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The Stars: The Definitive Visual Guide to the Cosmos
Dk. · Dk Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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The definitive visual guide to exploring all the marvels of the stars, the Milky Way, and the universe beyond.Chart the wonders of the cosmos in our own solar system and beyond with The Stars. Packed with 3-D artworks of each constellation and incredible new imagery from the Hubble Space... |
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The River of Consciousness
Oliver Sacks · Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience. Oliver Sacks,... |
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Chasing the Red Queen: The Evolutionary Race Between Agricultural Pests and Poisons
Dr. Andy Dyer · Island Press; 3rd Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the race to feed the world’s seven billion people, we are at a standstill. Over the past century, we have developed increasingly potent and sophisticated pesticides, yet in 2014, the average percentage of U.S. crops lost to agricultural pests was no less than in 1944. To use a metaphor... |
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Downstream Toward Home: A Book of Rivers
Oliver A. Houck · Louisiana State University Press
Format: Hardcover
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American rivers are among the most diverse and challenging in the world, and for many the excitement and escape they offer develop into a lifelong pursuit. In Downstream Toward Home, Oliver A. Houck recounts his six decades exploring America's waterways, from unnamed creeks and Louisiana... |
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What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
Adam Becker · Basic Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of the heretical thinkers who dared to question the nature of our quantum universeEvery physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed... |
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The Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Cultural History
Peter B Dedek · LSU Press
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover
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In The Cemeteries of New Orleans, Peter B. Dedek reveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City's world-famous necropolises, exploring both their distinctive architecture and their cultural impact. Spanning centuries, this fascinating body of research takes readers from muddy... |
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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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Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games
Ian Bogost · Basic Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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"Play Anything is nothing short of brilliant... I will be recommending this provocative and entertaining book to everyone I know." --Jane McGonigal, bestselling author of Reality is Broken and SuperBetterLife is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing... |
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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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The Smart Guide to Biology
Anne Maczulak · Smart Guide Publications, Inc.; Second edition edition
Format: Book
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From single cells to large, complex ecosystems, the major topics in biology are covered by expert Anne Maczulak in this enjoyable guide. As they work their way through the book, readers are introduced to the structure of the cells that make up the human body; microorganisms, fungi, algae,... |
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Thoreau and the Language of Trees
Richard Higgins · University of California Press
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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Trees were central to Henry David Thoreau's creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his thought, and his inner life. His portraits of them were so perfect, it was as if he could see the sap flowing beneath their bark. When Thoreau wrote that the poet loves the pine tree as his own shadow... |
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