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The Man Who Built the Sierra Club: A Life of David Brower
Bob Wyss · Columbia University Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
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David Brower (1912-2000) was a central figure in the modern environmental movement. His leadership, vision, and elegant conception of the wilderness forever changed how we approach nature. In many ways he was a twentieth-century Thoreau. Brower transformed the Sierra Club into a national... |
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Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up
William Poundstone · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover |
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The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age.More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on the planet. But how important is it to fill our heads... |
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And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind: A Natural History of Moving Air
Bill Streever · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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A thrilling exploration of the science and history of wind from the bestselling author of Cold.Scientist and bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme to explore wind--the winds that built empires, the storms that wreck them--by traveling right through it. Narrating from... |
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The man who made things out of trees
Rob Penn · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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The story of how one man cut down a single tree to see how many things could be made from it. Out of all the trees in the world, the ash is the most closely bound up with who we are. From tool handles to arrows, wheels and bowls to furniture and baseball bats, humans have made more and varied... |
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Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
Dean Burnett · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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A delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous gray matter from neuroscientist and massively popular Guardian blogger Dean Burnett.The brain may be the seat of consciousness and the engine of all human experience, but it's also messy, fallible, and disorganized. For example, did you know... |
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Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World
Judith D Schwartz · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has entered the realm of economics, politics, and people's food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide... |
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On Trails: An Exploration
Robert Moor · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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From a brilliant new literary voice comes a groundbreaking exploration of how trails help us understand the world - from tiny ant trails to hiking paths that span continents, from interstate highways to the Internet.In 2009, while thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Robert Moor began to wonder... |
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A Book About Love
Jonah Lehrer · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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Science writer Jonah Lehrer explores the mysterious subject of love.Weaving together scientific studies from clinical psychologists, longitudinal studies of health and happiness, historical accounts and literary depictions, child-rearing manuals, and the language of online dating sites,... |
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Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide
Charles Foster · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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A passionate naturalist explores what it's really like to be an animal -- by living like themHow can we ever be sure that we really know the other? To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non-humans,... |
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