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Let's Review Algebra II
Gary M Rubinstein · Baron's Educational Series
Pages: 426
Format: Print book
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This review book offers high school students in New York State advance preparation for the new Common Core Regents Exam in Algebra II. Each chapter covers different exam topics and includes practice exercises in each chapter. The book concludes with two of the first actual Regents exams... |
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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time
Simon Garfield · Canongate Books
Pages: 349
Format: Hardcover
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SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016OBSERVER SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently, and our lives are propelled by the notion that we will never have enough of the one thing... |
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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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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold. The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better... |
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
STEPHEN HAWKING · Bantam
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind."Hawking's parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about humanity's future should... |
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County and City Extra 2013: Annual Metro, City, and County Data Book
Deirdre A. Gaquin · Bernan Press; 21st Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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When you want only one source of information about your city or county, turn to County and City ExtraThis trusted reference compiles information from many sources to provide all the key demographic and economic data for every state, county, metropolitan area, congressional district, and for all cities... |
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Charles Darwin: Destroyer of Myths
Andrew Norman · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: eBook
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Charles Darwin did not deliberately set out to be the “destroyer of mythical beliefs,” some of which, in his early days as a young Christian, he had previously espoused. He was a modest man who liked to avoid controversy of any kind, yet paradoxically, he was to be the cause... |
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Renewable: The World-Changing Power of Alternative Energy
Jeremy Shere · St. Martin's Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Where does the energy we use come from? Its absolutely vital to every single thing we do every day, but for most people, it is utterly invisible. Flick a switch and the lights go on. It might as well be magic. Science writer Jeremy Shere shows us in Renewable The World-Changing Power of Alternative... |
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Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee
Lisa Jean Moore · NYU Press
Format: Book
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“Buzz is a fascinating reminder of the interconnections between humans and animals, even in that most urban of environments, New York City.”—Gary Alan Fine, author of Authors of the Storm: Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction Bees are essential... |
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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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On Migration: Dangerous Journeys and the Living World
Ruth Padel · Counterpoint
Format: Book
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“Life began with migration.” In a magnificent tapestry of life on the move, Ruth Padel weaves poems and prose, science and religion, wild nature and human history, to conjure a world created and sustained by migration.'We're all from somewhere else,' she begins. “Migration... |
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Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee
Lisa Jean Moore · NYU Press
Format: Book
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"Buzz is a fascinating reminder of the interconnections between humans and animals, even in that most urban of environments, New York City."--Gary Alan Fine, author of Authors of the Storm: Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction Bees are essential for human... |
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The Monkey's Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
Alan de Queiroz · Perseus Books Group
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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Throughout the world, closely related species are found on landmasses separated by wide stretches of ocean. What explains these far-flung distributions? Why are such species found where they are across the Earth? Since the discovery of plate tectonics, scientists have conjectured that plants... |
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