|
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg - Penguin Group USA
Format: Print book
|
|
The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our handsThe math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Lindsey Fitzharris - Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers WeeklyThe gripping story of how Joseph Lister's antiseptic method changed medicine foreverIn The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding How Our Genes Work
Kat Arney - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Print book
|
|
The language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make our eyes blue, our hair curly, and they control our risks of cancer, heart disease, alcoholism, and Alzheimer's. One thousand dollars will buy you your own genome readout, neatly stored on a USB stick. And advances... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Superstorm: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy
Kathryn Miles - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The first complete moment-by-moment account of the largest Atlantic storm system ever recorded - a hurricane like no other. The sky was lit by a full moon on October 29, 2012, but nobody on the eastern seaboard of the United States could see it. Everything had been consumed by cloud. The storms... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Is That a Fact?: Frauds, Quacks, and the Real Science of Everyday Life
Joe Schwarcz - ECW Press
Format: Paperback
|
|
Eat this and live to 100. Dont, and die. Today, hyperboles dominate the media, which makes parsing science from fiction an arduous task when deciding what to eat, what chemicals to avoid, and whats best for the environment. In Is That a Fact?, bestselling author Dr. Joe Schwarcz carefully... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
Mckenzie Funk - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming worldMcKenzie Funk has spent the last six years reporting around the world on how we are preparing for a warmer planet. Funk shows us that the best way to understand the catastrophe of global warming... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York
Ted Steinberg - Simon & Schuster; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award for US History A “fascinating, encyclopedic history…of greater New York City through an ecological lens” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—the sweeping story of one of the most man-made spots on earth.Gotham Unbound recounts the four-century... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
