studies and…

The human brain, argues this neuroscientist, is a complex system that not only tells time, but creates it; it…

In the 1970s, an eccentric group of physicists in Berkeley, California, banded together to explore the wilder side of…

Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker tries to figure out how our minds really work in this massive book. What makes us…

During the bloody Third Reich, Nazi psychiatrists targeted children with different kinds of minds—especially those…

“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The…

This classic 1963 satirical novel presents a future ruled by violent teens. Includes the final chapter that was…

Did you know that breast milk contains substances similar to cannabis? Or that it’s sold on the Internet for 262 times…

In 1981, the Soviet-backed Polish government declared martial law to crush a budding democratic opposition movement.…

A gleefully ghastly accounting of the entire postmortem experience, in which you'll learn that the human head is the…

Paul Preston is the world's foremost historian of Spain. This surging history recounts the struggles of the 1936 war in…

Duck, ruburb, tower farm, big box, and pig-in-a-python are among the dozens of zany terms invented by real estate…

Pain is a message, however unwelcome, and if we can hear what our pain is telling us and translate it into language, it…

Conflicts, within and between people, lie at the root of emotional distress, says psychologist Susan Heitler, drawing on…

The number one reason couples seek therapy is cheating. This clinical manual for therapists helps you work confidently…

An updated compendium on drugs, from caffeine to meth to heroin to vaping and beyond. Goes over the effects of each one…

A revised and updated edition of the classic book on self-harm. As many as two million people in the US, and one in…

Do dogs dream? Can they recognize themselves in the mirror or understand what they’re seeing on television? Are they…

A crash course on the evolution and development of our brains, focused particularly on attachment, early…