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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... |
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Now: The Physics of Time
R Muller · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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"Now" is a simple yet elusive concept. You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean? What makes the ephemeral moment "now" so special? Its enigmatic character has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from... |
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TIME Global Warming
Bryan Walsh
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Planet Earth is heating up, and so is the debate over why our climate is changing and what it means for the future of our energy sources, of our cities, of our children. Now TIME explores the science of global warming in an illuminating, beautifully illustrated book that ranges fr |
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Why Evolution Is True
Jerry A. Coyne · Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a factIn all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design," there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned-the evidence, the empirical truth of evolution by natural... |
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Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises: A Natural History and Species Guide
Annalisa Berta · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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The eighty-nine cetacean species that swim our seas and rivers are as diverse as they are intelligent and elusive, from the hundred-foot-long, two-hundred-ton blue whale to the lesser-known tucuxi, ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, and diminutive, critically endangered vaquita. The huge distances... |
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Space Atlas: Mapping the Universe and Beyond
James Trefil · National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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Filled with lavish illustrations, this book is a grand tour of the universe. Three ever widening domains are presented--the planets, the stars, and the large scale universe itself--each including the ones before it and extending outward.The tour starts close to home within the first domain,... |
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Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time
Peter Louis Galison · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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"More than a history of science; it is a tour de force in the genre." -- New York Times Book Review A dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps is "part... |
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Schaum's Outline of Statistics, Sixth Edition
Murray R Spiegel · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 579
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 500 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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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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American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
Victoria Johnson · Liveright
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of Hamilton's -- and Burr's -- personal physician, whose dream to build America's first botanical garden inspired the young Republic. When Dr. David Hosack tilled the country's first botanical garden in the Manhattan soil more than two hundred years ago, he didn't... |
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Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
Adam Frank · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Astrophysicist and NPR commentator on what the latest research on the existence and trajectories of alien civilizations may teach us about our own. Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity's coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their... |
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