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Science of Yoga: Understand the Anatomy and Physiology to Perfect Your Practice
Ann Swanson · DK
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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Explore the physiology of 30 key yoga poses, in-depth and from every angle, and master each asana with confidence and control.Did you know that yoga practice can help lower your blood pressure, decrease inflammation and prevent age-related brain changes?Recent scientific research now backs... |
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Algebra II For Dummies
Mary Jane Sterling · For Dummies
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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Algebra II For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781119543145) was previously published as Algebra II For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781119090625) . While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated... |
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The Human Brain Book: An Illustrated Guide to its Structure, Function, and Disorders
Rita Carter · DK
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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This award-winning science book uses the latest findings from neuroscience research and brain-imaging technology to take you on a journey into the human brain.CGI illustrations and brain MRI scans reveal the brain's anatomy in unprecedented detail. Step-by-step sequences unravel and simplify... |
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Sawbones: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine
JUSTIN MCELROY · Weldon Owen
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A compelling, often hilarious and occasionally horrifying exploration of how modern medicine came to be! Wondering whether eating powdered mummies might be just the thing to cure your ills? Tempted by those vintage ads suggesting you wear radioactive underpants for virility? Ever considered... |
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Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
Richard Munson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print Length
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Tesla's inventions transformed our world, and his visions have continued to inspire great minds for generations.Nikola Tesla invented the radio, robots, and remote control. His electric induction motors run our appliances and factories, yet he has been largely overlooked by history.... |
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Theater of the World: The Maps that Made History
Thomas Reinertsen Berg · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A heavily illustrated four-color history of mapmaking across centuries--a must-read for history buffs and armchair travelers. Theater of the World offers a fascinating history of mapmaking, using the visual representation of the world through time to tell a new story about world history... |
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Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
Lisa Margonelli · Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates the environmental and economic impact termites inflict on human societies in this fascinating examination of one of nature's most... |
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
David Quammen · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life's history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature. In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences... |
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Still Waters: The Secret World of Lakes
Curt Stager · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating exploration of lakes around the world, from Walden Pond to the Dead Sea.More than a century and a half have passed since Walden was first published, and the world is now a very different place. Lakes are changing rapidly, not because we are separate from nature but because... |
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Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
Nicholas Pyenson · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A dive into the secret lives of whales, from their evolutionary past to today's cutting edge of scienceWhales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. They evolved from land-roaming, dog-sized creatures into animals that move... |
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