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Time Travel
James Gleick - Pantheon Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself.
The story begins at the turn of the previous... |
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Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
James Nestor - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
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An Amazon Best Book of 2014 While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed something that confounded him: a man diving 300 feet below the ocean's surface on a single breath of air and returning four minutes later, unharmed and smiling. This man was a freediver, and his amphibious... |
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
Stephen Brusatte - William Morrow
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Sapiens, Your Inner Fish, The Sixth Extinction, and I Contain Multitudes, a sweeping narrative scientific history - the only one of its kind - that tells the epic story of the dinosaurs, examining their origins, their habitats, their extinction, and their living legacy, from... |
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The Sweet Spot: How to Find Your Groove at Home and Work
Christine Carter Phd - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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Learn how to achieve more by doing less! Live in that zone you've glimpsed but can't seem to hold on to - the sweet spot where you have the greatest strength, but also the greatest ease. Not long ago, Christine Carter, a happiness expert at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science... |
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Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
Neil DeGrasse Tyson - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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For science geeks, space and physics nerds, and all who want to understand their place in the universe, this enlightening new book from Neil deGrasse Tyson offers a unique take on the mysteries and curiosities of the cosmos, building on rich material from his beloved StarTalk podcast. In these... |
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Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
Phoebe Robinson - Tiny Reparations Books
Format: Hardcover
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Written in Phoebe's unforgettable voice and with her unparalleled wit, Robinson's latest collection, laced with spot-on pop culture references, takes on a wide range of topics. From the values she learned from her parents (including, but not limited to, advice on not bringing outside... |
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
David Quammen - Simon & Schuster
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life's history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature.
In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences... |
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A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention
Matt Richtel - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Matt Richtel, a brilliant, narrative-driven exploration of technologys vast influence on the human mind and society, dramatically-told through the lens of a tragic texting-while-driving car crash that claimed the lives of two rocket scientists in 2006.In... |
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