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John Bradshaw • Cat Sense978-0-465-03101-6 • $27.99 / $31.00 (Can.) hc

“For any who may wonder what their feline companions are really thinking, Cat Sense, by John Bradshaw, provides the best answers that science can give for the time being.... Cat Sense will teach you much about the biology of cats thatyou never suspected.” —New York Times, Science TimesNPR, Best Books of 2013

Alan de Queiroz • The Monkey’s Voyage978-0-465-02051-5 • $27.99 / $31.00 (Can.) hc

“Authoritative and eloquent, The Monkey’s Voyage provides a revolutionary new look at the history of life on Earth.”

—Carol Kaesuk Yoon, author of Naming Nature

“A meticulous account of the evolution of human sex, pregnancy and child-rearing…. Here...are the facts of life as you may have never thought about them…. Being complicated, it turns out, is not only more accurate than being simple; it is far more interesting.” —Wall Street JournalNPR, 2013’s Great Reads

Robert Martin • How We Do It978-0-465-03015-6 • $27.99 / $31.00 (Can.) hc

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Henry Nicholls • The Galápagos978-0-465-03597-7 • $27.99 / $31.00 (Can.) hc

“Every visitor to the islands should be given a copy of this marvelous natural history to read in order to fully appreciate the richness of one of the most important pieces of real estate on the planet. A captivating book.”

—Michael Shermer, Publisher of Skeptic magazine, and author of Why Darwin Matters

Thomas Suddendorf • The Gap978-0-465-03014-9 • $29.99 / $34.50 (Can.) hc

“A rewarding, thought-provoking journey…. The author’s style is not only consistently interesting and informative but at times delightfully playful…it is a welcome addition to the growing literature explaining science to the intelligent layperson.”

—Wall Street Journal

Svante Pääbo • Neanderthal Man978-0-465-02083-6 • $27.99 / $31.00 (Can.) hc

“The first scholar to extract genetic material from Neanderthals, Pääbo writes candidly about the seemingly insurmountable trials and tribulations he had to overcome to give us intriguing new insights into human origins.” —Donald Johanson,

Founding Director of the Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, and author of Lucy

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Leila Schneps & Coralie Colmez • Math on Trial978-0-465-03292-1 • $26.99 / $30.00 (Can.) hc

“Taut and gripping, Math on Trial just might establish a new genre, in which true crime story meets the best of popular science. Utterly absorbing from start to finish.” —Steven Strogatz, Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University, and author of The Joy of x

Leslie Valiant • Probably Approximately Correct978-0-465-03271-6 • $26.99 / $30.00 (Can.) hc

“This is science at its best, driven not by dogma and blind belief, but by the desire to understand, intellectual integrity and reliance on facts.... The book is written in a lively, accessible style and is surprisingly entertaining.” —New York Times

“Powerful, passionate, and inspiring” iBooks, Best of 2013 —New York TimesScientific American, Best 2013 Books for the Physics FanAmazon Best Science Books of the Year

Edward Frenkel • Love and Math978-0-465-05074-1 • $27.99 / $31.00 (Can.) hc

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Ian Stewart • Visions of Infinity978-0-465-02240-3 • $26.99 / $30.00 (Can.) hc

“Visions of Infinity will be found by the lay reader to be both entertaining and accessible.... Ian Stewart belongs to a very small, very exclusive club of popular science and mathematics writers who are worth reading today.” —New York Journal of Books

Leonard Susskind & Art Friedman • Quantum Mechanics978-0-465-03667-7 • $26.99 / $30.00 (Can.) hc

“This is quantum mechanics for real. This is the good stuff, the most mysterious aspects of how reality works, set out with crystalline clarity.”

—Sean Carroll, physicist, California Institute of Technology,

and author of The Particle at the End of the Universe

David Waltham • Lucky Planet978-0-465-03999-9 • $26.99 / $30.00 (Can.) hc

“David Waltham takes us on a delightful tour of the various factors that influence planetary habitability and the evolution of advanced life.”

—James Kasting, Professor of Geosciences, Penn State University, and author of How to Find a Habitable Planet

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Roger Wiens • Red Rover978-0-465-05598-2 • $25.99 / $29.00 (Can.) hc

“We live in a new golden age of exploration, as robotic spacecraft fan out across the solar system, extending the human experience to other planets. With Red Rover, Roger Wiens provides a delightful, candid, and highly personal insider’s view of this great endeavor.” —Steve Squyres, Professor of Astronomy,

Cornell University, and author of Roving Mars

Suzanne Corkin • Permanent Present Tense 978-0-465-03159-7 • $28.99 / $32.00 (Can.) hc

“Corkin offers a comprehensive and engaging review of how the field of neuroscience came to learn what we know about memory, all woven into the touching biography of one man….We can only hope that future patients are as generous and good-natured, and the researchers studying them as talented as Corkin.”

—Times Higher Education

Peter Gray • Free to Learn978-0-465-02599-2 • $27.99 / $31.00 (Can.) hc

“Free to Learn is a courageous and profoundly important book. Peter Gray joins the likes of Richard Louv and Alfie Kohn in speaking out for a more humane, compassionate and effective approach to education.”

—Frank Forencich, author of Exuberant Animal

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Jerome Kagan • The Human Spark 978-0-465-02982-2 • $28.99 / $32.00 (Can.) hc

“In his masterful survey, Kagan filters findings in the field.... An authoritative study of the dance of genes and environment in each child as they grow in universally human, and profoundly individual, ways.” —Nature

Douglas Hofstadter & Emmanuel Sander • Surfaces and Essences978-0-465-01847-5 • $35.00 / $38.00 (Can.) hc

“This magnum opus by Douglas Hofstadter, who has reflected on the nature of analogy for decades, and Emmanuel Sander, is a milestone in our understanding of human thought, filled with insights and new ideas.” —Steven Pinker,

Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, author of How the Mind Works and The Stuff of Thought

Kirkus Reviews, Best Nonfiction Books of 2013

Matthew Hertenstein • The Tell978-0-465-03165-8 • $26.99 / $30.00 (Can.) hc

“In this fascinating book, Matthew Hertenstein unpacks the secrets of our predictive abilities and shows how we can hone those abilities to become better judges of people and situations. The Tell is one of the year’s essential reads.”

—Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell Is Human, Drive, and A Whole New Mind

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Douglas T. Kenrick & Vladas Griskevicius • The Rational Animal978-0-465-03242-6 • $26.99 / $30.00 (Can.) hc

“The Rational Animal is so persuasive that it could convince an ardent Wall Street economist to throw away his copy of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and replace it with Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species.” —Noah J. Goldstein, Associate Professor of

Management, UCLA, co-author of Yes!

Scott Barry Kaufman • Ungifted 978-0-465-02554-1 • $29.99 / $ 34.50 (Can.) hc

“Ungifted is a virtuoso book that gracefully weaves science, psychology, and the author’s personal experience into a powerful argument for valuing the cognitive strengths of all students, particularly those sidelined in the past by short-sighted assumptions about the limits of their potential.”

—Wired magazine

“The more we think about it, the more challenging it becomes to answer the apparently simple question: how do we think? Here, eminent scientist Werner Loewenstein has assembled recent insights from biology and physics to give us his richly textured new view of this great challenge.” —Jared Diamond,

Professor of Geography, UCLA2013 Physics World Book of the Year

Werner Loewenstein • Physics in Mind 978-0-465-02984-6 • $28.99 / $32.00 (Can.) hc

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Jonathan Rottenberg • The Depths978-0-465-02221-2 • $26.99 / $30.00 (Can.) hc

“This is the best book ever written on depression.”—Todd B. Kashdan, Associate Professor of Psychology,

George Mason University, and author of Curious?

Sally Satel & Scott O. Lilienfeld • Brainwashed978-0-465-01877-2 • $26.99 / $30.00 (Can.) hc

“Dr. Satel and Dr. Lilienfeld offer a methodical critique of this oversimplified neuro-nonsense, convincingly arguing that in many ways the M.R.I.’s of today are simply the phrenology heads of yesteryear, laughably primitive attempts to wrangle human character and behavior into tractable form.” —New York Times

Scott Weems • Ha!978-0-465-03170-2 • $26.99 / $30.00 (Can.) hc

“What is it about the human brain that allows us to experience the miracle of humor? This book provides the answer. Scott Weems’s wonderful writing style and background in cognitive neuroscience make this book a joy to read.”

—Paul McGhee, PhD, author of Humor

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Marcelo Gleiser • The Island of Knowledge978-0-465-03171-9 • $28.99 / $32.00 (Can.) hc

Why discovering the limits to science may be the most powerful discovery of all.

Hiawatha Bray • You Are Here978-0-465-03285-3 • $27.99 / $31.00 (Can.) hc

“You Are Here is a wonderful book, with lots of engaging stories about the engineers and engineering that have brought us the magical navigational gadgets that keep us on track. Ironically, this excellently written book is one to get lost in.”

—Henry Petroski, author of The Essential Engineer and The House with Sixteen Handmade Doors

“Excellent.... A monumental achievement in data gathering.... A funny and entertaining read.... Essential reading before you place your bets in the big lottery of life!” —BBC Focus (UK)

Michael Blastland & David Spiegelhalter • The Norm Chronicles978-0-465-08570-5 • $16.99 / $19.99 (Can.) tpo

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The King of Infinite SpaceDavid Berlinski

978-0-465-06571-4

In Pursuit of the UnknownIan Stewart

978-0-465-08598-9

The Measure of the EarthLarrie D. Ferreiro

978-0-465-08381-9

The Creative Destruction of Medicine Eric Topol, M.D.

978-0-465-06183-9

The Infinity Puzzle Frank Close

978-0-465-06382-6

The Theoretical Minimum Leonard Susskind & George Hrabovsky

978-0-465-07568-3




The Design of Everyday ThingsDon Norman

978-0-465-05065-9

The Folly of FoolsRobert Trivers

978-0-465-08597-2

Too Big to KnowDavid Weinberger

978-0-465-08596-5

Linked Albert-László Barabási978-0-465-08573-6

Regenesis George Church & Ed Regis

978-0-465-07570-6

Powering the FutureRobert B. Laughlin

978-0-465-02220-5

The 10,000 Year ExplosionGregory Cochran & Henry Harpending

978-0-465-02042-3

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Moral OriginsChristopher Boehm

978-0-465-02048-5

Life’s RatchetPeter M. Hoffmann

978-0-465-02253-3

FeathersThor Hanson

978-0-465-02878-8

Dog SenseJohn Bradshaw

978-0-465-03003-3

The 10,000 Year ExplosionGregory Cochran & Henry Harpending

978-0-465-02042-3

Catching FireRichard Wrangham

978-0-465-02041-6

The Long SummerBrian Fagan

978-0-465-02282-3

The Little Ice Age Brian Fagan

978-0-465-02272-4

The Evolution of CooperationRobert Axelrod

978-0-465-00564-2

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The Pattern on the StoneW. Daniel Hillis

978-0-465-02596-1

Darwin’s DevicesJohn Long

978-0-465-02141-3

The Mathematics of Life Ian Stewart

978-0-465-02238-0

Annotated FlatlandIan Stewart

978-0-465-01123-0

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Darwin Among the Machines George Dyson

978-0-465-03162-7

The Climate FixRoger Pielke, Jr.

978-0-465-02519-0

The Misbehavior of Markets Benoit Mandelbrot & Richard L. Hudson

978-0-465-04357-6

The Unfinished GameKeith Devlin

978-0-465-01896-3

Rock, Paper, ScissorsLen Fisher

978-0-465-00938-1



The Shape of Inner SpaceShing-Tung Yau & Steve Nadis

978-0-465-02837-5

Deadly ChoicesPaul A. Offit, M.D.

978-0-465-02962-4


The Strangest Man Graham Farmelo

978-0-465-02210-6

MassiveIan Sample

978-0-465-02852-8

The Lightness of Being Frank Wilczek

978-0-465-01895-6

A Different Universe Robert B. Laughlin

978-0-465-03829-9

Fear of Physics Lawrence M. Krauss

978-0-465-00218-4

How to Teach Relativity to Your DogChad Orzel

978-0-465-02331-8

Just Six NumbersMartin Rees

978-0-465-03673-8

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SnoopSam Gosling, Ph.D.

978-0-465-01382-1

The Evolution of Desire David M. Buss

978-0-465-00802-5

Gödel, Escher, BachDouglas R. Hofstadter978-0-465-02656-2

Unstrange MindsRoy Richard Grinker978-0-465-02764-4

Louder Than WordsBenjamin K. Bergen

978-0-465-02829-0

Love at Goon ParkDeborah Blum

978-0-465-02601-2

The Science of EvilSimon Baron-Cohen

978-0-465-03142-9

I Am a Strange LoopDouglas R. Hofstadter978-0-465-03079-8

The Mind’s I Douglas R. Hofstadter

& Daniel C. Dennett978-0-465-03091-0




The Ego TunnelThomas Metzinger

978-0-465-02069-0

The Design of Future ThingsDon Norman

978-0-465-00228-3

CodeLawrence Lessig

978-0-465-03914-2

Born DigitalJohn Palfrey & Urs Gasser

978-0-465-01856-7

Reinventing the SacredStuart A. Kauffman

978-0-465-01888-8

Unscientific AmericaChris Mooney & Sheril Kirshenbaum

978-0-465-01917-5

Summer for the GodsEdward J. Larson

978-0-465-07510-2

A PhD Is Not Enough!Peter J. Feibelman

978-0-465-02222-9

Alone TogetherSherry Turkle

978-0-465-03146-7


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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track

Richard P. Feynman978-0-465-02371-4

Feynman’s Tips on PhysicsRichard P. Feynman

978-0-465-02797-2

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I


The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II


The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. III


The Feynman Lectures on Physics,The New Millennium Edition


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Feynman Lectures on ComputationRichard P. Feynman

978-0-738-20296-9

The Meaning of It AllRichard P. Feynman

978-0-465-02394-3

The Pleasure of Finding Things OutRichard P. Feynman

978-0-465-02395-0

Six Easy PiecesRichard P. Feynman

978-0-465-02392-9

Six Not-So-Easy PiecesRichard P. Feynman

978-0-465-02393-6

Feynman Lectures on Gravitation Richard P. Feynman

978-0-813-34038-8

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