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The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
Diane Ackerman · W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover |
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As Diane Ackerman writes in her brilliant new book, The Human Age, "our relationship with nature has changed ... radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable." Ackerman... |
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Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
Gaia Vince · Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover |
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We all know our planet is in crisis, and that it is largely our fault. But all too often the full picture of change is obstructed by dense data sets and particular catastrophes. Struggling with this obscurity in her role as an editor at Nature, Gaia Vince decided to travel the world and see for herself... |
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The Sweet Spot: How to Find Your Groove at Home and Work
Christine Carter Phd · Ballantine Books
Format: Print book |
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Learn how to achieve more by doing less! Live in that zone you've glimpsed but can't seem to hold on to - the sweet spot where you have the greatest strength, but also the greatest ease. Not long ago, Christine Carter, a happiness expert at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science... |
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The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives
Stephen Buchmann · Scribner
Pages: 342
Format: Print book |
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Cultural history at its best - the engaging, lively, and definitive story of the beauty, sexuality, ecology, myths, lore, and economics of the world's flowers, written by a passionately devoted author and scientist, and illustrated with his stunning photographs.Flowers, and the fruits that... |
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Everyone Is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race
Daniel J. Fairbanks · Prometheus Books
Format: Print book |
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What does science say about race? In this book a distinguished research geneticist presents abundant evidence showing that traditional notions about distinct racial differences have little scientific foundation. In short, racism is not just morally wrong; it has no basis in fact.The author... |
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Deep Space: Beyond the Solar System to the End of the Universe and the Beginning of Time
Govert Schilling · Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Format: Hardcover |
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Govert Schilling explores the mysteries of space that lie beyond our solar system on this mind-bending trip to nebulae, galaxies, black holes, and the edge of the observable universe.Join Govert Schilling on a journey across the universe that will ignite the imagination. The trip begins... |
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Idiot's Guides: Algebra I
Carolyn Wheater · Alpha
Format: Print book |
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Starting with the very basics and reinforcing concepts with practice and tips along the way, Idiot's Guides: Algebra I makes a complex subject easier to grasp and helps students and adult learners clear the hurdle that can stand between them and their academic goals. Special sidebars... |
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli · Riverhead Books, 2016.
Pages: 96
Format: Print book |
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Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages.In seven brief lessons, Italian theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli guides readers with admirable clarity through the most transformative physics breakthroughs of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.... |
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The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory
Susan Wise Bauer · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover |
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A riveting road map to the development of modern scientific thought.In the tradition of her perennial bestseller The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer delivers an accessible, entertaining, and illuminating springboard into the scientific education you never had. Far too often, public... |
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