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Penguins: The Ultimate Guide
Julie Cornthwaite · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Penguins are perhaps the most beloved birds. On land, their behavior appears so humorous and expressive that we can be excused for attributing to them moods and foibles similar to our own. Few realize how complex and mysterious their private lives truly are, as most of their existence takes... |
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Rainforest
Lewis Blackwell · Harry N Abrams
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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There are no places on Earth more mysterious, complex, and unknown than tropical rainforests. Combining stunning photographs by the world's leading nature photographers - including new work by Tim Flach - with an inspiring text by award-winning author Lewis Blackwell, Rainforest opens our minds... |
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Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide, Eighth Edition
Dinah L. Moche · Wiley; Eighth Edition edition
Format: Book
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For a generation, Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers worldwide to the night sky. Now this classic beginner's guide has been completely revised to bring it up to date with the latest discoveries. Updated with the latest, most accurate information,... |
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A History of Life in 100 Fossils
Aaron O'Dea · Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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A History of Life in 100 Fossils showcases 100 key fossils that together illustrate the evolution of life on earth. Iconic specimens have been selected from the renowned collections of the two premier natural history museums in the world, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, and the Natural... |
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The Undertaker's Daughter
Kate Mayfield · Gallery Books; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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The Undertakers Daughter is a wonderfully quirky, gem of a book beautifully written by Kate Mayfield.Her compelling, complicated family and cast of characters stay with you long after you close the book Monica Holloway, author of Cowboy Wills and Driving With Dead People. How does one live... |
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
MARYANNE WOLF · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.A decade ago, Maryanne... |
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The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
Eric R Kandel · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Nobel Prize recipient Eric R. Kandel investigates The Disordered Mind to uncover what brain disorders reveal about human nature. This challenging study will not only help transform medical care but also encourage a new humanism based in part on the biological confirmation of individuality.Eric... |
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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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Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
Carl Safina · Henry Holt and Co.
Format: eBook
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I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit Who are you? Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain,... |
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Hummingbirds
Ronald I. Orenstein · Firefly Books
Pages: 256
Format: Book
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A comprehensive natural history of nature's smallest bird species. The tiny hummingbird has long been a source of fascination for birdwatchers and naturalists alike. They number 300 species and Ronald Orenstein has a passion for all of them. Hummingbirds are the smallest birds in the world.... |
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To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
Steven Weinberg · Harper; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg - a thought-provoking and important book by one of the most distinguished scientists and intellectuals of our time.In this rich, irreverent, and compelling... |
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Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of the Midwest
Jeff Sayre · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
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The only field guide to bring along to identify the birds, mammals, trees, wildflowers, insects, reptiles, amphibians, fish, spiders, mushrooms, ferns, rocks, and sky of the Midwest Even if we focus on certain things in the outdoors, most of us are curious about everything else that might... |
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The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation
Hannah Fry · Simon & Schuster/ TED
Format: Hardcover
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In this must-have for anyone who wants to better understand their love life, a mathematician pulls back the curtain and reveals the hidden patterns - from dating sites to divorce, sex to marriage - behind the rituals of love.The roller coaster of romance is hard to quantify; defining how lovers... |
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