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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
STEVEN PINKER · Viking
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.Is... |
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The Pleasure Shock: The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor
Lone Frank · Dutton
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The electrifying, forgotten history of Robert Heath's brain pacemaker, investigating the origins and ethics of one of today's most promising medical breakthroughs: deep brain stimulationThe technology invented by psychiatrist Robert G. Heath at Tulane University in the 1950s and '60s has been... |
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Firefly Complete Guide to Stargazing
Robin Scagell · Firefly Books, 2015.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Firefly Complete Guide to Stargazing is a comprehensive introduction to an increasingly popular leisure pursuit. The book's flexi-paperback format makes it easy to use while telescope viewing, a welcome feature for the growing number of stargazers. The rapid growth in astronomy is due in large... |
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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 wolves... |
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The Handy Chemistry Answer Book
Justin P. Lomont · Visible Ink Press
Format: Paperback
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Simplifying the complex chemical reactions that take place in everyday through the well-stated answers for more than 600 common chemistry questions, this reference is the go-to guide for students and professionals alike. The book covers everything from the history, major personalities,... |
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The Cat in the Box: A History of Science in 100 Experiments
Mary Gribbin · Race Point Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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This book distills the history of science into 100 epic experiments that have fueled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond. Everything in the scientific world view is based on experiment, including observations of phenomena predicted by theories and hypotheses, such as the bending... |
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The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew
Alan Lightman · Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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"Alan Lightman brings a light touch to heavy questions. Here is a book about nesting ospreys, multiple universes, atheism, spiritualism, and the arrow of time. Throughout, Lightman takes us back and forth between ordinary occurrences - old shoes and entropy, sailing far out at sea and the infinite... |
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Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence, and Emperor Penguins
Gavin Francis · Counterpoint; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Gavin Francis fulfilled a lifetime's ambition when he spent fourteen months as the basecamp doctor at Halley, a profoundly isolated British research station on the Caird Coast of Antarctica. So remote, it is said to be easier to evacuate a casualty from the International Space Station... |
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Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers
Joseph Mazur · Princeton University Press
Pages: 285
Format: Hardcover
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While all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these symbols weren't available before the sixteenth century. What did mathematicians rely on for their work before then? And how did mathematical notations evolve... |
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