Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold

I Have Lived in the Monster: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Serial Killers

From their gruesome, body-strewn lairs, to the darkest regions of their twisted psyches, Robert K. Ressler shows you serial killers as you've never seen them before.In his phenomenally successful Whoever Fights Monsters, Robert K. Ressler examined his bri

Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish

Rumspringa is Tom Shachtman's celebrated look at a littleknown Amish coming-of-age ritual, the rumspringa—the period of "running around" that begins for their youth at age sixteen. During this time, Amish youth are allowed to live outside the bounds of

Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI

Face-to-face with some of America's most terrifying killers, FBI veteran and ex-Army CID colonel Robert Ressler learned form then how to identify the unknown monsters who walk among us--and put them behind bars. Now the man who coined the phrase "serial k

Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office

A city with eight million people has eight million ways to dieFor fifteen years, Shiya Ribowsky worked as a medicolegal investigator in New York City’s medical examiner’s office—the largest, most sophisticated organization of its kind in the world.

Gentlemen Scientists and Revolutionaries: The Founding Fathers in the Age of Enlightenment

A fresh exploration of the scientific pursuits of the Founding Fathers that reveals their science as critical to the great political "experiment" of the day