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The Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology includes information, interviews, and stories about forty different cryptids seen in various places all over the world by credible eyewitnesses like policemen, rangers, and doctors. Readers will learn where and how to find flying humanoids, hairy humanoids, giants of all kinds including rabbits, bats and spiders, goblins, vampires, werewolves, demons, aliens and ghosts. Learn More

A successor to his popular book A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, this new collection of essays by Jan Bondeson illustrates various anomalies of human development, the lives of the remarkable individuals concerned, and social reactions to their extraordinary bodies. Learn More

A Study by by Amber Gayle. Learn More

A Chronicle Of Medical Mysteries, Curious Remedies, And Bizarre But True Healing Folklore. Learn More

Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger—all by the time he was thirty. The New York Times now publishes FiveThirtyEight.com, where Silver is one of the nation’s most influential political forecasters. Learn More

The author of The Big Switch returns with an explosive look at technology’s effect on the mind. Learn More

Is the Shroud of Turin genuine? Learn More

Science has never been more crucial to deciding the political issues facing the country. Learn More

A brash young neuroscientist presents his solution to biology's hardest problem - what consciousness is, and why we have it, and what it means for our self perception and our mental health. Learn More