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A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays
Stephen Hawking · Bantam; 10 Anv edition
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Published more than two decades ago to great critical acclaim and commercial success, A Brief History of Time has become a landmark volume in science writing. Stephen Hawking, one of the great minds of our time, explores such profound questions as: How did the universe... |
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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 Quantum Universe
Brian Cox · Da Capo Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible—and fascinating—to everyone.The subatomic realm has a reputation for weirdness, spawning... |
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Gemstones (Eyewitness Handbooks)
Cally Hall · DK ADULT
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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In this book, gemstone specialist Cally Hall explains how to recognize 130 varieties of stone, precious metals and valuable "organics" like amber and coral. Each gem is shown in its cut and rough state, with additional photographs of natural forms, and jewellery. The 800 photographs... |
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
Bernd Heinrich · Ecco Pess
Pages: 368
Format: Book
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From flying hot-blooded squirrels and diminutive kinglets to sleeping black bears and torpid turtles to frozen insects and frogs, the animal kingdom relies on staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who alter the environment to accommodate... |
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Bright Rivers: Celebrations of Rivers and Fly-fishing
Nick Lyons · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Bright Rivers chronicles the angling passions and frustrations of one of fly-fishing's greatest men of letters.A city dweller trapped in the complexities of modern life, Nick Lyons has always found solace in his pilgrimages to great rivers. It is there that he fishes for trout, and in Bright... |
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Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature
Kathleen Dean Moore · Trumpeter
Format: Paperback
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In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to learn what the environment could... |
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Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
Ahmed Rashid · Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The leading journalist on Pakistan lays out America's options with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the post-Bin Laden years. What are the possibilities-and hazards-facing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and as it reviews its long engagement in Pakistan? Where is the Taliban... |
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The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside: A Maverick of Electrical Science
BASIL MAHON · Prometheus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Oliver Heaviside (1850 -1925) may not be a household name but he was one of the great pioneers of electrical science: his work led to huge advances in communications and became the bedrock of the subject of electrical engineering as it is taught and practiced today. His ideas and original... |
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Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Neil deGrasse Tyson · W.W. Norton & Co.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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Origins explores cosmic science's stunning new insights into the formation and evolution of our universe--of the cosmos, of galaxies and galaxy clusters, of stars within galaxies, of planets that orbit those stars, and of different forms of life that take us back to the first three... |
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