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How Science Works: The Facts Visually Explained
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff · DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Explore answers to questions on 70 topics in the areas of matter, physics, energy, chemistry, life science, earth science, technology, and the universe. How Science Works uses clear, easy-to-understand graphics to answer common questions and explain difficult concepts--not only the core... |
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Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System
Natalie Starkey · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Icy, rocky, sometimes dusty, always mysterious--comets and asteroids are among the Solar System's very oldest inhabitants, formed within a swirling cloud of gas and dust in the area of space that eventually hosted the Sun and its planets. Locked within each of these extra-terrestrial... |
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Panda Love: The Secret Lives of Pandas
Ami Vitale · Hardie Grant
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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Panda Love is a collection of incredible images of these gentle giants. Ami Vitale's stunning photographs, taken on location in China, document the efforts to breed pandas and release them back into the wild. Ami was given unprecedented access to the pandas and her photos give an amazing... |
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Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
ELIZABETH RUSH · Milkweed Editions
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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Harvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant -- and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable... |
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Octopus: The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate
Roland C. Anderson · Timber Press; First American Edition edition
Format: Book
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The visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance and an uncanny intellect, this exceptional sea creature has inspired fear in famous lore and legends - from the giant octopus attack in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to Ursula... |
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 468
Format: Print book
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The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our handsThe math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows... |
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The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?
Patrick Tucker · Current
Pages: 268
Format: Print book
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An in-depth look at the future of the future. An app on your phone knows you're getting married before you do. Your friends' tweets can help data scientists predict your location with astounding accuracy, even if you don't use Twitter. Soon, we'll be able to know how many kids in a kindergarten... |
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The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
Noah Strycker · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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An entertaining and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world - and deep connection with humanity.Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As scientists come to understand... |
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Make The Most Of Your Time On Earth
Rough Guides · Rough Guides; 2 Compact edition
Format: Paperback
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Perfect for both the seasoned traveller and the armchair dreamer, it brings you the very best travel experiences - extraordinary landscapes, jaw-dropping architecture, white-knuckle adventures and tranquil hangouts. Want adventure? Try trekking to the source of the Ganges or exploring the lost... |
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Hubble's legacy : reflections by those who dreamed it, built it, and observed the universe with it
Roger D Launius; David H DeVorkin · Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Format: Hardcover
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The development and operation of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have resulted in many rich legacies, most particularly in science and technology - but in culture as well. This book, which includes contributions from historians of science, key scientists and administrators, and one of the principal... |
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Unlikely Friendships: 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom
Jennifer Holland · Workman Publishing Company; 1St Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Written by National Geographic magazine writer Jennifer Holland Unlikely Friendships documents one heartwarming tale after another of animals who with nothing else in common bond in the most unexpected ways A cat and a bird A mare and a fawn An elephant and a sheep A snake and a hamster... |
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A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park
Edward O Wilson · Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Pages: 149
Format: Hardcover
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A Window on Eternity is a stunning book of splendid prose and gorgeous photography about one of the biologically richest places in Africa and perhaps in the world. Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique was nearly destroyed in a brutal civil war, then was reborn and is now evolv-ing back... |
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