With "Ultimate Atlas", Theo Deutinger architect, designer and author of the acclaimed "Handbook of Tyranny" illustrates the basic data of Earth and its inhabitants to create a total portrait of the planet. How can we keep track of everything that hap...

Do you dream of traveling to other worlds? This visually spectacular book brings you closer to an interplanetary voyage than ever before! Following in the footsteps of Jim Bell's successful "The Space Book", "Mars 3-D", and "Moon 3-D", this large-f...

Questions of national identity have long dominated China's political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nati...

The world is complex, but acknowledging its complexity requires an appreciation for the many roles context plays in shaping natural phenomena. In "Unsimple Truths", Sandra Mitchell argues that the long-standing scientific and philosophical deference...

"It was the first time I'd seen what the ocean may have looked like thousands of years ago". That's conservation scientist Gregory S. Stone talking about his initial dive among the corals and sea life surrounding the Phoenix Islands in the South Paci...