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Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
Jamie Metzl · Sourcebooks
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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After 3.8 billion years humankind is about to start evolving by new rules... From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic-engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives -- sex, war,... |
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
MARYANNE WOLF · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.A decade ago, Maryanne... |
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North Shore: A Natural History of Minnesota's Superior Coast
Chel Anderson · University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 619
Format: Print book
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Propelled by wings, fins, legs, and the wind, life has found a way to Minnesota's North Shore for more than twelve thousand years. Some plants and animals have taken up residence in the region's ancient mountains, others in its lakes and flowing rivers. Together, they weave a living... |
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Your Place in the Universe: Understanding Our Big, Messy Existence
Paul M. Sutter · Prometheus Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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An astrophysicist presents an in-depth yet accessible tour of the universe for lay readers, while conveying the excitement of astronomy.
How is a galaxy billions of lightyears away connected to us? Is our home nothing more than a tiny speck of blue in an ocean of night? In this exciting... |
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Fishes: A Guide to Their Diversity
Philip A. Hastings · University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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There are more than 33,000 species of living fishes, accounting for more than half of the extant vertebrate diversity on Earth. This unique and comprehensive reference showcases the basic anatomy and diversity of all 82 orders of fishes and more than 150 of the most commonly encountered... |
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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse... |
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Against the Wind
Jim Tilley · Red Hen Press
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
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Against the Wind is an elegantly written story of relationships involving six principal characters, strands of whose lives braid together after a chance reunion among three of them. A successful environmental lawyer is forced to take himself to task when he realizes that everything about... |
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Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
Venki Ramakrishnan · Basic Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A Nobel Prize-winning biologist tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology's most important molecule
"Ramakrishnan's writing is so honest, lucid and engaging that I could not put this book down until I had read to the very end."--Siddhartha... |
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A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park
Edward O Wilson · Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Pages: 149
Format: Hardcover
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A Window on Eternity is a stunning book of splendid prose and gorgeous photography about one of the biologically richest places in Africa and perhaps in the world. Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique was nearly destroyed in a brutal civil war, then was reborn and is now evolv-ing back... |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015
Rebecca Skloot · Mariner Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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The Best American Series The next edition in a series praised as "undeniably exquisite" (Maria Popova) , The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015 includes work from both award-winning writers and up-and-coming voices in the field. From Brooke Jarvis on deep-ocean mining... |
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