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The Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far: Why Are We Here?
Lawrence M Krauss · Atria Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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Internationally renowned, award-winning theoretical physicist, New York Times bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing, and passionate advocate for reason, Lawrence Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world of reality - a grand poetic vision of nature - and how we find... |
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Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable
Paul G Falkowski · Princeton University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us. Life's Engines takes readers deep into the microscopic world to explore... |
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The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know About the All-There-Is
Roberto Trotta · Basic Books (AZ)
Pages: 85
Format: Hardcover
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From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the origins of the universe to its ultimate destiny, The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the most important discoveries and mysteries in modern cosmology - with a twist. The book's lexicon is limited to the thousand... |
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Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
DANIEL GOLEMAN · Avery
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Two New York Times-bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain. In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship... |
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How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
David France · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 624
Format: Print book
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The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic - from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague. A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the grassroots movement of activists, many of them in a life-or-death struggle,... |
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Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science
Peter Watson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 576
Format: Print book
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A brilliant history of science over the past 150 years that offers a powerful new argument - that the many disparate scientific branches are converging on the same truths.Convergence is a history of modern science with an original and significant twist. Various scientific disciplines, despite... |
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The Unknown Universe A New Exploration of Time, Space, and Modern Cosmology.
Clark Stuart.
Format: Print book : English
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A groundbreaking guide to the universe and how our latest deep-space discoveries are forcing us to revisit what we know -- and what we don't. On March 21, 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8... |
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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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Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
Will Harlan · Grove Press
Pages: 307
Format: Print book
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Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She wrestles alligators, eats roadkill, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built by hand in an island wilderness. A combination of Henry David Thoreau and Jane Goodall, Carol is a self-taught scientist who has become... |
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Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games
Ian Bogost · Basic Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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"Play Anything is nothing short of brilliant... I will be recommending this provocative and entertaining book to everyone I know." --Jane McGonigal, bestselling author of Reality is Broken and SuperBetterLife is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing... |
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Endurance: My Year in Space and Our Journey to Mars
Scott Kelly · Knopf
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station--a candid account of his remarkable voyage, of the journeys off the planet that preceded it, and of his colorful formative years.The veteran of four space flights and the American... |
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Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Jim Al-Khalili · Picador
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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In these lively and fascinating essays, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe and discuss just what that might look like. Since 2000, science has seen a surge in data and interest on several fronts related to E.T.... |
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Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
James T Costa · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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Darwin's Backyard goes beyond the portrait of Charles Darwin as a brilliant thinker to concentrate on him as a nimble experimenter delving into some of evolution's great mysteries.James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin's childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle where... |
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The Secret Life of the Periodic Table: Unlocking the Mysteries of All 118 Elements
Ben Still Dr · Firefly Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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The Secret Life of the Periodic Table uncovers the fascinating stories behind the formulation of the table. It describes how and who discovered the 118 elements, and the competition and cooperation behind scientific advances. The character of the elements is brought to life in a bright... |
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