|
13.8: The Quest to Find the True Age of the Universe and the Theory of Everything
John Gribbin · Yale University Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
|
|
The twentieth century gave us two great theories of physics. The general theory of relativity describes the behavior of very large things, and quantum theory the behavior of very small things. In this landmark book, John Gribbin - one of the best-known science writers of the past thirty... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
Sean M Carroll · Dutton
Pages: 470
Format: Print book
|
|
*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... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Domestic Pets
Klaus Paysan · Olympic Marketing Corp
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Book by Paysan, Klaus |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature
Nick Davies · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 289
Format: Print book
|
|
The familiar call of the common cuckoo, "cuck-oo," has been a harbinger of spring ever since our ancestors walked out of Africa many thousands of years ago. However, for naturalist and scientist Nick Davies, the call is an invitation to solve an enduring puzzle: how does the cuckoo... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Health of Nations: The Campaign to End Polio and Eradicate Epidemic Diseases
Karen Bartlett · Oneworld Publications
Pages: 294
Format: Hardcover
|
|
"Anyone interested in public health and its interface with politics will find both hope and frustration here. A fascinating look at epidemiology and the challenges that public health workers face." -- Library JournalWhat would a world without disease look like? With the victory... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos, Vol. I: The Immense Journey, The Firmament of Time, The Unexpected Universe, Uncollected Writings
Loren Eiseley · Library Of America
Pages: 528
Format: Print book
|
|
An eminent paleontologist with the soul and skill of a poet, Loren Eiseley (1907-1977) was among the twentieth century's greatest inheritors of the literary tradition of Henry David Thoreau, Charles Darwin, and John Muir, and a precursor to such later writers as Stephen Jay Gould,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm
Dave Goulson · Picador USA
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A CONSERVATIONIST'S DEEPLY PERSONAL AND FASCINATING REFLECTION ON OWNING AND REVITALIZING A FARM IN RURAL FRANCEA Sting in the Tale, Dave Goulson's account of a lifetime studying bees, was a powerful call to arms for nature lovers everywhere. Brilliantly reviewed, it was shortlisted... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
Gillen D'Arcy Wood · Princeton University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano's massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Call Me Captain: A Memoir of a Woman at Sea
Susan Scott · Univ Hawaii Pr
Format: Book
|
|
Writer and marine biologist Susan Scott had an enviable existence--a home in Hawai'i, a prized 37-foot sailboat and exciting international adventures, all shared with her physician husband Craig in a marriage so intimate they called it the 'Twinship.' Yet, when her menopausal... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
Meredith Wadman · Viking
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
|
|
The epic and controversial story of the development of the first widely used normal human cell-line and, through it, some of the world s most important vaccines In June 1962, a young biologist at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Leonard Hayflick, using tissue extracted from an aborted... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Cat in the Box: A History of Science in 100 Experiments
Mary Gribbin · Race Point Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
|
|
This book distills the history of science into 100 epic experiments that have fueled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond. Everything in the scientific world view is based on experiment, including observations of phenomena predicted by theories and hypotheses, such as the bending... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
