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The Birds of Pandemonium
Michele Raffin · Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkable book. Reading about the birds of Pandemonium will make you laugh and cry it will make you see more clearly the need to take care of our planet and it will confirm that one person with a passion can make a difference. —Jeff Corwin, nature conservationist and host of Animal... |
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Secret Language of Color: Science, Nature, History, Culture, Beauty of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, & Violet
Joann Eckstut · Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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In this beautiful and thorough investigation, The Secret Language of Color celebrates and illuminates the countless ways in which color colors our world.Why is the sky blue, the grass green, a rose red? Most of us have no idea how to answer these questions, nor are we aware that color pervades... |
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Mary Roach · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 348
Format: Print book
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The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic... |
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My Gentle Barn: Creating a Sanctuary Where Animals Heal and Children Learn to Hope
Ellie Laks · Harmony Books
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover
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"My Gentle Barn is a wonderful book. You'll love Ellie Laks and the animals she rescued--and who rescued her back." -Sy Montgomery, The Good Good PigFounder Ellie Laks started The Gentle Barn after adopting a sick goat from a run-down petting zoo in 1999. Some two hundred... |
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The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs
MARK O'CONNELL · Dey Street Books
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
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The wildly entertaining and eye-opening biography of J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer who invented the concept of "Close Encounters" with alien life, inspired Steven Spielberg's blockbuster classic science fiction epic film, and made a nation want to believe in UFOs.In June 1947,... |
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Einstein: His Space and Times
Steven Gimbel · Yale University Press
Pages: 191
Format: Print book
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The commonly held view of Albert Einstein is of an eccentric genius for whom the pursuit of science was everything. But in actuality, the brilliant innovator whose Theory of Relativity forever reshaped our understanding of time was a man of his times, always politically engaged and driven... |
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Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers
Amir D. Aczel · Palgrave Macmillan Trade; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery.... |
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Gardening for the Birds: How to Create a Bird-Friendly Backyard
George Adams · Timber Press
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You may already have a bird feeder in your yard, but you can attract a far wider range of species, and they will stay longer, if you create a bird-friendly landscape. Gardening for the Birds shows you how.With the right native plants, arranged to mimic natural ecosystems, you will provide... |
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
ANGELA SAINI · Beacon Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knewFor hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less... |
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Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience
Michael S. Gazzaniga · Ecco; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century, gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left brain. Foreword by Steven Pinker.In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga, "the... |
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Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by their Trace Fossils
Anthony J. Martin · Pegasus Books
Pages: 460
Format: Hardcover
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CSI meets Jurassic Park in a fascinating, revelatory look at dinosaurs and their world through the million-year-old clues they left behind What if we woke up one morning all of the dinosaur bones in the world were gone? How would we know these iconic animals had a165-million year history... |
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Green Equilibrium: The Vital Balance of Humans and Nature
Christopher Wills · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Green Equilibrium, award-winning field biologist Christopher Wills explains the rules by which ecosystems thrive, shining light on a set of ecological balancing acts that he calls green equilibria, rules which keep our world vibrant, verdant, and ecologically intact. To explain the idea... |
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