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Complexity: The Evolution of Earth's Biodiversity and the Future of Humanity
William C Burger · Prometheus Pages: 380 Format: Print book
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This very readable overview of natural history explores the dynamics that have made our planet so rich in biodiversity over time and supported the rise and dominance of our own species. Tracing the arc of evolutionary history, biologist William C. Burger shows that cooperation and symbiosis... |
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Bumble Bees of North America: An Identification Guide
Paul Williams · Princeton University Press Pages: 208 Format: Paperback
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More than ever before, there is widespread interest in studying bumble bees and the critical role they play in our ecosystems. Bumble Bees of North America is the first comprehensive guide to North American bumble bees to be published in more than a century. Richly illustrated with color... |
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Rogerson's Book of Numbers: The Culture of Numbers---from 1,001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the World
Barnaby Rogerson · Picador Format: Hardcover
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THE STORIES BEHIND OUR ICONIC NUMBERSRogerson’s Book of Numbers is based on a numerical array of virtues, spiritual attributes, gods, devils, sacred cities, powers, calendars, heroes, saints, icons, and cultural symbols.It provides a dazzling mass of information for those intrigued... |
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The New Moon: Water, Exploration, and Future Habitation
Arlin Crotts · Cambridge University Press Format: Hardcover
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Explore Earth's closest neighbor, the Moon, in this fascinating and timely book and discover what we should expect from this seemingly familiar but strange, new frontier. What startling discoveries are being uncovered on the Moon? What will these tell us about our place in the Universe?... |
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The STEM Coaching Handbook: Working with Teachers to Improve Instruction
Terry Talley · Routledge Pages: 145 Format: Hardcover
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Learn how to promote STEM integration in your school district and increase student achievement. In this helpful, easy-to-read book, author Terry Talley sheds light on the key responsibilities and accountabilities of a successful STEM coach and offers a wealth of practical advice for those... |
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Making "Nature": The History of a Scientific Journal
Melinda Baldwin · University Of Chicago Press Format: Hardcover
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Making Nature is the first book to chronicle the foundation and development of Nature, one of the worlds most influential scientific institutions. Now nearing its hundred and fiftieth year of publication, Nature is the international benchmark for scientific publication. Its contributors... |
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The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Gino SegreÌ€ · Henry Holt and Company Pages: 351 Format: Print book
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Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. His discoveries changed our world; they led to weapons of mass destruction... |
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Drugs Unlimited: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High
Mike Power · Thomas Dunne Books Format: Hardcover
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The very first thing ever bought or sold on the Internet was marijuana, when Stanford and MIT students used ARPANET to cut a deal in the early ’70s. Today, you can order any conceivable pill or powder with the click of a mouse. In Drugs Unlimited, Mike Power tells the tale of drugs... |
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Infinite Worlds: The People and Places of Space Exploration
Michael Soluri · Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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A stunning, unprecedented collection of photographs and essays that goes behind the scenes at NASA, in which the humanity of the astronauts, engineers, scientists, technicians, and ground crews that contributed in saving the Hubble Space Telescope are revealed.Michael Soluri has been photographing... |
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Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
Dean Burnett · W.W. Norton & Company Pages: 336 Format: Print book
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A delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous gray matter from neuroscientist and massively popular Guardian blogger Dean Burnett.The brain may be the seat of consciousness and the engine of all human experience, but it's also messy, fallible, and disorganized. For example, did you know... |
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Defying Dystopia: Going on with the Human Journey after Technology Fails Us
Ed Ayres · Transaction Publishers Pages: 223 Format: Paperback
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To most, the collapse of modern civilization is the stuff of fiction. Yet, science confirms that misuse of technology and environmental abuse places our world in grave danger of ruin. The World Scientists' Warning to Humanity places our civilization on a collision course. Defying Dystopia... |
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The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary Edition
Richard Dawkins · Oxford University Press Pages: 544 Format: Paperback
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The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution... |
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A Natural History of English Gardening: 16501800
Mark Laird · Paul Mellon Centre BA Format: Hardcover
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Inspired by the pioneering naturalist Gilbert White, who viewed natural history as the common study of cultural and natural communities, Mark Laird unearths forgotten historical data to reveal the complex visual cultures of early modern gardening. Ranging from climate studies to the study... |
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The Galápagos: A Natural History
Henry Nicholls · Basic Books Pages: 195 Format: Hardcover
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Charles Darwin called it "a little world within itself." Sailors referred to it as "Las Encantadas" - the enchanted islands. Lying in the eastern Pacific Ocean, straddling the equator off the west coast of South America, the Galápagos is the most pristine archipelago... |
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