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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, law enforcement, and our understanding of the human mindEmotions feel automatic to us; that's why scientists have long assumed that emotions are hardwired in the body or the brain. Today,... |
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On the Burning Edge: A Fateful Fire and the Men Who Fought It
Kyle Dickman · Ballantine Books
Pages: 277
Format: Print book
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MEN'S JOURNAL * In the tradition of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm and Robert Kurson's Shadow Divers comes a true and heartbreaking tale of courage, difficult decisions, and ultimate sacrifice. On the Burning Edge, by award-winning journalist... |
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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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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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Hubble's legacy : reflections by those who dreamed it, built it, and observed the universe with it
Roger D Launius; David H DeVorkin · Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Format: Hardcover
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The development and operation of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have resulted in many rich legacies, most particularly in science and technology - but in culture as well. This book, which includes contributions from historians of science, key scientists and administrators, and one of the principal... |
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Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet
MICHAEL R BLOOMBERG · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world healthier and more... |
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker PhD · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert - Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab - reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.Sleep is one of the most... |
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
John Vaillant · Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers... |
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Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth
Jane Alexander · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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A moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet earth as a result of human incursion, and the crucial work of animal and bird preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists, zoologists, environmentalists, and conservationists.... |
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Local: The New Face of Food and Farming in America
Douglas Gayeton · Harper Design
Format: Hardcover
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Combining stunning visuals with insights and a lexicon of more than 200 agricultural terms explained by today's thought leaders, Local showcases and explores one of the most popular environmental trends: rebuilding local food movements.When Douglas Gayeton took his young daughter to see the salmon... |
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