"Believing Is Seeing" is a concise scientific work concerned with human visual perception. Michael W. Levine’s "Believing Is Seeing" is an accessible overview of the many ways that human eyes differentiate the light and stimuli they... Read More

"Trees of Papua New Guinea" is a practical, in-depth guide to identifying that nation’s many species and varieties of trees. Barry J. Conn and Kipiro Q. Damas’s "Trees of Papua New Guinea" documents tree species from across the... Read More

Cracking Nature’s Code is a call to action that connects science with philosophy for the greater global good. Microbiologist JB Head’s scientific treatise Cracking Nature’s Code suggests relations between chaos and order to better... Read More

Christopher Wanjek’s "Spacefarers" charts the way to an intriguing, not-too-distant future. Humans could be living in space within ten years. In some ways, that sounds far-fetched, and yet fifty years after humans first set foot on the... Read More

Tan Le’s "The NeuroGeneration" cracks open the world of brain enhancement to show that the future may be closer than we think. Le, on the cutting edge of research and technology into one of the biggest mysteries—the human... Read More

"Purposeful Evolution" is an interesting, science-based examination of life on Earth. Two dominant paths that lead to plant and animal evolution receive scrutiny in Ron Deming’s "Purposeful Evolution". Taking a scientific approach, the... Read More

"Why Are We Here?" synthesizes interdisciplinary sciences to explain how terrestrial life developed and what might threaten it in the future. Bruce Brodie’s fascinating "Why Are We Here?" sweeps the origin, evolution, and future of... Read More

As science advances in its understanding of the universe, scientists must periodically let go of long-held preconceptions and replace them with new facts. Take our limited understanding of consciousness. Science doesn’t have a clue... Read More