Prometheus Books
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Quantum Fuzz: The Strange True Makeup of Everything Around Us
$22.95 Add to cartQuantum physics has turned our commonsense notion of reality on its head. This accessible book describes in layperson’s terms the strange phenomena that exist at the quantum level–a world of tiny dim… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Michael S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 10 2023
- ISBN10: 163388905X
- Language: English
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Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know
$28.95 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… [more below]
- Author: Yaruss, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1633888363
- Language: English
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Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution
$29.95 Read moreNo one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez off the coast of West Africa in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. This obscure yet fierce naval battle would have a monumental imp
- Author: Sutton, Angela C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888444
- Language: English
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The Bulldog Detective: William J. Flynn and America’s First War Against the Mafia, Spies, and Terrorists
$29.95 Read moreAmerica in the early twentieth century was rife with threats. Organized crime groups like the Mafia, German spies embedded behind enemy lines ahead of World War I, package bombs sent throughout the co
- Author: Simon, Jeffrey D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1633888657
- Language: English
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Somebody Told Me…: One Man’s Unexpected Journey Down the Rabbit Hole of Lies, Trolls, and Conspiracies
$24.95 Add to cartDanny Wallace, million-copy bestselling author of Yes Man and Join Me, has fallen down the modern rabbit hole of lies, conspiracies and disinformation. He asks: can you do anything to stop it – even w
- Author: Wallace, Danny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1493090798
- Language: English
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The Pig War and the Pelican Girls: 21 Extraordinary and Forgotten Stories from American History
$21.95 Add to cartWhether you’re an armchair historian or a lover of all things unusual and astonishing, this collection of obscure history shows that life surely is stranger than fiction.
- Author: Cuhaj, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1493088270
- Language: English
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The Year Science Changed Everything: 1957’s International Geophysical Year and the Future of Our Planet
$29.95 Add to cartIn The Year Science Changed Everything, author Mark O’Connell charts the struggles and successes of 1957’s International Geophysical Year alongside interviews with today’s leading environmental scient
- Author: O’Connell, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1493084909
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of the Romantics
$52.17 Add to cartExplore the transformative power of Romanticism–where emotion, imagination, and contradiction collide–through the eyes of its greatest thinkers and artists.
The post-Enlightenment movement known
- Author: Kellogg, Michael K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1493087118
- Language: English
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And Housing for All: The Fight to End Homelessness in America
$29.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking legal advocate argues that only by recognizing housing as a fundamental human right can we hope to solve America’s homelessness crisis.
In And Housing for All, founder of the Nationa- Author: Foscarinis, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1633889769
- Language: English
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Horror on the Brain: The Neuroscience Behind Science Fiction
$24.95 Add to cartIn this fascinating exploration of fear and madness, neuroscientist Dr. Austin Lim recounts psychology’s most bizarre and haunting real-life cases alongside famous speculative fiction that stretched t
- Author: Lim, Austin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 149308478X
- Language: English
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Disease Knows No Politics
$29.95 Add to cartDescription
A memoir of medicine, scientific integrity, and the unwavering belief that disease knows no politics. Disease Knows No Politics is a timely, inspiring memoir that champions the American Dr- Author: Zerhouni, Elias
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1493090623
- Language: English
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The Infrastructure Book: How Cities Work and Power Our Lives
$26.95 Add to cartOne unforgettable journey through seven infrastructure systems across sixteen world cities.
- Author: Derrible, Sybil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1493086642
- Language: English
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Has Medicine Lost Its Mind?: Why Our Mental Health System Is Failing Us and What Should Be Done to Cure It
$28.95 Add to cartOne in four Americans suffer from mental illness, yet 75% receive no treatment at all – discover why our healthcare system is failing millions and learn how we can fix it.
In this groundbreaking exami
- Author: Smith, Robert C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1493087657
- Language: English
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Happy Relationships: 25 Buddhist Practices to Transform Your Connections with Your Partner, Family, and Friends
$21.95 Add to cartHappy Relationships is a relatable and useful guide with practical applications to help us stay attuned with our dearest people. Using simple tools drawn from the Buddhist tradition, you can cultivate
- Author: Brown, Kimberly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 149308660X
- Language: English
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Humanist Manifesto 2000: A Call for New Planetary Humanism
$13.99 Add to cartThis entirely new Humanist Manifesto is designed to address the problems of the twenty-first century and the millennium beyond. Providing a strong defense of scientific naturalism and technology, it i… [more below]
- Author: Kurtz, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: March 01 2000
- ISBN10: 157392783X
- Language: English
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Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, And Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry
$19.99 Add to cartSlaughterhouse is the first book of its kind to explore the impact that unprecedented changes in the meatpacking industry over the last twenty-five years – particularly industry consolidation, increas… [more below]
- Author: Eisnitz, Gail A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1591024501
- Language: English
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An Unintended Journey: An Unintended Journey
$42.67 Add to cart*New Edition with Updated dementia, dementia care, and resource information.*
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, there are more than six million people living in the United States have Alzheimer
- Author: Shagam, Janet Yagoda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1633886948
- Language: English
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Atheism: The Case Against God
$18.00 Add to cartIn this classic treatise on atheism, George H. Smith sets out to demolish what he considers the most widespread and destructive of all the myths devised by human beings – the concept of a supreme bein… [more below]
- Author: Smith, George H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1633881970
- Language: English
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The Science of Consequences: How They Affect Genes, Change the Brain, and Impact Our World
$21.00 Add to cartActions have consequences–and the ability to learn from them revolutionized life on earth. While it’s easy enough to see that consequences are important (where would we be without positive reinforcem… [more below]
- Author: Schneider, Susan M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 20 2012
- ISBN10: 1616146621
- Language: English
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China RX: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine
$17.95 Add to cartSeveral decades ago, penicillin, vitamin C, and many other prescription and over-the-counter products were manufactured in the United States. But with the rise of globalization, antibiotics, antidepre… [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Rosemary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1633886417
- Language: English
