nanotechnology \na-no--tek-'na-l -je-\ n (1987): the science of manipulating material at the atomic level Although nanotechnology deals with the very small--a nanometer is 1/80,000th the diameter of a human hair--it is going to be huge. From the food we eat, the clothes we wear, and the products we manufacture ... more »

For anyone who has ever wondered where our popular culture is taking us, Hating Women is at once an electrifying social commentary and a clarion call for change. In Hating Women , Shmuley Boteach, the passionate social critic and relationship guru, examines an alarming trend of misogyny in our popular ... more »

It's spring semester at Mirador High in Southern California, and twenty-four-year-old Jeremy Iversen is going deep undercover to deliver the real deal about the dull classes and fast times of American teens today. Trading in his suit and tie for jeans and skater shoes, Iversen posed as a senior transfer ... more »

Unusually gifted as both a physicist and a novelist, Alan Lightman has lived in the dual worlds of science and art for much of his life. In these brilliant essays, the two worlds meet. In A Sense of the Mysterious, Lightman records his personal struggles to reconcile certainty with uncertainty, logic ... more »

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It was the most radical human-breeding experiment in American history, and no one knew how it turned out. The Repository for Germinal Choice-nicknamed the Nobel Prize sperm bank-opened to notorious fanfare in 1980, and for two decades, women flocked to it from all over the country to choose a sperm donor ... more »

For the first time ever, revered spiritual leader Sakyong Mipham brings the lessons of the ancient Shambhala warriors and rulers to the Western world and shows us how to live our lives with confidence. Most of us are living in a haze--sometimes helping others, sometimes helping ourselves, sometimes happy ... more »

Product Info Death and Philosophy brings a rich and diverse array of philosophical, literary and aesthetic perspectives to bear on the theme of death. more »

We always hear how everyone in America is firmly planted in red or blue. They're permanently conservative or irreversibly liberal. But are we all really that locked in to the left or the right? Is America still a place where it's possible to change someone's mind and get them to cross over to the other ... more »

"How could 'old age' be a medical diagnosis when I wasn't even forty?" --Lolly Winston "... if aging is difficult for those of us who were only sometimes cute," she says, "just imagine how hard it must be for the aging knockouts, the living dolls." --Rebecca McClanahan ... more »

Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As an editor of New Orleans' daily newspaper, the Pulitzer Prize--winning Times-Picayune , Jed Horne has had ... more »

Once upon a time, boys and girls grew up and set aside childish things. Nowadays, moms and dads skateboard alongside their kids and download the latest pop-song ringtones. Captains of industry pose for the cover of BusinessWeek holding Super Soakers. The average age of video game players is twenty-nine ... more »