Science, Nature, and Economics

 | Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben Times Books $25.00 20% off: $20.00 | The best-selling author of The End of Nature issues another impassioned call to arms. This time, in a provocative manifesto, McKibben puts forth a new way to think about the things we buy, the food we eat, the energy we use, and the money that pays for it all. |
 | Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives by David Sloan Wilson Delacorte Press $24.00 20% off: $19.20 | In lively prose, Wilson explodes the great misconceptions that have made evolution seem daunting, irrelevant, or even dangerous. |
 | Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century by Jeffry A. Frieden W. W. Norton $17.95 20% off: $14.36 | Globalization is a choice, not a fact. So argues Frieden in this insightful history--an exploration of globalization from its golden age in the early 1900s, its swift collapse in the crises of 1914-1915, and the divisions of the Cold War. |
 | How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman Houghton Mifflin Company $26.00 20% off: $20.80 | A New Yorker staff writer, best-selling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the ultimate medical mystery: how doctors figure out the best treatments, or fail to do so. |
 | Eagle Pond by Donald Hall Houghton Mifflin $14.95 20% off: $11.96 | For the first time in paperback, read all of Hall's writing on Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home in New Hampshire, where he visited his grandparents as a child and lived with his wife Jane Kenyon until her death. |
 | Planet Earth by German Space Center Knopf $40.00 20% off: $32.00 | A visual odyssey that will change the way we see our planet, this book records one of the most ambitious natural history projects every undertaken. Using aerial surveillance, state-of-the-art, high-definition cameras, the creators of Planet Earth have assembled more than 400 stunning photos of natural landscapes from around the world. |