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How We'll Live on Mars
Stephen Petranek · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning journalist Stephen Petranek says humans will live on Mars by 2027. Now he makes the case that living on Mars is not just plausible, but inevitable.It sounds like science fiction, but Stephen Petranek considers it fact: Within twenty years, humans will live on Mars. We'll... |
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Seven Flowers: And How They Shaped Our World
Jennifer Potter · Overlook Books
Format: Hardcover
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The lotus. The lily. The sunflower. The opium poppy. The rose. The tulip. The orchid. Seven flowers, each with its own story full of surprises and secrets, each affecting the world around us in subtle but powerful ways. But what is the nature of their power and how did it develop? Why have... |
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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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The Perfect Theory
Pedro G Ferreira · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Physicists have been exploring, debating, and questioning the general theory of relativity ever since Albert Einstein first presented it in 1915. In this sweeping narrative of science and culture, astrophysicist Pedro Ferreira brings general relativity to life through the story of the brilliant... |
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The Playful Brain: The Surprising Science of How Puzzles Improve Your Mind
Scott Kim · Riverhead Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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This is your brain on puzzles...A leading neuroscientist and a noted puzzle designer team up to reveal how solving puzzles improves your brain function. It's no secret that puzzles are fun to solve. But when Dr. Richard Restak, a respected neuroscientist, discovered new research that... |
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Everyday Calculus: Discovering the Hidden Math All Around Us
Oscar E Fernandez · Princeton University Press
Pages: 150
Format: Hardcover
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Uses everyday experiences to reveal the hidden calculus behind a typical day's events, showing how math naturally emerges from simple observations such as how hot coffee cools down, and demonstrating that calculus can be both useful and fascinating. |
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The Undertaker's Daughter
Kate Mayfield · Gallery Books; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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The Undertakers Daughter is a wonderfully quirky, gem of a book beautifully written by Kate Mayfield.Her compelling, complicated family and cast of characters stay with you long after you close the book Monica Holloway, author of Cowboy Wills and Driving With Dead People. How does one live... |
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The Handy Astronomy Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series)
Charles Liu · Visible Ink Press; 2nd edition
Pages: 332
Format: Paperback
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From planetary movements and the exploration of our solar system to black holes and dark matter, this comprehensive reference simplifies all aspects of astronomy with an approachable question-and-answer format. With chapters broken into various astronomical studies—including the universe,... |
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Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math
Daniel Tammet · Little, Brown and Company; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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The irresistibly engaging book that enlarges ones wonder at Tammets mind and his all-embracing vision of the world as grounded in numbers. --Oliver Sacks, MD THINKING IN NUMBERS is the book that Daniel Tammet, mathematical savant and bestselling author, was born to write. In Tammets world,... |
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The Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers That Rule Our World
Zachary Karabell · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 287
Format: Paperback
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The Leading Indicators was widely and well received as a much needed corrective to the outdated, outmoded economic figures we are accustomed. Every day, we are bombarded with numbers that tell us how we are doing, whether the economy is growing or shrinking, whether the future looks bright... |
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What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science, and the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World
Cat Warren · Touchstone; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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A firsthand exploration of the extraordinary abilities and surprising, sometimes life-saving talents of "working dogs" - pups who can sniff out drugs, find explosives, even locate the dead - as told through the experiences of a journalist and her intrepid canine companion, which... |
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