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The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things -? Stories from Science and Observation

Peter Wohlleben · Greystone Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The final book in The Mysteries of Nature trilogy by the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben. Nature is full of surprises: deciduous trees affect the rotation of the Earth, cranes sabotage the production of Iberian ham, and coniferous forests can make...
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The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs

PETER WOHLLEBEN · Dutton
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.In this first-ever...
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Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America

Jeffrey H Skevington · Princeton University Press
Pages: 512
Format: Flexibound

A groundbreaking guide to flower flies in North America This is the first comprehensive field guide to the flower flies (also known as hover flies) of northeastern North America. Flower flies are, along with bees, our most important pollinators. Found in a varied range of habitats, from...
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The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption

Dahr Jamail · The New Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The author who Jeremy Scahill calls the "quintessential unembedded reporter" visits "hot spots" around the world in a global quest to discover how we will cope with our planet's changing ecosystems After nearly a decade overseas as a war reporter, the acclaimed journalist...
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Women in Global Science: Advancing Academic Careers through International Collaboration

Kathrin Zippel · Stanford University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Scientific and engineering research is increasingly global, and international collaboration can be essential to academic success. Yet even as administrators and policymakers extol the benefits of global science, few recognize the diversity of international research collaborations and their...
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Know This: Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments

John Brockman · Harper Perennial
Pages: 573
Format: Paperback

Today's most visionary thinkers reveal the cutting-edge scientific ideas and breakthroughs you must understand.Scientific developments radically change and enlighten our understanding of the world -- whether it's advances in technology and medical research or the latest revelations of neuroscience,...
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The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

Gino Segre? · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 351
Format: Print book

Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. His discoveries changed our world; they led to weapons of mass destruction...
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Your Water Footprint: The Shocking Facts About How Much Water We Use to Make Everyday Products

Stephen Leahy · Firefly Books
Format: Paperback

The average American lifestyle is kept afloat by about 2,000 gallons of H2O a day. The numbers are shocking. Your Water Footprint reveals the true cost of our lifestyle. A water footprint is the amount of fresh water used to produce the goods and services we consume, including growing,...
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Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields

Jim Baggott · Oxford University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. As a few of the philosophers...
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Star-craving mad : tales from a travelling astronomer

F Watson · Allen & Unwin
Pages: 334
Format:  Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats

A journey through time and space with Australia's best known astronomer, Fred Watson Fred Watson knows all about the madness that drives people to understand the Universe and unlock its secrets. Now you can join Australia's best-known astronomer on a unique tour to unravel the mysteries...
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Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently

Beau Lotto · Hachette Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Beau Lotto, the world-renowned neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and two-time TED speaker, takes us on a tour of how we perceive the world, and how disrupting it leads us to create and innovate. Perception is the foundation of human experience, but few of us understand why we see what...
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