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The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors
Erika Howsare · Catapult
Format: Book
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A masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies that investigates our connection with deer - from mythology to biology, from forests to cities, from coexistence to control and extermination - and invites readers to contemplate the paradoxes of how humans interact with and shape... |
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Cyber Persistence Theory: Redefining National Security in Cyberspace
Michael P. Fischerkeller · Oxford University Press
Format: Book
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A bold re-conceptualization of the fundamentals driving behavior and dynamics in cyberspace.. Most cyber operations and campaigns fall short of activities that states would regard as armed conflict. In Cyber Persistence Theory, Michael P. Fischerkeller, Emily O. Goldman, and Richard... |
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Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
James T Costa · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book
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Darwin's Backyard goes beyond the portrait of Charles Darwin as a brilliant thinker to concentrate on him as a nimble experimenter delving into some of evolution's great mysteries.James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin's childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle... |
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson · Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein How did his mind work What made him a genius Isaacsons biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality
His... |
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Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity
Antonio Padilla · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Book
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For particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac, or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths led to strange new understandings of the ultimate nature of reality. But what are these truths? What are the mysterious numbers that explain... |
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Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
Brian Klaas · Scribner
Format: Book
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In the perspective-altering tradition of Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point and Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan comes a provocative challenge to how we think our world works - and why small, chance events can divert our lives and change everything, by social scientist... |
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An Illustrated Theory of Numbers
Martin H. Weissman · American Mathematical Society
Format: Book
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Note: Always available directly from the publisher at the American Mathematical Society Bookstore! An Illustrated Theory of Numbers gives a comprehensive introduction to number theory, with complete proofs, worked examples, and exercises. Its exposition reflects the most recent scholarship... |
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Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong
Greg Brennecka · William Morrow
Format: Book
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A Short History of Nearly Everything meets Astrophysics for People in a Hurry in this humorous, accessible exploration of how meteorites have helped not only build this planet but steered the evolution of life and human culture.
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