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The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
Diane Ackerman · W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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As Diane Ackerman writes in her brilliant new book, The Human Age, "our relationship with nature has changed ... radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable." Ackerman... |
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The Cat Whisperer: Why Cats Do What They Do--and How to Get Them to Do What You Want
Mieshelle Nagelschneider · Bantam Books
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
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Who says you can't train a cat? Just when you thought you had reached the end of your ball of twine, one of America's most popular cat behaviorists comes to the rescue of perplexed cat owners everywhere, providing practical and effective strategies for solving every feline behavior... |
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Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Charles Wheelan · W. W. Norton & Company; 1st Ed. edition
Format: Hardcover
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The best-selling author of Naked Economics defies the odds with a book about statistics that youll welcome and enjoy. Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called sexy. From batting averages... |
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Mark Miodownik · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surround us, packed with surprising stories and fascinating science Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend? Why does any material look and behave the way it does?... |
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The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America
Langdon Cook · Ballantine Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief, and Mark Kurlansky’s Cod—a renowned culinary adventurer goes into the woods with the iconoclasts and outlaws who seek the world’s most coveted ingredient . . . and one of nature’s... |
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The Melting World: A Journey Across America's Vanishing Glaciers
Christopher White · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Global warming usually seems to happen far away, but one catastrophic effect of climate change is underway right now in the Rocky Mountains. In The Melting World, Chris White travels to Montana to chronicle the work of Dan Fagre, a climate... |
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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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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
DANIEL H PINK · Riverhead Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Daniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human, unlocks the scientific secrets to good timing to help you flourish at work, at school, and at home.Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending... |
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Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptional—and What That Means for Life in the Universe
David Waltham · Basic Books a Member of Perseus Books Group
Pages: 198
Format: Hardcover
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Humankind has long fantasized about life elsewhere in the universe. And as we discover countless exoplanets orbiting other stars - among them, rocky super-Earths and gaseous Hot Jupiters - we become ever more hopeful that we may come across extraterrestrial life. Yet even as we become aware... |
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Einstein: His Space and Times
Steven Gimbel · Yale University Press
Pages: 191
Format: Print book
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The commonly held view of Albert Einstein is of an eccentric genius for whom the pursuit of science was everything. But in actuality, the brilliant innovator whose Theory of Relativity forever reshaped our understanding of time was a man of his times, always politically engaged and driven... |
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