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From Dust to Life: The Origin and Evolution of Our Solar System
John Chambers · Princeton University Press
Pages: 299
Format: Hardcover
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The birth and evolution of our solar system is a tantalizing mystery that may one day provide answers to the question of human origins. This book tells the remarkable story of how the celestial objects that make up the solar system arose from common beginnings billions of years ago, and how scientists... |
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Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept Its Feet
John Bemelmans Marciano · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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The American standard system of measurement is a unique and odd thing to behold with its esoteric, inconsistent standards twelve inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, sixteen ounces in a pound, one hundred pennies to the dollar. For something as elemental as counting and estimating the world... |
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Fizz: How Soda Shook Up the World
Tristan Donovan · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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This social, cultural, and culinary history charts soda's remarkable, world-changing journey from awe-inspiring natural mystery to ubiquity. Off-the-wall and offbeat stories abound, including how quack medicine peddlers spawned some of the world's biggest brands, how fizzy pop cashed... |
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Ed Yong · Ecco
Pages: 357
Format: Print book
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New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Book of 2016NPR Great Read of 2016Economist Best Books of 2016Brain Pickings Best Science Books of 2016Smithsonian Best Books about Science of 2016Science Friday Best Science Book of 2016A Mother Jones Notable Read of 2016MPR Best Books of 2016Chicago... |
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The Handy Anatomy Answer Book
Patricia L Barnes-Svarney · Visible Ink Press
Pages: 370
Format: Print book
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We all have one. The human body. But do we really know all of its parts and how they work? The Handy Anatomy Answer Book is the key to unlocking this door to a wondrous world. Covering all the major body systems - integumentary (skin, hair, etc.) , skeletal, muscular, nervous, sensory,... |
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Idiot's Guides: Speed Math
Gaurav Tekriwal · Alphabooks
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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Do math more quickly and with more confidence - with less reliance on paper, apps, and calculators. For people who automatically run to the nearest calculator, Idiot's Guides: Speed Math teaches tips, tricks, and straightforward methods to doing math at a fast - and accurate - rate.... |
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The Germ Files: The Surprising Ways Microbes Can Improve Your Health and Life
Jason Tetro · Doubleday Canada
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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SOME GERMS ARE OUT TO GET US. . . . But we shouldn't let a delinquent, pathogenic minority taint our view of the other 99.9 per cent. The microbes living on and inside us outnumber the cells in our bodies three to one. Many provide services on which our well-being, our moods, our very... |
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
Richard Dawkins · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
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Richard Dawkins's classic remains the definitive argument for our modern understanding of evolution.The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous metaphor for creationism: that of the skilled... |
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Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos
Brian Cox · Da Capo
Pages: 320
Format: Book
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In Universal, bestselling physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (Why Does E=mc2?) take us on an inspirational journey of scientific exploration. They show that, by asking questions about the world around us, anyone can think like a physicist and grasp the breath-taking grandeur of the cosmos.Universal... |
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Time Travel
James Gleick · Pantheon Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. The story begins at the turn of the previous century, with the young... |
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American Energy, Imperiled Coast: Oil and Gas Development in Louisiana's Wetlands
Jason P. Theriot · Louisiana State University Press
Format: Book
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In the post World War II era, Louisiana's coastal wetlands underwent an industrial transformation that placed the region at the center of America's energy-producing corridor. By the twenty-first century the Louisiana Gulf Coast supplied nearly one-third of America's oil and gas,... |
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The Extreme Life of the Sea
Stephen R Palumbi · Princeton Univ Pr
Pages: 225
Format: Hardcover
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The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. The Extreme Life of the Sea takes readers to the absolute limits of the ocean world--the fastest and deepest, the hottest and oldest creatures of the oceans. It dives into the icy Arctic and boiling... |
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