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The Teaching Brain: An Evolutionary Trait at the Heart of Education
Vanessa Rodriguez · New Press, The Format: Hardcover
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What is at work in the mind of a five-year-old explaining the game of tag to a new friend? What is going on in the head of a thirty-five-year-old parent showing a first-grader how to button a coat? And what exactly is happening in the brain of a sixty-five-year-old professor discussing... |
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Secret Language of Animals: A Guide to Remarkable Behavior
Janine M Benyus · Black Dog & Leventhal Pub Pages: 480 Format: Paperback
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Unlock the secrets behind the behavior of the world's most fascinating creatures? from the Adélie penguin to the plains zebra to the giant panda?in this wonderfully written, beautifully illustrated book.In The Secret Language of Animals, biologist Janine Benyus takes us inside the animal... |
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Penguins: The Ultimate Guide
Julie Cornthwaite · Princeton University Press Format: Hardcover
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Penguins are perhaps the most beloved birds. On land, their behavior appears so humorous and expressive that we can be excused for attributing to them moods and foibles similar to our own. Few realize how complex and mysterious their private lives truly are, as most of their existence takes... |
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Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently
Beau Lotto · Hachette Books Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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Beau Lotto, the world-renowned neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and two-time TED speaker, takes us on a tour of how we perceive the world, and how disrupting it leads us to create and innovate. Perception is the foundation of human experience, but few of us understand why we see what... |
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The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain
John Kounios · Random House Pages: 274 Format: Print book
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In a book perfect for readers of Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit, David Eagleman's Incognito, and Leonard Mlodinow's Subliminal, the cognitive neuroscientists who discovered how the brain has aha moments - sudden creative insights - explain how they happen, when we need them, and how we can have... |
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Fifty Foods That Changed the Course of History
Bill Price · Firefly Books Format: Hardcover
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A beautifully presented guide to the foods that have had the greatest impact on human civilization. Though many of the foods in this book are taken for granted and one (the mammoth) is no longer consumed, these foods have kept humans alive for millennia and theirs is a fascinating story.... |
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Poison: Sinister Species with Deadly Consequences
Dr. Mark Siddall · Sterling Signature Format: Hardcover
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Beware: it's a poisonous world—and this is the ultimate guide to surviving nature at her most toxic! Journeying from the plains of the outback to the jungles of Madagascar, Dr. Mark Siddall, curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History, delves into... |
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Trees of Eastern North America
Gil Nelson · Princeton University Press; Illustrations by David More, Edited by Amy K. Hughes. edition Format: Hardcover
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Covering 825 species, more than any comparable field guide, Trees of Eastern North America is the most comprehensive, best illustrated, and easiest-to-use book of its kind. Presenting all the native and naturalized trees of the eastern United States and Canada as far west as the Great Plains--including... |
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Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations
A J McMichael · Oxford University Press Pages: 392 Format: Print book
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When we think "climate change," we think of man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occurred throughout human history, and populations have had to adapt to its vicissitudes. Tony McMichael, a renowned epidemiologist and a pioneer... |
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The Dog Merchants: Inside the Big Business of Breeders, Pet Stores, and Rescuers
Kim Kavin · Pegasus Books Pages: 336 Format: Print book
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We love them with all our hearts, but do we really know where our dogs came from? Kim Kavin, author of Little Boy Blue, reveals the complex network behind the $11 billion-a-year business of selling dogs. A must-read for the benefit of all dogs, everywhere. In what promises to become an "Omnivore's... |
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Animal Architecture
Ingo Arndt · Abrams Pages: 160 Format: Hardcover
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Every day, all over the world, animals and insects set about the purposeful tasks of designing their homes, catching their prey, and attracting their mates. In the process they create gorgeous nests, shelters, and habitats. Capturing 120 of these wonders in all their beauty and complexity,... |
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
Sean M Carroll · Dutton Pages: 470 Format: Print book
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*An instant New York Times Bestseller**Publishers Weekly #1 Most Anticipated Science Book of Spring 2016*"You will be enthralled." - Wall Street Journal"A tour de force." - Salon.comAlready internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging... |
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