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The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
Richard Mabey · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 374
Format: Print book
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"Highly entertaining ... Without being sentimental about it, Mr. Mabey gets us to look at life from the plants' point of view. His science is sound, he's witty, and his language is engaging." -- Constance Casey, New York TimesThe Cabaret of Plants is a masterful, globe-trotting... |
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The Astronomy Bible: The Definitive Guide to the Night Sky and the Universe
Heather Couper · Firefly Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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Interest in astronomy continues to grow stronger for readers of all ages. Recent astronomy titles, like History of Astronomy, have shown consistently strong sales. The Astronomy Bible is a comprehensive guide to the study of what lies beyond our planet. With this book readers can easily... |
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Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
Priyamvada Natarajan · Yale Univ Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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This book provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries - the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled... |
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Too Much of a Good Thing: How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us
Lee Goldman · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 344
Format: Print book
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Dean of Columbia University's medical school explains why our bodies are out of sync with today's environment and how we can correct this to save our health.Over the past 200 years, human life-expectancy has approximately doubled. Yet we face soaring worldwide rates of obesity, diabetes,... |
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Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel
Michael Wall · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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We've all asked ourselves the question. It's impossible to look up at the stars and NOT think about it: Are we alone in the universe? Books, movies and television shows proliferate that attempt to answer this question and explore it. In OUT THERE Space.com senior writer Dr. Michael Wall... |
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The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived
Clive Finlayson · Oxford University Press
Pages: 273
Format: Paperback
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Hailed by Dan Agin in The Huffington Post as "fascinating...electrifying...an apocalyptic vision that puts a chill down one's back," this provocative book offers a new perspective on the extinction of the Neanderthals. Today, we think of Neanderthals as crude and clumsy, easily... |
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Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World
Oren Solomon Harman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant lyrical exploration of how modern science illuminates what it means to be human, from the award-winning author of The Price of AltruismWe don't think anymore, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing... |
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