Spider and Tick Books

• Environmental Issues
  Mining
  Construction
  Sustainability
  Nature
  Environmental Policies
   
  

  Collapse

  Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the ...  > read more
• Black Holes
  Cosmology
  Physics
  Big Bang
  Albert Einstein
  Quantum Physics
   
  

  The Illustrated Brief History of Time, Updated and Expanded Edition

  Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists ...  > read more
• Astrophysics
  Stars
  Galaxies
  Astronomy
  Black Holes
  Solar System
   
  

  Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, An (2nd Edition)

  An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, Second Edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the dramatic changes and advancements in astrophysics that have occurred over the past decade. The ...  > read more
• Evolutionary Biology
  Behavioral Science
  Evolution
  Charles Darwin
  Psychology
  Mathematical Modeling
   
  

  How Humans Evolved, Fourth Edition

  How Humans Evolved uses the broad perspective of behavioral ecology, drawing on Robert Boyd's expertise in evolutionary theory and Joan Silk's specialty in primate behavior in a uniquely integrative ...  > read more
• Earth Science
  Cultures
  Nature
  Environmental Issues
  Physics
  Environmental Policies
   
  

  We Have Never Been Modern

  With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno ...  > read more
• Albert Einstein
  Physics
  Quantum Physics
  Healthy Aging
  Popular Culture
  Computer Graphics
   
  

  Hiding in the Mirror: The Quest for Alternate Realities, from Plato to String Theory (by way of Alicein Wonderland, Einstein, and The Twilight Zone)

  An exploration of mankind's fascination with worlds beyond our own—by the bestselling author of The Physics of Star Trek Lawrence Krauss —an international leader in physics and ...  > read more
• Endangered Plants
  Nature
  Botany
  Grassland
  Psychedelic Drugs
  Pests and Parasites
   
  

  The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications

  The most comprehensive guide to the botany, history, distribution, and cultivation of all known psychoactive plants• Examines 414 psychoactive plants and related substances• Explores how ...  > read more
• Human Biology
  Developmental Biology
  Biochemistry Research
  Biology
  Lymphoma
  Immune System
   
  

  Human Biology: Concepts and Current Issues (4th Edition) (The Human Biology Place Series)

  Human Biology: Concepts and Current Issues, Fourth Edition sparks interest among non-science readers by encouraging them to connect basic biology concepts to real-world issues that are relevant to ...  > read more
• Birds
  Early Birds
  Zoology
  Nature
  Earth Science
  Grassland
   
  

  National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Western Region - Revised Edition (National Audubon Society Field Guide)

  A favorite of birdwatchers (especially those who prefer photographs to illustrations), this field guide, revised for 2000, accounts for the 544 bird species that live in the region west of the Great ...  > read more
• Geography
  Nutrition Research
  Nature
  Memory
  Fossils
  Early Mammals
   
  

  The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples

  Reading The Eternal Frontier might be the closest you'll get to taking a class from Tim Flannery--and that alone makes it an opportunity just too good to pass up. This ambitious retelling of North ...  > read more

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