We'd like to share our personal favorites with you. Here are titles that we particularly want to "hand-sell" to you—books that we think are outstanding, and that we don't want you to miss.
Robert L. Fleming Jr., Dorje Tsering, & Liu Wulin. Jimmy Carter, foreword.
Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393061178. Daedalus Item Code: 01922
Presented in color photographs, captions, and a detailed narrative travelogue, this book depicts the staggering beauty and diversity of Tibet, from Mount Everest to the world's deepest gorge, from ... (Read More)
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In 2005 researchers sequenced the chimpanzee genome and provided a startling new window into the differences between humans and our closest primate cousins. For the past several years, Science ... (Read More)
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What do an Italian cardinal, a Connecticut blacksmith, and a German diplomat have in common with an MIT linguist, a Hungarian translator, and a Scottish church organist? They all were, or are, hugely ... (Read More)
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What happens when you duct-tape a couple of potato chip tubes together, then add lighter fluid, a tennis ball, and a match? Actually, not much—unless you know the secret to engineering the famed ... (Read More)
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Publisher: National Geographic. Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781426208102. Daedalus Item Code: 30599
From the Pythagorean theorem to the double helix of DNA, from the discovery of microscopic life forms to Einstein's general theory of relativity, the big ideas of science and technology shape our ... (Read More)
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Can you remember where you were on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon? Emmy nominated British television director Rick Stroud has been obsessed with the moon since ... (Read More)
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(First Edition, Signed Bookplate) One day in 2009, journalist Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A ... (Read More)
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"A superb history of how the availability of ever more artificial light has changed our world over the centuries, from stone lamps in prehistoric caves to contemporary light-emitting diodes (LEDs). ... (Read More)
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The meat-eating dinosaurs, or Theropoda, include some of the fiercest predators that ever lived, and they have long fascinated scientists and laypeople alike. This book presents 17 papers by ... (Read More)
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In this fascinating, surprisingly entertaining tour of the human body, F. González-Crussi reveals not only how our bodies breathe air, pump blood, give birth, digest food, and discard waste, he also ... (Read More)
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In the grand tradition of the scholar-adventurer, swordsman and publisher Richard Cohen takes us around the world to illuminate our relationship with the star that gives us life in this erudite, ... (Read More)
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In the wake of weather and seismic disasters and crude oil prices soaring to all-time highs, more people than ever accept global warming as a reality, and reckon that the peak of the petrochemical ... (Read More)
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