History & Philosophy

John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....

Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science...

Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time—war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race—in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all....

There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: It underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines....

From the masters of storytelling-meets-science, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us....

A special tenth anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd is revised and annotated with answers to important questions you never thought to ask.

For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology....

The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology....

An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....

An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us - and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases.

From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery....

Here for the first time, in rich human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed....

Data-based and rigorously researched, How to Feed the World is an indispensable analysis of how the world really produces and consumes its food—and a scientist's exploration of how we can successfully feed a growing population without killing the planet.

Richard Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes....

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is essential listening for understanding the history, philosophy, and evolution of science....

In the vein of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body, A History of the World in Six Plagues is a deeply reported, insightful, and literary account of humankind’s battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender lines.

Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is "safe" for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling the story of electricity in a way it has never been told before....

In Beyond Biocentrism, acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza and astronomer Bob Berman take the listener on an intellectual thrill ride....

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen....

An exciting scientific adventure from the days of wooden ships and iron men, Longitude is full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd....

The New York Times best-selling author of Darwin’s Doubt presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology....

In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John be­came fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequi­ties that allow this curable, preventable infec­tious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year. In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story.

We have never had to feed as many people as we do today. And yet, we misunderstand the essentials of where our food really comes from, how our dietary requirements shape us, and why this impacts our planet in drastic ways. As a result, in our economic, political, and everyday choices, we take for granted and fail to prioritize the thing that makes all our lives possible: food. In this ambitious, myth-busting book, Smil investigates many of the burning questions facing the world today.

A History of the World in Six Plagues shows that throughout history, outbreaks of disease have been exacerbated by and gone on to further expand the racial, economic, and sociopolitical divides we allow to fester in times of good health. Princeton-trained historian Edna Bonhomme’s examination of humanity’s disastrous treatment of pandemic disease takes us across place and time from Port-au-Prince to Tanzania, and from plantation-era America to our modern COVID-19-scarred world to unravel shocking truths about the patterns of discrimination in the face of disease.

Explore the depths of human thought, emotion, and consciousness in The Art of the Mind, a groundbreaking journey into the mysteries of the human psyche. Samuel J. Rodriguez Jr. invites listeners into an expansive conversation that bridges scientific exploration, spiritual traditions, and philosophical inquiry to uncover the profound interconnectedness of humanity. Through chapters that traverse the realms of neuroscience, psychology, and ancient wisdom, the book challenges listeners to question whether their thoughts and beliefs are truly their own or reflections of a shared human experience.

A hilarious guide to what's real (and what's not) in our vast, beautiful (and terrifying) universe.

Goebbels: The Mind Behind Nazi Propaganda – A Psychological Biography of Hitler’s Most Dangerous Manipulator Joseph Goebbels was more than just the Nazi Minister of Propaganda. He was a master manipulator, an obsessive seducer, a fanatical antisemite, and a man haunted by deep personal insecurities. His influence on the Nazi regime was devastating, but what shaped him into the ruthless figure we know today? This biography takes a deep psychological dive into Goebbels’ mind: his childhood marked by rejection, his inferiority complex, his relationship with Hitler, and his sinister ...

Stanco di non essere compreso, Nietzsche si espone e si teatralizza con Ecce homo, il suo libro conclusivo e più dibattuto. Tra proclami cosmici, autoritratti e documenti psicopatologici, quest’opera unica rappresenta l’interpretazione definitiva di un autore inafferrabile, imprescindibile per chiunque voglia avvicinarsi al suo pensiero.

Nuova riedizione 2025 con divisione in capitoli.

El cerebro es un órgano plástico, que puede ser esculpido con la intención y la voluntad como herramientas. Conocer su capacidad para aprender y adaptarse al entorno es descubrir aquello que nos construye desde fuera. Pero, paradójicamente, es esa misma plasticidad neuronal la que nos brinda la oportunidad de transformarnos desde dentro.

Tras el éxito de Y el cerebro creó al hombre, Destino incorpora dos clásicos de Antonio Damasio. Publicado originalmente en 1994, El error de Descartes es un libro de referencia en la literatura sobre ciencia y filosofía. ¿Y cuál es el error de Descartes? Pues creer que la mente existe de forma independiente al cuerpo, una idea profundamente arraigada en la cultura occidental desde entonces.

The world is not as we think it is. We are taught standard accepted beliefs from birth and many of them are not correct or a misunderstanding of the truth. Who am I to say so? At this writing I’m nearly seventy years old and I’ve spent my life observing reality as an engineer and explorer of the unknown. I’ve had many weird and paranormal experiences and done lots of research. Many patterns have made themselves known to me and this is why I make these types of statements. This book is an effort to shed light on these misunderstandings and change your perception of the world we live in.