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Losing Earth: A Recent History
Nathaniel Rich · MCD
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change -- including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world... |
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How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
Randall Munroe · Riverhead Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"How To will make you laugh as you learn ... With How To, you can't help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of humanity's effort to comprehend it. If you want some... |
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State of the Heart: Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease
Haider Warraich · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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In State of the Heart, Dr. Haider Warraich takes readers inside the ER, inside patients' rooms, and inside the history and science of cardiac disease.
State of the Heart traces the entire arc of the heart, from the very first time it was depicted on stone tablets,... |
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Dark Skies
Valerie Stimac · Lonely Planet
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Witnessing the sweep of the Milky Way, the remains of comets burning up in our atmosphere, or the shimmering aurora, we better understand the universe and our place in it. Lonely Planet's Dark Skies, the first world's guide to astrotourism, can help you experience all of this... |
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The World Beneath: The Life and Times of Unknown Sea Creatures and Coral Reefs
Richard Smith · Apollo Publishers
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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Meet the sea's most fascinating creatures - see the lives and curiosities of charmers and tricksters - many newly identified and some on the verge of extinction. From one of the world's premier marine biologists, an award-winning underwater photographer, and a leading expert on seahorses,... |
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American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
Kate Winkler Dawson · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Death in the Air ("Not since Devil in the White City has a book told such a harrowing tale"--Douglas Preston) comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the twentieth century.Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with... |
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