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The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century
Ronald Bailey · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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In the past five decades there have been many, many forecasts of impending environmental doom. They have universally been proven wrong. Meanwhile, those who have bet on human resourcefulness have almost always been correct. In his widely praised book Ecoscam, Ronald Bailey strongly countered... |
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Fracking Pennsylvania: Flirting With Disaster
Walter M. Brasch · Greeley & Stone, Publishers, LLC; 2 edition
Format: Print book
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--70% more content than first edition --updated t0 2014 --30 photos and graphics In his most powerful investigation to date, award-winning journalist Walter M. Brasch digs into the natural gas industry and extracts the truth about fracking. This is the long-awaited second edition to the critically-acclaimed... |
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The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster, Faster
Robert Colvile · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 390
Format: Print book
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In this revelatory study of modern living, Robert Colvile inspects the various ways in which the pace of life in our society is increasing and examines the evolutionary science behind our rapidly accelerating need for change, as well as why it's unlikely we'll be able to slow down . . . or even... |
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The Glory of the Tree: An Illustrated History
Noel Kingsbury · Firefly Books; ILL edition
Format: Hardcover
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The great trees of the world in glorious color. The Glory of the Tree describes 90 species of tree that collectively span the millennia of evolution and cross the globe. Organized into six categories -- Antiquity, Ecology, Sacred, Utility, Food and Ornament -- the trees are presented... |
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Discovering Pluto: Exploration at the Edge of the Solar System
Dale P Cruikshank · University of Arizona Press
Pages: 504
Format: Hardcover
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Discovering Pluto is an authoritative account of the exploration of Pluto and its moons, from the first inklings of tentative knowledge through the exciting discoveries made during the flyby of the NASA New Horizons research spacecraft in July 2015. Co-author Dale P. Cruikshank was a co-investigator... |
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Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever
Maude Barlow · The New Press
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover
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In her bestselling books Blue Gold and Blue Covenant, world-renowned water activist Maude Barlow exposed the battle for ownership of our dwindling water supply and the emergence of an international, grassroots-led movement to reclaim water as a public good. Since then, the United Nations... |
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Life's Blueprint: The Science and Art of Embryo Creation
Benny Shilo · Yale University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the span of just three decades, scientific understanding of the formation of embryos has undergone a major revolution. The implications of these new research findings have an immediate bearing on human health and future therapies, yet most nonscientists remain quite unaware of the exciting... |
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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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The Next Species: The Future of Evolution in the Aftermath of Man
Michael Tennesen · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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While examining the history of our planet and actively exploring our present environment, science journalist Michael Tennesen describes what life on earth could look like after the next mass extinction.A growing number of scientists agree we are headed toward a mass extinction, perhaps... |
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Terrorism in Cyberspace: The Next Generation
Gabriel Weimann · Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; New York
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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The war on terrorism has not been won, Gabriel Weimann argues in Terrorism in Cyberspace, the successor to his seminal Terror on the Internet. Even though al-Qaeda's leadership has been largely destroyed and its organization disrupted, terrorist attacks take 12,000 lives annually worldwide,... |
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Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses
John Dvorak · Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Eclipses have stunned, frightened, emboldened, and mesmerized people for thousands of years. They were recorded on ancient turtle shells discovered in the Wastes of Yin in China, on clay tablets from Mesopotamia and on the Mayan "Dresden Codex." They are mentioned in Homer's Iliad... |
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The Carnivore Way: Coexisting with and Conserving North America's Predators
Cristina Eisenberg · Island Press
Format: Hardcover
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What would it be like to live in a world with no predators roaming our landscapes? Would their elimination, which humans have sought with ever greater urgency in recent times, bring about a pastoral, peaceful human civilization? Or in fact is their existence critical to our own, and do we need... |
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Deep Space: Beyond the Solar System to the End of the Universe and the Beginning of Time
Govert Schilling · Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Govert Schilling explores the mysteries of space that lie beyond our solar system on this mind-bending trip to nebulae, galaxies, black holes, and the edge of the observable universe.Join Govert Schilling on a journey across the universe that will ignite the imagination. The trip begins... |
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Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins
PETER S UNGAR · Princeton University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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What teeth can teach us about the evolution of the human speciesWhether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution. Our teeth are like living fossils that can be studied and compared to those of our ancestors to teach us how we became human. In Evolution's... |
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