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Snakemaster: Wildlife Adventures with the World’s Most Dangerous Reptiles
Austin Stevens · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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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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A Magical World: Superstition and Science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
DEREK K WILSON · Pegasus Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A rich and multi-faceted history of heroes and villains interwoven with the profound changes in human knowledge that took place between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.Spanning some of the most vibrant and fascinating eras in European history, Cambridge historian Derek Wilson reveals... |
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Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
EMMA BYRNE · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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An irreverent and impeccably researched defense of our dirtiest words.We're often told that swearing is outrageous or even offensive, that it's a sign of a stunted vocabulary or a limited intellect. Dictionaries have traditionally omitted it and parents forbid it. But the latest research... |
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Endurance: My Year in Space and Our Journey to Mars
Scott Kelly · Knopf
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station--a candid account of his remarkable voyage, of the journeys off the planet that preceded it, and of his colorful formative years.The veteran of four space flights and the American... |
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Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
Dean Buonomano · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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A leading neuroscientist embarks on a groundbreaking exploration of how time works inside the brain.In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, brain researcher and best-selling author Dean Buonomano draws on evolutionary biology, physics, and philosophy to present his influential theory of how we tell,... |
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The Milky Way: An Insider's Guide
William H. Waller · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This book offers an intimate guide to the Milky Way, taking readers on a grand tour of our home Galaxy's structure, genesis, and evolution, based on the latest astronomical findings. In engaging language, it tells how the Milky Way congealed from blobs of gas and dark matter into a spinning... |
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Spaceport Earth: The Reinvention of Spaceflight
Joe Pappalardo · The Overlook Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Life in space? This timely book shows the current state and future of the space travel industry -- and how this is becoming our future -- at a crucial juncture in the industry's history.The 21st-century space industry is changing drastically, the most dramatic shift happening in the United... |
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Monsters: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological Technology
Edward Regis · Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pages: 325
Format: Print book
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"Oh, the humanity!" Radio reporter Herbert Morrison's words on witnessing the destruction of the Hindenburg are etched in our collective memory. Yet, while the Hindenburg - like the Titanic - is a symbol of the technological hubris of a bygone era, we seem to have forgotten... |
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Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas
Eva Saulitis · Beacon Press; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Science entwines with matters of the human heart as a whale researcher chronicles the lives of an endangered family of orcas Ever since Eva Saulitis began her whale research in Alaska in the 1980s, she has been drawn deeply into the lives of a single extended family of endangered... |
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The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster, Faster
Robert Colvile · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 390
Format: Print book
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In this revelatory study of modern living, Robert Colvile inspects the various ways in which the pace of life in our society is increasing and examines the evolutionary science behind our rapidly accelerating need for change, as well as why it's unlikely we'll be able to slow down . . . or even... |
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Unnatural Selection: How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene
Dr. Emily Monosson PhD · Island Press
Format: Hardcover
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Gonorrhea. Bed bugs. Weeds. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. In Unnatural Selection, Emily Monosson shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. And we humans... |
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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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