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Voices in the Ocean

Susan Casey - Doubleday Canada
Format: Hardcover

From Susan Casey, the New York Times bestselling author of The Devils Teeth and The Wave, a breathtaking look into the mysterious world of dolphins and their conflicted history with man. Since the dawn of recorded history, humans have felt a kinship with the sleek and beautiful dolphin,...
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Gloomy Terrors and Hidden Fires: The Mystery of John Colter and Yellowstone

Ronald M. Anglin - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

From 1810, when a newspaper published the first account of "Colter's Run," to 2012, when one hundred and fourscore participants in Montana's annual John Colter Run charged up and down rugged trails - even across the waist-deep Gallatin River - interest in Colter, the alleged...
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The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Bodys Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You

Sylvia Tara - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

This groundbreaking work of practical, popular science reveals that fat is much smarter than we think.Fat is an obsession, a dirty word, a subject of national handwringing -- and, according to biochemist Sylvia Tara, the least-understood part of our body.You may not love your fat, but your...
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The Everything Guide to Anatomy and Physiology: All You Need to Know about How the Human Body Works

Kevin Langford - Adams Media Corporation
Format: Paperback

A plain-English guide to the human body and how it worksLooking for a companion text for your anatomy and physiology class? Need a refresher for a course you took years ago? Or are you just interested in learning more about how the human body works? Professor Kevin Langford walks you through...
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Matthew Walker PhD - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert - Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab - reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.Sleep is one of the most...
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Young Men and Fire

Norman Maclean - University Of Chicago Press; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback

On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted...
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Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation

Alan Burdick - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

"Time" is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it's always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we're bored and speed by as we get older?...
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Are Numbers Real?: The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World

Brian Clegg - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organized their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What would your life be like without them?Numbers began as simple representations of everyday things, but mathematics rapidly took on a life of its own,...
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The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

Gino Segrè - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book

Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. His discoveries changed our world; they led to weapons of mass destruction...
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The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love

Michael Lemonick - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now," where she has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. The Perpetual Now is the moving story of this exceptional woman, and the groundbreaking...
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Science in the Soul: Selected Shorter Writings

RICHARD DAWKINS - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time. For decades,...
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Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet

MICHAEL R BLOOMBERG - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book

From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world...

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The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America: Second Edition

David Sibley - Alfred A Knopf, 2016.
Format: Print book

FlexiboundNow completely revised and updated--the indispensable resource for all birders seeking an authoritative guide to the birds of the West in a portable format they will want to carry into the field. Compact and comprehensive, this guide features 715 bird species, plus regional...
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Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North

Mark C Serreze - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

An insider account of how researchers unraveled the mystery of the thawing ArcticIn the 1990s, researchers in the Arctic noticed that floating summer sea ice had begun receding. This was accompanied by shifts in ocean circulation and unexpected changes in weather patterns throughout the world....
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The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides

MARIANO SIGMAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From a world-renowned leader in neuroscience, a provocative, enthralling journey into the depths of the human mind.Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international...
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Geometry For Dummies

Mark Ryan - For Dummies
Format: Print book

Hit the geometry wall? Get up and running with this no-nonsense guide! Does the thought of geometry make you jittery? You're not alone. Fortunately, this down-to-earth guide helps you approach it from a new angle, making it easier than ever to conquer your fears and score your highest...
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Know This: Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments

John Brockman - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback

Today's most visionary thinkers reveal the cutting-edge scientific ideas and breakthroughs you must understand.Scientific developments radically change and enlighten our understanding of the world -- whether it's advances in technology and medical research or the latest revelations of neuroscience,...
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My Lost Brothers: The Untold Story by the Yarnell Hill Fire's Lone Survivor

Brendan McDonough - Hachette Books
Format: Print book

A gripping first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots"--firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires. Brendan McDonough was on the verge of becoming a hopeless, inveterate heroin addict...
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Fractals: A Very Short Introduction

Kenneth Falconer - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Paperback

From the contours of coastlines to the outlines of clouds, and the branching of trees, fractal shapes can be found everywhere in nature. In this Very Short Introduction, Kenneth Falconer explains the basic concepts of fractal geometry, which produced a revolution in our mathematical understanding...
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Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us

SAM KEAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating science and history of the air we breatheIt's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell.In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic...
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

Lisa Feldman Barrett - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, law enforcement, and our understanding of the human mindEmotions feel automatic to us; that's why scientists have long assumed that emotions are hardwired in the body or the brain. Today,...
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The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs

MARK O'CONNELL - Dey Street Books
Format: Paperback

The wildly entertaining and eye-opening biography of J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer who invented the concept of "Close Encounters" with alien life, inspired Steven Spielberg's blockbuster classic science fiction epic film, and made a nation want to believe in UFOs.In June 1947,...
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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity

Carlo Rovelli - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they're calling the next Stephen Hawking." - The Times MagazineFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe.What...
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The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson: The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten Surgeon

Cherry Lewis - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A colorful and absorbing portrait of James Parkinson and the turbulent, intellectually vibrant world of Georgian London. Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 60,000 new cases each year in the United States alone, yet few know anything about the man the disease...
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Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World

Jonathan Mingle - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

High in the Himalayan valley of Zanskar in northwest India sits a village as isolated as the legendary Shangri-La. Long fed by runoff from glaciers and lofty snowfields, Kumik-a settlement of thirty nine mud brick homes-has survived and thrived in one of the world's most challenging...
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Head Strong: The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster-in Just Two Weeks

Dave Asprey - Harperwave
Format: Print book

From the creator of Bulletproof Coffee and author of the bestselling The Bulletproof Diet comes a revolutionary plan to upgrade your brainpower - in two weeks or less.For the last decade, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dave Asprey has worked with world-renowned doctors and scientists to uncover...
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The Inheritance: A Family on the Front Lines of the Battle Against Alzheimer's Disease

Niki Kapsambelis - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring race against time: The courageous, hopeful story of the one family who may hold the key to finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease.Every sixty-nine seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Of the top ten killers, it is the only disease for which there is no cure...
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A Beautiful Mind

Sylvia Nasar
Format: Print book

In this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly recreates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize."
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DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution

James D Watson - Knopf
Format: Paperback

The definitive insider's history of the genetic revolution--significantly updated to reflect the discoveries of the last decade. James D. Watson, the Nobel laureate whose pioneering work helped unlock the mystery of DNA's structure, charts the greatest scientific journey of our time, from...
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Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins

Susan Casey - Doubleday
Format: Print book

From Susan Casey, the New York Times bestselling author of The Wave and The Devil's Teeth, a breathtaking journey through the extraordinary world of dolphins Since the dawn of recorded history, humans have felt a kinship with the sleek and beautiful dolphin, an animal whose playfulness,...
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What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves

Benjamin K Bergen - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

It may be starred, beeped, and censored--yet profanity is so appealing that we can't stop using it. In the funniest, clearest study to date, Benjamin Bergen explains why, and what that tells us about our language and brains.Nearly everyone swears-whether it's over a few too many drinks,...
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Hot, Hungry Planet: The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change

Lisa Palmer - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

The U.N. predicts the Earth will have more than 9.6 billion people by 2050. With resources already scarce, how will we feed them all? Journalist Lisa Palmer has traveled the world for years, documenting the cutting-edge innovations of people and organizations on the front lines of fighting...
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Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science

Richard Dawkins - Ecco Press
Format: Hardcover

In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion and writing yet another of the most audacious and widely...
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Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth

Jane Alexander - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet earth as a result of human incursion, and the crucial work of animal and bird preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists, zoologists, environmentalists, and conservationists....
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Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change

Mary Beth Pfeiffer - Island Press
Format: Hardcover

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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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

Edward Abbey - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback

"A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKREVIEWEdward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert...
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Light: The Visible Spectrum and Beyond

Kimberly K Arcand - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2015.
Format: Print book

A visual exploration of the power and behavior of light, across the electromagnetic spectrum, and how it affects life on earth and everything in the Universe.
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Idiot's Guides: Physics

Paul V. Pancella - Alpha
Format: Print book

Physics can be a complex and intimidating subject. Idiot's Guides: Physics breaks down the complex topics of physics and makes them easy to understand. Readers will learn from numerous examples and problems that teach all of the fundamentals - Newton's Laws, thermodynamics, mass,...
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StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

Neil Degrasse Tyson - National Geographic
Format: Print book

This beautifully illustrated companion to celebrated scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson's popular podcast and National Geographic Channel TV show is an eye-opening journey for anyone curious about the complexities of our universe. For decades, beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has interpreted...
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Anatomy 101

Kevin Langford - Adams Media
Format: Print book

An all-in-one guide to the human body! Anatomy 101 offers an exciting look into the inner workings of the human body. Too often, textbooks turn the fascinating systems, processes, and figures of anatomy into tedious discourse that even Leonardo Da Vinci would reject. This easy-to-read guide...
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The Stars: The Definitive Visual Guide to the Cosmos

Dk. - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book

The definitive visual guide to exploring all the marvels of the stars, the Milky Way, and the universe beyond.Chart the wonders of the cosmos in our own solar system and beyond with The Stars. Packed with 3-D artworks of each constellation and incredible new imagery from the Hubble...
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Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers: A Kidney Doctor's Search for the Perfect Match

VANESA GRUBBS - Amistad
Format: Hardcover

A young, hopeful doctor's memoir - an unforgettable love story and an informative journey into the world of medicine and kidney transplantation that ultimately asks: What does it mean to let go of something that you love, even if it is life itselfWhen Vanessa fell in love with Robert, she had no idea...
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Our Daily Poison: From Pesticides to Packaging, How Chemicals Have Contaminated the Food Chain and Are Making Us Sick

Marie-Monique Robin - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

Over the last thirty years, we have seen an increase in rates of cancer, neurodegenerative disease, reproductive disorders, and diabetes, particularly in developed countries. At the same time, since the end of World War II approximately 100,000 synthetic chemical molecules have invaded...
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The Man Who Wasn't There: Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self

Anil Ananthaswamy - Dutton Books
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Oliver Sacks, a tour of the latest neuroscience of schizophrenia, autism, Alzheimer's disease, ecstatic epilepsy, Cotard's syndrome, out-of-body experiences, and other disorders - revealing the awesome power of the human sense of self from a master of science...
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Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos

Brian Cox - Da Capo
Format: Book

In Universal, bestselling physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (Why Does E=mc2?) take us on an inspirational journey of scientific exploration. They show that, by asking questions about the world around us, anyone can think like a physicist and grasp the breath-taking grandeur of the cosmos.Universal...
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The Snow Leopard

Peter Matthiessen - Penguin Books
Format: Print book

An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014) , the National Book Award-winning author of the new novel In Paradise In 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal...
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Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics

Paul Halpern - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

When the fuzzy indeterminacy of quantum mechanics overthrew the orderly world of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrodinger were at the forefront of the revolution. Neither man was ever satisfied with the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics, however, and both rebelled...
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Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games

Ian Bogost - Basic Books
Format: Print book

"Play Anything is nothing short of brilliant... I will be recommending this provocative and entertaining book to everyone I know." --Jane McGonigal, bestselling author of Reality is Broken and SuperBetterLife is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands...
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It's All a Game: The History of Board Games from Monopoly to Settlers of Catan

Tristan Donovan - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book

Board games have been with us longer than even the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well into the age of smartphones and instant gratification? In It's All a Game, British journalist and renowned games expert Tristan Donovan opens the box on the incredible...
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The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth

Hugh Aldersey-Williams - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A rich and sweeping exploration into the science and history behind the most mysterious, primal, and powerful force on earth: the tide.Half of the worlds population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. But the tide rises and falls according to rules that are a mystery...
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How Science Works: The Facts Visually Explained

Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff - DK
Format: Hardcover

Explore answers to questions on 70 topics in the areas of matter, physics, energy, chemistry, life science, earth science, technology, and the universe.How Science Works uses clear, easy-to-understand graphics to answer common questions and explain difficult concepts--not only the core...
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One in a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine

Kathleen Gallagher - Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Format: Print book

The breathtaking story of a young boy with a never-before-seen disease, and the doctors who take a bold step into the future of medicine to save him - based on the authors' Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting.In this landmark medical narrative, in the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta...
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The Humongous Book of Algebra Problems

W. Michael Kelley - ALPHA
Format: Paperback

When the numbers just dont add up? Following in the footsteps of the successful The Humongous Books of Calculus Problems, bestselling author Michael Kelley has taken a typical algebra workbook, and made notes in the margins, adding missing steps and simplifying concepts and solutions. Students...
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Dire Predictions, Second Edition: Understanding Climate Change

Michael E. Mann - DK
Format: Print book

Explore global warming with graphics, illustrations, and charts that separate climate change fact from fiction, presenting the truth about global warming in a way that's both accurate and easy to understand. Respected climate scientists Michael E. Mann and Lee R. Kump address important...
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Beginning Beekeeping

Tanya Phillips - Alpha Books
Format: Print book

Beginning Beekeeping is a simple, straightforward approach that gives you the basics to get started with beekeeping, while following a balanced, objective approach that weighs the pros and cons of conventional and organic methodologies. Featuring more than 120 beautiful color photos,...
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Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Men Who Are Destroying Life on Earth and What It Means to Our Children

ROBERT F JR KENNEDY - Hot Books
Format: Hardcover

The science is overwhelming; the facts are in. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results are everywhere to be seen. Yet, as time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the planet: energy moguls like the Koch brothers and Exxon...
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The Everything Guide to Anatomy and Physiology: All You Need to Know about How the Human Body Works

Kevin Langford - Adams Media; 1 edition

A plain-English guide to the human body and how it worksLooking for a companion text for your anatomy and physiology class? Need a refresher for a course you took years ago? Or are you just interested in learning more about how the human body works? Professor Kevin Langford walks you through...
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Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life

Edward O. Wilson - Liveright Publishing Corp, 2016.
Format: Print book

Half-Earth proposes an achievable plan to save our imperiled biosphere: devote half the surface of the Earth to nature.In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, says Edward O. Wilson in his most...
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Wildlife of the World

DK Publishing - DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Format: Hardcover

Wildlife of the World takes you on a journey through some of the most scenic and rich animal habitats - from the Amazon rain forests to the Himalayas, the Sahara to the South Pole - meeting the most important animals in each ecosystem along the way.In Wildlife of the World truly spectacular...
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On the Move: A Life

Oliver Sacks - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far." It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move...
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If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body

James Hamblin - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

"If you want to understand the strange workings of the human body, and the future of medicine, you must read this illuminating, engaging book." - Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Gene In 2014, James Hamblin launched a series of videos for The Atlantic called...
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold. The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better...
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Too Much of a Good Thing: How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us

Lee Goldman - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Print book

Dean of Columbia University's medical school explains why our bodies are out of sync with today's environment and how we can correct this to save our health.Over the past 200 years, human life-expectancy has approximately doubled. Yet we face soaring worldwide rates of obesity, diabetes,...
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The Brain: The Story of You

David Eagleman - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book

Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your reality and your identity. Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a journey into the questions at the mysterious heart of our existence. What is reality? Who are "you"? How do you make...
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GENIUS WITHIN : unlocking our brains' potential

DAVID ADAM - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

Following the success of The Man Who Couldn't Stop, David Adam now expounds on the latest research into intelligence, revealing how this revolution in neuroscience will help us access the untapped potential locked within us all. What if you have more intelligence than you realize? What...
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Smokejumper

Jason A. Ramos - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Print book

A rare inside look at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of natures blazes.Forest and wildland fires are growing larger, more numerous, and deadlier every...
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Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body

DANIEL GOLEMAN - Avery
Format: Hardcover

Two New York Times-bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain. In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your...
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Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation

Sunaura Taylor - New Press
Format: Print book

A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation - and the debut of an important new social criticHow much of what we understand of ourselves as "human" depends on our physical and mental abilities - how we move (or cannot...
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The River of Consciousness

Oliver Sacks - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience....
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

Michael Lewis - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

How a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways...
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The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why

Arthur Benjamin - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Format: Print book

The Magic of Math is the math book you wish you had in school. Using a delightful assortment of examples - from ice cream scoops and poker hands to measuring mountains and making magic squares - this book empowers you to see the beauty, simplicity, and truly magical properties behind those...
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The Ground Beneath Us: From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness, What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are

Paul Bogard - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Our most compelling resource just might be the ground beneath our feet. When a teaspoon of soil contains millions of species, and when we pave over the earth on a daily basis, what does that mean for our future? What is the risk to our food supply, the planet's wildlife, the soil on which...
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Chemistry for dummies

John T Moore - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book

Chemistry For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781119293460) was previously published as Chemistry For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781118007303) . While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated...
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Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist

Chad Orzel - Basic Books
Format: Book

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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Tesla: Inventor of the Modern

Richard Munson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book

Tesla's inventions transformed our world, and his visions have continued to inspire great minds for generations. Nikola Tesla invented the radio, robots, and remote control. His electric induction motors run our appliances and factories, yet he has been largely overlooked by history....

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Super genes : unlock the astonishing power of your DNA for optimum health and well-being

Deepak Chopra - Harmony Books
Format: Print book

"The authors of the New York Times bestseller Super Brain present a bold new understanding of our genes and how simple changes in lifestyle can boost genetic activity. The leap into "radical well-being" is a promise waiting to be fulfilled"--
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Super Genes: Unlock the Astonishing Power of Your DNA for Optimum Health and Well-Being

Deepak Chopra M.D. - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

The authors of the New York Times bestseller Super Brain present a bold new understanding of our genes and how simple changes in lifestyle can boost genetic activity. The leap into "radical well-being" is a promise waiting to be fulfilled. "You are not simply the sum total...
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Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science

John Brockman - Harper Perennial
Format: Print book

The newest addition to John Brockman's Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world's leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists - including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson.Scientists' understanding...
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Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease

Jon Palfreman - Scientific American
Format: Hardcover

A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2015 - Publishers WeeklyA star science journalist with Parkinson's reveals the inner workings of this perplexing disease Seven million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's, and doctors, researchers, and patients continue to hunt for a cure. In Brain...
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The Magic of Math

Benjamin, Arthur
Format: electronic resource


The Magic of Math is the math book you wish you had in school. Using a delightful assortment of examples—from ice cream scoops and poker hands to measuring mountains and making magic squares—this book empowers you to see the beauty, simplicity, and truly magical properties...
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Monkeys, Myths, and Molecules: Separating Fact from Fiction, and the Science of Everyday Life

Dr. Joe Schwarcz - ECW Press
Format: Paperback

Quacks and pundits beware!The internet is a powerful beast when it comes to science; the answer to any query you may have is just a few keystrokes away. But when there are multiple answers from various sources, how do we know what information is reliable? In Monkeys, Myths, and Molecules,...
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How the Body Knows Its Mind

Sian Beilock
Format: electronic resource

"Beilock reveals one intriguing secret after another...That Beilock is supercharged with enthusiasm about her topic is evident and infectious" (Booklist, starred review).The human body is not just a passive device carrying out messages sent by the brain, but rather an integral part of how we think...
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Idiot's Guides: Calculus II

Alpha. - Alpha
Format: Paperback

Idiot's Guides: Calculus II, like its counterpart Idiot's Guides: Calculus I, is a curriculum-based companion book that continues the tradition of taking the sting out of calculus by adding more explanatory graphs and illustrations in easy-to-understand language, practice problems,...
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Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently

R Beau Lotto - Hachette Audio
Format: Audiobook

Beau Lotto, the world-renowned neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and two-time TED speaker, takes us on a tour of how we perceive the world - and how disrupting it leads us to create and innovate. Perception is the foundation of human experience, but few of us understand why we see what we do, much...
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Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential

Barbara Oakley - TarcherPerigee
Format: Paperback

Mindshift reveals how we can overcome stereotypes and preconceived ideas about what is possible for us to learn and become. At a time when we are constantly being asked to retrain and reinvent ourselves to adapt to new technologies and changing industries, this book shows us how we can uncover...
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Welcome to the Microbiome: Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes In, On, and Around You

Rob DeSalle - Yale University Press
Format: Print book

Suddenly, research findings require a paradigm shift in our view of the microbial world. The Human Microbiome Project at the National Institutes of Health is well under way, and unprecedented scientific technology now allows the censusing of trillions of microbes inside and on our bodies...
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Algebra II (Idiots Guides)

Carolyn Wheater - DK
Format: Hardcover

Perhaps no subject strikes so much fear in the hearts of high school and college students as Algebra I, except of course its older, meaner sibling, Algebra II! Starting with reinforcing concepts from Algebra I and with lots of practice and tips along the way, Idiots Guides: Algebra II eases...
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Idiot's Guides: Algebra I

Carolyn Wheater - Alpha
Format: Print book

Starting with the very basics and reinforcing concepts with practice and tips along the way, Idiot's Guides: Algebra I makes a complex subject easier to grasp and helps students and adult learners clear the hurdle that can stand between them and their academic goals. Special sidebars...
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