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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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Brain Bytes: Quick Answers to Quirky Questions About the Brain
Eric H Chudler · W.W. Norton & Company Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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Neuroscience in small bits for the brain-curious.From magazine covers to Hollywood blockbusters, neuroscience is front and center. This popular interest has inspired many questions from people who wonder just what is going on in the three pounds of tissue between their ears.In Brain Bytes,... |
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Geoscience Education: Indoor and Outdoor
Clara Vasconcelos · Springer International Publishing Pages: 236 Format: Hardcover
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This book presents research in Geoscience Education focusing on indoor and outdoor environments in which teaching geoscience gains particular relevance, significance and contextualization. The research areas that are presented throughout the thirteen chapters cover a wide variety of subjects... |
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Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet
MICHAEL R BLOOMBERG · St. Martin's Press Pages: 264 Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world healthier and more... |
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Welcome to the universe : an astrophysical tour
Neil deGrasse Tyson · Princeton University Press Pages: 470 Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWelcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton,... |
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Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
Cordelia Fine · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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"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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The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything
Adrian Bejan · St. Martins Press Pages: 272 Format: Print book
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The Physics of Life explores the roots of the big question by examining the deepest urges and properties of living things, both animate and inanimate: how to live longer, with food, warmth, power, movement and free access to other people and surroundings. Bejan explores controversial and relevant... |
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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 biochemistryIn 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 and medicine today.Wilcox... |
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And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind: A Natural History of Moving Air
Bill Streever · Little Brown and Company Pages: 320 Format: Print book
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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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We're Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City
Roberta Brandes Gratz · Nation Books Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is one of the darkest chapters in American history. The storm caused unprecedented destruction, and a toxic combination of government neglect and socioeconomic inequality turned a crisis into a tragedy. But among the rubble, there is hope.We're Still... |
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Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
John Bradshaw · Basic Books Format: Print book
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Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, and yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. Unlike dogs, cats evolved as solitary hunters, and, while... |
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Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers: A Kidney Doctor's Search for the Perfect Match
VANESA GRUBBS · Amistad Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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A young, hopeful doctor's memoir - an unforgettable love story and an informative journey into the world of medicine and kidney transplantation that ultimately asks: What does it mean to let go of something that you love, even if it is life itself?When Vanessa fell in love with Robert,... |
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Ed Yong · Ecco Pages: 357 Format: Print book
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New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Book of 2016NPR Great Read of 2016Economist Best Books of 2016Brain Pickings Best Science Books of 2016Smithsonian Best Books about Science of 2016Science Friday Best Science Book of 2016A Mother Jones Notable Read of 2016MPR Best Books of 2016Chicago... |
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Cracking the AP Statistics Exam, 2015 Edition
Princeton Review · Princeton Review; 1 Csm edition Format: Book
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO SCORE A PERFECT 5. Equip yourself to ace the AP Statistics Exam with The Princeton Reviews comprehensive study guide—including thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every question type, and 2 full-length practice tests with complete answer explanations.... |
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