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In Oceans Deep: Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves
Bill Streever - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling exploration of the science and history of the deep sea.Full of mystery and danger, the deep sea has long been a symbol of the great unknown. In this dramatic and thrilling account, acclaimed biologist and deep sea diver Bill Streever shows us the incredible adventures happening... |
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Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
SABINE HOSSENFELDER - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories... |
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Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
Clive Thompson - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Hello, world.Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant... |
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How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of our Addiction to Stories
Alex Rosenberg - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired.To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong. Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history... |
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That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
Sunita Puri - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"Spiritually grounded, poetic, and brilliant . . . Puri has claimed her place in the ranks of illustrious physician-writers." --Katy Butler, author of Knocking on Heaven's DoorAs the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf... |
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Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
Tom Phillips - Hanover Square Press
Format: Paperback
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Modern humans have come a long way in the seventy thousand years they've walked the earth. Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutionary food chain, we're true winners. But it hasn't always been smooth sailing, and sometimes - just occasionally - we've managed to truly f*ck things... |
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Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
Annaka Harris - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover
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2020 Audie Finalist As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, this mind-expanding dive into the mystery of consciousness is an illuminating meditation on the self, free will, and felt experience. What is consciousness? How does... |
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Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
Judith Grisel - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, this is the authoritative and accessible guide to understanding drug addiction that we've been waiting for: clearly explained brain science and vivid personal stories combine to reveal how addiction happens and what can be done... |
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The Secret Life of Cows
Rosamund Young - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this affectionate, heart-warming chronicle, Rosamund Young distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows and other animalsAt her famous Kite's Nest Farm in Worcestershire, England, the cows (as well as sheep, hens, and pigs) all roam... |
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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
Margaret O'Mara - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest... |
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Robert Macfarlane - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet's past and future.Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal) , Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections... |
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Shattered Dreams: The Lost and Canceled Space Missions
Colin Burgess - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover
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Shattered Dreams delves into the personal stories and recollections of several men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future space mission but lost that opportunity due to personal reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies. While some of the subjects are familiar names... |
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Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
John Brockman - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, people who have been thinking about the field artificial intelligence for most of their careers, for an unparalleled round-table examination about mind, thinking, intelligence and what it means... |
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A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction
Michael J. Ryan - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, the astonishing story of how the female brain drives the evolution of beauty in animals and humansDarwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain why the animal world abounds in stunning beauty, from the brilliant... |
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Perez - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women... |
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Europe: A Natural History
Tim Flannery - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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From internationally bestselling author and celebrated scientist Tim Flannery, a history of Europe unlike any before: an ecological account of the land itself and the forces shaping life on it. In Europe: A Natural History, world-renowned scientist, explorer, and conservationist... |
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Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
Thomas Hager - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials. Piece together these stories, as Thomas Hager... |
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Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum
Leonard Susskind - Basic Books
Format: Paperback
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A funny, insightful, and self-contained guide to Einstein's relativity theory and classical field theories--including electromagnetismPhysicist Leonard Susskind and data engineer Art Friedman are back. This time, they introduce readers to Einstein's special relativity and Maxwell's... |
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Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
Laura Lynne Jackson - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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A renowned psychic medium teaches us how to recognize and interpret the life-changing messages from loved ones and spirit guides on the Other Side. Laura Lynne Jackson is a psychic medium and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Light Between Us. She possesses an incredible... |
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Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Eric Topol - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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One of America's top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care Medicine has become inhuman, to disastrous effect. The doctor-patient relationship--the heart of medicine--is broken: doctors are too distracted and overwhelmed to truly connect with their... |
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Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System
Natalie Starkey - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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Icy, rocky, sometimes dusty, always mysterious--comets and asteroids are among the Solar System's very oldest inhabitants, formed within a swirling cloud of gas and dust in the area of space that eventually hosted the Sun and its planets. Locked within each of these extra-terrestrial objects... |
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Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
Sarah Parcak - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of Archaeological Institute of Americas Felicia A. Holton Book Award * Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Science * An Amazon Best Science Book of 2019 * A Science Friday Best Science Book of 2019 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 * A Science News Best Book... |
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The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature
Nick Haddad - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkable look at the rarest butterflies, how global changes threaten their existence, and how we can bring them back from near-extinctionMost of us have heard of such popular butterflies as the Monarch or Painted Lady. But what about the Fender's Blue? Or the St. Francis' Satyr?... |
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She has her mother's laugh : what heredity is, is not, and may become
Carl Zimmer - Dutton
Format: eBook
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Award-winning, celebrated New York Times She Has Her Mother's Laugh But, Zimmer writes, "Each of us carries an amalgam of fragments of DNA, stitched together from some of our many ancestors. Each piece has its own ancestry, traveling a different path back through human history.... |
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Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side
Julia Shaw - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our obsession with serial killers to violence in pop culture, we seem inescapably drawn to the stories of monstrous acts and the aberrant people who commit them. But evil, Dr. Julia Shaw argues, is all relative, rooted in our unique... |
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The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs
PETER WOHLLEBEN - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.In... |
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The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep
Guy Leschziner - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A renowned neurologist shares the true stories of people unable to get a good night's rest in The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep, a fascinating exploration of the symptoms and syndromes behind sleep disorders.For Dr. Guy Leschziner's patients,... |
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Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator
Gregory B. Jaczko - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A shocking expos from the most powerful insider in nuclear regulation about how the nuclear energy industry endangers our lives - and why Congress does nothing to stop it.Greg Jaczko never planned things to turn out this way. A Birkenstocks-wearing physics PhD, he had never heard of the Nuclear... |
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Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change
Mary Beth Pfeiffer - Island Press
Format: Hardcover
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Lyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move into places they could not survive before. The first epidemic to emerge in the era of climate change, the disease infects half a million people in the US and Europe each year, and untold multitudes in Canada, China, Russia,... |
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The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
Paul Morland - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling new history of the past 200 years, recast as a story of population: how irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires The advance and subsequent retreat of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower;... |
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Talking to Robots: Tales from Our Human-Robot Futures
David Ewing Duncan - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning journalist David Ewing Duncan considers 24 visions of possible human-robot futures - Incredible scenarios from Teddy Bots to Warrior Bots, and Politician Bots to Sex Bots - Grounded in real technologies and possibilities and inspired by our imagination. What robot and AI systems... |
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Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning
Pooja K. Agarwal - Jossey-Bass
Format: Hardcover
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Unleash powerful teaching and the science of learning in your classroom Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning empowers educators to harness rigorous research on how students learn and unleash it in their classrooms. In this book, cognitive scientist Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D.,... |
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Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange
Jon Butterworth - The Experiment
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry: a richly conjured world, in map and metaphor, of particle physicsAtom Land brings the impossibly small world of particle physics to life, taking readers on a guided journey through the subatomic... |
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Antarctica's Lost Aviator: The Epic Adventure to Explore the Last Frontier on Earth
Jeff Maynard - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing voyage of the first solo crossing of Antarctica by the unlikeliest of arctic explorers.By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth... |
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Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we - and the planet we inhabit - could not survive without them.Insects comprise roughly half of the animal kingdom. They live everywhere - deep inside caves, 18,000 feet high in the Himalayas, inside computers,... |
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The State of Water: Understanding California's Most Precious Resource
Obi Kaufmann - Heyday
Format: Hardcover
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Obi Kaufmann, author of the best-selling California Field Atlas, turns his artful yet analytical attention to the Golden State's single most complex and controversial resource: water. In this new book, full-color maps unravel the braided knot of California's water infrastructure... |
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Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon
Tucker Malarkey - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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"A powerful and inspiring story. Guido Rahr's mission to save the wild Pacific salmon leads him into adventures that make for a breathtakingly exciting read." - Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia In the tradition of Mountains Beyond Mountains and The Orchid... |
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Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
Darrell Bricker - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning journalist and leading international social researcher make the provocative argument that the global population will soon decline - and that immigration will be the key to prospering in this new social, political, and economic landscape For half a century, statisticians,... |
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