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The Art of Logic in an Illogical World

EUGENIA CHENG · Basic Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth worldIn a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to readers drowning in the illogic...
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Think: Why You Should Question Everything

Guy P. Harrison · Prometheus Books
Format: Paperback

Think more critically, learn to question everything, and don't let your own brain trip you up.  This fresh and exciting approach to science, skepticism, and critical thinking will enlighten and inspire readers of all ages. With a mix of wit and wisdom, it challenges everyone...
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Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters

Jason A. Ramos · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A rare inside look at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature's blazes.Forest and wildland fires are growing larger, more numerous, and deadlier...
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The Practical Astronomer, 2nd Edition: Explore the Wonders of the Night Sky

Anton Vamplew · DK
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

A complete introduction to observing and understanding the night sky, explaining and demystifying stargazing to recognize objects and explain how they move through the sky over the night and the year.Explore the wonders of the night sky in The Practical Astronomer. Informative and easy-to-use...
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At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise

Michael Brooks · The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Free Radicals takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the most controversial areas of modern science The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All are ideas that have revolutionized science -- and all were dismissed out of hand when they first ap­peared. The surprises...
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Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima

James Mahaffey · Pegasus Books
Pages: 442
Format: Hardcover

A gripping narrative of nuclear mishaps and meltdowns around the globe, all of which have proven pivotal to the advancement of nuclear science.From the moment radiation was discovered in the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration...
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Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory

James T Costa · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

Darwin's Backyard goes beyond the portrait of Charles Darwin as a brilliant thinker to concentrate on him as a nimble experimenter delving into some of evolution's great mysteries.James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin's childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle where...
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Gender Medicine: The Groundbreaking New Science of Gender- and Sex-Based Diagnosis and Treatment

Marek Glezerman M.D. · Overlook Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The groundbreaking call for reform, challenging the dangerous assumption that male and female patients can be effectively treated in the same wayOver millions of years, male and female bodies developed crucial physiological differences to improve the chances for human survival. These differences...
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

Annalee Newitz · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

In its billionndashyear history life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times shattered by asteroid impacts entombed in ice smothered by methane and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way Can we survive...
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Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution

Doug Fine · Chelsea Green Publishing
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback

The stat sheet on hemp sounds almost too good to be true: its fibers are among the planet's strongest, its seed oil the most nutritious, and its potential as an energy source vast and untapped. Its one downside? For nearly a century, it's been illegal to grow industrial cannabis...
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Inorganic Chemistry For Dummies

Michael Matson · For Dummies; 1 edition
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

This is the easy way to get a grip on inorganic chemistry. Inorganic chemistry can be an intimidating subject, but it doesn't have to be! Whether you're currently enrolled in an inorganic chemistry class or you have a background in chemistry and want to expand your knowledge, "Inorganic...
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The Periodic Table: A Visual Guide to the Elements

Paul Parsons · Quercus
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

As one of the most recognizable images in science, the periodic table is ingrained in our culture. First drawn up in 1869 by Dmitri Mendeleev, its 118 elements make up not only everything on our planet but also everything in the entire universe.The Periodic Table looks at the fascinating...
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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

Max Tegmark · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 421
Format: Paperback

Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate...
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The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado

Holly Bailey · Viking
Format: Hardcover

"A gripping, heartbreaking and heartwarming account of the monster tornado that ravaged Moore, Oklahoma in 2013." --Daniel James Brown, #1 NY Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat An acclaimed reporter returns to her hometown after the worst twister on record and emerges...
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Steven D. Levitt
Format: Paperback

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions...
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