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The Pleasure Shock: The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor
Lone Frank · Dutton
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The electrifying, forgotten history of Robert Heath's brain pacemaker, investigating the origins and ethics of one of today's most promising medical breakthroughs: deep brain stimulationThe technology invented by psychiatrist Robert G. Heath at Tulane University in the 1950s and '60s has been... |
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Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change
Leonard Mlodinow · Pantheon Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Subliminal and The Drunkard's Walk, a groundbreaking new look at the neuroscience of change--and how elastic thinking can help us thrive in a world changing faster than ever before. With rapid technological innovation leading the charge, today's world is transforming... |
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How the Universe Works
CHARTWELL BOOKS. · Chartwell Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The cosmos is a complex and intricate system that astronomers have been trying to dissect for years. From Galileo and Copernicus to the Space Race and Modern Day NASA missions, humanity has craved more knowledge about the universe and how it works. Hundreds of years of scientific discovery,... |
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Quantum Fuzz: The Strange True Makeup of Everything Around Us
Michael S Walker · Prometheus Books
Pages: 420
Format: Print book
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Quantum physics has turned our commonsense notion of reality on its head. This accessible book describes in layperson's terms the strange phenomena that exist at the quantum level--a world of tiny dimensions where nothing is absolutely predictable, where we rethink causality, and information... |
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Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science
Peter Watson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 576
Format: Print book
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A brilliant history of science over the past 150 years that offers a powerful new argument - that the many disparate scientific branches are converging on the same truths.Convergence is a history of modern science with an original and significant twist. Various scientific disciplines, despite... |
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How Numbers Rule the World: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics
Lorenzo Fioramonti · Zed Books
Pages: 271
Format: Paperback
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Numbers dominate global politics and as a result our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal... |
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Statistics for People Who
Neil J Salkind · SAGE Publications
Pages: 519
Format: Print book
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The Sixth Edition of Neil J. Salkind's best-selling Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics promises to ease student anxiety around an often intimidating subject with a humorous, personable, and informative approach. Salkind guides students through various statistical... |
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God and the Multiverse: Humanity's Expanding View of the Cosmos
Victor J. Stenger · Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Cosmologists have reasons to believe that the vast universe in which we live is just one of an endless number of other universes within a multiverse—a mind-boggling array that may extend indefinitely in space and endlessly in both the past and the future. Victor Stenger reviews the key developments... |
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Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science
Dave Levitan · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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An eye-opening tour of the political tricks that subvert scientific progress.The Butter-Up and Undercut. The Certain Uncertainty. The Straight-Up Fabrication. Dave Levitan dismantles all of these deceptive arguments, and many more, in this probing and hilarious examination of the ways our elected... |
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Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
George Marshall · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Most of us recognize that climate change is real, and yet we do nothing to stop it. What is this psychological mechanism that allows us to know something is true but act as if it is not? George Marshalls search for the answers brings him face to face with Nobel Prize-winning psychologists... |
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Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
Alan Burdick · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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"Time" is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it's always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we're bored and speed by as we get older?... |
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Mars: Science Fiction to Colonization
Lightning Guides · Lightning Guides
Pages: 118
Format: Paperback
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Mars: Science Fiction to Colonization, explores how science fiction has emerged into scientific fact as the prospect of colonizing Mars grows ever more tangible. From modern technology borne straight from the pages of classic novels to the Space Race, the first orbiter missions to the hypothesized... |
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Organic Hobby Farming: A Practical Guide to Earth-Friendly Farming in Any Space
Andy Tomolonis · i5 Press
Format: Book
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In Organic Hobby Farming, Andy Tomolonis, a longtime organic gardener, part-time hobby farmer, and award-winning Boston-area journalist, strips down the concept of “organic” and explains why natural farming has emerged as the healthiest and most viable method of growing for hobby... |
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