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Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet
Catherine Friend · Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Paperback
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What do you do when you love your farm . . . but it doesn’t love you? After fifteen years of farming, Catherine Friend is tired. After all, while shepherding is one of the oldest professions, it’s not getting any easier. The number of sheep in America has fallen by 90 percent... |
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The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards
William J Broad · Simon & Schuster; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A lead science writer for The New York Times—and lifelong yoga practitioner—examines centuries of history and research to scrutinize the claims made about yoga for health, fitness, emotional wellbeing, sex, weight loss, healing, and creativity. He reveals what is real and what... |
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Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
Giulio Tononi · Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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This title is printed in full color throughoutFrom one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at work today here is an exploration of consciousness unlike any othermdashas told by Galileo who opened the way for the objectivity of science and is now intent on making subjective... |
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The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Alex Bellos · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Here’s Looking at Euclid, a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex math into a brilliantly entertaining narrative.From triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded calculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical... |
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A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
Frank Wilczek · Penguin Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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Does the universe embody beautiful ideas?Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this "beautiful question." With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek's... |
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Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
James Donovan · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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"This is the best book on Apollo that I have read. Extensively researched and meticulously accurate, it successfully traces not only the technical highlights of the program but also the contributions of the extraordinary people who made it possible." --Mike Collins, Command module... |
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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Helen Czerski · W W Norton
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A physicist explains daily phenomena from the mundane to the magisterial.Take a look up at the stars on a clear night and you get a sense that the universe is vast and untouchable, full of mysteries beyond comprehension. But did you know that the key to unveiling the secrets of the cosmos... |
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I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us Mammals
Liam Drew · Bloomsbury SIGMA
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A list of the attributes that define a mammal is a ragbag of things--fur, live birth, three bones in the middle ear, a brain whose two halves are robustly joined together . . . But this curious collection of features contains the roots of all the biology that makes humans what we are: monkeys... |
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Seven Flowers: And How They Shaped Our World
Jennifer Potter · Overlook Books
Format: Hardcover
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The lotus. The lily. The sunflower. The opium poppy. The rose. The tulip. The orchid. Seven flowers, each with its own story full of surprises and secrets, each affecting the world around us in subtle but powerful ways. But what is the nature of their power and how did it develop? Why have... |
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