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The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration
Bernd Heinrich · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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"A noted naturalist explores the centrality of home in the lives of humans and other animals . . . A special treat for readers of natural history." - Kirkus Reviews Every year, many species make the journey from one place to another, following the same paths and ending up in the same... |
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Humankind: How Biology and Geography Shape Human Diversity
Alexander H. Harcourt · Pegasus Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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An innovative and illuminating look at how the evolution of the human species has been shaped by the world around us, from anatomy and physiology, to cultural diversity and population density.Where did the human species originate? Why are tropical peoples much more diverse than those at polar... |
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The Illustrated Guide to Cows: How To Choose Them - How To Keep Them
Celia Lewis · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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Keeping cattle as a smallholder can be a rewarding enterprise, supplying you with food and milk and helping with the management of grassland on your property. This delightfully illustrated and informative book is ideal for anyone interested in keeping a cow or two, who would like to choose... |
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Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
James T Costa · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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Darwin's Backyard goes beyond the portrait of Charles Darwin as a brilliant thinker to concentrate on him as a nimble experimenter delving into some of evolution's great mysteries.James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin's childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle where... |
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Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large. Which paint color is most likely to tell you that a used car is in good shape? How can officials identify the most dangerous New York City manholes... |
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The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken
Wendell Pierce · Riverhead Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed actor and producer Wendell Pierce, an insightful and poignant portrait of family, New Orleans and the transforming power of art. On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina barreled into New Orleans, devastating many of the city's neighborhoods, including... |
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Welcome to the universe : an astrophysical tour
Neil deGrasse Tyson · Princeton University Press
Pages: 470
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWelcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton,... |
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American Zoo: A Sociological Safari
David Grazian · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Orangutans swing from Kevlar-lined fire hoses. Giraffes feast on celebratory birthday cakes topped with carrots instead of candles. Hi-tech dinosaur robots growl among steel trees, while owls watch animated cartoons on old television sets. In American Zoo, sociologist David Grazian takes... |
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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
Bill Schutt · Algonquin Books
Pages: 332
Format: Hardcover
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"A masterful and compulsively readable book that challenges our preconceived notions about a behavior often sensationalized in our culture and, until just recently, misunderstood in the scientific world." - Ian Tattersall, Curator Emeritus, American Museum of Natural History,... |
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The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics
James O'Brien · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most popular and widely known characters in all of fiction, Sherlock Holmes has an enduring appeal based largely on his uncanny ability to make the most remarkable deductions from the most mundane facts. The very first words that Sherlock Holmes ever says to Dr. Watson are, "How... |
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The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness
David Hillel Gelernter · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 292
Format: Print book
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A "rock star" (New York Times) of the computing world provides a radical new work on the meaning of human consciousness.The holy grail of psychologists and scientists for nearly a century has been to understand and replicate both human thought and the human mind. In fact, it's... |
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