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Science in the Soul: Selected Shorter Writings
RICHARD DAWKINS · Random House
Pages: 438
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time. For decades, Richard... |
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Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History
Donald E. Canfield · Princeton University Pres
Pages: 196
Format: Hardcover
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The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Donald Canfield--one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistry, earth... |
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Schaum's Easy Outline Molecular and Cell Biology, Revised Edition
William D Stansfield; Jaime S Colome?; Rau?l J Cano; Katherine E Cullen · McGraw-Hill
Pages: 128
Format: Book : English : Rev. edView all editions and formats
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If you are looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, turn to Schaum's Easy Outlines! Schaum's Easy Outline Molecular and Cell Biology is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused review of the topic. With an emphasis on clarity and brevity, it features a streamlined and updated... |
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Fun Physics Projects for Tomorrow's Rocket Scientists: A Thames and Kosmos Book
Nick Dossis · McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 1 edition
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
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Learn about physics with fun projects and experiments Created in partnership with Thames & Kosmos, Fun Physics Projects for Tomorrow's Rocket Scientists introduces you to essential physics concepts through do-it-yourself projects that you can then use to perform experiments. Experience... |
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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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X-Events: The Collapse of Everything
John L. Casti · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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"I am an assiduous reader of John Casti's books. He is a real scientific intellectual." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times bestselling author of Fooled by Randomness"Casti is at his best in presenting difficult philosophical ideas enthusiastically and lucidly, and in presenting... |
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Bob Miller's Geometry for the Clueless, 2nd edition
Bob Miller · McGraw-Hill Education; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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An easy-to-use guide that takes the fear out of geometry Bob Millers Geometry for the Clueless tackles a subject more than three million students face every year. Miller acts as a private tutor, painstakingly covering the high school curriculum as well as post secondary courses in geometry., |
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Schaum's Easy Outlines of College Chemistry, Second Edition
Jerome Rosenberg · McGraw-Hill; 2 edition
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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When you need just the essentials of college chemistry, this Easy Outlines book is there to help If you are looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview of college chemistry, it’s got to be Schaum's Easy Outline. This book is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version... |
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How Dogs Think: Understanding the Canine Mind
Stanley Coren · Free Press; 1st edition
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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It's been said that dogs personify all the virtues of humans without the vices. Henry James wrote that his dog was "most reasonable and well-mannered" and Plato that "a dog has the soul of a philosopher." Over the years, dogs have taught us many things: loyalty,... |
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Sheri Fink · Crown; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of the New York Times's Best Ten Books of the YearWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWinner of the 2014 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Ridenhour Book Prize, the 2014 American Medical... |
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Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity
David Bodanis · Crown; First Edition edition
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In his bestselling E=mc2, David Bodanis led us, with astonishing ease, through the world’s most famous equation. Now, in Electric Universe, he illuminates the wondrous yet invisible force that permeates our universe—and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets.For... |
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Creation: How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself
Adam Rutherford · Current Hardcover; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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What is life? Humans have been asking this question for thousands of years. But as technology has advanced and our understanding of biology has deepened, the answer has evolved. For decades, scientists have been exploring the limits of nature by modifying and manipulating DNA, cells and whole... |
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