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The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides
MARIANO SIGMAN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 288
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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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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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change
Marc Morano · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
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Less freedom. More regulation. Higher costs. Make no mistake: those are the surefire consequences of the modern global warming campaign waged by political and cultural elites, who have long ago abandoned fact-based science for dramatic fearmongering in order to push increased central planning.... |
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On Gravity: A Brief Tour of a Weighty Subject
A Zee · Princeton University Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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A brief introduction to gravity through Einstein's general theory of relativityOf the four fundamental forces of nature, gravity might be the least understood and yet the one with which we are most intimate. From the months each of us spent suspended in the womb anticipating birth to the moments... |
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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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The Illustrated Walden: or, Life in the Woods
Henry David Thoreau · Sterling
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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A beautiful illustrated edition of Thoreau's classic treatise on man and nature. "Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" Henry David Thoreau built his small cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in 1845. For the next two years, he lived... |
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The Healing Self: A Revolutionary Plan for Wholeness in Mind, Body, and Spirit
Deepak Chopra · Harmony
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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After collaborating on two major books featured as PBS specials, Super Brain and Super Genes, Chopra and Tanzi now tackle the issue of lifelong health and heightened immunity.In the face of environmental toxins, potential epidemics, super bugs, and the aging process The Healing Self offers... |
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Ed Yong · Ecco
Pages: 357
Format: Print book
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New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Book of 2016NPR Great Read of 2016Economist Best Books of 2016Brain Pickings Best Science Books of 2016Smithsonian Best Books about Science of 2016Science Friday Best Science Book of 2016A Mother Jones Notable Read of 2016MPR Best Books of 2016Chicago... |
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When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
Jim Holt · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Godel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought.Does time exist?... |
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Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World
MITCH PRINSTEIN · Viking
Pages: 273
Format: Hardcover
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A leading psychologist examines how our popularity affects our success, our relationships, and our happiness - and why we don't always want to be the most popularNo matter how old you are, there's a good chance that the word "popular" immediately transports you back to your teenage... |
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AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War
Tom McNichol · Jossey-Bass
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison wrongly bet in the fierce war between supporters of alternating current and direct current. The savagery of this electrical battle can hardly be imagined today. The showdown between AC and DC began as a rather straightforward conflict... |
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Our Angry Earth
Isaac Asimov · Tor Books
Pages: 479
Format: Paperback
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"A lucid overview of [environmental] problems and a compelling call to action." -- Publishers WeeklyFrom two of science fiction's most celebrated and brilliant minds -- Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl -- comes the second edition of Our Angry Earth, a comprehensive analysis of today's... |
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