A clear, analytical and compelling (The Economist) argument in favor of a fully-formed view of global warming and against hysterical environmentalism Learn More

A clear, analytical and compelling (The Economist) argument in favor of a fully-formed view of global warming and against hysterical environmentalism Learn More

A personal history of the Internet. Learn More

A personal history of the Internet. Learn More

The tale of a young man following in the footsteps of Darwin. Learn More

The gripping account of a group of brave men who charted the course to the modern world. Learn More

The gripping account of a group of brave men who charted the course to the modern world. Learn More

A parrot uncomprehendingly rattles off a string of words learned by rote. And we marvel! Yet we seem to take our own astonishing linguistic powers for granted the ability to speak, listen, and understand, to read and write. We all understand why language works we have to communicate to survive and now David Crystal, the world authority on language, shows us how. Learn More

That the dog evolved from the wolf is an accepted fact of evolution and history, but the question of how wolf became dog has remained a mystery, obscured by myth and legend. How the Wolf Became the Dog posits that dog was an evolutionary inevitability in the nature of the wolf and its human soul mate.


The natural temperament and social structure of humans and wolves are so similar that as soon as they met on the trail they recognized themselves in each other. Both are highly social, accomplished generalists, and creatures of habit capable of adapting— homebodies who like to wander.


How the Wolf Became the Dog presents “domestication” of the dog as a biological and cultural process that began in mutual cooperation and has taken a number of radical turns. At the end of the last Ice Age the first dogs emerged with their humans from refuges against the cold. In the eighteenth century, humans began the drive to exercise full control of dog reproduction, life, and death to complete the domestication of the wolf begun so long ago.
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The latest entry in the series of Intelligent Person's Guides by an expert in the field. Learn More

The latest entry in the series of Intelligent Person's Guides by an expert in the field. Learn More

The adventures of a real-life 'X-Files' investigator. Learn More

Breathtakingly illustrated history of the universe. Learn More

The first biography of Henri-Georges Doll, the giant of engineering and geophysics Learn More

City of Quartz meets Silent Spring in this wide-ranging extravaganza of pollution in L.A. Learn More

A brilliant and humorous analysis of thirty inventors who changed the world. Learn More

[A] lively, compulsively readable account (Entertainment Weekly) of the world s most beloved weed Learn More

An eye-opening look at alien abduction by the real-life X-Files man. Learn More