Examines the water cycle, pointing out that it can move from solid to liquid to gas as it moves from the ground to the air and back again.

This book gives an overview of sound and the sense of hearing, looking at how sound is produced, ways it is measured, and how the ear works.

This book is an overview on hurricanes, describing how they form, the devastation they cause, and how meteorologists track these storms.

Introduces the concept of symmetry and demonstrates its presence in natural objects, including ferns, butterflies, human faces, and starfish.

Neil J. Smelser is university professor of sociology emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include Social Change in the Industrial Revolution, Problematics of Sociology, and Social Paralysis and Social Change. Terrorism is the most clear and present danger we confront today, yet no phenomenon is more poorly understood by policymakers, the media, and the general public. The Faces of Terrorism is the first serious interdisciplinary...

"One of the 2009 New York Times Magazine's 9th Annual Featured Books in Ideas" Peter Ward's many books include the highly acclaimed Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe and Under a Green Sky (Collins). He is professor of biology and Earth and space sciences at the University of Washington, and an astrobiologist with NASA. In The Medea Hypothesis, renowned paleontologist Peter Ward proposes a revolutionary and provocative vision...