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The Periodic Table: A Visual Guide to the Elements
Paul Parsons · Quercus
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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As one of the most recognizable images in science, the periodic table is ingrained in our culture. First drawn up in 1869 by Dmitri Mendeleev, its 118 elements make up not only everything on our planet but also everything in the entire universe.The Periodic Table looks at the fascinating... |
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
STEVEN PINKER · Viking
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.Is... |
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Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon
Ed Caesar · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The first major work about marathon running - including the current heated battle among the world's elite runners to reach the two-hour barrier - and how psychology, technology, economics, and the latest science affect the potential of human performance.Two hours, to cover 26 miles and 385 yards.... |
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Final Frontier: The Pioneering Science and Technology of Exploring the Universe
Brian Clegg · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Star Trek was right — there is only one final frontier, and that is space...Human beings are natural explorers, and nowhere is this frontier spirit stronger than in the United States of America. It almost defines the character of the US. But the Earth is running out of frontiers fast.In... |
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Cathedral of the Wild: An African Journey Home
Boyd Varty · Random House of Canada, Limited
Pages: 281
Format: Hardcover
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Boyd Varty had an unconventional upbringing. He grew up on Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa, a place where man and nature strive for balance, where perils exist alongside wonders. Founded more than eighty years ago as a hunting ground, Londolozi was transformed into a nature reserve... |
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 222
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times Bestseller: The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than... |
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Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
Sally Satel · Basic Books; 5.5.2013 edition
Format: Hardcover
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FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN SCIENCEWhat can’t neuroscience tell us about ourselves? Since fMRI—functional magnetic resonance imaging—was introduced in the early 1990s, brain scans have been used to help politicians understand and manipulate voters,... |
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Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers
Amir D. Aczel · Palgrave Macmillan Trade; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery.... |
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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Carlo Rovelli · Riverhead Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they're calling the next Stephen Hawking." - The Times MagazineFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe.What are the elementary ingredients... |
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The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything
MARCUS CHOWN · Pegasus Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Why the force that keeps our feet on the ground holds the key to understanding the nature of time and the origin of the universe. Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognized and described yet it is the least... |
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A Piece of the Sun: The Quest for Fusion Energy
Daniel Clery · Overlook Hardcover
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Publishers WeeklyFor the past 60 years, the development of controlled atomic fusion has been the holy grail for physicists and alternative-energy advocates. Clery, a theoretical physicist and European news editor of Science magazine, introduces readers to the problems inherent in this quest... |
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The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics
Leonard Susskind · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2013 A world-class physicist and a citizen scientist combine forces to teach Physics 101the DIY way The Theoretical Minimum is a book for anyone who has ever regretted not taking physics in collegeor who simply wants to know how to think like a physicist.... |
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