The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the forests of Africa with evidence of a, still mythical beast—the gorilla—only to stumble straight into the center of the biggest debate of the day: Darwin’s theory of evolution in Between Man and Beast.

In Science Left Behind, Dr. Alex B. Berezow and Hank Campbell have drawn open the curtain on the left’s fear of science; it reveals, vague inclinations about the wholesomeness of all things natural, the unhealthiness of the unnatural, and many other seductive fallacies have led to an epidemic of misinformation making both sides culpable.

In The Compass of Pleasure Johns Hopkins neuroscientist David J. Linden explains how pleasure affects us at the most fundamental level, in our brain.

In Why Religion is Natural and Science Is Not, Robert N. McCauley, argues that our minds are better suited to religious belief than to scientific inquiry.

Brian Greene, one of our foremost physicists and science writers, takes us on a captivating exploration of  parallel worlds and reveals how much of reality’s true nature may be deeply hidden within them in The Hidden Reality.

Polygamist leader, Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison last week and Sam Brower, who was in the courtroom during the trial and  author of Prophet’s Prey offers a gripping, behind-the-scenes account of Jeffs’ bizarre world.Later, in The Science of Evil, Simon Baron-Cohen, an award-winning British researcher who has investigated psychology and autism for decades, develops a new brain-based theory of human cruelty.

If Captain America and Thor stepped off the big screen and into reality, could those powers actually work in a world constrained by the laws of physics? Professor and author James Kakalios gives us a lesson in The Physics of Superheroes. Then author Charles Yu talks about How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional World.

University professor, atheist and critic of the paranormal, P.Z. Myers publishes one of the most popular scientific blogs in the world, Pharyngula. Hear what he has to say about what makes people ignorant about common sense evidence.

Science has been under siege during the last quarter century and retired math professor William Byers argues that much of the problem lies in what he calls the “science of certainty,”. In Blind Spot, he says  scientists need to recognize “uncertainty, incompleteness, and ambiguity, the ungraspable, or the limits to reason.”

Rev. Richard Killmer, Executive Director of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture responds to the recent release of Wikileaks documents describing the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Then, Michael Zimmerman with Butler University discusses the good news in the battle to repeal Louisiana’s anti-evolution law with 42 Nobel laureates working to replace creationism with science in the state.