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Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
Alan Burdick · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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"Time" is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it's always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we're bored and speed by as we get older?... |
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4th Rock from the Sun: The Story of Mars
Nicky Jenner · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Mars is ingrained in our culture, from H. G. Wells's 1898 novel The War of the Worlds to Looney Tunes's hapless Marvin the Martian to David Bowie's extraterrestrial spiders. Ancient mythologies defined the planet as a violent harbinger of war, stargazers puzzled over its peculiar motion,... |
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Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
Dean Buonomano · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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A leading neuroscientist embarks on a groundbreaking exploration of how time works inside the brain.In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, brain researcher and best-selling author Dean Buonomano draws on evolutionary biology, physics, and philosophy to present his influential theory of how we tell,... |
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Animal Stories: Encounters with Alaska's Wildlife
Bill Sherwonit · Alaska Northwest Books; New edition
Format: Print book
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These timeless, beautifully written essays share encounters and observations on a variety of Alaskan wildlife and include natural history information. They have a wide reach, in a number of ways. Besides essays about Alaska’s best-known and most charismatic animals—for instance... |
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Why Science Does Not Disprove God
Amir Aczel · HarperCollins
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The renowned science writer, mathematician, and bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem masterfully refutes the overreaching claims the "New Atheists," providing millions of educated believers with a clear, engaging explanation of what science really says, how there's... |
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Waking the Spirit: A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul
Andrew Schulman · Picador
Pages: 290
Format: Print book
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For millennia, music has been known to have a powerful role in the healing process. This moving and inspiring book tells the tale of a man pulled from the brink of death by music who, in turn, uses music as medicine to help heal others. Andrew Schulman, a fifty-seven-year-old professional... |
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Monkeytalk: Inside the Worlds and Minds of Primates
Julia Fischer · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Monkey see, monkey do - or does she? Can the behavior of non-human primates - their sociality, their intelligence, their communication - really be chalked up to simple mimicry? Emphatically, absolutely: no. And as famed primatologist Julia Fischer reveals, the human bias inherent in this... |
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The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
STEPHON ALEXANDER · Basic Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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"Music lovers are at high risk of being inspired by this exploration of the connections between music and physics." --Wall Street Journal More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming a five-pointed... |
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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Helen Czerski · W W Norton
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A physicist explains daily phenomena from the mundane to the magisterial.Take a look up at the stars on a clear night and you get a sense that the universe is vast and untouchable, full of mysteries beyond comprehension. But did you know that the key to unveiling the secrets of the cosmos... |
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Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction
Philippa Levine · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
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In 1883, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the word "eugenics" to express his dream of perfecting the human race by applying the laws of genetic heredity. Adapting Darwin's theory of evolution to human society, eugenics soon became a powerful, international... |
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The Inheritance: A Family on the Front Lines of the Battle Against Alzheimer's Disease
Niki Kapsambelis · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring race against time: The courageous, hopeful story of the one family who may hold the key to finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease.Every sixty-nine seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Of the top ten killers, it is the only disease for which there is no cure... |
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The Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power
Keith Barnham · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Using the little-known equation E=hf as the foundation for a compelling new vision, The Burning Answer reveals the importance of embracing solar energy as the only solution to the global energy crisis. Our society faces a choice. We could be enjoying a sustainable lifestyle but we have... |
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Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding How Our Genes Work
Kat Arney · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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The language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make our eyes blue, our hair curly, and they control our risks of cancer, heart disease, alcoholism, and Alzheimer's. One thousand dollars will buy you your own genome readout, neatly stored on a USB stick. And advances... |
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Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe
John W Moffat · Oxford University Press
Pages: 232
Format: Print book
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Among the current books that celebrate the discovery of the Higgs boson, Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe is a rare objective treatment of the subject. The book is an insider's behind-the-scenes look at the arcane, fascinating world of theoretical and experimental particle physics... |
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