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If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body
James Hamblin · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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"If you want to understand the strange workings of the human body, and the future of medicine, you must read this illuminating, engaging book." - Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Gene In 2014, James Hamblin launched a series of videos for The Atlantic called "If Our Bodies... |
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Trigonometry For Dummies
Mary Jane Sterling · For Dummies; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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A plain-English guide to the basics of trig Trigonometry deals with the relationship between the sides and angles of triangles...mostly right triangles. In practical use, trigonometry is a friend to astronomers who use triangulation to measure the distance between stars. Trig also has applications... |
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The Handy Chemistry Answer Book
Justin P. Lomont · Visible Ink Press
Format: Paperback
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Simplifying the complex chemical reactions that take place in everyday through the well-stated answers for more than 600 common chemistry questions, this reference is the go-to guide for students and professionals alike. The book covers everything from the history, major personalities,... |
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The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
Diane Ackerman · W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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As Diane Ackerman writes in her brilliant new book, The Human Age, "our relationship with nature has changed ... radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable." Ackerman... |
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Fracking: A Reference Handbook
David E. Newton Ph.D. · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
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The use of fracking is a tremendously important technology for the recovery of oil and gas, but the advantages and costs of fracking remain controversial. This book examines the issues and social, economic, political, and legal aspects of fracking in the United States.* Provides readers... |
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Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission
Marc Kaufman · National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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With images never published before, many with surprising colors and landscapes that make you want to spend your next vacation on Mars, this is the one and only book written in consultation with NASA scientists that explains everything, detail by detail and moment by moment, about the most... |
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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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A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention
Matt Richtel · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Matt Richtel, a brilliant, narrative-driven exploration of technologys vast influence on the human mind and society, dramatically-told through the lens of a tragic texting-while-driving car crash that claimed the lives of two rocket scientists in 2006.In... |
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The Chicken Keeper's Problem Solver: 100 Common Problems Explored and Explained
Chris Graham · Quarry Books
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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While keeping chickens certainly isn't rocket science, doing it properly does involve decent levels of understanding, commitment, and attention to detail. Getting the basics right is essential, and this demands a solid appreciation of important areas such as housing, feeding, breed... |
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
Sean M Carroll · Dutton
Pages: 470
Format: Print book
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*An instant New York Times Bestseller**Publishers Weekly #1 Most Anticipated Science Book of Spring 2016*"You will be enthralled." - Wall Street Journal"A tour de force." - Salon.comAlready internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging... |
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Algebra I Workbook For Dummies
Mary Jane Sterling · For Dummies
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
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The grade-saving Algebra I companion, with hundreds of additional practice problems online Algebra I Workbook For Dummies is your solution to the Algebra brain-block. With hundreds of practice and example problems mapped to the typical high school Algebra class, you'll crack the code in no time!... |
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Basic Math and Pre-Algebra For Dummies
Mark Zegarelli · John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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Tips for simplifying tricky basic math and pre-algebra operations Whether you're a student preparing to take algebra or a parent who wants or needs to brush up on basic math, this fun, friendly guide has the tools you need to get in gear. From positive, negative, and whole numbers to fractions,... |
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Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
James Nestor · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
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An Amazon Best Book of 2014 While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed something that confounded him: a man diving 300 feet below the ocean's surface on a single breath of air and returning four minutes later, unharmed and smiling. This man was a freediver, and his amphibious... |
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Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
Edward O. Wilson · Liveright Publishing Corp, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Half-Earth proposes an achievable plan to save our imperiled biosphere: devote half the surface of the Earth to nature.In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, says Edward O. Wilson in his most... |
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National Geographic pocket guide to the reptiles & amphibians of North America
Catherine Herbert Howell · National Geographic
Pages: 174
Format: Paperback
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This basic beginner's field guide to our favorite animals that slither and swim is the latest in the growing National Geographic Pocket Guide series. Spot-on descriptive information and key facts about reptiles and amphibians are conveyed in a handy, colorful, easy-to-reference volume.... |
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