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The Watch, Thoroughly Revised
Gene Stone · Abrams
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The Watch is the most popular book on vintage and contemporary mechanical watches, appealing to both beginners and experts. In the decade since it was published, the international audience of watch lovers and watch collectors has grown exponentially. It's time for The Watch, Thoroughly... |
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Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
MENNO SCHILTHUIZEN · Picador
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen comes a book that will make you see yourself and the world around you in an entirely new way.For a long time, biologists thought evolution was a necessarily slow process, too incremental to be observed in a lifetime. In Darwin Comes to Town,... |
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The Secret Language of Cats
Susanne Sch tz · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever wondered what your cat is saying? Cats do not meow randomly, nor do they growl or hiss because they have nothing better to do. Cat sounds have a purpose, and they can carry important messages, whether for us or other cats.Susanne Schštz is hard at work on breaking the cat code.... |
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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
Rose George · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of breakthrough scienceBlood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil. It can save lives and transmit... |
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Sawbones: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine
JUSTIN MCELROY · Weldon Owen
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A compelling, often hilarious and occasionally horrifying exploration of how modern medicine came to be! Wondering whether eating powdered mummies might be just the thing to cure your ills? Tempted by those vintage ads suggesting you wear radioactive underpants for virility? Ever considered... |
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The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy
Aaron Perzanowski · The MIT Press
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
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An argument for retaining the notion of personal property in the products we "buy" in the digital marketplace.If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put in on the shelf, lend it to a friend, sell it at a garage sale. But is the same... |
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Smithsonian: Flora: Inside the Secret World of Plants
DK. · DK
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover
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Discover the extraordinary diversity of the plant world--and how plants work--with this photographic celebration of the trees, flowers, and foliage plants that share our planet.From tiny mosses and delicate ferns to vibrant blooms and stately palms, Flora invites you to explore the plant... |
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Between Air and Electricity: Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments
CATHY VAN ECK · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
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Composers and sound artists have explored for decades how to transform microphones and loudspeakers from "inaudible" technology into genuinely new musical instruments. While the sound reproduction industry had claimed perfect high fidelity already at the beginning of the twentieth... |
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