"Your Happiness Was Hacked" is an incisive, timely book that uncovers the dark side of technology and suggests how to use it mindfully. Academician Vivek Wadhwa and technology writer/consultant Alex Salkever are unafraid to share their... Read More

Romance isn’t dead, it’s just mortified. The hilarious new anthology Condoms and Hot Tubs Don’t Mix is a collection of laugh-out-loud, weird, and scandalous personal stories of sex gone wrong. Movies, television, and pornography... Read More

"The Acadia Files" introduces kids to science via the readily observable principles and easy-to-reproduce experiments of its precocious and endlessly curious lead character, Acadia, who’s enjoying the summer before she enters fifth... Read More

She was a brilliant scientist, a staunch supporter of equal rights for women, a world traveler, a two-time Nobel Prize winner, and a devoted wife and mother. Marie Curie’s dedication and compassion shine in this compelling biography.... Read More

From icy glaciers to fiery volcanic peaks and summits made of rock and sand, the breathtaking mountains of the world emerge in a comprehensive and engaging compilation that explores the highest heights known to man. Stunning... Read More

"The Human Alchemy" artfully delivers creeping unease and heart-pounding scares camouflaged amid the familiar trappings of everyday life. These are stories that will haunt you more than any monster. “Psychological horror” might be an... Read More

A world without hunger, without war or an international arms race, without militarized nation-states and arbitrary authorities: even now, in the twenty-first century, these goals seem out of reach, but that we can envision them at all is... Read More

Even as climate change causes the perilous decline of Arctic ice, an international race is taking place to determine which nation will control the area’s vast natural resources. Arctic expert Martin Breum offers an eyewitness account... Read More