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The River of Consciousness
Oliver Sacks · Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience. Oliver Sacks,... |
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In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies
David Rieff · Yale University Press
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Today, the consensus... |
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 468
Format: Print book
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The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our handsThe math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows... |
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The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
Marcus du Sautoy · Viking
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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"Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting." - Bill Bryson A captivating journey to the outer reaches of human knowledgeEver since the dawn of civilization we have been driven by a desire to know - to understand the physical world... |
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We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
Jorge Cham · Riverhead Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Prepare to learn everything we still don't know about our strange, mostly mysterious universe. PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to spelunk through the enormous gaps in our cosmological knowledge, armed with their popular infographics, cartoons,... |
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Food forensics : the health ranger's guide to foods that harm and foods that heal.
Mike Adams · Benbella Books
Pages: 320
Format: Book
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What's really in our food?Award-winning investigative journalist and clean food activist Mike Adams, the "Health Ranger," is founder and editor of NaturalNews.com, one of the top health news websites in the world, reaching millions of readers each month.Now, in Food Forensics,... |
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Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
Mike Mullane
Format: Print book
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In 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts was introduced to the world -- twenty-nine men and six women who would carry NASA through the most tumultuous years of the space shuttle program. Among them was USAF Colonel Mike Mullane, who, in his memoir Riding Rockets, strips the heroic... |
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Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe
John Hands · Overlook Duckworth
Pages: 674
Format: Print book
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The book that transforms our understanding of what we are and where we came from.Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth?John Hands's... |
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The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are
Alan Jasanoff · Basic Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A pioneering neuroscientist argues that we are more than our brainsTo many, the brain is the seat of personal identity and autonomy. But the way we talk about the brain is often rooted more in mystical conceptions of the soul than in scientific fact. This blinds us to the physical realities... |
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How Science Works: The Facts Visually Explained
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff · DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Explore answers to questions on 70 topics in the areas of matter, physics, energy, chemistry, life science, earth science, technology, and the universe. How Science Works uses clear, easy-to-understand graphics to answer common questions and explain difficult concepts--not only the core... |
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Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality
Ben Orlin · Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
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A hilarious reeducation in mathematics-full of joy, jokes, and stick figures-that sheds light on the countless practical and wonderful ways that math structures and shapes our world. In Math With Bad Drawings, Ben Orlin reveals to us what math actually is; its myriad uses, its strange... |
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Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code
Matthew Cobb · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Everyone has heard of the story of DNA as the story of Watson and Crick and Rosalind Franklin, but knowing the structure of DNA was only a part of a greater struggle to understand life's secrets. Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code,... |
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