Prometheus Books
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Physics Around the Clock: Adventures in the Science of Everyday Living
$24.95 Add to cartPhysics not only shapes the cosmos but every aspect of our lives. Physics Around the Clock is an illuminating and fun journey through the physics of everyday life. From the thermodynamics of cooking t
- Author: Banks, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 149309436X
- Language: English
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Everyday Extraordinary: A Scientist Ponders a Lifetime of Magical, Bizarre, and Paranormal Experiences
$29.95 Read moreExperiences with strange phenomena such as ghosts, UFOs, psychics, and miracle cures make for titillating stories. Many of us leave these stories as just that–stories–but for some people the rabbit … [more below]
- Author: Markovsky, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1493093797
- Language: English
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Psychology of Gun Violence: How Smart Choices Can Save Lives
$29.95 Add to cartWhat motivates people to buy guns? To carry them? To use them? In this urgent and necessary call for action, Janet Shibley Hyde combines incisive cultural analysis with cutting-edge psychological rese
- Author: Hyde, Janet Shibley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1493089978
- Language: English
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The Activist: A Daoist Protest Manual
$19.95 Add to cartThe reason why protests have caused maximum pain for minimum gain is that they have done everything right. Well-developed consensus practices from activists have been put into practice in highly coord… [more below]
- Author: Fried, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1493091387
- Language: English
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Money Values: How to Be Financially Mindful
$24.95 Add to cartMoney Values explores how our relationship with money impacts our lives from our daily schedule to our interpersonal relationships with friends and family and even our connection to the larger world- … [more below]
- Author: Lassander, Maarit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1493092340
- Language: English
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Inside Youth Sports: An Expert’s and Athlete’s Guide to Health, Fitness, Competition and Better Play
$24.95 Add to cartDiscover what every athlete-and parent- needs to know about the youth sports industrial complex, from training and injuries to developing bodies and navigating league politics, through the eyes of a f
- Author: Rodgers, Buel D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1493091220
- Language: English
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God and His Demons
$32.95 Add to cartA noted author and activist brings his critical acumen and rhetorical skills to bear in this polemic against the dark side of religion. Unlike some popular works by stridently outspoken atheists, this… [more below]
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: March 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1616141778
- Language: English
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The People’s Guide to College Applications: A Week-by-Week Approach to Writing, Connecting, and Getting In
$21.95 Add to cartThe People’s Guide to College Applications presents a radically compassionate, last-minute-friendly approach to college applications that honors messy lives, economic realities, and authentic stories-… [more below]
- Author: Constantino, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1493091549
- Language: English
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Champions of Innocence: Inside the Fight Against Wrongful Convictions
$32.95 Add to cartTwenty-four powerful voices from the frontlines of justice reveal how they’re revolutionizing a system that fails the innocent.
Over the years, history has uncovered thousands of wrongful convictions- Author: Kassin, Saul, PH. D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1493093827
- Language: English
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Doctors’ Riot of 1788: Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America
$29.95 Add to cartThroughout the seventeenth century, medical lecturers demonstrated human anatomy by dissecting a cadaver while surrounded by students. After the Revolutionary War, though, instructors realized that th… [more below]
- Author: McPhee, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 149308805X
- Language: English
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Beyond Control: Drug Prohibition, Gun Regulation, and the Search for Sensible Alternatives
$29.95 Add to cartIn this incisive book, Reason editor Jacob Sullum untangles America’s twin crusades against guns and drugs, suggesting better-tailored alternatives that do more good while causing less harm.
Does gun- Author: Sullum, Jacob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1493084666
- Language: English
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Chasing CHI: The Fbi’s Groundbreaking Pursuit of China’s Most Prolific Spy Family
$39.95 Add to cartEspionage, betrayal, and the FBI’s historic victory–this is the true story of the hunt for Chi Mak and his spy ring.
It began as furtive tip, grew to fevered investigation, and climaxed with midnigh- Author: Gaylord, James E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1493091964
- Language: English
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The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future
$34.95 Add to cartBooks are our first and most lasting form of information technology. Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones– they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine, Joel J. Miller s… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Joel J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1493088939
- Language: English
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Mental Health Contagion: Navigating Yourself Through a Loved One’s Mental Well-Being Decline
$22.95 Add to cartThe Mental Health Contagion will be for people who are challenged in their relationship with someone suffering from a mental problem, disorder, or crisis. It is an in-depth look at what we can do to p… [more below]
- Author: Murray, Yvette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1493090941
- Language: English
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Presidential Seclusion: The Power of Camp David
$32.95 Add to cartBehind the gates of Camp David–where presidents find solitude, forge diplomacy, and shape history in absolute secrecy.
The Presidential Retreat Camp David is shrouded in mystery, and rightfully so.- Author: Ferguson, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1493091468
- Language: English
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Fear Knot: How Science, History, and Culture Shape Our Fears – And How to Get Unstuck
$29.95 Add to cartWhy do we fear Halloween candy but not vending machines? Why do “witch hunts” recur so often in history? How dangerous are serial killers, really?
The Fear Knot examines our most common deeply held fe- Author: Swalve, Natashia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 149308559X
- Language: English
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Gaslit Brain: Protect Your Brain from the Lies of Bullying, Gaslighting, and Institutional Complicity
$34.95 Add to cartReveals the psychological functions of the manipulator’s brain and the impact of gaslighting on our minds, shining a spotlight on how manipulative brains seduce us into belief and disrupt our ability … [more below]
- Author: Fraser, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1493090925
- Language: English
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One Hand Clapping: Unraveling the Mystery of the Human Mind
$32.95 Add to cartNeuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin reveals the miracle by which consciousness evolved out of the natural world from the birth of the cell to the majesty of our modern minds.
Like the Zen Buddhist riddle- Author: Kukushkin, Nikolay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 149309064X
- Language: English
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Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know
$21.95 Add to cartWinner of Axiom Business Book Award’s 2023 Bronze Medal for Economics
Incomes are stagnating, middle-class jobs are disappearing, economic growth is slowing, and the meager gains are mostly going to t- Author: Yaruss, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1493089757
- Language: English
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Space to Live: The Search for an Alternative Home for Humanity
$29.95 Read moreIn an era where Earth faces unprecedented challenges, humanity’s survival may depend on establishing life beyond our home planet.
From the search for extraterrestrial life to the technological challen
- Author: Hill, Roderick J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1633889505
- Language: English
