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To Explain the World_ The Discovery of Modern Science - Steven Weinberg
In this rich, irreverent, compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato's Academy and t... -
Stars Rain Down - Chris J. Randolph
Sometimes, it takes a crisis to figure out who you really are. In the near future, an irreverent astronomer named Marcus Donovan discovers a strange relic hidden beyond Mars, and h... -
Small Wars_ A Novel - Sadie Jones
SUMMARY: The prizewinning author of The Outcast delivers the emotionally searing story of a marriage in crisis, an unflinching look at lives irrevocably altered by one of history's... -
Kiss My Tiara - Susan Jane Gilman
Kiss My Tiara challenges The Rules and backlash books like In Defense of Modesty. Designed to help women 18-35 catch a life, not a husband, it's funny and politically irreverent, w... -
How to Travel With a Salmon and - Umberto Eco
In these "impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent" essays (Atlantic Monthly), "the Andy Rooney of academia" (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon, librarians, bureaucrats,... -
How the Homosexuals Saved Civil - Cathy Crimmins
A shrewd and irreverent cultural history of the customs, fashions, and figures of gay life in the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries-and how they have changed all of us... -
Fletch's Fortune - Gregory Mcdonald
Review?Bright and entertaining?. Fletch, as irreverent and smart as ever, is back.? --_The New York Times Book Review _ ?Good old-fashioned page-turning fun, a flair that has been ... -
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang - Chelsea Handler
Life doesn't get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, ... -
Being Wrong - Kathryn Schulz
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. In the spirit of Blink and Predictably Irrational (but with a large helping of erudition), journalist Schulz casts a fresh and irrev... -
Amagansett - Mark Mills
SUMMARY: When a first-generation Basque fisherman pulls in the body of a beautiful young woman, his close-knit Long Island community will be irrevocably changed. As sweeping and ha...