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The Amoeba in the Room: Lives of the Microbes
Nicholas P. Money · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A cup of seawater contains 100 million cells, which are preyed upon by billions of viruses. Fifty million tons of fungal spores are released into the atmosphere every year. And the human gut is home to somewhere between 500 and 1,000 species of bacteria. The more we learn about microbial... |
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Welcome to the universe : an astrophysical tour
Neil deGrasse Tyson · Princeton University Press
Pages: 470
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWelcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton,... |
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Kindness Cure: How the Science of Compassion Can Heal Your Heart and Your World
Stephen Post (Foreword by) · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 200
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It's time for a kindness revolution. In The Kindness Cure, psychologist Tara Cousineau draws on cutting-edge research in psychology and neuroscience to show how simple practices of kindness--for ourselves, for others, and for our world--can dissolve our feelings of fear and indifference,... |
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Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
Cordelia Fine · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"Goodbye, beliefs in sex differences disguised as evolutionary facts. Welcome the dragon slayer: Cordelia Fine wittily but meticulously lays bare the irrational arguments that we use to justify gender politics." -- Uta Frith, emeritus professor of cognitive development, University... |
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Trigonometry For Dummies
Mary Jane Sterling · For Dummies; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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A plain-English guide to the basics of trig Trigonometry deals with the relationship between the sides and angles of triangles...mostly right triangles. In practical use, trigonometry is a friend to astronomers who use triangulation to measure the distance between stars. Trig also has applications... |
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Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done Before and After Global English
Michael D. Gordin · University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn't always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been... |
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