Before the Lights Go Out

by Maggie Koerth-Baker

This book outlines an array of alternative energy strategies to fuel America’s future—from green buildings to smart grids to carbon sequestration—while highlighting the complex challenges associated with their deployment. HC. 320pp. 2012.

Beyond The Blue Horizon

by Brian M. Fagan

Biggest Bugs (life-size!)

by George Beccaloni

This book features life-size color photographs and descriptions of dozens of buggy behemoths, from the female Chan’s megastick (the world’s longest insect) to Queen Alexandra’s birdwing (the world’s biggest butterfly). HC. 84pp. 2010.

Bindi Wildlife Adventures, Books 1-3 (Shrinkwrapped)

Blind Descent

by James M. Tabor

Tabor recounts a race between two teams of “supercavers” to explore the deepest caves in the world—one located in southern Mexico and one in the Republic of Georgia—and chronicles the deadly perils faced by each. HC. 304pp. 2010.

The Book of Time

by Adam Hart-Davis

What is time? Hart-Davis shows how scientists, philosophers, and religions have tried to explain this natural phenomenon, and he explores how time works in the natural world and in our own bodies and minds. SC. 272pp. 2011.

Botany for Dummies®

by Rene Fester Kratz, PhD

Perplexed by plants? In the engaging format beloved by fans of the For Dummies^® series, René Fester Kratz explores plant structure, function, diversity, reproduction, inheritance, and much more. SC. 384pp. 2011.

Bottled Lightning

by Seth Fletcher

Fletcher shows how the third chemical element may hold the key to an environmentally sustainable, oil-independent future, focusing on the use of cutting-edge lithium-ion batteries in a new generation of electric cars. HC. 272pp. 2011.