Prometheus Books
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Dr. Henry Lee’s Forensic Files: Five Famous Cases Scott Peterson, Elizabeth Smart, and more…
$25.99 Add to cartDr. Henry C. Lee is considered by many to be the greatest forensic scientist in the world. His vast investigative experience (over 6,000 cases!) and participation in many high-profile trials have earn… [more below]
- Author: Lee, Henry C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 1591024099
- Language: English
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The Origins of the Koran: Classic Essays on Islam’s Holy Book
$36.99 Add to cartThis volume rejects the notion that Islam’s sacred text is error free and cannot be critically evaluated. The study of the Koran must develop and mature. Scholars of Islam are of course familiar with … [more below]
- Author: Warraq, Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 411
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 157392198X
- Language: English
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How Are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest
$23.99 Add to cart“Is there still anything worth living for? Is anything worth pursuing, apart from money, love, and caring for one’s own family?” Internationally known social philosopher and ethicist Peter Singer has … [more below]
- Author: Singer, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0879759666
- Language: English
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The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates
$21.00 Add to cartHow does the cosmos do something it has long been thought that only gods could achieve? How does an inanimate universe generate stunning new forms and unbelievable new powers without a Creator? How do… [more below]
- Author: Bloom, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 1633881423
- Language: English
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I, Monster: Serial Killers in Their Own Chilling Words
$19.00 Add to cartWhat goes through the dark minds of such notorious killers as Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, David Berkowitz (“Son of Sam”), John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader (the “BTK Killer”), and others? In this chilling … [more below]
- Author: Philbin, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1616141638
- Language: English
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A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science Behind Three Generations of Mental Illness
$30.08 Add to cartEvery family has secrets; only some secrets are lethal. In Victoria Costello’s family mental illness had been given many names over at least four generations until this inherited conspiracy of silence… [more below]
- Author: Costello, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: January 24 2012
- ISBN10: 1616144661
- Language: English
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Julian’s Against the Galileans
$35.99 Add to cartFlavius Claudius Julianus, better known to history by the name imposed by his Christian opponents, Julian “the Apostate,” was a nephew of the first Christian emperor, Constantine I. Julian is one of t… [more below]
- Author: Julian Emperor of Rome
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1591021987
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of the Present
$14.99 Add to cartGeorge Herbert Mead (1863-1931) had a powerful influence on the development of American pragmatism in the twentieth century. He also had a strong impact on the social sciences. This classic book repre… [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Mead, George Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1573929484
- Language: English
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Jane Goodall: A Biography
$17.99 Add to cartRecent polls identify Jane Goodall to be the most recognizable living scientist in the Western world. Her work with chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania has been renowned as one of the … [more below]
- Author: Greene, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1591026113
- Language: English
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Everyone’s Gone to the Moon: July 1969, Life on Earth, and the Epic Voyage of Apollo 11
$36.33 Add to cartEveryone’s Gone to the Moon is a week-by-week journey through July 1969, one of the most pivotal months in human history – in space and here on Earth. This unique book follows the crew of Apollo 11 an
- Author: Cuhaj, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888819
- Language: English
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Flight Failure: Investigating the Nuts and Bolts of Air Disasters and Aviation Safety
$18.00 Read moreThis book chronicles maintenance-related accidents -including the recent Boeing 737 MAX accidents -caused by individual, corporate, or governmental negligence and brings the industry’s current state o
- Author: Porter, Donald J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 1633886220
- Language: English
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Machines That Think: The Future of Artificial Intelligence
$16.00 Add to cartHow will Artificial Intelligence (AI) impact our lives? Toby Walsh, one of the leading AI researchers in the world, takes a critical look at the many ways in which “thinking machines” will change our … [more below]
- Author: Walsh, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1633883752
- Language: English
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The Essence of Religion
$21.99 Add to cartOriginally published in 1845, this concise critique formed the basis of thirty later lectures delivered in 1848 by Ludwig Feuerbach, one of Germany’s most influential humanist philosophers. In The Ess… [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Feuerbach, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: June 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1591022134
- Language: English
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Outlines of Pyrrhonism
$13.99 Add to cartThroughout history philosophers have sought to define, understand, and delineate concepts important to human well-being. One such concept is “knowledge.” Many philosophers believed that absolute, cert… [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Empiricus, Sextus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0879755970
- Language: English
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Quantum Computing from Colossus to Qubits: The History, Theory, and Application of a Revolutionary Science
$39.50 Add to cartLooking back to Alan Turing’s work on the Enigma machine and the first electronic computer, and featuring a new introduction on the recent evolution of quantum computing, author John Gribbin explains
- Author: Gribbin, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888703
- Language: English
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The Whole Story of Climate: What Science Reveals about the Nature of Endless Change
$18.00 Add to cartThis book, written by a geologist, describes the important contributions that geology has made to our understanding of climate change since the 1830s. What emerges is a much more complex and nuanced p… [more below]
- Author: Peters, E. Kirsten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1633886026
- Language: English
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Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors: New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
$22.95 Add to cartFirst developed in 1955, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is the original form of Cognitive Behavior Therapy and one of the most successful psychotherapeutic techniques in the world. Its found… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 422
- Publish Date: April 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1633889033
- Language: English
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Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment
$20.00 Add to cartThis revealing, disturbing, and thoroughly researched book exposes a dark side of faith that most Americans do not know exists or have ignored for a long time-religious child maltreatment. After speak… [more below]
- Author: Heimlich, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: June 21 2011
- ISBN10: 161614405X
- Language: English
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions: And the Madness of Crowds
$20.99 Add to cartMore than a century before Alan Greenspan coined the phrase “irrational exuberance” to describe the speculative bubble inflating technology stocks, Charles Mackay was recording the history of “tulipom… [more below]
- Series: Great Minds
- Author: MacKay, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 766
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1573928917
- Language: English
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Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind’s Exploration of Space
$21.95 Add to cartFilled with rare and little-known stories, Space Oddities will bring the final frontier to the homes of diehard space readers and armchair astronauts alike.
- Author: Cuhaj, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1633887847
- Language: English
