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Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games
Ian Bogost · Basic Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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"Play Anything is nothing short of brilliant... I will be recommending this provocative and entertaining book to everyone I know." --Jane McGonigal, bestselling author of Reality is Broken and SuperBetterLife is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing... |
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Smokejumper
Jason A. Ramos · William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Print book |
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A rare inside look at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of natures blazes.Forest and wildland fires are growing larger, more numerous, and deadlier every... |
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Lost Among the Birds: Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year
Neil Hayward · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover |
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Early in 2013 Neil Hayward was at a crossroads. He didn't want to open a bakery or whatever else executives do when they quit a lucrative but unfulfilling job. He didn't want to think about his failed relationship with "the one" or his potential for ruining a new relationship... |
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My Lost Brothers: The Untold Story by the Yarnell Hill Fire's Lone Survivor
Brendan McDonough · Hachette Books
Pages: 278
Format: Print book |
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A gripping first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots"--firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires. Brendan McDonough was on the verge of becoming a hopeless, inveterate heroin addict... |
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Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
Ian Stewart · Basic Books
Pages: 360
Format: Print book |
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In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from the solar system to the Galaxy and the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies form, why stars implode, how everything began, and how it's... |
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The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
Donald R Kirsch · W W Norton
Pages: 328
Format: Print book |
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The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity - by chewing, brewing, and snorting - some Neolithic souls discovered... |
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Now: The Physics of Time
R Muller · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Print book |
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"Now" is a simple yet elusive concept.You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean? What makes the ephemeral moment "now" so special? Its enigmatic character has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from Augustine... |
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Einstein's Greatest Mistake: A Biography
David Bodanis · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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From the best-selling author of E=mc2, a brisk, accessible biography of Albert Einstein that reveals the genius and hubris of the titan of modern physics Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory... |
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Statistics
Robert A Donnelly · Alpha Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist
Chad Orzel · Basic Books
Format: Book |
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Even in the twenty-first century the popular image of a scientist is a reclusive genius in a lab coat, mixing formulas or working out equations inaccessible to all but the initiated few. The idea that scientists are somehow smarter than the rest of us is a common, yet dangerous, misconception,... |
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Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing
James Owen Weatherall · Yale University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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The rising star author of The Physics of Wall Street explores why "nothing" may hold the key to the next era of theoretical physics James Owen Weatherall's previous book, The Physics of Wall Street, was a New York Times best-seller and named one of Physics Today's five... |
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Why We Snap: Understanding the Rage Circuit in Your Brain
R Douglas Fields · Dutton
Pages: 408
Format: Print book |
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The startling new science behind sudden acts of violence and the nine triggers this groundbreaking researcher has uncoveredWe all have a rage circuit we can't fully control once it is engaged as R. Douglas Fields, PhD, reveals in this essential book for our time. The daily headlines are filled... |
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College Algebra DeMYSTiFieD, 2nd Edition
Rhonda Huettenmueller · McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Pages: 497
Format: Paperback |
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Don't let quadratic equations make you irrational If you are absolutely confused by absolute value equations, or you think parabolas are short moral stories, College Algebra DeMYSTiFied, Second Edition is your solution to mastering the topic's concepts and theories at your own pace.... |
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Immunity: How Elie Metchnikoff Changed the Course of Modern Medicine
Luba Vikhanski · Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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Around Christmas of 1882, while peering through a microscope at starfish larvae in which he had inserted tiny thorns, Russian zoologist Elie Metchnikoff had a brilliant insight: what if the mobile cells he saw gathering around the thorns were the same as white blood cells that traveled... |
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