Science fiction is a vital part of popular culture, influencing the way we all look at the world. TV shows like "Star Trek "and movies from "Forbidden Planet" to "Inception" have influenced scientists to enter the profession and have shaped our futures. Science fiction doesn't set out to predict wha[...]

"Hi, I'm Earth But you can call me Planet Awesome." Prepare to learn all about Earth from the point-of-view of Earth herself In this funny yet informative book, filled to the brim with kid-friendly facts, readers will discover key moments in Earth's life, from her childhood more than four billion [...]

Colton Nelson was 28 when he won the Texas Lottery and went from ranch hand to ranch owner overnight. When women started lining up wanting some of his millions, even going so far as to drug his beer, his family asks the lovely new ranch assistant to help out by pretending to be his girlfriend. They [...]

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Dead Hand" comes the riveting story of the CIA's most valuable spy in the Soviet Union and an evocative portrait of the agency's Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War.
While getting into his car on the eve[...]

Finally, a guide to screenwriting by two guys who have actually done it (instead of some schmuck who just gives lectures about screenwriting at the airport Marriott).
Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon s movies have made over a billion dollars at the box office and now they show you how to do i[...]

"A riveting scientific detective story" (The Washington Post) by two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who chronicle a young Wisconsin boy with a never-before-seen disease and the doctors who save his life by taking a new step into the future of medicine.
In this landmark medical narrative, Pul[...]

Since its formation nearly five billion years ago, our planet has been the sole living world in a vast and silent universe. Now Earth's isolation is coming to an end. Over the past two decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of "exoplanets" orbiting other stars, including some that could be s[...]