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Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
Govert Schilling - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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It has already been called the scientific breakthrough of the century: the detection of gravitational waves. Einstein predicted these tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime nearly a hundred years ago, but they were never perceived directly until now. Decades in the making, this momentous... |
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Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math
Daniel Tammet - Little, Brown and Company; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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The irresistibly engaging book that enlarges ones wonder at Tammets mind and his all-embracing vision of the world as grounded in numbers. --Oliver Sacks, MD THINKING IN NUMBERS is the book that Daniel Tammet, mathematical savant and bestselling author, was born to write. In Tammets world,... |
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The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
Diane Ackerman - W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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As Diane Ackerman writes in her brilliant new book, The Human Age, "our relationship with nature has changed ... radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable." Ackerman... |
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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time
Simon Garfield - Canongate Books
Format: Hardcover
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SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016OBSERVER SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently, and our lives are propelled by the notion that we will never have enough of the one thing... |
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The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir
Sara Seager - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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An MIT astrophysicist searches for meaning in the wake of her husband's death, even as she scours the universe for an Earth-like exoplanet, in this powerful memoir of cutting edge science, unexpected discoveries, and new beginnings.Sara Seager has made it her life's work to peer... |
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A Very Short Tour of the Mind: 21 Short Walks Around the Human Brain
Michael C Corballis - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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How does your dog remember where it buried its bone but you cant find your keys? And do we really only use ten percent of our brains? In A Very Short Tour of the Mind, Michael C. Corballis answers these questions and more. The human mind is arguably the most complex organ in the universe.... |
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The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
Jeff Goodell - ?Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestselling journalist shares an explosive new understanding of heat in this searing examination of the impact that rising temperatures will have on our lives and on our planet. "When heat comes, it's invisible. It doesn't bend tree branches or blow hair... |
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Renewable: The World-Changing Power of Alternative Energy
Jeremy Shere - St. Martin's Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Where does the energy we use come from? Its absolutely vital to every single thing we do every day, but for most people, it is utterly invisible. Flick a switch and the lights go on. It might as well be magic. Science writer Jeremy Shere shows us in Renewable The World-Changing Power of Alternative... |
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The True Crime File: Serial Killings, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors and Their Stories, Forensics, and More
Workman Publishing
Format: Paperback
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"True crime is having, as they say, a moment," reports the New York Times, where they know a thing or two about covering crime. "There's a boom in the genre across media, from books to television to podcasting." Perfect for newcomers and hardened crime junkies alike,... |
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