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Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You A Better Friend to Your Pet
John Bradshaw · Basic Books
Pages: 324
Format: Print book |
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Dogs have been mankind's faithful companions for tens of thousands of years, yet today they are regularly treated as either pack-following wolves or furry humans. The truth is, dogs are neither--and our misunderstanding has put them in serious crisis. What dogs really need is a spokesperson,... |
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The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger
Elizabeth H Blackburn · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 398
Format: Print book |
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The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease... |
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The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
Russell Gold · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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"Fracking has vociferous critics and fervent defenders, but the debate between these camps has obscured the actual story: Fracking has become a fixture of the American landscape and the global economy. It has upended the business models of energy companies around the globe, and it has started... |
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Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry
Christie Wilcox · Scientific American/Farrar
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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A thrilling tale of encounters with nature's masters of biochemistry In Venomous, the molecular biologist Christie Wilcox investigates venoms and the animals that use them, revealing how they work, what they do to the human body, and how they can revolutionize biochemistry... |
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Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos
Brian Cox · Da Capo
Pages: 320
Format: Book |
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In Universal, bestselling physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (Why Does E=mc2?) take us on an inspirational journey of scientific exploration. They show that, by asking questions about the world around us, anyone can think like a physicist and grasp the breath-taking grandeur of the cosmos.Universal... |
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Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth
Keith Veronese · Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover |
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How will your life change when the supply of tantalum dries up? You may have never heard of this unusual metal, but without it smartphones would be instantly less omniscient, video game systems would falter, and laptops fail. Tantalum is not alone.  Rhodium. Osmium. Niobium. Such refugees... |
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The Rabbit-Raising Problem Solver: Your Questions Answered about Housing, Feeding, Behavior, Health Care, Breeding, and Kindling
Karen Patry · Storey Publishing, LLC; 1 edition
Format: Paperback |
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Whether you're raising your rabbits as pets or for meat, you need solid, accurate, easy-to-access information to keep your animals healthy and happy. This Q&A resource from expert Karen Patry has the answers to all your questions about everything from housing and feeding to breeding,... |
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli · Riverhead Books
Pages: 86
Format: Print book |
Look out for Carlo Rovelli's next book, Reality Is Not What It Seems.
Instant New York Times Bestseller
"One of the year's most entrancing books about science." - The Wall Street Journal
"Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some... |
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The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World
Joel K. Bourne Jr · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover |
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An award-winning environmental journalist introduces a new generation of farmers and scientists on the frontlines of the next green revolution.When the demographer Robert Malthus (1766-1834) famously outlined the brutal relationship between food and population, he never imagined the success... |
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Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
Sam Maggs · Quirk Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
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Ever heard of Allied spy Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim woman whom the Nazis considered "highly dangerous"? Or German painter and entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian, who planned and embarked on the world's first scientific expedition? How about Huang Daopo, the invenÂÂtor who fled... |
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Dreams of Earth and Sky
Freeman Dyson · New York Review Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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In this sequel to The Scientist as Rebel (2006), Freeman Dyson - whom The Times of London calls "one of the world's most original minds" - celebrates openness to unconventional ideas and "the spirit of joyful dreaming" in which he believes that science should be pursued.... |
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egghead's Guide to Algebra
Cara Cantarella · Peterson's
Pages: 216
Format: Print book |
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The third book in Peterson's NEW series of guides for visual learners, this volume covers basic algebra topics that are essential for success on standardized tests. egghead's Guide to Algebra can also be used in tandem with Peterson's egghead's Guide to Geometry, as it teaches... |
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The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
Marcus du Sautoy · Viking
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover |
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"Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting." - Bill Bryson A captivating journey to the outer reaches of human knowledgeEver since the dawn of civilization we have been driven by a desire to know - to understand the physical world... |
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Life Breaks In: A Mood Almanack
Mary Cappello · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 408
Format: Print book |
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Some books start at point A, take you by the hand, and carefully walk you to point B, and on and on. This is not one of those books. This book is about mood, and how it works in and with us as complicated, imperfectly self-knowing beings existing in a world that impinges and infringes... |
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