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The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
Russell Gold · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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"Fracking has vociferous critics and fervent defenders, but the debate between these camps has obscured the actual story: Fracking has become a fixture of the American landscape and the global economy. It has upended the business models of energy companies around the globe, and it has started... |
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Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields
Jim Baggott · Oxford University Press Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. As a few of the philosophers... |
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The Year Yellowstone Burned: A Twenty-Five-Year Perspective
Jeff Henry · Taylor Trade Pub Pages: 285 Format: Print book
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The Yellowstone fires of 1988 consumed nearly 800,000 acres - 36 percent of the park. In the years following, spectacular wildflowers rose from the ashes and trees rapidly reclaimed the landscape. In this twenty-five-year look back at the fires, author and photographer Jeff Henry recalls... |
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Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
Gaia Vince · Milkweed Editions Format: Hardcover
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We all know our planet is in crisis, and that it is largely our fault. But all too often the full picture of change is obstructed by dense data sets and particular catastrophes. Struggling with this obscurity in her role as an editor at Nature, Gaia Vince decided to travel the world and see for herself... |
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One Big Happy Family: Heartwarming Stories of Animals Caring for One Another
Lisa Rogak · St. Martin's Griffin Format: Paperback
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Inspiring, True Tales of Interspecies Adoption One Big Happy Family tells the heartwarming stories of a different kind of animal rescue: amazing animals who have reached out to save the lives of newborns from other species and raise them as their own. Each story features wonderful photos... |
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Secret Warriors: The Spies, Scientists and Code Breakers of World War I
Taylor Downing · Pegasus; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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A startling and vivid account of World War I that uncovers how wartime code-breaking, aeronautics, and scientific research that laid the foundation for much of the innovations of the twentieth century. World War I is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting... |
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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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Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change
Mary Beth Pfeiffer · Island Press Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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Lyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move into places they could not survive before. The first epidemic to emerge in the era of climate change, the disease infects half a million people in the US and Europe each year, and untold multitudes in Canada, China, Russia,... |
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Superstorm: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy
Kathryn Miles · Dutton Format: Hardcover
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The first complete moment-by-moment account of the largest Atlantic storm system ever recorded—a hurricane like no otherThe sky was lit by a full moon on October 29, 2012, but nobody on the eastern seaboard of the United States could see it. Everything had been consumed by cloud. The storms... |
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A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park
Edward O Wilson · Simon & Schuster, Incorporated Pages: 149 Format: Hardcover
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A Window on Eternity is a stunning book of splendid prose and gorgeous photography about one of the biologically richest places in Africa and perhaps in the world. Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique was nearly destroyed in a brutal civil war, then was reborn and is now evolv-ing back... |
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