Non-Fiction

Police officers risk their lives every day to protect and serve our homes, families and communities. Here is “a notable collection of heartfelt stories from the front line told with honesty and compassion” (Kirkus). Protect These men and women are our eyes. Our ears. Our protectors. Those who wear a badge, doing their best to help people. Serve These cops serve their communities. They serve their country. They’re in the business of saving lives—even at the risk of their own. Defend These patrol officers and K9 ...

Are you a teen and want to remain safe online while using social media and the metaverse? Or are you a parent concerned with social media’s potential impact on your teen’s mental health? If you answered yes to those questions, then look no further. The Essential Teen’s Guide to Thoughtful Postings on Social Media and the Metaverse is the book for you! Author and proud mother of three teenagers, Bailey Palmer, shares her experiences and knowledge to help teens navigate the challenges of the digital ...

A momentous look at the private companies driving a revolutionary new economy in space, from the New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk. With the launch of the Falcon 1 rocket in 2008, Elon Musk’s SpaceX became the first private company to build a low-cost rocket that could reach orbit. And that milestone carried major implications: Silicon Valley, not NASA or nation states, was suddenly cemented as the epicenter of the new Space Age. Start-ups and the wealthy investors behind them began to realize that the universe—ungoverned ...

An exhilarating tour of humanity’s next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may eventually illuminate the deepest mysteries of science, supercharge artificial intelligence, and solve some of humanity’s biggest problems, like global warming, world hunger, and incurable disease, by the bestselling author of The God Equation. The runaway success of the microchip processor may be reaching its end. Running up against the physical constraints of smaller and smaller sizes, traditional silicon chips are not likely to prove useful in solving humanity’s greatest challenges, from climate change, to global ...

Radically improve your performance, creativity, and productivity in every area of your life! Elite athletes do it. Successful executives do it. World-class musicians do it. Top-performing students do it. They take advantage of flow to achieve remarkable goals and accomplish extraordinary feats. THE ART OF FINDING FLOW provides a masterclass on getting into a flow state at will. It offers a step-by-step action plan to help you develop this exceptional ability at your own pace. Learn how to perform at your highest level and finally ...

Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. ‘A masterly investigation of all aspects of flight, human and animal… A beautifully produced book that will appeal across age groups’ Alexander McCall Smith. ‘Dawkins has always been an extraordinarily muscular, persuasive thinker. What feels new here is that he writes with such charm and warmth’ The Times. Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what it would be like to glide and swoop through ...

Best-selling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik investigates a foundational human question: How do we learn—and master—a new skill? For decades now, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of art, food, France, and more. But recently, he became obsessed by a more fundamental matter, one he had often meditated on in The New Yorker: How do masters learn their miraculous skill, whether it was drawing a museum-ready nude or baking a perfect sourdough loaf? How could anyone become ...

“Addicted to Succession? Well, here’s the real thing.” – The Hollywood Reporter. “Jaw-dropping . . . an epic tale of toxic wealth and greed populated by connivers and manipulators.” —The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice. The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount Global, the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire controlled by the Redstone family, and the dysfunction, misconduct, and deceit that threatened the future of the company, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists who first broke the news. In 2016, the fate of ...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. “Most appealing… technical accuracy and lightness of tone… Impeccable.”—Wall Street Journal. “A porthole into another world.”—Scientific American. “Brings science dissemination to a new level.”—Science. The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most valuable building blocks of modern science. Sean Carroll, with his genius for making complex notions entertaining, presents in his uniquely lucid voice the fundamental ideas informing the modern physics of reality. Physics offers deep insights into the workings ...

A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today bestseller. “Newport is making a bid to be the Marie Kondo of technology: someone with an actual plan for helping you realize the digital pursuits that do, and don’t, bring value to your life.”–Ezra Klein, Vox. Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It’s the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world. In this timely and enlightening book, the bestselling ...

The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains. “I couldn’t put Rough Sleepers down. I am left in awe of the human spirit and inspired to do better.”—Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone. Tracy Kidder has been described by The Baltimore Sun as a “master of the nonfiction narrative.” In Rough Sleepers, Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story ...

Ready to get rid of throbbing pain? Whether from an aching back, a sprained ankle, or a nasty bruise or cut—no one wants to prolong the throbbing pain that comes with an injury. You can turn to an ancient herb known for its healing properties! Discover the way to heal back pain, bumps, sprains, strains, wounds and more — safely and effectively — with the unique healing plant called Trauma Comfrey. Learn why this powerful herb gets the job done and what to look for ...

An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats to rats, elephants to pigeons—and what this tells us about our own perceptions, beliefs, and actions, as well as our place in the natural world. A squirrel in the garden. A rat in the wall. A pigeon on the street. Humans have spent so much of our history drawing a hard line between human spaces and wild places. When animals pop up where we don’t expect or want them, ...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Astrophysicist and folklorist Dr. Moiya McTier channels The Milky Way in this approachable and utterly fascinating autobiography of the titular galaxy, detailing what humans have discovered about everything from its formation to its eventual death, and what more there is to learn about this galaxy we call home. After a few billion years of bearing witness to life on Earth, of watching one hundred billion humans go about their day-to-day lives, of feeling unbelievably lonely, and ...