Prometheus Books
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Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
$39.95 Add to cartThe story of two brilliant nineteenth-century scientists who discovered the electromagnetic field, laying the groundwork for the amazing technological and theoretical breakthroughs of the twentieth ce… [more below]
- Author: Forbes, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1616149426
- Language: English
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The Joy of Chemistry: The Amazing Science of Familiar Things
$19.00 Add to cartThis book challenges the perception of chemistry as too difficult to bother with and too clinical to be any fun. Cathy Cobb and Monty L. Fetterolf, both professional chemists and experienced educators… [more below]
- Author: Cobb, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 26 2010
- ISBN10: 1591027713
- Language: English
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Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story
$18.00 Add to cartWould you kill for love? True-crime master Ron Franscell tells the grisly story of Alice and Gerald Uden, a loving couple who murdered at least four people, and live happily ever after–while cops try… [more below]
- Author: Franscell, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1633885127
- Language: English
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Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr
$29.99 Add to cartIn the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world’s greatest living mathematician and astronomer. A strikingly beautiful woman and a devoted celibate, she li… [more below]
- Author: Deakin, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1591025206
- Language: English
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Decoding Madness: A Forensic Psychologist Explores the Criminal Mind
$19.95 Add to cartDealing with some of the most heinous crimes imaginable, forensic neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst Dr. Richard Lettieri gives a behind-the-scenes look at criminal psychology through case studies fr
- Author: Lettieri, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1633886921
- Language: English
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The New Testosterone Treatment: How You and Your Doctor Can Fight Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, and Alzheimer’s
$20.00 Add to cartWritten by the leading authority on hormone receptors and prostate cancer, this book reveals the surprising truth about how you can prevent and treat breast cancer, prostate cancer, and Alzheimer’s wi… [more below]
- Author: Friedman, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1616147237
- Language: English
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The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China’s Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem
$25.95 Add to cartThe inside story of China’s organtransplant business and its macabre connection with internment camps and killing fields for arrested dissidents, especially the adherents of Falun Gong. Mass murder is… [more below]
- Author: Gutmann, Ethan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 12 2014
- ISBN10: 161614940X
- Language: English
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God & Human Beings: First English Translation
$18.00 Add to cartIn this little-known work by Voltaire (1694-1778)-now available in English for the first time- the famous French philosophe and satirist presents a wide-ranging and acerbic survey of religion througho… [more below]
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 183
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 1616141786
- Language: English
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The Hidden Origins of Islam: New Research Into Its Early History
$32.99 Add to cartDespite Muhammad’s exalted place in Islam, even today there is still surpisingly little actually known about this shadowy figure and the origins of the Qur’an because of an astounding lack of verifiab… [more below]
- Author: Ohlig, Karl-Heinz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1591026342
- Language: English
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The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry and the host of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a memoir about growing up and a young man’s budding scientific curiosity.This is the absorbing story … [more below]
- Author: Tyson, Neil Degrasse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 159102188X
- Language: English
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Latin American Philosophy for the 21st Century: The Human Condition, Values, and the Search for Identity
$29.99 Add to cartThis excellent collection is the most complete anthology of Latin American philosophers in English available today. Leading philosophers from several different Latin American countries and from variou… [more below]
- Author: Gracia, Jorge J. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: February 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1573929786
- Language: English
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Bitches in Bonnets: Life Lessons from Jane Austen’s Mean Girls
$34.75 Add to cartBitches in Bonnets examines how six novels of quiet English life, penned by parochial Regency spinster Jane Austen, still provide insight on female relationships after all these years and how Austen’s
- Author: Makowski, Sarah J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888541
- Language: English
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Into The Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press
$21.99 Add to cartWINNER: National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Press CriticismLeading journalists from Fox News, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, newspapers, and other outlets-including Dan Rather, Ashleigh Banfield, Robert Mc… [more below]
- Author: Borjesson, Kristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 462
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1591022304
- Language: English
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Spy for No Country: The Story of Ted Hall, the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World
$29.95 Read moreAt 18 years of age, Theodore Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, hired as a junior at Harvard and put to work at Los Alamos in 1944. Assigned the job of testing and refining the
- Author: Lindorff, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888959
- Language: English
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Don’t Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking
$19.99 Add to cartDo you believe that you can consistently beat the stock market if you put in the effort? -that some people have extrasensory perception? -that crime and drug abuse in America are on the rise? Many peo… [more below]
- Author: Kida, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 1591024080
- Language: English
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Battlefield Cyber: How China and Russia Are Undermining Our Democracy and National Security
$32.95 Add to cartThe United States is being bombarded with cyber-attacks. From the surge in ransomware groups targeting critical infrastructure to nation states compromising the software supply chain and corporate ema
- Author: Holstein, William J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633889017
- Language: English
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Seeing Through the Smoke: A Cannabis Specialist Untangles the Truth about Marijuana
$29.95 Read moreDepending on which doctor you speak with, or which websites you read, cannabis could be an appealing, low-risk medicine – even an aid to wellness – or an insidiously addictive drug rotting the brains
- Author: Grinspoon, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: April 20, 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888460
- Language: English
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Guilt, Shame, and Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Emotions
$19.00 Add to cartWith the first unified theory of guilt, shame, and anxiety, this pioneering psychiatrist and critic of psychiatric diagnoses and drugs examines the causes and effects of psychological and emotional su… [more below]
- Author: Peter R. Breggin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1616141492
- Language: English
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Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
$18.00 Add to cartTwo of the boldest and most creative scientists of all time were Michael Faraday (1791-1867) and James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879). This is the story of how these men, separated in age by forty years, d… [more below]
- Author: Forbes, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1633886077
- Language: English
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The Myth of Self-esteem: How Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Can Change Your Life Forever
$21.99 Add to cartIn this illuminating book, Ellis provides a lively and insightful explanation of the differences between self-esteem and self-acceptance. Emphasizing the importance of self-acceptance, he examines thi
- Series: Psychology
- Author: Ellis, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1591023548
- Language: English
