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The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides
MARIANO SIGMAN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From a world-renowned leader in neuroscience, a provocative, enthralling journey into the depths of the human mind.Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international... |
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Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
HENRY MARSH · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Following the publication of Do No Harm, Dr. Henry Marsh retired from his position at a hospital in London. But his career continued, taking him to remote hospitals in places such as Nepal and Pakistan, where he offers his services as surgeon and teacher to those in need. Now, Marsh considers... |
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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
Janna Levin · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves - by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer.From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign to record... |
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
ANGELA SAINI · Beacon Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knewFor hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less... |
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Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses
John Dvorak · Pegasus Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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They have been thought of as harbingers of evil as well as a sign of the divine. Eclipses -- one of the rarest and most stunning celestial events we can witness here on Earth -- have shaped the course of human history and thought since humans first turned their eyes to the sky.What do Virginia... |
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Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age
Bruce Watson · Bloomsbury
Pages: 282
Format: Print book
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Light begins at Stonehenge, where crowds cheer a solstice sunrise. After sampling myths explaining First Light, the story moves on to early philosophers' queries, then through the centuries, from Buddhist temples to Biblical scripture, when light was the soul of the divine. Battling darkness... |
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DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution
James D Watson · Knopf
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
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The definitive insider's history of the genetic revolution--significantly updated to reflect the discoveries of the last decade. James D. Watson, the Nobel laureate whose pioneering work helped unlock the mystery of DNA's structure, charts the greatest scientific journey of our time, from... |
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The Meaning of Science: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
Tim Lewens · Basic Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Science has produced explanations for everything from the mechanisms of insect navigation to the formation of black holes and the workings of black markets. But how much can we trust science, and can we actually know the world through it? How does science work and how does it fail? And how can the work... |
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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
Daniel J Levitin · Dutton
Pages: 292
Format: Print book
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From The New York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process - especially in election season. It's raining... |
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The Stars: The Definitive Visual Guide to the Cosmos
Dk. · Dk Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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The definitive visual guide to exploring all the marvels of the stars, the Milky Way, and the universe beyond.Chart the wonders of the cosmos in our own solar system and beyond with The Stars. Packed with 3-D artworks of each constellation and incredible new imagery from the Hubble Space... |
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Roll Back Global Warming
Paul Hawken · Penguin Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the worldIn the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer... |
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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
ELLEN ULLMAN · MCD
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the MachineThe last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably... |
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The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love
Michael Lemonick · Doubleday
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now," where she has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. The Perpetual Now is the moving story of this exceptional woman, and the groundbreaking revelations... |
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