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The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human
Adam Piore · Ecco
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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For millennia, humans have tried - and often failed - to master nature and transcend our limits. But this has started to change. The new scientific frontier is the human body: the greatest engineers of our generation have turned their sights inward, and their work is beginning to revolutionize... |
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Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement
Jean Casella · New Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture has denounced the use of solitary confinement beyond fifteen days as a form of cruel and degrading treatment that often rises to the level of torture. Yet the United States holds more than eighty thousand people in isolation on any given day. Now sixteen... |
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I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
MATT TAIBBI · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police - from the bestselling author of The Divide "[A] searing exposé . . . What emerges from the author's superb reporting and vivid writing... |
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20 Makey Makey Projects for the Evil Genius
AARON GRAVES · McGraw-Hill Education TAB
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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20 fun and inventive Makey Makey projects for Makers from beginner to expertThis hands-on guide is filled with DIY projects that show readers, step-by-step, how to start creating and making cool inventions with the Makey Makey invention kit. Each project features easy-to-follow, fully-illustrated... |
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Forensics For Dummies
Douglas P. Lyle · For Dummies
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Understand the real-life science behind crime scene investigation Forensics For Dummies takes you inside the world of crime scene investigation to give you the low down on this exciting field. Written by a doctor and former Law & Order consultant, this guide will have you solving crimes... |
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The Crime Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Dorling Kindersley, Inc. · DK Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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An essential guide to criminology, exploring the most infamous cases of all time, from serial killers to mob hits to war crimes and more.From Jack the Ripper to Jeffrey Dahmer, The Crime Book is a complete study of international true crime history that unpacks the shocking stories through... |
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Electronics All-in-One For Dummies
Doug Lowe · For Dummies
Pages: 864
Format: Print book
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A comprehensive collection of 8 books in 1 offering electronics guidance that can't be found anywhere else! If you know a breadboard from a breadbox but want to take your hobby electronics skills to the next level, this is the only reference you need. Electronics All-in-One For Dummies... |
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Illusion of Justice: Inside Making a Murderer and America's Broken System
Jerome F Buting · Harper
Pages: 339
Format: Hardcover
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Interweaving his account of the Steven Avery trial at the heart of Making a Murderer with other high profile cases from his criminal defense career, attorney Jerome F. Buting explains the flaws in America's criminal justice system and lays out a provocative, persuasive blue-print for reform.Over... |
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A Space Traveler's Guide to the Solar System
Mark Thompson · Pegasus Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening and provocative tour of our solar system, from one of Britain's celebrated astronomists. Have you ever dreamed of being an astronaut, traveling through the universe on your very own space mission? What would it be like to tour the solar system, visiting the sun and the planets,... |
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Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future
Caitlin Shetterly · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 341
Format: Print book
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A disquieting and meditative look at the issue that started the biggest food fight of our time--GMOs. From a journalist and mother who learned that genetically modified corn was the culprit behind what was making her and her child sick, a must-read book for anyone trying to parse the incendiary... |
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Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
David R Montgomery · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A MacArthur Fellow's impassioned call to make agriculture sustainable by ditching the plow, covering the soil, and diversifying crop rotations.The problem of agriculture is as old as civilization. Throughout history, great societies that abused their land withered into poverty or disappeared... |
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Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction
Mary Ellen Hannibal · The Experiment
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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In the vein of H Is for Hawk and the work of Rebecca Solnit and Elizabeth Kolbert - a masterful consideration of the profound, urgent necessity to bear witness to life and loss Here is a wide-ranging adventure in becoming a citizen scientist by an award-winning writer and environmental... |
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Jennifer A Doudna · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a cheap, easy way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril. Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use.... |
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DNA Technology: A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition
David E Newton · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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This accessibly written book introduces readers to DNA -- one of the most important technologies for the manipulation of all forms of life, from simple bacteria to plants and animals. It also addresses the most important social, ethical, political, economic, and other issues raised by this... |
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