In Lost in Space , Greg Klerkx argues that ever since the last human left the moon in 1972, the Space Age has been stuck in the wrong orbit and NASA, the organization that once fueled the world s space-faring hopes, has been largely responsible for keeping it there. With the loss of the space shuttle ... more »

In her first new work since The Vagina Monologues, her Obie Award-winning smash hit, Eve Ensler tells the story of two American women, a Park Avenue psychiatrist and a human rights worker, who go to Bosnia to help women confront their memories of war and emerge deeply changed themselves. Necessary Targets ... more »

I cannot ignore the reality of the body, its glorious beginnings and its subtle endings, writes Cortney Davis in this intimate and startlingly original account of her work at a women's clinic. A poet and nurse-practitioner with twenty five years' experience, Davis reveals the beauty of the body's workings ... more »

Anyone alive in the latter part of the 20th century is familiar with computers and the concept of doing work via these silicon-chip-driven modern wonders. A typical handheld computing device today has more computing power than a 1960s computer that took up an entire room. In today's world, computing ... more »

The solar system-our sun and the planets and other bodies that orbit it-has remained essentially the same for hundreds of millions of years. What, then, is the New Solar System? Quite simply, what's new is our understanding of what in fact makes up the solar system, and our deeper understanding of long ... more »

Whether you're friends with a geek, work with one, love one, or hate one, here you'll find handy instructions for analyzing and understanding all things geek, for example: how your geek relates to others; geek organizations and gathering spots; getting your geek to exercise; the Geek Diet (soda, pizza ... more »

From the author of Daily Cornbread, Seven Soulful Secrets will motivate women to become not just better than they are but the best they can be. In a tone that is as encouraging and comforting as your favorite quilt, veteran journalist and NiaOnline editor in chief Stephanie Stokes Oliver shows women ... more »

Marketing experts predict that by 2009, nearly 90% of all cell phones will contain a camera, as manufacturers race to create cheaper, easier-to-use models with more sophisticated cameras, more pixels, flash units and even multiple lenses. Already revolutionizing audiovisual communication, it's a trend ... more »

In his bestselling The Moral Animal , Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history-and discerning where history will lead us next. In Nonzero: The ... more »

'Beam me up, Scotty' - ist so etwas tatsächlich möglich? Könnten wir Phaser und Warpantriebe bauen? Die Besiedelung des Mars durch die Menschen scheint in greifbare Nähe gerückt, doch werden wir auch zur großen Zeitreise aufbrechen? Stefan Thiesen hat die phantastische Welt des Trek-Universums mit aktuellen ... more »

Chapter 1 Roots: The Making of a Teenage Scientist YouScientist! The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments, 1960 David Hahns earliest memory seems appropriate in light of later events; it is of conducting an experiment in the bathroom when he was perhaps four years old. With his father at work and his ... more »

Branding, says James Twitchell, is nothing more than commercial storytelling; brands are the stories that are associated with products. (For example, the special taste of Evian, says Twitchell, is in the brand, not the water.) Branding has become so successful, so ubiquitous that even institutions that ... more »