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How to Change Minds About Our Changing Climate: Let Science Do the Talking the Next Time Someone Tries to Tell You...The Climate Isn't Changing; Global ... Other Arguments It's Time to End for Good

Seth B Darling · The Experiment
Pages: 200
Format: Print book

The essential climate-debate handbook -- everything you need to know about climate science to change mindsHave you ever heard someone say that climate change is simply the result of natural cycles? Or that there can't be global warming because it still gets so cold out? While the claims...
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Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains

Susan Greenfield · Random House
Format: Hardcover

We live in a world unimaginable only decades ago: a domain of backlit screens, instant information, and vibrant experiences that can outcompete dreary reality. Our brave new technologies offer incredible opportunities for work and play. But at what price? Now renowned neuroscientist Susan...
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Snakemaster: Wildlife Adventures with the World’s Most Dangerous Reptiles

Austin Stevens · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Known as the original "Snakemaster" from his various television shows, Austin Stevens is one of the most famous herpetologists in the world. From his show Austin Stevens: Snakemaster on Animal Planet to his many appearances in the media, Stevens is known as an incredibly smart,...
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The Art of Seamanship: Evolving Skills, Exploring Oceans, and Handling Wind, Waves, and Weather

Ralph Naranjo · International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Wind, waves, weather, and water demand the practiced art of seamanship "Planning and reacting to the unanticipated are the flip sides of seamanship. This blending of pre-voyage preparedness with effective on-the-water response is learned rather than inherent--together they define...
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The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition

Gregory Hickok · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

An essential reconsideration of one of the most far-reaching theories in modern neuroscience and psychology. In 1992, a group of neuroscientists from Parma, Italy, reported a new class of brain cells discovered in the motor cortex of the macaque monkey. These cells, later dubbed mirror...
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The Secret Poisoner: A Century of Murder

Linda Stratmann · Yale University Press
Pages: 344
Format: Print book

Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in many ways encapsulated the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann's dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with authorities who strove to detect poisons, control...
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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

Daniel Lieberman · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 460
Format: Hardcover

In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman - chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the field - gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years, even as it shows how the increasing...
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Plastic Purge: How to Use Less Plastic, Eat Better, Keep Toxins Out of Your Body, and Help Save the Sea Turtles!

Michael SanClements · St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

Now a Denver Post #1 bestseller. Plastic is everywhere we look. Our computers and children's toys are made out of it, and our water and slices of American cheese are packaged in it. But why is there so much and what is it doing to our bodies? Is it possible to use less plastic and be happier...
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Dawn of the Neuron: The Early Struggles to Trace the Origin of Nervous Systems

Michel Anctil · McGill-Queens University Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In science, sometimes it is best to keep things simple. Initially discrediting the discovery of neurons in jellyfish, mid-nineteenth-century scientists grouped jellyfish, comb-jellies, hydra, and sea anemones together under one term - "coelenterates" - and deemed these animals...
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To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science

Steven Weinberg · Harper; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg - a thought-provoking and important book by one of the most distinguished scientists and intellectuals of our time.In this rich, irreverent, and compelling...
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The Science of Cheese

Michael Tunick · Oxford University Press
Pages: 281
Format: Hardcover

In an engaging tour of the science and history of cheese, Michael Tunick explores the art of cheese making, the science that lies underneath the deliciousness, and the history behind how humanity came up with one of its most varied and versatile of foods.Dr. Tunick spends his everyday deep...
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I Died for Beauty: Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Science

Marjorie Senechal · Oxford University Press
Format: Print book

In the vein of A Beautiful Mind, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, and Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, this volume tells the poignant story of the brilliant, colorful, controversial mathematician named Dorothy Wrinch. Drawing on her own personal and professional relationship with...
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Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live

Marlene Zuk · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An exposé of pseudoscientific myths about our evolutionary past and how we should live today. We evolved to eat berries rather than bagels, to live in mud huts rather than condos, to sprint barefoot rather than play football -- or did we? Are our bodies and brains truly at odds with modern...
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The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World

Trevor J Cox · W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Pages: 331
Format: Print book

"A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening. . . . Anyone who has ever clapped, hollered or yodeled at an echo will delight in [Cox's] zestful curiosity." -- New York Times Trevor Cox is on a hunt for the sonic wonders of the world. A renowned expert who engineers...
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Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies

Alastair Bonnett · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover

A tour of the world's hidden geographies - from disappearing islands to forbidden deserts - and a stunning testament to how mysterious the world remains today
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