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Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet
MICHAEL R BLOOMBERG · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world... |
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Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently
Beau Lotto · Hachette Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Beau Lotto, the world-renowned neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and two-time TED speaker, takes us on a tour of how we perceive the world, and how disrupting it leads us to create and innovate.
Perception is the foundation of human experience, but few of us understand... |
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Balance: A Dizzying Journey Through the Science of Our Most Delicate Sense
Carol Svec · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Some low-frequency sounds - such as noise from storms or truck engines - can make you feel dizzy and nauseated. An index finger's light touch can stop people from losing balance. You are more prone to trip when you think someone is watching you. A breakthrough in improving balance as we age might... |
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Edward Condon's Cooperative Vision: Science, Industry, and Innovation in Modern America
Thomas C. Lassman · University of Pittsburgh Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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As a professor of physics at Princeton University for nearly ten years, Edward Condon sealed his reputation as one of the sharpest minds in the field and a pioneer in quantum theoretical physics. Then, in 1937, he left it all behind to pursue an industrial career - first at the Westinghouse... |
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Schaum's Outline of Biology, Fifth Edition
George H. Fried · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 528
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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Darwin's First Theory: Exploring Darwin's Quest for a Theory of Earth
R L Wesson · Pegasus Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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An acclaimed geologist leads the reader on an adventure through the landscape that absorbed and inspired Charles Darwin.Everybody knows -- or thinks they know -- Charles Darwin, the father of evolution and the man who altered the way we view our place in the world. But what most people... |
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Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
Venki Ramakrishnan · Basic Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A Nobel Prize-winning biologist tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology's most important molecule
"Ramakrishnan's writing is so honest, lucid and engaging that I could not put this book down until I had read to the very end."--Siddhartha... |
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Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School
Carla Shalaby
Format: Print book
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A radical educator's paradigm-shifting inquiry into the accepted, normal demands of school, as illuminated by moving portraits of four young "problem children"
In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday lives of four... |
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A Walk through the Heavens: A Guide to Stars and Constellations and their Legends
MILTON D HEIFETZ · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 106
Format: Paperback
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What is that star called? Where is the Great Bear? A Walk through the Heavens is a beautiful guide to the pathways in the night sky, and which answers these questions and more. Written for complete beginners, this book introduces the reader to the patterns of the northern hemisphere's... |
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Plane Crash: The Forensics of Aviation Disasters
G D Bibel · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most amazing feats of modern life is the frequency with which airplanes safely take off and land: about 40,000 times a day in the United States alone. Commercial aviation is by far the safest mode of transportation and is becoming safer all the time. But on the exceedingly rare... |
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Weather, Macroweather, and the Climate: Our Random Yet Predictable Atmosphere
Shaun Lovejoy · Oxford University Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Weather, Macroweather, and the Climate is an insider's attempt to explain as simply as possible how to understand the atmospheric variability that occurs over an astonishing range of scales: from millimeters to the size of the planet, from milliseconds to billions of years. The variability... |
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Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
SAM KEAN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating science and history of the air we breathe
It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell.
In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through... |
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