Natural sciences

Acclaimed author Skloot brilliantly weaves together the story of Henrietta Lacks--a woman whose cells have been unwittingly used for scientific research since the 1950s--with the birth of bioethics, and the dark history of experimentation on African Americans.

Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a brilliant writer, a passionate teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, she illuminates the link between human habits and our imperiled planet.

Every astrologer preparing accurate birth charts needs the information in this book. It contains daily longitudes of all the planets, tables of houses for London, Liverpool and New York, plus a complete lunar and planetary aspectarian.

Featuring Two Exclusive Essays by Yuval Noah Harari: "The Crisis of Liberalism" and "The Theater of Terror" .

Discover humanitys past and its future in this special paperback box set featuringSapiensa reading pick of President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerbergand its acclaimed companionHomo Deus. Included inside is an exclusive pamphlet of bonus material with three essays featured in The New York Times, The Guardian and Financial Times.

With a scientist's mind and an animal lover's compassion, world-renowned biologist Rupert Sheldrake presents a groundbreaking exploration of animal behavior that will profoundly change the way we think about animals--and ourselves.

Science has recently begun to prove what ancient myth and religion have always espoused: There may be such a thing as a life force.

Dannion and Kathryn Brinkley offer inspired and practical insights for those who want to enrich their individual life in a way that benefits not only themselves, but uplifts the entire planet.

What is a dream? Why do we dream? How do our bodies and minds use them

Randall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates'Wonderful' Neil GaimanAN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If?

You can easily locate water, coins, artifacts, lost objects—even missing people—when you follow the simple instructions in this divination book.

Mind to Matter shows us that as we take charge of our individual power to create, we have the potential, as a species, to catalyze a transformation of our whole world. We're told that 'thoughts become things', but between the possible and the impossible there is a wide middle ground.