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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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Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins
Donald C Johanson · Harmony Books
Pages: 320
Format: Book
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"Lucy is a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton who has become the spokeswoman for human evolution. She is perhaps the best known and most studied fossil hominid of the twentieth century, the benchmark by which other discoveries of human ancestors are judged."-From Lucy's LegacyIn... |
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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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Quantum Mechanics Demystified, 2nd Edition
David McMahon · McGraw-Hill Professional; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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If you think projection operators work in the cinema, or learning about spin-12 makes your head, well, spin, Quantum Mechanics DeMYSTiFieD will energize your knowledge of this topics fundamental concepts and theories, and allow you to learn at your own pace. This thoroughly revised and updated... |
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Schaum's Outline of Geometry, Sixth Edition
Barnett Rich · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 342
Format: Paperback
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Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Textbook too pricey?Fortunately, there's Schaum's. This all-in-one-package includes more than 650 fully-solved problems, examples, and practice exercises to sharpen your problem-solving skills. Plus, you will have access to 25 detailed... |
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The Joy of Pi
David Blatner · Walker & Company; First edition
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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No number has captured the attention and imagination of people throughout the ages as much as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Pi–or ? as it is symbolically known–is infinite and, in The Joy of pi, it proves to be infinitely intriguing. With incisive... |
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The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew
Alan Lightman · Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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"Alan Lightman brings a light touch to heavy questions. Here is a book about nesting ospreys, multiple universes, atheism, spiritualism, and the arrow of time. Throughout, Lightman takes us back and forth between ordinary occurrences - old shoes and entropy, sailing far out at sea and the infinite... |
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Are Numbers Real?: The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World
Brian Clegg · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organized their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What would your life be like without them?Numbers began as simple representations of everyday things, but mathematics rapidly took on a life of its own,... |
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Earth
Robert Dinwiddie · DK; Upd Rev edition
Format: Hardcover
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Earth The Definitive Visual Guide is an extraordinary survey of our planet produced in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution. This stunning reference includes detailed, illustrated information about everything that makes up our planet, from Mount Kilimanjaro to the Antarctic ice sheet,... |
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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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Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove
Peter Goodchild · Harvard University Press
Pages: 469
Format: Print book
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One Nobel Prize-winning physicist called Edward Teller, "A great man of vast imagination...[one of the] most thoughtful statesmen of science." Another called him, "A danger to all that is important...It would have been a better world without [him]." That both opinions... |
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The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter than You Think
Brian Hare · Dutton
Pages: 384
Format: Book
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Brian Hare, dog researcher, evolutionary anthropologist, and founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, and Vanessa Woods offer revolutionary new insights into dog intelligence and the interior lives of our smartest pets. In the past decade, we have learned more about how dogs think... |
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