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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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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Carlo Rovelli · Riverhead Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they're calling the next Stephen Hawking." - The Times MagazineFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe.What are the elementary ingredients... |
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The Strange Order of Things: The Making of the Cultural Mind
ANTONIO DAMASIO · PANTHEON
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection on the origins of life, feelings, mind, and culture that spans chemistry, biology, psychology, anthropology, and sociology, offering a new way of understanding who we are and how we behave.We descend biologically, psychologically,... |
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Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive
Bradley R Staats · Harvard Business Review Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Keep learning, or risk becoming irrelevant.It's a truism in today's economy: the only constant is change. Technological automation is making jobs less routine and more cognitively challenging. Globalization means you're competing with workers around the world. Simultaneously, the internet... |
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Our Senses: An Immersive Experience
Rob DeSalle · Yale University Press
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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A lively and unconventional exploration of our senses, how they work, what is revealed when they don't, and how they connect us to the world Over the past decade neuroscience has uncovered a wealth of new information about our senses and how they serve as our gateway to the world. This... |
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A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create New Universes
Zeeya Merali · Basic Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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An award-winning science writer takes us into the lab to answer some of life's biggest questions: How was the universe created? And could we create our own?What if you could become God, with the ability to build a whole new universe? As startling as it sounds, modern physics suggests that... |
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Decolonizing the Map: Cartography from Colony to Nation
James R Akerman · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
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Almost universally, newly independent states seek to affirm their independence and identity by making the production of new maps and atlases a top priority. For formerly colonized peoples, however, this process neither begins nor ends with independence, and it is rarely straightforward.... |
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The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine, and Spain, 1922 - 1923
ALBERT EINSTEIN · Princeton University Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The first publication of Albert Einstein's travel diary to the Far East and Middle EastIn the fall of 1922, Albert Einstein, along with his then-wife, Elsa Einstein, embarked on a five-and-a-half-month voyage to the Far East and Middle East, regions that the renowned physicist had never... |
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Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity
Theodore M Porter · Princeton University Press
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredityIn the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning,... |
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Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of
Robert M. Hazen · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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An enchanting biography of the most resonant -- and most necessary -- chemical element on Earth.Carbon is everywhere: in the paper of this book and the blood of our bodies. It's with us from beginning to end, present in our baby clothes and coffin alike. We live on a carbon planet, and we are carbon... |
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Schaum's Outline of Intermediate Algebra, Third Edition
Ray Steege · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?Fortunately, there's Schaum's. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline... |
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