We have come along way in developing societies that have electricity and the power necessary to fuel vehicles and for industry to be successful. All of these efforts though rely...

This book is the seventh volume of “The Living in Space Series”. Each volume focuses on one particular technology of living in space.In this book the focus is on spaceships...

We can thrive in the changing climate.Production & yield, pest & disease pressure, food quality, and population are all aspects of food security being affected by climate...

In the tradition of Silent Spring and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent, meticulously researched, and groundbreaking book about the ways in which chemicals in the modern environment...

A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brain, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guide—a blend of personal...

"His groundbreaking work has changed the very ways we consider our health and examine disease.” —Barack Obama From Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National...

Orchids have fascinated markind since ancient civilization because of their exotic beauty and because of the characteristics attributed to them. So in order to satisfy the...

A mix of memoir, travel and popular science, charting journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the most important volcanoes around the worldIn this...

A vibrant cultural history investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon SchamaCities and countries engulfed...

Listen to talks from J. Krishnamurti's Ojai gathering in California, 1980.This talk: The Roots of Psychological Conflict – 1 April 1980.• Has humanity taken a wrong turn?•...