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And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind: A Natural History of Moving Air
Bill Streever · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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A thrilling exploration of the science and history of wind from the bestselling author of Cold.Scientist and bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme to explore wind--the winds that built empires, the storms that wreck them--by traveling right through it. Narrating from... |
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Light: A Very Short Introduction
Ian A Walmsley · Oxford University Press, 2015.
Pages: 131
Format: Print book
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Light enables us to see the world around us. Our sense of sight provides us with direct information about space and time, the physical arrangement of the world, and how it changes. This almost universal shared sensation of vision has led to a fascination with the nature and properties of light... |
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The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything
MARCUS CHOWN · Pegasus Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Why the force that keeps our feet on the ground holds the key to understanding the nature of time and the origin of the universe. Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognized and described yet it is the least... |
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Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist
Chad Orzel · Basic Books
Format: Book
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Even in the twenty-first century the popular image of a scientist is a reclusive genius in a lab coat, mixing formulas or working out equations inaccessible to all but the initiated few. The idea that scientists are somehow smarter than the rest of us is a common, yet dangerous, misconception,... |
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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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Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction
Paul Bahn · Oxford University Press; Second Edition edition
Format: Print book
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In this revised and updated edition of Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction, Paul Bahn presents an engaging introduction and a superb overview of a field that embraces everything from the cave art of Lascaux to the great stone heads of Easter Island. This entertaining introduction reflects... |
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ACT Math & Science Prep: Includes 500 Practice Questions
Kaplan. · Kaplan Pub
Pages: 396
Format: Print book
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The complete ACT test prep tool that contains comprehensive practice and tips for students who want to sharpen their Math and Science skills and score higher on test day - guaranteed. In 2015, approximately 1.9 million high school students took the ACT. Despite the popularity of the ACT,... |
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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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Why?: What Makes Us Curious
Mario Livio · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics - curiosity - as he explores our innate desire to know why.Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation - where they can know only one side... |
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The Fish in the Forest: Salmon and the Web of Life
Dale Stokes · University of California Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Fish in the Forest is an elegantly written, beautifully illustrated exploration of the complex web of relationships between the salmon of the Pacific Northwest and the surrounding ecosystem. Dale Stokes shows how nearly all aspects of this fragile ecosystem—from streambeds to treetops,... |
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When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future
Abby Smith Rumsey · Bloomsbury, 2015.
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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Our memory gives the human species a unique evolutionary advantage. Our stories, ideas, and innovations--in a word, our "culture"--can be recorded and passed on to future generations. Our enduring culture and restless curiosity have enabled us to invent powerful information technologies... |
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