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Virtually Human: The Promise and the Peril of Digital Immortality
Martine Rothblatt · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Virtually Human explores what the not-too-distant future will look like when cyberconsciousness--simulation of the human brain via software and computer technology--becomes part of our daily lives. Meet Bina48, the worlds most sentient robot, commissioned by Martine Rothblatt and created... |
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We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement that Restores the Planet
XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ · Rodale Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Challenge the status quo, change the face of activism, and confront climate change head on with the ultimate blueprint for taking action.Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is a 16-year-old climate activist, hip-hop artist, and powerful new voice on the front lines of a global youth-led movement. He and his group... |
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Natural Defense: Enlisting Bugs and Germs to Protect Our Food and Health
Emily Monosson · Island Press
Pages: 186
Format: Hardcover
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For more than a century, we have relied on chemical cures to keep our bodies free from disease and our farms free from bugs and weeds. We rarely consider human and agricultural health together, but both are based on the same ecology, and both are being threatened by organisms that have... |
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Science in the Soul: Selected Shorter Writings
RICHARD DAWKINS · Random House
Pages: 438
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time. For decades, Richard... |
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Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson · Bloomsbury
Pages: 213
Format: Print book
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In his previous bestsellers, Masson has showed us that animals can teach us much about our own emotions -- love (dogs) , contentment (cats) , and grief (elephants) , among others. In Beasts, he demonstrates that the violence we perceive in the "wild" is a matter of projection.Animals... |
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Asteroids: Relics of Ancient Time
Michael K. Shepard · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Where do asteroids come from and what are they made of? What clues do they hold about the evolution of the Solar System? Scientists have catalogued hundreds of thousands of asteroids, and many are thought to contain water and amino acids, the building blocks of life. Michael Shepard tells... |
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Catching Breath: The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis
KATHRYN LOUGHEED · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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With more than a million victims every year--more than any other disease, including malaria--and antibiotic resistance now found in every country worldwide, tuberculosis is once again proving itself to be one of the smartest killers that humanity has ever faced. But it's hardly surprising... |
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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Max Tegmark · Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Pages: 421
Format: Paperback
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Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate... |
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Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses
John Dvorak · Pegasus Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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They have been thought of as harbingers of evil as well as a sign of the divine. Eclipses -- one of the rarest and most stunning celestial events we can witness here on Earth -- have shaped the course of human history and thought since humans first turned their eyes to the sky.What do Virginia... |
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