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Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art
Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art

Arthur I Miller · W W Norton
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling look at the artists working on the frontiers of science. In recent decades, an exciting new art movement has emerged in which artists utilize and illuminate the latest advances in science. Some of their provocative creations -- a live rabbit implanted with the fluorescent gene...
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Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood
Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood

Teresa E Masear · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 306
Format: Print book

A heartwarming account of the trials and triumphs a hummingbird rehabber encounters while caring for her tiny, fragile patients Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna's hummingbird with a head and throat cloaked in iridescent magenta feathers, could spiral 130 feet in the air,...
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The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain
The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain

John Kounios · Random House
Pages: 274
Format: Print book

In a book perfect for readers of Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit, David Eagleman's Incognito, and Leonard Mlodinow's Subliminal, the cognitive neuroscientists who discovered how the brain has aha moments - sudden creative insights - explain how they happen, when we need them, and how we can have...
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Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle
Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle

Andreas Wagner · Current
Format: Hardcover

"Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. Nature's many innovations - some uncannily perfect - call for natural principles that accelerate life's ability to innovate."Darwin's theory of natural selection explains how useful adaptations...
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The Big, Bad Book of Botany: The World's Most Fascinating Flora
The Big, Bad Book of Botany: The World's Most Fascinating Flora

Michael Largo · William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Book

David Attenborough meets Lemony Snicket in The Big Bad Book of Botany Michael Largos entertaining and enlightening one-of-a-kind compendium of the worlds most amazing and bizarre plants their history and their loreThe Big Bad Book of Botany introduces a world of wild wonderful and weird...
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The Sweet Spot: How to Find Your Groove at Home and Work
The Sweet Spot: How to Find Your Groove at Home and Work

Christine Carter Phd · Ballantine Books
Format: Print book

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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Albert Einstein: Father Of The Modern Scientific Age
Albert Einstein: Father Of The Modern Scientific Age

Michael W Simmons · Michael W. Simmons
Pages: 242
Format: Print book

Albert Einstein is universally regarded as the most brilliant scientist of the 20th century. In 1905, during his "Miracle Year" as a clerk in the Swiss patent office, he wrote four papers that revolutionized the field of theoretical physics. Over the course of his career, Einstein...
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Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science
Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science

Alice Dreger · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Book Review "[S]mart, delightful... a splendidly entertaining education in ethics, activism and science."Editors's Choice, New York Times Book ReviewAn impassioned defense of intellectual freedom and a clarion call to intellectual responsibility, Galileo's...
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Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To

Dean Burnett · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous gray matter from neuroscientist and massively popular Guardian blogger Dean Burnett.The brain may be the seat of consciousness and the engine of all human experience, but it's also messy, fallible, and disorganized. For example, did you know...
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The Next Species: The Future of Evolution in the Aftermath of Man
The Next Species: The Future of Evolution in the Aftermath of Man

Michael Tennesen · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

While examining the history of our planet and actively exploring our present environment, science journalist Michael Tennesen describes what life on earth could look like after the next mass extinction.A growing number of scientists agree we are headed toward a mass extinction, perhaps...
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Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made

Gaia Vince · Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover

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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And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind: A Natural History of Moving Air
And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind: A Natural History of Moving Air

Bill Streever · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A thrilling exploration of the science and history of wind from the bestselling author of Cold.Scientist and bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme to explore wind--the winds that built empires, the storms that wreck them--by traveling right through it. Narrating from...
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The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster, Faster
The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster, Faster

Robert Colvile · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 390
Format: Print book

In this revelatory study of modern living, Robert Colvile inspects the various ways in which the pace of life in our society is increasing and examines the evolutionary science behind our rapidly accelerating need for change, as well as why it's unlikely we'll be able to slow down . . . or even...
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StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond
StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

Neil Degrasse Tyson · National Geographic
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

This beautifully illustrated companion to celebrated scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson's popular podcast and National Geographic Channel TV show is an eye-opening journey for anyone curious about the complexities of our universe. For decades, beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has interpreted...
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Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society

Cordelia Fine · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"Goodbye, beliefs in sex differences disguised as evolutionary facts. Welcome the dragon slayer: Cordelia Fine wittily but meticulously lays bare the irrational arguments that we use to justify gender politics." -- Uta Frith, emeritus professor of cognitive development, University...
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