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Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum
Gavin Francis - Basic Books (AZ)
Format: Hardcover
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We assume we know our bodies intimately, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory, an enigma of bone and muscle, neurons and synapses. How many of us understand the way seizures affect the brain, how the heart is connected to well-being, or the why the foot holds the key to our humanity?... |
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Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
Frank Wilczek - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek's Fundamentals is built around a simple but profound idea: the models of the world we construct as children are practical and adequate for everyday life, but they do not bring in the surprising and mind-expanding revelations of modern science. To do that,... |
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
John Vaillant - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce. "Riveting, spellbinding, astounding on every page ... Captures the majesty... |
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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Carlo Rovelli - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"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 Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains
Clayton Page Aldern - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply reported, eye-opening book about climate change, our brains, and the weight of nature on us all.. The march of climate change is stunning and vicious, with rising seas, extreme weather, and oppressive heat blanketing the globe. But its effects on our very brains constitute a public-health... |
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Galileo: And the Science Deniers
Mario Livio - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history's greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers. "We really need this story now, because we're living through the next chapter... |
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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
Ben Goldfarb - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from the award-winning author of Eager.Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they're... |
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Numbers: Their Tales, Types, and Treasures
Alfred S. Posamentier - Prometheus Books
Format: Paperback
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Did you grow up thinking math is boring? It's time to reconsider. This book will teach you everything you ever wondered about numbers - and more.How and why did human beings first start using numbers at the dawn of history? Would numbers exist if we Homo sapiens weren't around to discover... |
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Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity
Charles Seife - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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When Stephen Hawking died, he was widely recognized as the world's best physicist, and even its smartest person. He was neither. In Hawking Hawking, science journalist Charles Seife explores how Stephen Hawking came to be thought of as humanity's greatest genius. Hawking spent his career... |
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