Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995. Paperback. Octavo, stiff pictorial wrappers, 227pp, illus. Inscription signed by the author on half-title. One of America's first astronauts and the only one of the original seven to fly in all three pioneering space programs - Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo - Wally Schirra inherited.....
Fourth Estate, 2020. Hardcover. This book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning. Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. And it's only looking worse. We are living in a climate emergency.....
Avery Publishing Group, 2020. Hardcover. A wry look at what the astonishing world of animal penises can tell us about how we use our own.The fallacy sold to many of us is that the penis signals dominance and power. But this wry and penetrating book reveals that in fact nature.....
Experiment, 2020. Paperback. Before mammals, there were dinosaurs. And before dinosaurs, there were cephalopods.Publisher's Note: Monarchs of the Sea was previously published in hardcover as Squid Empire.Cephalopods, Earth's first truly substantial animals, are still among us: Their fascinating family tree features squid, octopuses, nautiluses, and more. The inventors of swimming.....
Penguin Press, 2020. Hardcover. A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we need to join her in protest"This is the last possible moment.....
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2020. Hardcover. The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, and Cambridge Analytica. Jill Lepore, best-selling author of These Truths, came across the company's papers in MIT's archives and set out to tell.....
