Product Description: Climate discussions often focus on potential impacts over a long period of time—several decades, a century even. But change could also happen much more suddenly. What if we had a real climate emergency—how could we cool the planet in a hurry? This question has led a group of scientists to pursue extreme solutions: huge contraptions that would suck CO2 from the air, machines that brighten clouds and deflect sunlight away from the earth, even artificial volcanoes that spray heat-reflecting particles into the atmosphere...read more

Product Description: In the tradition of Rachel Carson and Eric Schlosser, the veteran journalist Jeff Goodell examines the danger behind President George W. Bush's recent assertion that coal is America's "economic destiny."Despite a devastating, century-long legacy that has claimed millions of lives and ravaged the environment, coal has become hot again -- and will likely get hotter...read more

The nine Pennsylvania coal miners who were trapped underground when waters from a flooded mine swept into the Quecreek mine where they were working recount their seventy-seven-hour ordeal and the rescue efforts that eventually got them out alive. Reprint.

Set against the turbulent, rapidly changing backdrop of Silicon Valley, a poignant memoir chronicles one family's growth and disintegration over the past four decades, describing the influence of the high-tech revolution on the family, from the author's emotionally distant grandfather and disillusioned father to his own desperate quest to form an identity both within and without the family. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Follows the sensational cat-and-mouse cyberspace manhunt between elusive California computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, a criminal who outwitted the FBI, and Tsutomu Shimomura, a computer crime expert who vowed to stop Mitnick. Original.