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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
ANGELA SAINI · Beacon Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knewFor hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less... |
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Hot, Hungry Planet: The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change
Lisa Palmer · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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The U.N. predicts the Earth will have more than 9.6 billion people by 2050. With resources already scarce, how will we feed them all? Journalist Lisa Palmer has traveled the world for years, documenting the cutting-edge innovations of people and organizations on the front lines of fighting... |
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National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Trees of North America
Bruce Kershner · Sterling Co.
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback
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From the National Wildlife Federation® comes the most up-to-date, all-photographic field guide to North American trees. The Jeffrey Pine, Coconut Palm, Staghorn Sumac, and Western Hemlock: this single, portable volume features these, plus more than 700 other tree species and varieties,... |
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Rare: Portraits of America's Endangered Species
Joel Sartore · Focal Point
Format: Hardcover
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When a few of these photographs first appeared in the National Geographic magazine January 2009 issue, they were hailed as an arresting reminder of the hundreds of species teetering on the brink of final extinction - more than 1,200 animals and plants in all. Now, in Rare, Joel Sartore... |
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The Beavers of Popple's Pond: Sketches from the Life of an Honorary Rodent
Patti Smith · Green Writers Press
Format: Paperback
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Tucked away in a remote stream valley in Vermont, a dynasty of beavers has nearly completed the restoration of the meadows and ponds that adorned this stream in the days before the beavers of a continent were turned into top hats. Willow, Popple, and their progeny begin the night's... |
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Playing the Ponies and Other Medical Mysteries Solved
Stuart B Mushlin · Rutgers University Press Medicine
Pages: 174
Format: Hardcover
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With over forty years of experience as a sought after diagnostician, Dr. Stuart Mushlin has cracked his share of medical mysteries, ones in which there are bigger gambles than playing the ponies at the track. Some of his patients show up with puzzling symptoms, calling for savvy medical... |
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Stories from Afield: Adventures with Wild Things in Wild Places
Bruce L Smith · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 194
Format: Print book
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Over the past four decades, Bruce L. Smith has worked with most big-game species in some of the American West's most breathtaking and challenging landscapes. In Stories from Afield, readers join Smith on his adventures as a naturalist, sportsman, and wildlife biologist, as he pulls... |
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The Art of the Map: An Illustrated History of Map Elements and Embellishments
Dennis Reinhartz · Sterling
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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This lavishly illustrated history of the golden age of cartography, from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, explores not only the embellishments on maps but also what they reveal about the world in which they were created. Here there be monsters real and imagined; ships... |
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Smitten by Giraffe: My Life as a Citizen Scientist
Anne Innis Dagg · McGill-Queen's University Press
Pages: 216
Format: Print book
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When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvelous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behaviour of giraffe in the wild. Subsequently, Jane Goodall and Dian... |
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Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth
Jane Alexander · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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A moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet earth as a result of human incursion, and the crucial work of animal and bird preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists, zoologists, environmentalists, and conservationists.... |
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The Physics of Everyday Things: The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day
JAMES KAKALIOS · Crown
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Physics professor, bestselling author, and dynamic storyteller James Kakalios reveals the mind-bending science behind the seemingly basic things that keep our daily lives running, from our smart phones and digital "clouds" to x-ray machines and hybrid vehicles. Most of us are clueless... |
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The Bare Bones: An Unconventional Evolutionary History of the Skeleton
Matthew F. Bonnan · Indiana University Press
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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What can we learn about the evolution of jaws from a pair of scissors? How does the flight of a tennis ball help explain how fish overcome drag? What do a spacesuit and a chicken egg have in common? Highlighting the fascinating twists and turns of evolution across more than 540 million... |
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