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Susan Wener survived cancer not once, but twice. The first time she followed the traditional route of surgery and chemotherapy. The second she went renegade, stepping out into the field of alternative medicine.

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Covers the first half of the life of Dr James Hillman, who is considered by many as the world's foremost post-Jungian thinker. This title follows Hillman from his youth in the heyday of Atlantic City, through post-war Paris and Dublin onward to Zurich and the Jung Institute, which appointed him its first Director of Studies in 1960.

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Sometimes life throws you a curve. Then a change-up. Then one low and outside.

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Living in the Belgian Congo with her husband in the 1960s, Fran's mother became pregnant with a daughter. However, right after she gave birth in the hospital, she felt strange. Unbeknownst to anyone, another daughter was on the way, but before anybody responded, an hour had passed. Because of the delay, Fran was born with cerebral palsy.

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Living in the Belgian Congo with her husband in the 1960s, Fran's mother became pregnant with a daughter. However, right after she gave birth in the hospital, she felt strange. Unbeknownst to anyone, another daughter was on the way, but before anybody responded, an hour had passed. Because of the delay, Fran was born with cerebral palsy.

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Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and published more than seventy books on topics as diverse as magic, religion, and Alice in Wonderland. Gardner's illuminating autobiography is a candid self-portrait by the man evolutionary theorist Stephen Jay Gould called our "single brightest beacon

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Includes topics as diverse as magic, philosophy, religion, pseudoscience, and Alice in Wonderland. This title takes readers from author's childhood in Oklahoma to his college days at the University of Chicago, his service in the navy, and his varied and professional pursuits.

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Wolf Island recounts three extraordinary summers and winters L. David Mech spent on the isolated outpost of Isle Royale National Park, tracking and observing wolves and moose on foot and by airplaneand upending the common misperception of wolves as destructive killers of insatiable appetite.

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Lynn Killam has been a zoo professional for forty years. Since her early days of starting as an animal aide at the Bronx Zoo to being a zookeeper at the Philadelphia Zoo, to eventually being named primate curator at the Houston Zoo, she has literally seen it all. Zookeeper Dreams and Travel Extremes is her memoir of essays on life in the zoo and in nature.

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The much-acclaimed biography of Ada Lovelace, reissued to tie-in with the bicentenary of her birth in 2015.

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Hugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation in this histo-biography of Christiaan Huygens, one of Europe's leading, yet unsung, thinkers.

Written by Walter Isaacson, the first author allowed access to Einstein's private papers.

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This delightful memoir is the story of a life well lived - a Hong Kong doctor who worked as a surgeon for over fifty years and who later turned his hand to his other great passion, gardening.

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An in-depth biography of the man behind the famous scientist, revealing his unique perspective on the world, as well as contextualizing his intellectual achievements. Illustrated throughout with photographs of Hawking and documents showing his scientific research.

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From the Costa Prize-winning author of The Invention of Nature, Magnificent Rebels is a riveting, eye-opening biography of the first Romantics: a revolutionary group of friends based in the small German town of Jena whose modern ideas transformed society and the way we lead our lives today

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Gerald Durrell's classic memoir of growing up on Corfu