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The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists
Gary Marcus · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Including a chapter by 2014 Nobel laureates May-Britt Moser and Edvard MoserAn unprecedented look at the quest to unravel the mysteries of the human brain, The Future of the Brain takes readers to the absolute frontiers of science. Original essays by leading researchers such as Christof... |
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Global Catastrophes: A Very Short Introduction
Bill McGuire · Oxford University Press; 2 edition
Format: Book
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Life on earth will come to an end. It's just a matter of when. In this Very Short Introduction, Bill McGuire explores the many potential catastrophes facing our planet and our species in the future, and looks at both the probability of these events happening and our chances of survival.... |
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Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptional—and What That Means for Life in the Universe
David Waltham · Basic Books a Member of Perseus Books Group
Pages: 198
Format: Hardcover
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Humankind has long fantasized about life elsewhere in the universe. And as we discover countless exoplanets orbiting other stars - among them, rocky super-Earths and gaseous Hot Jupiters - we become ever more hopeful that we may come across extraterrestrial life. Yet even as we become aware... |
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Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle
Andreas Wagner · Current
Format: Hardcover
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"Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. Nature's many innovations - some uncannily perfect - call for natural principles that accelerate life's ability to innovate."Darwin's theory of natural selection explains how useful adaptations... |
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Reference Shelf 2014
H. W. Wilson · Grey House Publishing Inc
Format: Book
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The focus of this title is the subject of the National Forensics League NFLs 201415 Policy Debate, which will be announced in early 2014. Subjects from previous years include The Future of U.S. Economic Relations Mexico, Cuba Venezuela, Transportation Infrastructure, American Space Exploration... |
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Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History
Donald E. Canfield · Princeton University Pres
Pages: 196
Format: Hardcover
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The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Donald Canfield--one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistry, earth... |
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Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse
Mary-Jane Rubenstein · Columbia University Press
Format: Book
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"Multiverse" cosmologies imagine our universe as just one of a vast number of others. While this idea has captivated philosophy, religion, and literature for millennia, it is now being considered as a scientific hypothesis -- with different models emerging from cosmology, quantum... |
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Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
Martin J Blaser · Henry Holt & Co
Pages: 273
Format: Book
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A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, from the field's leading expert Tracing one scientist's journey toward understanding the crucial importance of the microbiome, this revolutionary book will take readers to the forefront of trail-blazing... |
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Everyday Calculus: Discovering the Hidden Math All Around Us
Oscar E Fernandez · Princeton University Press
Pages: 150
Format: Hardcover
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Uses everyday experiences to reveal the hidden calculus behind a typical day's events, showing how math naturally emerges from simple observations such as how hot coffee cools down, and demonstrating that calculus can be both useful and fascinating. |
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Waking the Spirit: A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul
Andrew Schulman · Picador
Pages: 290
Format: Print book
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For millennia, music has been known to have a powerful role in the healing process. This moving and inspiring book tells the tale of a man pulled from the brink of death by music who, in turn, uses music as medicine to help heal others. Andrew Schulman, a fifty-seven-year-old professional... |
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The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
Trevor J Cox · W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Pages: 331
Format: Print book
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"A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening. . . . Anyone who has ever clapped, hollered or yodeled at an echo will delight in [Cox's] zestful curiosity." -- New York Times Trevor Cox is on a hunt for the sonic wonders of the world. A renowned expert who engineers... |
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