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Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever
Maude Barlow · The New Press
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover
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In her bestselling books Blue Gold and Blue Covenant, world-renowned water activist Maude Barlow exposed the battle for ownership of our dwindling water supply and the emergence of an international, grassroots-led movement to reclaim water as a public good. Since then, the United Nations... |
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Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
Michael Benson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the film's release, this is the definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, including the inside account of how director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke created this... |
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Touching the Wild: Living with the Mule Deer of Deadman Gulch
Joe Hutto · Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Emmy Award–winning filmmaker, writer, and naturalist Joe Hutto has done it again. Touching the Wild is the enchanting story about one man who has lived with a herd of mule deer in the Wind River mountains of Wyoming for almost seven years. Why, you may ask, would a person choose to do such... |
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Death on Earth: Adventures in Evolution and Mortality
Jules Howard · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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As you read these words, Planet Earth teems with trillions of life-forms, each going about their own business: eating, reproducing, thriving . . . Yet, the life of almost every single organism draws nearer to certain death. On the other hand, "suicide" inside the mitochondria... |
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The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger
Elizabeth H Blackburn · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 398
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease... |
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Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
HENRY MARSH · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Following the publication of Do No Harm, Dr. Henry Marsh retired from his position at a hospital in London. But his career continued, taking him to remote hospitals in places such as Nepal and Pakistan, where he offers his services as surgeon and teacher to those in need. Now, Marsh considers... |
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Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe
Louisa Preston · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Astrobiology is the study of life in the universe from its origins to its evolution into intelligent sentient beings. All life as we know it is carbon-based, reliant on sources of liquid water and energy for its survival, and as far as we are aware, exists only on Earth. Our planet occupies... |
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GED® Math Test Tutor, For the New 2014 GED® Test
Ms. Sandra Rush M.A. · Research & Education Association; Csm edition
Format: Paperback
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REA's GED® Math Test Tutor - Helps You Pass the Most Challenging Part of the GED® Get ready for the math portion of the GED® with REA's GED® Math Test Tutor Book features: - Content 100% aligned with the new 2014 GED® test - Written by a GED® math tutor... |
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