You can't coach your way past a shallow system.Mark Wilkinson has spent his career inside organizations that looked fine on the surface, capable people, functioning operations, nothing obviously broken, yet still underperforming. The pattern was always the same: leaders were exhausted from fixing people, when the real problem was never the fish. It was the water.You Can't Catch a Whale in a Catfish Pond is for leaders who are already doing everything right, coachin...

THE DNA TRILOGYBOOK ONE - D.N.A.2059 - How could a cure for all viruses and the venting of the Yellowstone caldera be related? Why are young men going psychopathic across the globe?BOOK TWO - R.E.M.2074 - A story of autocratic rule, population control and a highly regulated class system: a fragile structure held together in a bizarre manner.BOOK THREE – THE BOOK OF LEVI2171 - In the bowels of a great library there resides a lost book, which c...

Long gone are the days of drinking naturally pure water from flowing rivers and streams--or even your tap. Today it is becoming common practice to use bottled or filtered water. How did we arrive at such a state, and what can we do about it?Pollution, ever-increasing population, industrial pressures, rainforest destruction, and ground water waste have all led to the deterioration of water quality, yet the underlying problem--as Marks shows in his wide-ranging, thoughtful book--is t...

In this extensively revised and enlarged edition of his best-selling book, David Suzuki reflects on the increasingly radical changes in nature and science — from global warming to the science behind mother/baby interactions — and examines what they mean for humankind’s place in the world. The book begins by presenting the concept of people as creatures of the Earth who depend on its gifts of air, water, soil, and sun energy. The author explains how people are genetically p...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A shockingly counterintuitive book of trivia that cuts through the misconceptions that most of us call “facts” to show how wrong we are about . . . well, everything.“Trivia buffs and know-it-alls alike will exult to find so much repeatable wisdom gathered in one place.”—The New York TimesThink Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the globe, baseball was invented in America, Henry VIII ha...

The bestselling author of Stiff and Packing for Mars presents fascinating essays about our world by Jonathan Lethem, Jaron Lanier, Malcom Gladwell and others."America's funniest science writer." — Washington PostGood science writing, as Mary Roach explains in her introduction, is a cure for ignorance and fallacy. But great sci...

In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How?As a species, Homo sapiens is at a crossroads. Study of our planet’s turbulent past suggests that we are overdue for a catastrophic disaster, ...

• Is there really such a thing as a blue moon?• What time is it at the North Pole?• Why don’t woodpeckers get concussed?• Why don’t snorers wake themselves with the racket they make?• Do insects sleep?These are just a few of the intriguing questions asked and answered in The Quirks & Quarks Question Book, the first question and answer book to come out of CBC Radio’s enormously popular weekly science program. Quirks & Quarks producers ha...

WINNER OF THE 2018 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING NATURAL HISTORY WRITING“Both a love song to trees, an exploration of their biology, and a wonderfully philosophical analysis of their role they play in human history and in modern culture.” —Science FridayThe author of Sounds Wild and Broken and the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature’s most magnificent networkers — trees...

An entertaining trivia compendium flush with fun facts about all things science.Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into the Universe is your anecdote to boring science textbooks. Uncle John and his loony lab partners will take you back to the Big Bang and forward to the distant future. You'll see the science in everything around (and inside) you, and learn the truth about the most egregious science myths (such as—you can't "sweat like a pig" because pigs...

Twenty-eight of the best pieces of science and nature writing in America in a collection edited by the renowned physicist and public intellectual.The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so to publish. This unique system has made the...

'Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one,' said Albert Einstein. Is the toilet seat cleaner than the office desk? Did Man really land on the Moon? Is the Black Box black? Does a soul weigh 21 grams at the time of human death? Did Einstein fail school? Why isn't a quantum leap huge? Do we really use only 10% of our brain? Did hydrogen seal the fate of the Hindenburg airship? Does a duckᱠquack echo? Is there really a truth serum? Is a camel's hump full of water? And is it...