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The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution
Daniel Raimi · Columbia University Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Over roughly the past decade, oil and gas production in the United States has surged dramatically -- thanks largely to technological advances such as high-volume hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as "fracking." This rapid increase has generated widespread debate, with... |
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Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food
RACHEL HERZ · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening exploration of the psychology of eating in today's unprecedented North American pantry of abundance, access, and excess.In Why You Eat What You Eat, acclaimed neuroscientist Rachel Herz examines the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific, and physiological factors that... |
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Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness
KATE COLE-ADAMS · Counterpoint
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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"A work of splendid richness and depth." -- Helen Garner, author of Everywhere I Look Anesthetize: to render insensible First there's the injection, then the countdown -- and next thing you know, you're awake. Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness... |
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Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life
Brenda Maddox · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A rich and exuberant group biography of the early geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history.The birth of geology was fostered initially by gentlemen whose wealth supported their interests, but in the nineteenth century, it was advanced... |
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Clockwork Futures: The Science of Steampunk and the Reinvention of the Modern World
Brandy Schillace · Pegasus Books
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
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Airships and electric submarines, automatons and mesmerists?welcome to the wild world of steampunk. It is all speculative?or is it? Meet the intrepid souls who pushed Victorian technology to its limits and paved the way for our present age.The gear turns, the whistle blows, and the billows... |
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Leaving the Wild: The Unnatural History of Dogs, Cats, Cows, and Horses
GAVIN EHRINGER · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A thought-provoking and surprising book that explores the ever-evolving relationship between humans and domesticated animals. The domestication of animals changed the course of human history. But what about the animals who abandoned their wild existence in exchange for our care and protection?... |
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