|
Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
James Nestor - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From Barnes & NobleScientists estimate that there are nearly a quarter million species live in the world's oceans and even now, researchers are discovering numerous others and learning astonish new things about the ecosystems that exist beneath the surface of the seas. In this new release,... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Calculus: 1,001 Practice Problems For Dummies
Patrick Jones - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
|
|
Practice makes perfect-and helps deepen your understanding of calculus 1001 Calculus Practice Problems For Dummies takes you beyond the instruction and guidance offered in Calculus For Dummies, giving you 1001 opportunities to practice solving problems from the major topics in your calculus... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
Martin J Blaser - Henry Holt & Co
Format: Book
|
|
A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, from the field's leading expert Tracing one scientist's journey toward understanding the crucial importance of the microbiome, this revolutionary book will take readers to the forefront of trail-blazing... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
|
|
A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, law enforcement, and our understanding of the human mindEmotions feel automatic to us; that's why scientists have long assumed that emotions are hardwired in the body or the brain. Today,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Among Chimpanzees: Field Notes from the Race to Save Our Endangered Relatives
Nancy J. Merrick - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Foreword by Jane GoodallA former student and colleague of Jane Goodall shares stories of chimps and their heroes, and takes readers on a journey to save man's closest relative. Unbeknownst to much of the public, chimps are in trouble: censuses show them to be extinct in four African countries... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
It's All a Game: The History of Board Games from Monopoly to Settlers of Catan
Tristan Donovan - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
|
|
Board games have been with us longer than even the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well into the age of smartphones and instant gratification? In It's All a Game, British journalist and renowned games expert Tristan Donovan opens the box on the incredible... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Now: The Physics of Time
R Muller - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
|
|
"Now" is a simple yet elusive concept.You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean? What makes the ephemeral moment "now" so special? Its enigmatic character has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from Augustine... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold. The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
