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The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys
Lynne Barrett-Lee · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The poignant story of a girl who overcomes unique hardship and deprivation - growing up with a troop of capuchin monkeys - to find ultimate redemption. In 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Chapman was stolen from... |
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The Galápagos: A Natural History
Henry Nicholls · Basic Books
Pages: 195
Format: Hardcover
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Charles Darwin called it "a little world within itself." Sailors referred to it as "Las Encantadas" - the enchanted islands. Lying in the eastern Pacific Ocean, straddling the equator off the west coast of South America, the Galápagos is the most pristine archipelago... |
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The Chicken Keeper's Problem Solver: 100 Common Problems Explored and Explained
Chris Graham · Quarry Books
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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While keeping chickens certainly isn't rocket science, doing it properly does involve decent levels of understanding, commitment, and attention to detail. Getting the basics right is essential, and this demands a solid appreciation of important areas such as housing, feeding, breed... |
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Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon
Tucker Malarkey · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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"A powerful and inspiring story. Guido Rahr's mission to save the wild Pacific salmon leads him into adventures that make for a breathtakingly exciting read." - Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia
In the tradition of Mountains Beyond Mountains and The... |
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Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis
Tim Flannery · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A decade ago, Tim Flannery's #1 international bestseller, The Weather Makers, was one of the first books to break the topic of climate change out into the general conversation. Today, Earth's climate system is fast approaching a crisis. Political leadership has not kept up, and public... |
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Intelligence in the Flesh: Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More Than It Thinks
Guy Claxton · Yale University Press
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
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If you think that intelligence emanates from the mind and that reasoning necessitates the suppression of emotion, you'd better think again - or rather not "think" at all. In his provocative new book, Guy Claxton draws on the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology to reveal... |
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
STEPHEN HAWKING · Bantam
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind.
"Hawking's parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about... |
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The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole
Mark Bowen · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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The IceCube Observatory has been called the "weirdest" of the seven wonders of modern astronomy by Scientific American. In The Telescope in the Ice, Mark Bowen tells the amazing story of the people who built the instrument and the science involved.Located near the U. S. Amundsen-Scott... |
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Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
Jonathan B Losos · Riverhead Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A major new work overturning our assumptions about how evolution works
Earth's natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists... |
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We Are Our Brains: A Neurobiography of the Brain, from the Womb to Alzheimer's
D. F. Swaab · Random House Inc
Pages: 417
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid account of what makes us human. Based groundbreaking new research, We Are Our Brains is a sweeping biography of the human brain, from infancy to adulthood to old age. Renowned neuroscientist D. F. Swaab takes us on a guided tour of the intricate inner workings that determine our potential,... |
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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
Daniel Lieberman · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 460
Format: Hardcover
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In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman - chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the field - gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years, even as it shows how the increasing... |
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We're Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City
Roberta Brandes Gratz · Nation Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is one of the darkest chapters in American history. The storm caused unprecedented destruction, and a toxic combination of government neglect and socioeconomic inequality turned a crisis into a tragedy. But among the rubble, there is hope.We're Still... |
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