Houghton: 1009 books
God Particle
If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2006
A Nobel Prize–winning physicist’s “funny, clever, entertaining” account of the history of particle physics and the hunt for a Higgs boson (Library Journal).
In this extraordinarily accessible and witty book, Leon Lederman—“the most engaging physicist since the late, much-missed Richard...
Water
The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2001
An award-winning, alarming account of “one of the central challenges facing civilization” (The Washington Post Book World).
Offering ecological, historical, and cultural perspectives, this “well-researched and thought-provoking book” (Minneapolis Tribune) explains how we are using, misusing,...
A New New Testament
A Bible for the Twenty-first Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
“Important both historically and theologically. Readers will not be able to see the New Testament in the same way again.” —Marcus Borg, author of The Heart of Christianity
“A New New Testament does what some of us never dreamed possible: it opens the treasure chest of early Christian...
What the Robin Knows
How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
A guide to listening to songbirds—the key to observing nature in a whole new way. Includes audio of bird vocalizations!
A lifelong birder, tracker, and naturalist, Jon Young is guided in his work and teaching by three basic premises: the robin, junco, and other songbirds know everything important...
Patterns of Culture
An Enduring Classic
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
An anthropologist compares three diverse societies in this groundbreaking, “unique and important” cultural study (The New York Times).
A remarkable introduction to cultural studies, Patterns of Culture made history in exploring the role of culture in shaping our lives. In it, the renowned...
Driving Mr. Yogi
Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball's Greatest Gift
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
“A warm, sentimental look at a baseball icon” (The Tampa Tribune).
Driving Mr. Yogi is the story of a unique friendship between two New York Yankees legends—a pitcher and catcher—who share rides, meals, and a bond that transcends the twenty-five-year difference in their ages.
The...
That First Season
How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
The story of a team, a town, and a leader: Vince Lombardi’s first year as head coach of the Green Bay Packers, and how he turned them into a powerhouse.
The once-vaunted Green Bay Packers were a laughingstock by the late 1950s. They hadn’t fielded a winning team in more than a decade, and...
The Foods of the Greek Islands
Cooking and Culture at the Crossroads of the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2000
This New York Times Notable Book is “a real working guide to preparing the traditional dishes found all over Greece” (Newsweek).
Stretching from the shores of Turkey to the Ionian Sea east of Italy, the Greek islands have been the crossroads of the Mediterranean since the time of Homer....
The Mirror at Midnight
A South African Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
A “stunning blend of reportage, travelogue, history and meditation” by the New York Times–bestselling author of King Leopold’s Ghost (Publishers Weekly).
National Book Award finalist Adam Hochschild brings a lifetime’s familiarity with South Africa to bear in this eye-opening examination...
The Cyberiad
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2002
“Lem has an almost Dickensian genius for vividly realizing the tragedy and comedy of future machines.” —The New York Times Book Review
These are the stories of Trurl and Klapaucius, master inventors and engineers known as “constructors,” who have created marvels for kingdoms. Friends...
by Stanislaw Lem
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1991
From the author of Solaris, this novel of an encounter with an alien intelligence creates “a terrifyingly plausible picture of a world gone mad” (Kirkus Reviews).
Six explorers—the Captain, Doctor, Engineer, Chemist, Physicist, and Cyberneticist—crash land on a beautiful but strange...
by Stanislaw Lem
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
“A stunningly inventive fantasy about cosmic travel” from the Kafka Prize–winning author of Solaris (The New York Times).
The Hermes explorer ship represents the epitome of Earth’s excellence: a peaceful mission sent forth to make first contact with an alien civilization, and to use...
Peace on Earth
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2002
Robot armies, an arms race in space, and a brain at war with itself add up to “a futuristic version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (The Boston Phoenix).
Anxious to avoid a war that would destroy the entire planet, the major powers of Earth have come to an ingenious compromise. Each country...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
“When it comes to infographics…the best work in this field grabs those eyes, keeps them glued, and the grip is sensual—and often immediate. A good graphic says ‘See what I see!’ and either you do or you don’t. The best ones…pull you right in, and won’t let you go.”
—From the...