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Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
Thor Hanson · Basic Books Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round.Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships... |
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101 Law Forms for Personal Use
Nolo Editors · NOLO Pages: 368 Format: Paperback
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Reliable legal forms for common personal and family transactions At one time or another, we all need to get an agreement in writing. But where to start? 101 Law Forms for Personal Use makes it easy to create legal agreements and organize essential information. The plain-English instructions... |
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Why Teach?: In Defense of a Real Education
Mark Edmundson · Bloomsbury USA; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Mark Edmundsons essays reclaim college not as the province of high-priced tuition, career training, and interactive online courses, but as the place where serious people go to broaden their minds and learn to live the rest of their lives.A renowned professor of English at the University... |
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Energy: A Human History
RICHARD RHODES · Simon & Schuster Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond.People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power... |
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A Brief History of Criminal Profiling
Mr. David Elio Malocco · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Pages: 170 Format: Paperback
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A Brief History of Criminal Profiling is the third book in the series Student Guides Simplified. It is written by best-selling author David Elio Malocco (Forensic Science : Crime Scene Analysis; Criminal Profiling: An Introduction; Psychotherapy: The Top 50 Theories and Theorists; A Brief... |
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Harness the Sun: America's Quest for a Solar-Powered Future
Philip Warburg · Beacon Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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Going from the inner city to the open desert, a seasoned environmental advocate looks at solar energy's remarkable ascent and its promise for America's future Solar power was once the domain of futurists and environmentally minded suburbanites. Today it is part of mainstream America.... |
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark · Vintage Pages: 384 Format: Paperback
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In this authoritative and eye-opening book, Max Tegmark describes and illuminates the recent, path-breaking advances in Artificial Intelligence and how it is poised to overtake human intelligence. How will AI affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise... |
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