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Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants
Jane Goodall · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Renowned naturalist and bestselling author Jane Goodall examines the critical role that trees and plants play in our world. In her wise and elegant new book, Jane Goodall blends her experience in nature with her enthusiasm for botany to give readers a deeper understanding of the world around... |
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Kosmos: An Evolutionary-wholistic Account of Creation
Dennis Milner · Authors OnLine
Pages: 452
Format: Print book
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One of the great scientific advances of the nineteenth century was the realisation that all living things on Earth have come about by evolution over a long period of time. A major advance of the twentieth century was the realisation that the Universe as a whole - its Galaxies, Stars and Planets,... |
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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Michael Pollan · The Penguin Press
Pages: 468
Format: Book
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**Now a docu-series airing on Netflix on February 19, 2016, starring Pollan as he explores how cooking transforms food and shapes our world. Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney exectuve produces the four-part series based on Pollan's book, and each episode will focus on a different natural... |
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How to Make a Zombie: The Real Life (and Death) Science of Reanimation and Mind Control
Frank Swain · Oneworld Publications
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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The search for the means to control the bodies and minds of our fellow humans has been underway for millennia, from the sleep-inducing honeycombs that felled Pompey's army to the famous voodoo potions of Haiti. But recently, science has taken up the quest. Science punk Frank Swain digs... |
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The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
David J. Hand · Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 269
Format: Hardcover
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In The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anything but. In fact, they're commonplace. Not only that, we should all expect to experience a miracle roughly once every month. But Hand is no believer in superstitions,... |
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Anatomy and Physiology For Dummies
Donna Rae Siegfried · John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 360
Format: Print book
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Learn about the human body from the inside out Some people think that knowing about what goes on inside the human body can sap life of its mystery - which is too bad for them. Anybody who's ever taken a peak under the hood knows that the human body, and all its various structures and functions,... |
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Pre-Algebra DeMYSTiFieD, Second Edition
Allan Bluman · McGraw-Hill Professional; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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Preempt your anxiety about PRE-ALGEBRA! Ready to learn math fundamentals but cant seem to get your brain to function? No problem! Add Pre-Algebra Demystified, Second Edition, to the equation and youll solve your dilemma in no time. Written in a step-by-step format, this practical guide... |
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Idiot's Guides: Basic Math and Pre-Algebra
Carolyn Wheater · Alpha
Format: Book
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Idiots Guides Basic Math and Pre-Algebra helps readers get up to speed and relearn the primary concepts of mathematics, geometry, and pre-algebra. Content includes basic math operations addition, subtraction, multiplication, division word problems factors and multiples fractions, decimals,... |
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The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science
Armand Marie Leroi · Viking; Tra edition
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant study of Aristotle as biologist The philosophical classics of Aristotle loom large over the history of Western thought, but the subject he most loved was biology. He wrote vast volumes about animals. He described them, classified them, told us where and how they live and how they... |
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A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson · Broadway Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests... |
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Let's Review Chemistry: The Physical Setting
ALBERT S TARENDASH · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 600
Format: Paperback
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This book reviews all high school-level chemistry topics and includes:A topic review covering atomic structure, chemical formulas and equations, the mathematics of chemistry, thermochemistry and thermodynamics, the phases of matter, chemical periodicity, chemical bonding, and much more... |
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