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Secret Language of Animals: A Guide to Remarkable Behavior
Janine M Benyus · Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
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Unlock the secrets behind the behavior of the world's most fascinating creatures? from the Adélie penguin to the plains zebra to the giant panda?in this wonderfully written, beautifully illustrated book.In The Secret Language of Animals, biologist Janine Benyus takes us inside the animal... |
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Field guide to the neighborhood birds of New York city
Leslie Day; Trudy Smoke; Beth Bergman · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book : English
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Look around New York, and you'll probably see birds: wood ducks swimming in Queens, a stalking black-crowned night-heron in Brooklyn, great horned owls perching in the Bronx, warblers feeding in Central Park, or Staten Island's purple martins flying to and fro. You might spot hawks... |
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The Health of Nations: The Campaign to End Polio and Eradicate Epidemic Diseases
Karen Bartlett · Oneworld Publications
Pages: 294
Format: Hardcover
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"Anyone interested in public health and its interface with politics will find both hope and frustration here. A fascinating look at epidemiology and the challenges that public health workers face." -- Library JournalWhat would a world without disease look like? With the victory... |
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Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot
Mark Vanhoenacker · Chatto & Windus
Format: Paperback
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A longhaul airline pilot recaptures the wonder of flight for the modern traveller. Turn your mind back to when you first flew. When you first left the Earth, and travelled high and fast above its turning arc. When you looked down on a new world, captured simply... |
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How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Darwinian Stories Told Through Evolutionary Biology
Leo Grasset · Pegasus Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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France's brightest young scientist lucidly explains the intricacies of the animal kingdom through the lens of evolutionary biology. Why do giraffes have such long necks? Why are zebras striped? And why does the clitoris of the female hyena exactly resemble and in most respects function... |
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The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
Russell Gold · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Fracking has vociferous critics and fervent defenders, but the debate between these camps has obscured the actual story: Fracking has become a fixture of the American landscape and the global economy. It has upended the business models of energy companies around the globe, and it has started... |
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The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
Philip Hoare · Ecco; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Unpredictable and amusing and informative and original, cavorting between biology, history, travel writing, and memoir." - Mark Kurlansky The Whale by Philip Hoare is a enthralling and eye-opening literary leviathan swimming in similar bestselling waters as Cod and The Secret... |
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Cosmos: The Infographic Book of Space
Stuart Lowe · Aurum Press Ltd
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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In this truly mind-blowing book, we use cutting edge infographics to illuminate - in a new and unique way - the most amazing places and objects that modern science has laid bare. |
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The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger
Elizabeth H Blackburn · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 398
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease... |
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The One-Minute Workout: Science Shows a Way to Get Fit That's Smarter, Faster, Shorter
Christopher Shulgan · Avery Pub Group
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Finally, the solution to the #1 reason we don't exercise: time. Everyone has one minute. A decade ago, Martin Gibala was a young researcher in the field of exercise physiology - with little time to exercise. That critical point in his career launched a passion for high-intensity interval... |
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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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Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos
Brian Cox · Da Capo
Pages: 320
Format: Book
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In Universal, bestselling physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (Why Does E=mc2?) take us on an inspirational journey of scientific exploration. They show that, by asking questions about the world around us, anyone can think like a physicist and grasp the breath-taking grandeur of the cosmos.Universal... |
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