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Basic Math and Pre-Algebra For Dummies
Mark Zegarelli · John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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Tips for simplifying tricky basic math and pre-algebra operations Whether you're a student preparing to take algebra or a parent who wants or needs to brush up on basic math, this fun, friendly guide has the tools you need to get in gear. From positive, negative, and whole numbers to fractions,... |
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The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
Meredith Wadman · Viking
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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The epic and controversial story of the development of the first widely used normal human cell-line and, through it, some of the world s most important vaccines In June 1962, a young biologist at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Leonard Hayflick, using tissue extracted from an aborted... |
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Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
HENRY MARSH · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Following the publication of Do No Harm, Dr. Henry Marsh retired from his position at a hospital in London. But his career continued, taking him to remote hospitals in places such as Nepal and Pakistan, where he offers his services as surgeon and teacher to those in need. Now, Marsh considers... |
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The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
Diane Ackerman · W.W. Norton
Pages: 344
Format: Print book
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Winner of the 2015 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature and the 2015 PEN New England Henry David Thoreau Prize. A dazzling, inspiring tour through the ways that humans are working with nature to try to save the planet. Ackerman is justly celebrated for her unique insight... |
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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Max Tegmark · Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Pages: 421
Format: Paperback
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Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate... |
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Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century
Michael Yudell · Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Race, while drawn from the visual cues of human diversity, is an idea with a measurable past, an identifiable present, and an uncertain future. The concept of race has been at the center of both triumphs and tragedies in American history and has had a profound effect on the human experience.... |
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The Mystery of Sleep: Why a Good Night's Rest Is Vital to a Better, Healthier Life
MEIR KRYGER · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pages: 344
Format: Print book
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An authoritative and accessible guide to what happens when we shut our eyes at night We spend a third of our lives in bed, but how much do we really understand about how sleep affects us? In the past forty years, scientists have discovered that our sleep (or lack of it) can affect... |
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Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
Steve Olson · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 300
Format: Print book
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Survival narrative meets scientific, natural, and social history in the riveting story of a volcanic disaster.For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, sightseers, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings in Mount St. Helens, part of the chain of western volcanoes fueled... |
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Geometry Essentials For Dummies
Mark Ryan · For Dummies; 1 edition
Pages: 196
Format: Paperback
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Just the critical concepts you need to score high in geometry This practical, friendly guide focuses on critical concepts taught in a typical geometry course, from the properties of triangles, parallelograms, circles, and cylinders, to the skills and strategies you need to write geometry... |
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Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure
Cédric Villani · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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In 2010, French mathematician Cédric Villani received the Fields Medal, the most coveted prize in mathematics, in recognition of a proof which he devised with his close collaborator Clément Mouhot to explain one of the most surprising theories in classical physics. Birth of a Theorem... |
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The Dog Merchants: Inside the Big Business of Breeders, Pet Stores, and Rescuers
Kim Kavin · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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We love them with all our hearts, but do we really know where our dogs came from? Kim Kavin, author of Little Boy Blue, reveals the complex network behind the $11 billion-a-year business of selling dogs. A must-read for the benefit of all dogs, everywhere. In what promises to become an "Omnivore's... |
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Final Frontier: The Pioneering Science and Technology of Exploring the Universe
Brian Clegg · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Star Trek was right — there is only one final frontier, and that is space...Human beings are natural explorers, and nowhere is this frontier spirit stronger than in the United States of America. It almost defines the character of the US. But the Earth is running out of frontiers fast.In... |
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