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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Carl Zimmer · Dutton
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning, celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity in this sweeping, resonating overview of a force that shaped human society--a force set to shape our future even more radically.She Has Her Mother's... |
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The Lost Whale: The True Story of an Orca Named Luna
Michael Parfit · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The heartbreaking and true story of a lonely orca named Luna who befriended humans in Nootka Sound, off the coast of Vancouver Island by Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm.One summer in Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, a young killer whale called... |
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The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
Barbara K Lipska · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness - only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains its unforgettable... |
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Superstorm: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy
Kathryn Miles · Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The first complete moment-by-moment account of the largest Atlantic storm system ever recorded—a hurricane like no otherThe sky was lit by a full moon on October 29, 2012, but nobody on the eastern seaboard of the United States could see it. Everything had been consumed by cloud. The storms... |
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The Monkey's Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
Alan de Queiroz · Perseus Books Group
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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Throughout the world, closely related species are found on landmasses separated by wide stretches of ocean. What explains these far-flung distributions? Why are such species found where they are across the Earth? Since the discovery of plate tectonics, scientists have conjectured that plants... |
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Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars
Lee Billings · Current Hardcover; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate history of Earth and the quest for life beyond the solar system For 4.6 billion years our living planet has been alone in a vast and silent universe. But soon, Earth's isolation could come to an end. Over the past two decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of planets... |
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The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger
Elizabeth H Blackburn · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 398
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease... |
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Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
Peter Singer · Princeton University Pres
Pages: 376
Format: Print book
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Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, and The Life You Can Save, he helped launch the animal rights... |
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