Science & Technology
The Making of the Fittest (Unabridged)
DNA is a living chronicle of how the creatures that inhabit our planet have adapted to its many environments, from the freezing waters of the Antarctic to the lush canopy of the rain forest....
The Medusa and the Snail (Unabridged)
Lewis Thomas has been compared to a philosopher who uses the language of biology....
Animals in Translation (Unabridged)
Animals in Translation is like no other animal book because of Temple Grandin....
Before the Dawn (Unabridged)
Just in the last three years, a flood of new scientific findings, driven by revelations discovered in the human genome, has provided compelling new answers to many long-standing mysteries....
Chemistry and the Enlightenment (Unabridged)
In the 17th and 18th centuries, scientists went beyond Aristotle's four elements (Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water) to catalogue nature's many basic elements....
Complications
Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate...
The Botany of Desire (Unabridged)
Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a reciprocal relationship....
Evolution (Unabridged)
This marvelously readable yet sumptuously erudite work traces the development of the scientific theory of evolution....
The Edge of Evolution (Unabridged)
In a tour de force of science and logic, the author of Darwin's Black Box combines genetics, laboratory results, and mathematics to prove that the universe and life on Earth are designed....
The Family That Couldn't Sleep (Unabridged)
For 200 years, a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains....











