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The Secret Life of the Periodic Table: Unlocking the Mysteries of All 118 Elements
Ben Still Dr · Firefly Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book |
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The Secret Life of the Periodic Table uncovers the fascinating stories behind the formulation of the table. It describes how and who discovered the 118 elements, and the competition and cooperation behind scientific advances. The character of the elements is brought to life in a bright... |
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If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body
James Hamblin · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover |
"If you want to understand the strange workings of the human body, and the future of medicine, you must read this illuminating, engaging book." - Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Gene
In 2014, James Hamblin launched a series... |
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The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth
Hugh Aldersey-Williams · W W Norton
Pages: 368
Format: Print book |
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A rich and sweeping exploration into the science and history behind the most mysterious, primal, and powerful force on earth: the tide. Half of the world's population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. But the tide rises and falls according to rules that are a mystery... |
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Tesla For Beginners
Robert I Sutherland-Cohen · For Beginners
Pages: 176
Format: Print book |
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The father of modern-day electricity and considered by some to be the ultimate "mad scientist," Nikola Tesla filed nearly 300 patents in his lifetime. Many of these patents resulted in functioning inventions; others were little more than wide-eyed dreams--or still await possible... |
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Big Data: Does Size Matter?
Timandra Harkness · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently than ever before, from tracking... |
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Pre-Calculus: 1,001 Practice Problems For Dummies
Mary Jane Sterling · For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Book |
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Prepare for calculus the smart way, with customizable pre-calculus practice 1,001 Pre-Calculus Practice Problems For Dummies offers 1,001 opportunities to gain confidence in your math skills. Much more than a workbook, this study aid provides pre-calculus problems ranked from easy to advanced,... |
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What the Luck?: The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives
Gary Smith · Overlook Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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The newest book by the acclaimed author of Standard Deviations takes on luck, and all the mischief the idea of luck can cause in our lives. In Israel, pilot trainees who were praised for doing well subsequently performed worse, while trainees who were yelled at for doing poorly... |
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The Sting of the Wild
Justin O Schmidt · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 280
Format: Print book |
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Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt is on a mission. Some say it's a brave exploration, others shake their heads in disbelief. His goal? To compare the impacts of stinging insects on humans, mainly using himself as the gauge. In The Sting of the Wild, the colorful Dr. Schmidt... |
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Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg: The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic 30
Ben Stewart · The New Press
Format: Hardcover |
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"Melting ice, a military arms race, the rush to exploit resources at any cost-the Arctic is now the stage on which our future will be decided. And as temperatures rise and the ice retreats, Vladimir Putin orders Russia's oil rigs to move north. But one early September morning in 2013... |
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The Unknown Universe A New Exploration of Time, Space, and Modern Cosmology.
Clark Stuart.
Format: Print book : English |
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A groundbreaking guide to the universe and how our latest deep-space discoveries are forcing us to revisit what we know -- and what we don't. On March 21, 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space... |
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