This unprecedented anthology of John James Audubon’s lively and colorful writings about the American wilderness reintroduces the great artist and ornithologist as an exceptional American writer, a predecessor to Thoreau, Emerson, and Melville. The Audubon …

Thanks to the digital technology revolution, cameras are everywhere — PDAs, phones, anywhere you can put an imaging chip and a lens. Battling to usurp this two-billion-dollar market is a Silicon Valley company, Foveon, whose …

In The Long Emergency James Howard Kunstler delivers a lucid and straightforward glimpse at the global changes that lie ahead of us. It is a startling vision of America after the cheap oil era comes …

Coming to Life is a remarkable journey through development biology that reveals miraculous processes in the microscopic world of cells. Through an accounting of groundbreaking discoveries, Nobel laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard provides many answers to historical …

Fish on Friday tells a new story of the discovery of America. In Brian Fagan’s view, that discovery is the product of the long sweep of history: the spread of Christianity and the radical cultural …

Today’s customer craves human contact. We’re sick to death of voicemail. Menus of options that never offer the option we need. A deluge of carefully spun “information” designed not to answer our concerns, but to …