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Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
Will Harlan · Grove Press
Pages: 307
Format: Print book
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Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She wrestles alligators, eats roadkill, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built by hand in an island wilderness. A combination of Henry David Thoreau and Jane Goodall, Carol is a self-taught scientist who has become... |
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The Stars: The Definitive Visual Guide to the Cosmos
Dk. · Dk Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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The definitive visual guide to exploring all the marvels of the stars, the Milky Way, and the universe beyond.Chart the wonders of the cosmos in our own solar system and beyond with The Stars. Packed with 3-D artworks of each constellation and incredible new imagery from the Hubble Space... |
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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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1001 Secrets Every Birder Should Know: Tips and Trivia for the Backyard and Beyond
Sharon Stiteler · Running Press
Format: Paperback
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Bird watching is one of the most popular hobbies in America and Secrets Every Bird Watcher Should Know is the first photographic guide and fact book written in a humorous conversational tone that appeals to every age and skill level Replete with sound information Secrets will expose many... |
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The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It
Shawn Lawrence Otto · Milkweed Editions
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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"Wherever the people are well informed," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government." But what happens when they are not? In every issue of modern society--from climate change to vaccinations, transportation to technology, health care to defense--we... |
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Einstein's Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes
Chris Impey · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing science of black holes, and their role in understanding the history and future of our universe.Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, yet every galaxy harbors a black hole at its center. In Einstein's Monsters, distinguished astronomer Chris Impey builds... |
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The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
Dan Barber · Penguin Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Engaging, funny and delicious... I would call this The Omnivores Dilemma 2.0. --Chicago TribuneAt the heart of todays optimistic farm-to-table food culture is a dark secret the local food movement has failed to change how we eat. It has also offered a false promise for the future of food.... |
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The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth
Hugh Aldersey-Williams · W W Norton
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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A rich and sweeping exploration into the science and history behind the most mysterious, primal, and powerful force on earth: the tide.Half of the world's population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. But the tide rises and falls according to rules that are a mystery... |
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Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own
David Toomey · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Science that sounds like science fiction.In recent years, scientists have hypothesized life-forms that can only be called weird organisms that live off acid rather than water, microbes that thrive at temperatures and pressure levels so extreme that their cellular structures should break... |
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The Fly Trap
Fredrik Sjöberg · Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A Nature Book of the Year (The Times (UK) ) "The hoverflies are only props. No, not only, but to some extent. Here and there, my story is about something else." A mesmerizing memoir of extraordinary brilliance by an entomologist, The Fly Trap chronicles Fredrik Sjoberg's... |
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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 Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition
Gregory Hickok · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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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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Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Mike Massimino · Crown Archetype
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that's about to go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour? Or to look back on Earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to stand in front of the Hubble Space... |
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