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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
DAVID QUAMMEN - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.Breathless is the story of SARS-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists who study... |
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How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos
David Pogue - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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A practical and comprehensive guide to surviving the greatest disaster of our time, from New York Times bestselling self-help author and beloved CBS Sunday Morning science and technology correspondent David Pogue. You might not realize it, but we're already living through the beginnings... |
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The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
Joe Posnanski - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski enters the world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted fans in an immersive, entertaining, and magical work on the illusionist's impact on American culture - and why his legacy endures to this day.Harry... |
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Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
James Donovan - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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"This is the best book on Apollo that I have read. Extensively researched and meticulously accurate, it successfully traces not only the technical highlights of the program but also the contributions of the extraordinary people who made it possible." --Mike Collins, Command module... |
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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Malcolm Gladwell - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong.How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville... |
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Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding How Our Genes Work
Kat Arney - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Print book
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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... |
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A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies
MATT SIMON - Island Press
Format: Hardcover
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It's falling from the sky and in the air we breathe. It's in our food, our clothes, and our homes. It's microplastic and it's everywhere - including our own bodies. Scientists are just beginning to discover how these tiny particles threaten health, but the studies are alarming.... |
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Big Data: Does Size Matter?
Timandra Harkness - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Print book
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From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently than ever before, from tracking wolves... |
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