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The Galápagos: A Natural History
Henry Nicholls · Basic Books
Pages: 195
Format: Hardcover |
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Charles Darwin called it "a little world within itself." Sailors referred to it as "Las Encantadas" - the enchanted islands. Lying in the eastern Pacific Ocean, straddling the equator off the west coast of South America, the Galápagos is the most pristine archipelago... |
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The Big, Bad Book of Botany: The World's Most Fascinating Flora
Michael Largo · William Morrow Paperbacks |
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David Attenborough meets Lemony Snicket in The Big Bad Book of Botany Michael Largos entertaining and enlightening one-of-a-kind compendium of the worlds most amazing and bizarre plants their history and their loreThe Big Bad Book of Botany introduces a world of wild wonderful and weird... |
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The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century
William Rosen · Viking Adult |
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How a seven-year cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history In May 1315, it started to rain. It didn’t stop anywhere in north Europe until August. Next came the four coldest winters in a millennium. Two separate animal epidemics... |
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Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
J. Craig Venter · Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover |
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The renowned scientist and author of A Life Decoded examines the creation of life in the new field of synthetic genomics In 2010, scientists led by J. Craig Venter became the first to successfully create “synthetic life”—putting humankind at the threshold of the most important... |
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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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Ha!: The Science of When We Laugh and Why
Scott Weems · Basic Books
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover |
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Humor, like pornography, is famously difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but is there a way to figure out what we really find funny - and why?In this fascinating investigation into the science of humor and laughter, cognitive neuroscientist Scott Weems uncovers what's happening... |
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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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Help Your Kids with Math, Second Edition
Barry Lewis · DK; Rev Upd edition |
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After its publication in 2010, Help Your Kids with Math quickly climbed to the top of DKs bestseller charts. Families were hungry for meaningful math help-not Internet searches and hours of family frustration. The simple, visual approach of Help Your Kids with Math was exactly what parents... |
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