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Patient H69: The Story of My Second Sight
Vanessa Potter · Bloomsbury Sigma Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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In 2012, Vanessa Potter, a married advertising film producer with two young children, was stricken by Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD) , a rare illness that resulted in sudden blindness and paralysis. She was hospitalized for two weeks. Over the next five months at home,... |
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Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
Dean Buonomano · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 304 Format: Print book
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A leading neuroscientist embarks on a groundbreaking exploration of how time works inside the brain.In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, brain researcher and best-selling author Dean Buonomano draws on evolutionary biology, physics, and philosophy to present his influential theory of how we tell,... |
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The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
Christophe Galfard · Flatiron Books Pages: 400 Format: Print book
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"If Ms. Frizzle were a physics student of Stephen Hawking, she might have written THE UNIVERSE IN YOUR HAND, a wild tour through the reaches of time and space, from the interior of a proton to the Big Bang to the rough suburbs of a black hole. It's friendly, excitable, erudite, and cosmic."... |
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The Stress Gene : The Lifelong Impact of Early Life Adversity and How to Break the Cycle
Daniel P Keating · St. Martin's Press Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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Why are we the way we are? Why do some of us find it impossible to calm a hair-trigger temper or to shake chronic anxiety? The debate has always been divided between nature and nurture, but as psychology professor Daniel Keating demonstrates in Born Anxious, new science points to a third... |
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Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet
Mckay Jenkins · Avery Pub Group Pages: 336 Format: Print book
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Are GMOs really that bad? A prominent environmental journalist takes a fresh look at what they actually mean for our food system and for us. In the past two decades, GMOs have come to dominate the American diet. Advocates hail them as the future of food, an enhanced method of crop breeding... |
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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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Darwin's First Theory: Exploring Darwin's Quest for a Theory of Earth
R L Wesson · Pegasus Books Pages: 384 Format: Print book
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An acclaimed geologist leads the reader on an adventure through the landscape that absorbed and inspired Charles Darwin.Everybody knows -- or thinks they know -- Charles Darwin, the father of evolution and the man who altered the way we view our place in the world. But what most people... |
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Algebra I For Dummies
Mary Jane Sterling · John Wiley & Sons Pages: 384 Format: Print book
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Algebra I For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781119293576) was previously published as Algebra I For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9780470559642) . While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product.... |
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Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
Alan Burdick · Simon & Schuster Pages: 320 Format: Print book
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"Time" is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it's always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we're bored and speed by as we get older?... |
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Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
Jonathan B Losos · Riverhead Books Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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A major new work overturning our assumptions about how evolution works Earth's natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point... |
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Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
William Rosen · Viking Pages: 368 Format: Print book
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The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma.As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less... |
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If our bodies could talk : a guide to operating and maintaining a human body
James Hamblin · Doubleday Format: Paperback
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"If you want to understand the strange workings of the human body, and the future of medicine, you must read this illuminating, engaging book." --SiddharthaMukherjee,author ofThe Gene In 2014, James Hamblin launched a series of videos for The Atlantic called "If Our Bodies... |
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