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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 Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado
Holly Bailey · Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"A gripping, heartbreaking and heartwarming account of the monster tornado that ravaged Moore, Oklahoma in 2013." --Daniel James Brown, #1 NY Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat An acclaimed reporter returns to her hometown after the worst twister on record and emerges... |
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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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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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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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Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
Gillen D'Arcy Wood · Princeton University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano's massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more... |
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Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
Dean Burnett · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous gray matter from neuroscientist and massively popular Guardian blogger Dean Burnett.The brain may be the seat of consciousness and the engine of all human experience, but it's also messy, fallible, and disorganized. For example, did you know... |
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A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park
Edward O Wilson · Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Pages: 149
Format: Hardcover
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A Window on Eternity is a stunning book of splendid prose and gorgeous photography about one of the biologically richest places in Africa and perhaps in the world. Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique was nearly destroyed in a brutal civil war, then was reborn and is now evolv-ing back... |
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Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
SAM KEAN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating science and history of the air we breatheIt's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell.In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around... |
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Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical
Johnny Ball · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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In this book, Johnny Ball tells one of the most important stories in world history - the story of mathematics. By introducing us to the major characters and leading us through many historical twists and turns, Johnny slowly unravels the tale of how humanity built up a knowledge and understanding... |
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The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It
Shawn Lawrence Otto · Milkweed Editions
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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"Wherever the people are well informed," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government." But what happens when they are not? In every issue of modern society--from climate change to vaccinations, transportation to technology, health care to defense--we... |
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Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
HENRY MARSH · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Following the publication of Do No Harm, Dr. Henry Marsh retired from his position at a hospital in London. But his career continued, taking him to remote hospitals in places such as Nepal and Pakistan, where he offers his services as surgeon and teacher to those in need. Now, Marsh considers... |
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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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The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson: The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten Surgeon
Cherry Lewis · Pegasus Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A colorful and absorbing portrait of James Parkinson and the turbulent, intellectually vibrant world of Georgian London. Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 60,000 new cases each year in the United States alone, yet few know anything about the man the disease... |
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