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The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Alex Bellos · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Here’s Looking at Euclid, a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex math into a brilliantly entertaining narrative.From triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded calculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical... |
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The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters
Robert Muir-Wood · Basic Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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Year after year, floods wreck people's homes and livelihoods, earthquakes tear communities apart, and tornadoes uproot whole towns. Natural disasters cause destruction and despair. But does it have to be this way?In The Cure for Catastrophe, global risk expert Robert Muir-Wood argues that... |
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Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
Adam Frank · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Astrophysicist and NPR commentator on what the latest research on the existence and trajectories of alien civilizations may teach us about our own.Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity's coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden relevance... |
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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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Curiosity: An Inside Look at the Mars Rover Mission and the People Who Made It Happen
Rod Pyle · Prometheus Books
Format: Kindle Edition
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The story of the people who designed, built, launched, landed, and are now operating the Mars rover CuriosityAward-winning science writer Rod Pyle provides a behind-the-scenes look into the recent space mission to Mars of Curiosity--the unmanned rover that is now providing researchers with... |
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Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
Peter Singer · Princeton University Pres
Pages: 376
Format: Print book
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Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, and The Life You Can Save, he helped launch the animal rights... |
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The Periodic Table: A Visual Guide to the Elements
Paul Parsons · Quercus
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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As one of the most recognizable images in science, the periodic table is ingrained in our culture. First drawn up in 1869 by Dmitri Mendeleev, its 118 elements make up not only everything on our planet but also everything in the entire universe.The Periodic Table looks at the fascinating... |
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Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
Sam Maggs · Quirk Books
Pages: 238
Format: Print book
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A fun and feminist look at forgotten women in science, technology, and beyond, from the bestselling author of THE FANGIRL'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY You may think you know women's history pretty well. But have you ever heard of. . . · Alice Ball, the chemist who developed an effective treatment... |
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The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty
Robert P. Crease · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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The fascinating story of how quantum mechanics went mainstream. The discovery of the quantumthe idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead of infinitely divisible quantitiesplanted a rich set of metaphors in the popular imagination.... |
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Bears in the Backyard: Big Animals, Sprawling Suburbs, and the New Urban Jungle
Edward R. Ricciuti · Countryman Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Fang and claw have jumped the white picket fence as encounters with cougars in Chicago, alligators in Florida, and bears virtually everywhere have become increasingly commonplace. Author Edward Ricciuti explores cutting-edge research into why its happening, how it impacts all of us, and how to deal... |
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The End of Breast Cancer: A Virus and the Hope for a Vaccine
Kathleen Ruddy M.D. · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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Can a mouse virus cause breast cancer in women? Answering that question has become Dr. Kathleen Ruddy's life's work. The End of Breast Cancer is the landmark book that gives an extraordinary glimpse into the history of breast cancer research, and the findings that support the theory... |
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Between Hope and Fear: A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity
MICHAEL KINCH · Pegasus Books
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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A smart and compelling examination of the science of immunity, the public policy implications of vaccine denial, and the real-world outcomes of failing to vaccinate. If you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing -- cases of measles,... |
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