Prometheus Books
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Bad Data: Why We Measure the Wrong Things and Often Miss the Metrics That Matter
$25.00 Read moreBig data is often touted as the key to understanding almost every aspect of contemporary life. This critique of “information hubris” shows that even more important than data is finding the right metri… [more below]
- Author: Schryvers, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1633885909
- Language: English
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The Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York
$24.95 Add to cartForget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime.Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this… [more below]
- Author: Hortis, C. Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 161614923X
- Language: English
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The Gifts of Africa: How a Continent and Its People Changed the World
$34.95 Add to cartPast works have reinforced misconceptions about Africa, from its oral traditions and languages to its resistance to colonial powers. Other books have treated African achievements as a parade of honora
- Author: Pearce, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1633887707
- Language: English
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God the Failed Hypothesis?: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
$28.99 Read more- Author: Stenger, Victor J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 287
- Publish Date: January 02 2007
- ISBN10: 1591024811
- Language: English
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The Lionkeeper of Algiers: How an American Captive Rose to Power in Barbary and Saved His Homeland from War
$29.95 Read moreWINNER of the Journal of American Revolution’s Book of the Year for 2023!
In 1785, just a few years after U.S. Independence, a young American named James Leander Cathcart is kidnapped at sea and carrie
- Author: Ekin, Des
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888630
- Language: English
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Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind How Female Marines Are Trained
$18.00 Read moreOne woman’s professional battle against systemic gender bias in the Marines and the lessons it holds for all of us. The Marine Corps continues to be the only service where men and women train separate… [more below]
- Author: Germano, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1633884139
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside: A Maverick of Electrical Science
$26.00 Read moreFINALIST 2019 IEEE William and Joyce Middleton Electrical Engineering History Award This biography of Oliver Heaviside profiles the life of an underappreciated genius and describes his many contribut… [more below]
- Author: Mahon, Basil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1633883310
- Language: English
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Shadows of Science: How to Uphold Science, Detect Pseudoscience, and Expose Antiscience in the Age of Disinformation
$34.95 Add to cartIn this enlightening and entertaining book, author and Skeptical Inquirer editor Kendrick Frazier takes readers on a journey to the contentious boundary zone between science and its antagonists: pseud
- Author: Frazier, Kendrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1633889386
- Language: English
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Edmond Halley: The Many Discoveries of the Most Curious Astronomer Royal
$26.95 Add to cartEdmond Halley is known far and wide thanks largely to the comet bearing his name, the return of which he predicted in 1705. While that discovery would be enough to make the career of any scientist, Ha
- Author: Love, David K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888916
- Language: English
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Failure to Communicate: Why We Misunderstand What We Hear, Read, and See
$26.95 Read more“Why didn’t they understand me? I was as clear as I could be.” Everyone has had this thought at one time or another. Research from the fields of psychology and cognitive science can provide concrete a
- Author: Kreuz, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888894
- Language: English
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The Dealer: How One California Dealership Fueled the Rise of Ferrari Cars in America
$24.95 Read moreWhen Ferrari of Los Gatos opened, few people could afford an expensive sports car. In 1976, the average annual income was $12,686, and a new home cost about $48,000. Motorists in California could only… [more below]
- Author: Ciardella, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1633887553
- Language: English
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Cold-Blooded Kindness Neuroquirks of a Codependent Killer,: Or Just Give Me a Shot at Loving You, Dear, and Other Reflections on Helping That Hurts
$32.95 Add to cartAre some people predisposed to kindness to the point of being destructive to themselves and others? In this searing exploration of deadly codependency, the author of the best-selling Evil Genes, takes… [more below]
- Series: Psychology
- Author: Oakley, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 387
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 161614419X
- Language: English
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China RX: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine
$25.00 Read moreMillions of Americans are taking prescription drugs made in China and don’t know it–and pharmaceutical companies are not eager to tell them. This is a disturbing, well-researched wake-up call for imp… [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Rosemary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1633883817
- Language: English
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Seeing What Others Cannot See: The Hidden Advantages of Visual Thinkers and Differently Wired Brains
$18.00 Read moreFor over 25 years, Thomas G. West has been a leading advocate for the importance of visual thinking, visual technologies and the creative potential of individuals with dyslexia and other learning diff… [more below]
- Author: West, Thomas G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 277
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1633883019
- Language: English
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A Tale of Two Cranes: Lessons Learned from 50 Years of the Endangered Species ACT
$29.95 Read moreIt’s been 50 years since the United States attempted a conservation revolution with the passing of the Endangered Species Act in 1973. Now, fifty years later, the Fish and Wildlife Service finds itse
- Author: Gronewold, Nathanial
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1633887626
- Language: English
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Sex, Power, and Partisanship: How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide
$18.00 Read moreAn evolutionary psychologist traces the roots of political divisions back to our primate ancestors and male-dominated social hierarchies. Through the lens of evolutionary science, this book offers a n… [more below]
- Author: Garcia, Hector A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1633885143
- Language: English
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Duped: Why Innocent People Confess – And Why We Believe Their Confessions
$29.95 Read moreWhy do people confess to crimes they did not commit? And, surely, those cases must be rare? In fact, it happens all the time–in police stations, workplaces, public schools, and the military. Psycholo
- Author: Kassin, Saul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: June 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1633888088
- Language: English
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Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry
$18.00 Read moreThis illuminating study traces the transformation of the right to arms from its inception in English and colonial American law to today’s impassioned gun-control debate. As historian and legal scholar… [more below]
- Author: Charles, Patrick J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 558
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 163388564X
- Language: English
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Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors
$28.99 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]
- Series: Psychology
- Author: Ellis, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: November 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1573928798
- Language: English
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All Out!: An Autobiography
$30.99 Add to cartThis candid autobiography, the last work by renowned psychologist Albert Ellis, is a tour de force of stimulating ideas, colorful descriptions of memorable people and events, and straightforward, no-n… [more below]
- Series: Psychology
- Author: Ellis, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 668
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1591024528
- Language: English
