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Why?: What Makes Us Curious
Mario Livio · Simon & Schuster Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics - curiosity - as he explores our innate desire to know why.Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation - where they can know only one side... |
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Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
EMMA BYRNE · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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An irreverent and impeccably researched defense of our dirtiest words.We're often told that swearing is outrageous or even offensive, that it's a sign of a stunted vocabulary or a limited intellect. Dictionaries have traditionally omitted it and parents forbid it. But the latest research... |
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Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
DANIEL GOLEMAN · Avery Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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Two New York Times-bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain. In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship... |
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Catching Breath: The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis
KATHRYN LOUGHEED · Bloomsbury Sigma Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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With more than a million victims every year--more than any other disease, including malaria--and antibiotic resistance now found in every country worldwide, tuberculosis is once again proving itself to be one of the smartest killers that humanity has ever faced. But it's hardly surprising... |
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The Health of Nations: The Campaign to End Polio and Eradicate Epidemic Diseases
Karen Bartlett · Oneworld Publications Pages: 294 Format: Hardcover
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"Anyone interested in public health and its interface with politics will find both hope and frustration here. A fascinating look at epidemiology and the challenges that public health workers face." -- Library JournalWhat would a world without disease look like? With the victory... |
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We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement that Restores the Planet
XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ · Rodale Books Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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Challenge the status quo, change the face of activism, and confront climate change head on with the ultimate blueprint for taking action.Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is a 16-year-old climate activist, hip-hop artist, and powerful new voice on the front lines of a global youth-led movement. He and his group... |
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Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs
MARK LYNAS · Bloomsbury Sigma Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades later, most people around the world--from... |
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Human evolution : our brains and behavior
R I M Dunbar · Oxford University Press Format: Print book
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"This book covers the psychological aspects of human evolution with a table of contents ranging from prehistoric times to modern days. Dunbar focuses on an aspect of evolution that has typically been overshadowed by the archaeological record: the biological, neurological, and genetic... |
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A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind
DAVID J HELFAND · Columbia University Press Pages: 344 Format: Paperback
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We live in the Information Age, with billions of bytes of data just two swipes away. Yet how much of this is mis- or even disinformation? A lot of it is, and your search engine can't tell the difference. As a result, an avalanche of misinformation threatens to overwhelm the discourse... |
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The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist
Tim Birkhead · Bloomsbury Publishing Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Bird Sense, a biography of Francis Willughby, the man who pulled the study of birds out of the dark ages and formed the foundations of modern ornithology. Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the rapidly accelerating scientific revolution of the seventeenth... |
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Evolution: The Human Story, 2nd Edition
Alice Roberts · DK Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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Fully updated with the latest discoveries and research, amazingly realistic illustrations and detailed maps plot eight million years of human development in the context of our genetics, anatomy, behavior, environment, migrations, and culture.This unrivaled illustrated guide to human evolution... |
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Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World
MITCH PRINSTEIN · Viking Pages: 273 Format: Hardcover
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A leading psychologist examines how our popularity affects our success, our relationships, and our happiness - and why we don't always want to be the most popularNo matter how old you are, there's a good chance that the word "popular" immediately transports you back to your teenage... |
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