Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America
8 best books like Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America (William Souder): Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know, Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal, The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It, The Survivor, The Female Detective, Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth, Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
| Author | Dava Sobel |
| ISBN | 0802714625 |
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day—and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon...
Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
| Author | Alexandra Horowitz |
| ISBN | 1416583408 |
The bestselling book that asks what dogs know and how they think. The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human.
Temple Grandin meets Stephen Pinker...
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
| Author | Ben Macintyre |
| ISBN | 0307353400 |
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona...
The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It
| Author | Marty Makary |
| ISBN | 1635574110 |
"A must-read for every American and business leader." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBES
From the New York Times bestselling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system--and the people who are saving it.
One in five Americans...
| Author | Vince Flynn |
| ISBN | 1442364459 |
Top secret data has been stolen from the CIA, and the only man who knows its hiding place is dead. CIA operative Mitch Rapp must race to find the classified information in this blistering novel that picks up where The Last Man left off in Vince Flynn’s New York Times bestselling series.
Joseph...
| Author | Andrew Forrester |
| ISBN | 0712358781 |
In 1864, the British writer James Redding Ware (1832–c.1909), under the pseudonym Andrew Forrester, published The Female Detective, introducing readers to the first professional female detective character, G., and paving the way for the more famous female detectives of the early twentieth...
Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth
| Author | John Hubner |
| ISBN | 0375508090 |
A powerful, bracing and deeply spiritual look at intensely, troubled youth, Last Chance in Texas gives a stirring account of the way one remarkable prison rehabilitates its inmates.
While reporting on the juvenile court system, journalist John Hubner kept hearing about a facility in Texas...
Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
| Author | David K. Randall |
| ISBN | 0393609456 |
For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn’t noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin—a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials...
